I've seen lots of post with people stating the OS/2 source has large bits in x86 assembles, but just for fun why doesn't IBM open the source? If anything OS/2 would make a nice embedded OS or perhaps developing countries could use it?
This continues to point out the fact that people want small computers that are cheap but not comprimised. A compact car that you can still get under the hood, if you will.
If a kid with a cable modem steals mp3's and burns them on a cd, he must be a theif. Therefore if he's a theif mp3's must be illegal.
If information wants to be free then information must be freedom. If information is power then people's freedom is an asset you can take and capitalise on.
What's the real formula at work here? I know this is kinda basic, but I'm trying to potray the absurdity of the issue as obviously as I can. The RIAA wants to preserve it's monopoly on music information distribution, marketplace dissemination of that information and inflation of it's worth. I'm not implying that all music should be free but basic economics say it should be getting cheaper given the technical revolution being ignored. If a dynasty of power is eroded in ther interim then so be it.
I completely agree with you. This sounds more like a lame attempted by prodigy to do some budget cutting on expensive things like "Security" in the future through legal justification.
Ok, bear with me on this one, it's gonna seem off-topic but I think I have an important point here.
Like Bittian and Germany, Bell in Canada has a monopoly on the local loop. The dsl service here is a good deal, and my first hand experience with it is excellent, but there's no competition as there's only resale going on. In the states there's loads of competition dsl-wise. I don't live there but I can see it in the media. Now, the only difference between the markets is de-regulation of the local loop, the prophetic "last mile". When long distance was a hot item in the 70 and 80s most country's deregulated (I know Canada did) and since then the consumer has benefitted immensly. Long distance was so hot because the developement and adoption of super-clear fiber I suppose. DSL is really no different an item, although its a bit of a work-around technology, but it works on the local level. Now, Microserfs say to look towards the deregulation of Bell in the states into the baby-bells. If the dsl situation in the UK is any indicator then I'd say splitting MS would be great!
Domains are worth too much unnecessarily. They could be essentially free although there does need to be restricts to at least repress mass-squating. The current TLD's just don't catagorised the web very well, it may have worked in 1994 but it's been a comprimise for a long time.
To solve the problem of some squatting, say registering microsoft.sex, there should be a general tld, say.x or.gen or whatever. Why not.com? Well, firstly it means ".commericial" and secondly it's too far gone a case. Starting fresh is a good thing. Oh, and we can alieviate.com fever for all those droogs in "traditional" meida.
This is pseudo on-topic, but aren't we moving away from these huge monolithic boxes and into more distributed envirnments? I suppose that isn't good for intel's busines..
Well, firstly titanium would be totally redundant. Sure, if you were running over the thing with a 100 ton earth mover on a regular basis it'd be handy, but given the daily life of even the most abusive geek I don't think it'd be all the neccessary. There's got to be some better polymers that are scratch resistant, strong and adjust to temperature + humitidy well.
As for cheap handheld PCs, well soon enough, diamond keeps boasting about an up comming product along these lines. Until then, go to university equipement sales and electronic surplus stores and try to build something yourself. Given the rate of technological turnover lately it's prime time to go scavenger hunting!
An economy is quite literally what people are doing and how successful they are at doing it. The stock market is not the economy, it's a reflection of investors perception of the economy. So, the stock market doesn't interest me in the least as it's only the informed opinion, and in many cases only intuition, of a frappucino drinking, luxury sedan driving yuppie who has no connection to what real people are "doing and how well they are doining it". Worse off is the fact that if people are not doing well at what they are doing, there only action is to depress the economic status of these unsucessful people! Of course humanity isn't important when your life consists of finding the "next big thing" to finance your vicarious lifestyle.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but this isn't solely an economic issue. It's root comes from the nature of american rights. Microsoft became part of the oligarky that is the US while still actively utilizing their "freedom to innovate". They burnt the candel at both ends. Twice as bright, half as long with somebody else's wax. There's definitly a deeper meaning here, a revealation of the standard practice of big-business to Joe-average. It all comes down to "good-good-good" to anyone without all their money in the market and a few (dare I say?) socialist morals.
So, the "geek" internet is under attack by the "suits". The suits want to make more money, if that's at all possible, by lulling us all into complacent consumerism. Now, the internet isn't a passive medium, it's not even a single medium, it's more of a delivery system. The web is a new medium that happens to be close to what the suits know, TV and print.
Fine, when geeks in the 70s and 80s got bored with TV and pop media they took up BBS's and other pre-puclic-internet networks. These "connected" mediums eventually evolved, migrated, whatever, into the internet. Business FINALLY caught on once it got that big. They brought their laws, which are meant to facilitate the interest of business with people secondary, everyone knows that. We live in an oligarky, get used to it. The smart peasants discovered a way of communicating without the powers that be, business, knowing. It might as well have been a trade route in the 17th century to the orient. Thing is, geeks are like the guides that know the way. We are highly skilled woodsmen and those prissy aristocrats can't do anything that can affect us. We are masters of this domain (no scienfeld inuendo intented) and will be for a long time to come. We can also exodus this place any time we want, but do you want to? Thought as much.
I think it has a lot to do with control. What brands of bread do you use? Call it paranoia but it's a perfectly normal reaction to everyone being out to get you:D.
Everyone's quick to call the Indrema vaporware but the X-box, oh it's very real. With it's "600mhz x86 processor" of no description. I suppose it just shows the influence MS has, even on "non-believers".
Ok, Banning aqua theme's isn't gonna make people go out and buy G4's, so that's off the list. As for banning linux aqua theme's somehow preventing consumer confusion.. well, newbie's are the ones that get confused and newbie's don't use linux. I suppose it's apple's PR dept's idea of fair play, you ban the windows themes then you have to ban the linux themes. Otherwise that would mean apple's creating market for linux and losing market for apple products... somehow. Apple was stupid enough to release their new UI before they had a shipping product. Why they released it so early was problably because they had no new hardware to show at Macworld in SF, but that's speculation. When will apple learn that pushing around consumers does not make potential customers?
I'm a user of Look in Hamilton (largest city outside of Toronto in the area). Although the internet is not available I just want to vouch for their phone support and installation techs. They've been very prompt, open and helpful. It puts most cable providers to shame. Not that it's a hard thing to do. Anyway, the television service is excellent. I'd suggest it to anyone and if a wireless two-way broadband solution comes available, well that'd rock. I moved out of the cable modem provider area and can't get a straigh answer about dsl so this would be a perfect solution.
What's with gaming magazines no-a-days? They all seem to be pandering to the sexually awkward, identity crisis suffering, snotty nosed 14-year-old. The ones that think "Looking at grrls iz cool" and have the "1.2ghz overclocked athlons", the "l337 h4x0rs" if you will.
Modern gaming magazines like Pc accellerator or Incite promote this rather sexist and immature attitude, which is fine because it targets the gaming audience more accurately, or at least I'd fathom the sales say so. But at the same time it alienates an equal or large audience, Namely ME. I'm talking about the MALE audience that experienced at being in a loving relationship with a female. I can't stand to listen about "How many polygons they added to Laura Croft's chest this time" or "What Seven-of-nine thinks about being a geek object of lust" another time. Don't these dumb-ass marketing people understand that:
There are geeks that don't associate gaming with sex?
Since when did I ask for a centerfold in a gaming magazine? I want to read about games, new hardware and interviews with people who make either of the two. So maybe they aren't just losing the female gaming market, which does exsist, maybe publishers are also missing the mature market? There's some short-sightedness on behalf of the industry for sure as they've lost me. Am I alone?
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I've seen lots of post with people stating the OS/2 source has large bits in x86 assembles, but just for fun why doesn't IBM open the source? If anything OS/2 would make a nice embedded OS or perhaps developing countries could use it?
Waste-not want-not
Maybe /. should interview some more.. progressive.. designers like toke and mschmidt for k10k.
What do you think of the demise of groups like swanky.org? Do you think youth interest in design has suffered as a result?
Everyone hates Katz apparently, but he certainly stokes up the discussive fire. I'd say he's doing his job.
This continues to point out the fact that people want small computers that are cheap but not comprimised. A compact car that you can still get under the hood, if you will.
If a kid with a cable modem steals mp3's and burns them on a cd, he must be a theif. Therefore if he's a theif mp3's must be illegal.
If information wants to be free then information must be freedom. If information is power then people's freedom is an asset you can take and capitalise on.
What's the real formula at work here? I know this is kinda basic, but I'm trying to potray the absurdity of the issue as obviously as I can. The RIAA wants to preserve it's monopoly on music information distribution, marketplace dissemination of that information and inflation of it's worth. I'm not implying that all music should be free but basic economics say it should be getting cheaper given the technical revolution being ignored. If a dynasty of power is eroded in ther interim then so be it.
"mete" as in "Meter" like the "Metric system" perhaps?
Not in my country. But email from your country can, and quite possibly spam. A new breed of legally protected spam.
I completely agree with you. This sounds more like a lame attempted by prodigy to do some budget cutting on expensive things like "Security" in the future through legal justification.
Is the postal service not liable for delivering bombs?
I'd like to append a law to Asimov's list:
The robots are going around killing everybody! Just wait a few days and there'll be a patch on windowsupdate. *ahem*
Ok, bear with me on this one, it's gonna seem off-topic but I think I have an important point here.
Like Bittian and Germany, Bell in Canada has a monopoly on the local loop. The dsl service here is a good deal, and my first hand experience with it is excellent, but there's no competition as there's only resale going on. In the states there's loads of competition dsl-wise. I don't live there but I can see it in the media. Now, the only difference between the markets is de-regulation of the local loop, the prophetic "last mile". When long distance was a hot item in the 70 and 80s most country's deregulated (I know Canada did) and since then the consumer has benefitted immensly. Long distance was so hot because the developement and adoption of super-clear fiber I suppose. DSL is really no different an item, although its a bit of a work-around technology, but it works on the local level. Now, Microserfs say to look towards the deregulation of Bell in the states into the baby-bells. If the dsl situation in the UK is any indicator then I'd say splitting MS would be great!
Domains are worth too much unnecessarily. They could be essentially free although there does need to be restricts to at least repress mass-squating. The current TLD's just don't catagorised the web very well, it may have worked in 1994 but it's been a comprimise for a long time.
To solve the problem of some squatting, say registering microsoft.sex, there should be a general tld, say .x or .gen or whatever. Why not .com? Well, firstly it means ".commericial" and secondly it's too far gone a case. Starting fresh is a good thing. Oh, and we can alieviate .com fever for all those droogs in "traditional" meida.
This is pseudo on-topic, but aren't we moving away from these huge monolithic boxes and into more distributed envirnments? I suppose that isn't good for intel's busines..
Well, firstly titanium would be totally redundant. Sure, if you were running over the thing with a 100 ton earth mover on a regular basis it'd be handy, but given the daily life of even the most abusive geek I don't think it'd be all the neccessary. There's got to be some better polymers that are scratch resistant, strong and adjust to temperature + humitidy well.
As for cheap handheld PCs, well soon enough, diamond keeps boasting about an up comming product along these lines. Until then, go to university equipement sales and electronic surplus stores and try to build something yourself. Given the rate of technological turnover lately it's prime time to go scavenger hunting!
An economy is quite literally what people are doing and how successful they are at doing it. The stock market is not the economy, it's a reflection of investors perception of the economy. So, the stock market doesn't interest me in the least as it's only the informed opinion, and in many cases only intuition, of a frappucino drinking, luxury sedan driving yuppie who has no connection to what real people are "doing and how well they are doining it". Worse off is the fact that if people are not doing well at what they are doing, there only action is to depress the economic status of these unsucessful people! Of course humanity isn't important when your life consists of finding the "next big thing" to finance your vicarious lifestyle.
That is why the stock market doesn't interest me.
hahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, i needed that. This is wonderful. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
1 part anarchism, 1 part publicity stunt. Didn't this guy try it before under the guise of "mp4"?
I hate to be a wet blanket, but this isn't solely an economic issue. It's root comes from the nature of american rights. Microsoft became part of the oligarky that is the US while still actively utilizing their "freedom to innovate". They burnt the candel at both ends. Twice as bright, half as long with somebody else's wax. There's definitly a deeper meaning here, a revealation of the standard practice of big-business to Joe-average. It all comes down to "good-good-good" to anyone without all their money in the market and a few (dare I say?) socialist morals.
So, the "geek" internet is under attack by the "suits". The suits want to make more money, if that's at all possible, by lulling us all into complacent consumerism. Now, the internet isn't a passive medium, it's not even a single medium, it's more of a delivery system. The web is a new medium that happens to be close to what the suits know, TV and print.
Fine, when geeks in the 70s and 80s got bored with TV and pop media they took up BBS's and other pre-puclic-internet networks. These "connected" mediums eventually evolved, migrated, whatever, into the internet. Business FINALLY caught on once it got that big. They brought their laws, which are meant to facilitate the interest of business with people secondary, everyone knows that. We live in an oligarky, get used to it. The smart peasants discovered a way of communicating without the powers that be, business, knowing. It might as well have been a trade route in the 17th century to the orient. Thing is, geeks are like the guides that know the way. We are highly skilled woodsmen and those prissy aristocrats can't do anything that can affect us. We are masters of this domain (no scienfeld inuendo intented) and will be for a long time to come. We can also exodus this place any time we want, but do you want to? Thought as much.
I think it has a lot to do with control. What brands of bread do you use? Call it paranoia but it's a perfectly normal reaction to everyone being out to get you :D.
Everyone's quick to call the Indrema vaporware but the X-box, oh it's very real. With it's "600mhz x86 processor" of no description. I suppose it just shows the influence MS has, even on "non-believers".
Ok, Banning aqua theme's isn't gonna make people go out and buy G4's, so that's off the list. As for banning linux aqua theme's somehow preventing consumer confusion.. well, newbie's are the ones that get confused and newbie's don't use linux. I suppose it's apple's PR dept's idea of fair play, you ban the windows themes then you have to ban the linux themes. Otherwise that would mean apple's creating market for linux and losing market for apple products... somehow. Apple was stupid enough to release their new UI before they had a shipping product. Why they released it so early was problably because they had no new hardware to show at Macworld in SF, but that's speculation. When will apple learn that pushing around consumers does not make potential customers?
I'm a user of Look in Hamilton (largest city outside of Toronto in the area). Although the internet is not available I just want to vouch for their phone support and installation techs. They've been very prompt, open and helpful. It puts most cable providers to shame. Not that it's a hard thing to do. Anyway, the television service is excellent. I'd suggest it to anyone and if a wireless two-way broadband solution comes available, well that'd rock. I moved out of the cable modem provider area and can't get a straigh answer about dsl so this would be a perfect solution.
Somewhat related topic
What's with gaming magazines no-a-days? They all seem to be pandering to the sexually awkward, identity crisis suffering, snotty nosed 14-year-old. The ones that think "Looking at grrls iz cool" and have the "1.2ghz overclocked athlons", the "l337 h4x0rs" if you will.
Modern gaming magazines like Pc accellerator or Incite promote this rather sexist and immature attitude, which is fine because it targets the gaming audience more accurately, or at least I'd fathom the sales say so. But at the same time it alienates an equal or large audience, Namely ME. I'm talking about the MALE audience that experienced at being in a loving relationship with a female. I can't stand to listen about "How many polygons they added to Laura Croft's chest this time" or "What Seven-of-nine thinks about being a geek object of lust" another time. Don't these dumb-ass marketing people understand that:
- There are geeks that don't associate gaming with sex?
Since when did I ask for a centerfold in a gaming magazine? I want to read about games, new hardware and interviews with people who make either of the two. So maybe they aren't just losing the female gaming market, which does exsist, maybe publishers are also missing the mature market? There's some short-sightedness on behalf of the industry for sure as they've lost me. Am I alone?