What was really ironic about the fscking wheelmouse, is that on the Mac, there was a really cool piece of freeware called SmartScroll or something like that, that auto-scrolled documents for you when you moved your mouse into a configurable buffer zone around the edge of a document window. In practice, it was FAR FAR better than using a wheel mouse, it was speed-sensitive, did all kinds of fancy stuff, worked on ALL applications, and helped make a one button mouse on the Mac, twice as useful as a two-button mouse (with a wheel) on Windows. (well, that AND FinderPop, another GREAT freeware (pintware) extension on the Mac.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
because MR Research is designed to be little more than a PR stunt, and a tax dodge. They could cure cancer, and probably have, and we'd never know it. At least they can prevent this talent from falling into the hands of those naughty competitors.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Actually, what would be MOST useful, would be a fully-featured digital telephone PCI card. We have TV-tuners that can plug in into a PCI slot, why not a telephone? I already have my computer hooked up to a telephone line, I have a computer on my desk, with speakers and a microphone, and a keypad for entering numbers, then I have a telephone on my desk. Wouldn't it be nice to get rid of the telephone, and use the nice peice of telecommunications equipment that's there? Think of people who work in jobs like order entry and tech support - the phone can do a caller ID and enter that into the database automatically, saving the user the step of entering it, damn, sounds like a no-brainer to me. What's with this stupid touch-mouse crap? Do something that removes clutter and makes my life easier.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
it just seems to me that an LCD would put out a LOT less EM noise than a CRT. Just the basics of how it works. If there are limitations to Tempest, then using an LCD might just raise the threshold to the point where it's more inconvenient to monitor (takes a lot more amplification, and filtering, or requires a shorter distance between the transmitter and receiver). If it's the difference between parking a van on the street in front of my house, and having to pull it right up to my front door, I think that's a significant help.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The other disturbing trend is, toolbar elements you cannot remove, like on web browsers. . .
I want and NEED a back, forward, reload, and stop buttons, maybe not forward. But definately, I DO not need, Home, Search, Netscape, Print, or Security, or especially SHOP. (end netscape criticism, start IE criticism:) I don't need a Favorites, History or Channels button wasting space on the toolbar (I think Favorites ought to be a menu, like in Netscape, right?) (okay, Netscape Windows, it's a toolbar button, netscape Mac, it's a menu item - so much for consistency across platforms) I wish I could also get rid of the Mail and Edit buttons on IE, because maybe I have a different Mail program, and don't want to use OE, and maybe I have a different HTML editor, and don't want to use frontpage, but the thing that REALLY irks me, is that Favorites is both a toolbar button AND a menu item. And the fullscreen button, take that off and shove it up your ass, wtf?! Isn't there a fullscreen button on every freaking window in the UI? Why do we need another fullscreen button? WASTE OF SPACE!! Not to mention that even the middle button in the upper-right widget set is redundant, because you can also fullscreen the window by double-clicking the toolbar, or pulling down the menu from the upper-left widget.
I guess I just really hate how lame the Windows95 UI is.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I know this is going to be a bad idea, because many of the "energy star" compliant computers go into a sleep-state when idle, sometimes after very short periods. Yeah it's all configurable, but it's still a pain in the ass when you come back from the shitter, sit down, and click on the menu, and you have to wait for your hard drives to spin up, and all that crap. Add another 15 seconds to that routine for this whiz-bang eye candy.
Picture a ratchet wrench that turns freely in both directions until 30 seconds after you pick it up. Annoying, huh?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Heh, I'm using the GUTS of an older Microsoft mouse (because they were attached to the cable that had the right connector I needed to plug into the motherboard I'm using for my main system) - PCB slightly trimmed to fit inside the shell of an HP mouse, that seems to fit my hand best of all, with a ball of a Logitech mouse, because it was heavier and smoother than the crappy ball that was originally in the microsoft mouse. Been using that 9 hours a day for the past two years. Prior to that, the MS mouse was giving me tendonitis (not CTS).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
You KNOW that it is through covert manipulation of commodity markets that is causing LCD screens to be so fscking expensive. Why else? If LCD screens were cheap, "they" couldn't spy on you using Tempest (and would have to fall back on Echelon; poor babies).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
No, not a 914. A Karmann Ghia. No, it doesn't really zip with a 1600cc, but it'll be faster than the '46 Ford with a cracked block.
Actually, if the stock market keeps going the way it has been, I'll probably drop in that very costly Porsche 912 engine. Car hacking is my other hobby.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, but by what these articles are saying, we may have to enforce the opposite; Force DINK couples (Dual Income, No Children), to have exactly 2 kids, so they don't throw off the average, so we can maintain a population level; limiting people to 2 kids won't work if some families opt to not have kids.
DINK's forced into parenthood: Biff: honey, I'm taking the beemer to the gym for a couple of hours, should I meet you at the beach afterwards? Patti (with an i): Sure biff, I'm taking the silver mercedes, so try to park close to where I am, I'm bringing the picnic basket and the wine, and bring your cellphone so we can do some trading. We'll go out to a dinner and hit the opera. . . Biff: okay honey, have you been putting on weight? You look like, what, 115? Patti (with an i): oh Biff, I don't know, I just haven't felt myself since that last trip to the doctors. They put me out, and it was some kind of government mandated thing. I don't know what they did. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"well you'll work harder with a gun at your back, for a bowl of rice a day, slave for soldiers till you starve, and your head is skewered on a steak, so now you can go where the people are one, now you can go where they get things done, what you need my son, what you need my son, is a holiday in Cambodia. . . "
- Dead Kennedys
I think that there are plenty of population-reducing forces at work, especially in the third-world. Life sucks for them. Six billion and feeling fine my ass.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
When I was in HS bio, we did this simple experiment with Yeast in a sealed test-tube. We plotted the population rise of the yeast, then levelling off, then falling.
The Yeast, of course, stopped reproducing as it choked in it's own waste.
I think something similar is happening in industrialized nations. It may be as complex as the social or economic issues others have cited, but there might also be something to the declining sperm-production rates among males, and enviornmental effects of toxic chemicals, atom bomb testing, television, cell phones, flouride in the water, reduced biodiversity, global warming, etc. etc. etc.
This is my thesis. Someone else can fund and execute the testing.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Our #1 reason, I suppose was selfish. We wanted to be still young when our kids leave, so there's enough of life left to enjoy.
My parents, by the time the last of their kids left, are now too old and decrepit to do anything enjoyable.
#2 reason was, well, frankly, the UN spouted a lot of FUD back in the 70's and 80's about too many people, and ohmygod, we're all going to starve - or die in a nuclear war, so who wants to raise kids in a world like that?
#3 reason, I never thought I'd be able to AFFORD a third child. I wouldn't want to have to skimp on Christmas presents and whatnot for three kids, when I can adequately provide for two.
Do I regret this decision? I kind of feel guilty after getting fixed, because I know so many couples who CAN'T have kids naturally, and many of those who have spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to conceive, and failing, and just giving up, when, well, our second kid was conceived with a single act, as far as we can tell. Seems like fertility was a pretty valuable gift.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ha, and when the aliens suck all the water up on the planet, your '46 Ford will overheat and your block will crack - I'll still be zipping along in my 1972 air-cooled VW.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The day you see Intel bowing out of the low-end of the market, is the day you'll see the SPARC-ification of the x86 platform. um, or the MIPS-ification, or the PPC-ification, or the Alpha-ification (say that ten times fast).
The low-end is Intel's bread and butter, their marketshare, and they can't live without that. It's what the hegemony is based on. Once they lose their marketshare, they'll have to scale back on their infrastructure, and without the Fabs, they lose their major advantage - the fact that when someone orders 10000 CPU's, Intel's got them out the door. AMD or Motorola just cries.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ah, you can bet that Windows 2000 will be labelled "64-bit", but it will really just have like a 64-bit "notepad.exe". Then after a service-pack or two, we'll get a 64-bit calculator, and someday in 2002, we'll have a 64-bit explorer, and some goofy shim that allows 64-bit SQL database servers to run on it. And by 2003, we'll have a 64-bit Exchange server. That's when Windows 2004 comes out, and by then, all Unix will be dead, so MS won't have to finish up with a real 64-bit kernel.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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The US Army seems to think WebStar on Mac OS is the most secure server out there.
I also remember some "Hack This Mac" challenges a few years ago, and nobody claimed the prize.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
What would happen if someone were to hack attrition.org, and deface the defaced pages archive?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
just like in "Enemy of the State?"
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
What was really ironic about the fscking wheelmouse, is that on the Mac, there was a really cool piece of freeware called SmartScroll or something like that, that auto-scrolled documents for you when you moved your mouse into a configurable buffer zone around the edge of a document window. In practice, it was FAR FAR better than using a wheel mouse, it was speed-sensitive, did all kinds of fancy stuff, worked on ALL applications, and helped make a one button mouse on the Mac, twice as useful as a two-button mouse (with a wheel) on Windows. (well, that AND FinderPop, another GREAT freeware (pintware) extension on the Mac.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
because MR Research is designed to be little more than a PR stunt, and a tax dodge. They could cure cancer, and probably have, and we'd never know it. At least they can prevent this talent from falling into the hands of those naughty competitors.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Actually, what would be MOST useful, would be a fully-featured digital telephone PCI card. We have TV-tuners that can plug in into a PCI slot, why not a telephone? I already have my computer hooked up to a telephone line, I have a computer on my desk, with speakers and a microphone, and a keypad for entering numbers, then I have a telephone on my desk. Wouldn't it be nice to get rid of the telephone, and use the nice peice of telecommunications equipment that's there? Think of people who work in jobs like order entry and tech support - the phone can do a caller ID and enter that into the database automatically, saving the user the step of entering it, damn, sounds like a no-brainer to me. What's with this stupid touch-mouse crap? Do something that removes clutter and makes my life easier.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
it just seems to me that an LCD would put out a LOT less EM noise than a CRT. Just the basics of how it works. If there are limitations to Tempest, then using an LCD might just raise the threshold to the point where it's more inconvenient to monitor (takes a lot more amplification, and filtering, or requires a shorter distance between the transmitter and receiver). If it's the difference between parking a van on the street in front of my house, and having to pull it right up to my front door, I think that's a significant help.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
the day Microsoft makes something that doesn't blow, is the day they start making leaf blowers.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Oh, the right button in Windows? That's for waiting 15+ seconds for the CM to popup.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The other disturbing trend is, toolbar elements you cannot remove, like on web browsers. . .
I want and NEED a back, forward, reload, and stop buttons, maybe not forward. But definately, I DO not need, Home, Search, Netscape, Print, or Security, or especially SHOP. (end netscape criticism, start IE criticism:) I don't need a Favorites, History or Channels button wasting space on the toolbar (I think Favorites ought to be a menu, like in Netscape, right?) (okay, Netscape Windows, it's a toolbar button, netscape Mac, it's a menu item - so much for consistency across platforms) I wish I could also get rid of the Mail and Edit buttons on IE, because maybe I have a different Mail program, and don't want to use OE, and maybe I have a different HTML editor, and don't want to use frontpage, but the thing that REALLY irks me, is that Favorites is both a toolbar button AND a menu item. And the fullscreen button, take that off and shove it up your ass, wtf?! Isn't there a fullscreen button on every freaking window in the UI? Why do we need another fullscreen button? WASTE OF SPACE!!
Not to mention that even the middle button in the upper-right widget set is redundant, because you can also fullscreen the window by double-clicking the toolbar, or pulling down the menu from the upper-left widget.
I guess I just really hate how lame the Windows95 UI is.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I know this is going to be a bad idea, because many of the "energy star" compliant computers go into a sleep-state when idle, sometimes after very short periods. Yeah it's all configurable, but it's still a pain in the ass when you come back from the shitter, sit down, and click on the menu, and you have to wait for your hard drives to spin up, and all that crap. Add another 15 seconds to that routine for this whiz-bang eye candy.
Picture a ratchet wrench that turns freely in both directions until 30 seconds after you pick it up. Annoying, huh?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Heh, I'm using the GUTS of an older Microsoft mouse (because they were attached to the cable that had the right connector I needed to plug into the motherboard I'm using for my main system) - PCB slightly trimmed to fit inside the shell of an HP mouse, that seems to fit my hand best of all, with a ball of a Logitech mouse, because it was heavier and smoother than the crappy ball that was originally in the microsoft mouse.
Been using that 9 hours a day for the past two years. Prior to that, the MS mouse was giving me tendonitis (not CTS).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
You KNOW that it is through covert manipulation of commodity markets that is causing LCD screens to be so fscking expensive. Why else? If LCD screens were cheap, "they" couldn't spy on you using Tempest (and would have to fall back on Echelon; poor babies).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
No, not a 914. A Karmann Ghia. No, it doesn't really zip with a 1600cc, but it'll be faster than the '46 Ford with a cracked block.
Actually, if the stock market keeps going the way it has been, I'll probably drop in that very costly Porsche 912 engine. Car hacking is my other hobby.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, but by what these articles are saying, we may have to enforce the opposite; Force DINK couples (Dual Income, No Children), to have exactly 2 kids, so they don't throw off the average, so we can maintain a population level; limiting people to 2 kids won't work if some families opt to not have kids.
.
DINK's forced into parenthood:
Biff: honey, I'm taking the beemer to the gym for a couple of hours, should I meet you at the beach afterwards?
Patti (with an i): Sure biff, I'm taking the silver mercedes, so try to park close to where I am, I'm bringing the picnic basket and the wine, and bring your cellphone so we can do some trading. We'll go out to a dinner and hit the opera. . .
Biff: okay honey, have you been putting on weight? You look like, what, 115?
Patti (with an i): oh Biff, I don't know, I just haven't felt myself since that last trip to the doctors. They put me out, and it was some kind of government mandated thing. I don't know what they did. .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Never mind that most women are horniest at the time they are most fertile, and least horny when NOT fertile.
There's a surefire recipie for a happy and satisfying marriage! Only have sex when she doesn't want to, and never have sex when she wants to!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
You better pick a different plot of land.
I don't think they'd be welcome in Texas.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"well you'll work harder with a gun at your back,
for a bowl of rice a day,
slave for soldiers till you starve, and your head is skewered on a steak,
so now you can go where the people are one,
now you can go where they get things done,
what you need my son,
what you need my son,
is a holiday in Cambodia. . . "
- Dead Kennedys
I think that there are plenty of population-reducing forces at work, especially in the third-world. Life sucks for them. Six billion and feeling fine my ass.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
When I was in HS bio, we did this simple experiment with Yeast in a sealed test-tube. We plotted the population rise of the yeast, then levelling off, then falling.
The Yeast, of course, stopped reproducing as it choked in it's own waste.
I think something similar is happening in industrialized nations. It may be as complex as the social or economic issues others have cited, but there might also be something to the declining sperm-production rates among males, and enviornmental effects of toxic chemicals, atom bomb testing, television, cell phones, flouride in the water, reduced biodiversity, global warming, etc. etc. etc.
This is my thesis. Someone else can fund and execute the testing.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
My wife and I stopped at 2, I got "fixed".
Our #1 reason, I suppose was selfish. We wanted to be still young when our kids leave, so there's enough of life left to enjoy.
My parents, by the time the last of their kids left, are now too old and decrepit to do anything enjoyable.
#2 reason was, well, frankly, the UN spouted a lot of FUD back in the 70's and 80's about too many people, and ohmygod, we're all going to starve - or die in a nuclear war, so who wants to raise kids in a world like that?
#3 reason, I never thought I'd be able to AFFORD a third child. I wouldn't want to have to skimp on Christmas presents and whatnot for three kids, when I can adequately provide for two.
Do I regret this decision? I kind of feel guilty after getting fixed, because I know so many couples who CAN'T have kids naturally, and many of those who have spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to conceive, and failing, and just giving up, when, well, our second kid was conceived with a single act, as far as we can tell. Seems like fertility was a pretty valuable gift.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ha, and when the aliens suck all the water up on the planet, your '46 Ford will overheat and your block will crack - I'll still be zipping along in my 1972 air-cooled VW.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Moore's law; Not a keen observation of technology, but rather a very profitable business plan.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The day you see Intel bowing out of the low-end of the market, is the day you'll see the SPARC-ification of the x86 platform. um, or the MIPS-ification, or the PPC-ification, or the Alpha-ification (say that ten times fast).
The low-end is Intel's bread and butter, their marketshare, and they can't live without that. It's what the hegemony is based on. Once they lose their marketshare, they'll have to scale back on their infrastructure, and without the Fabs, they lose their major advantage - the fact that when someone orders 10000 CPU's, Intel's got them out the door. AMD or Motorola just cries.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Ah, you can bet that Windows 2000 will be labelled "64-bit", but it will really just have like a 64-bit "notepad.exe". Then after a service-pack or two, we'll get a 64-bit calculator, and someday in 2002, we'll have a 64-bit explorer, and some goofy shim that allows 64-bit SQL database servers to run on it. And by 2003, we'll have a 64-bit Exchange server. That's when Windows 2004 comes out, and by then, all Unix will be dead, so MS won't have to finish up with a real 64-bit kernel.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
it's the 4 pound heat-sink.
That fucker's expensive!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".