If they did rebuild the WTC, what do you think of including some sort of anti-aircraft/anti-missile system on it somewhere? I know it's probably silly, but rebuilding the WTC would be seen as a challenge to the terrorists, and we wouldn't want to have to rebuild it a second time....
The worst thing about violence is that it causes people who were previously non-violent to become violent. Don't let the terrorists make you one of them!
Well, I guess our rights being trounced on did nothing to protect us.
Well, to be fair, we can't say how many potential terrorist hijaakings were never carried out because the potential perpetrators figured they wouldn't get away with it.
Having said that, a more effective way of avoiding terrorism would be foreign policies that don't treat other countries as if they exist merely to serve our commercial needs.
When you can fold up an LCD display and put it in your wallet, let me know.
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The "killer app" to run on this display technology is a wireless HTML browser; nothing less, nothing more. Already HTML can do much more than any so-called e-book format, simply because it isn't artificially limited by herds of lawyers.
Not at all. He only loses if he abandons the GPL. And if it weren't for the GPL, he might have never had access to that code in the first place (the authors wouldn't have distributed the source if they felt people were going to use it without contributing anything back)
Berlin would negate this by scaling applications back up to "6in across" instead of staying at "180pixels"... this would be VERY annoying.
No, it wouldn't. If you wanted everything to take up less screen space, you could just dial down the scaling. Moving away from explicit pixel-based graphics allows you to do that sort of thing.
Things *wouldnt* end up looking more detailed at a higher resolution. They would be scaled bigger, and still look big and chunky.
They would take up the same number of centimeters on the screen, so they would be no bigger or smaller than before. Since they are based on vectors instead of rasters, they wouldn't look jaggy; in fact they would look smoother than they did at lower resolution, since the pixels that make them up are smaller relative to the size of the objects.
What I will say is that MS, even *if they are a monopoly and we assume so, has done nothing to prevent you, the user, from getting an alternate operating system. You, the user, are free to install anything you want on your machine.
True, assuming that you, the user, are comfortable enough with computers to know how to install your own operating system. But you and I both know that doing so isn't a realistic option for most people--you might as well ask them to replace the carbeurator in their car.
Microsoft has made sure the public does not have the option of buying a computer that dual-boots Windows and a non-Microsoft operating system, and that's what counts, not the hypothetical possibilities of what people could do if they were all computer geeks, which they surely aren't.
A split might not hurt (3-way, preferably), nor would opening Windows.
But what fun is a remedy that doesn't hurt? I wanna see blood!;^)
Love it or hate it, MS has the right to release.net and let it succeed or fail.
Don't people typically lose many of their rights to do what they want when they are convicted of a crime? It's not clear to me why corporations should be treated any different...
So, I know I'll keep downloading the newest Top 40 hits from Audiogalaxy [...], without giving a damn about the artist
If you decide you do give a damn about the artist, check out the FairTunes. There you can send money to the artist without any of it being siphoned off by a record label.
It's not your right to steal someone else's product, regardless of what you think of the price.
Right now, you are correct. In 50 years, I honestly think that downloading any and all digital content will be considered a right, in the same way that humming a tune you heard on the radio is now considered to be a right. If enough people can do something easily enough they come to expect it, and *poof* a new right is born.
Sure, we'd all like to have them support all these science missions, but the fact is most people just want their tax rebates
and lower taxes in the future.
(flamebait) And the fact is that they aren't going to get even that, because future taxes are going to go towards (a) covering the budget shortfall and debt interest generated by this year's $300-a-person political bribe, and (b) that amazing missile defense plan that will cost several hundred billion to do nothing but force the Chinese to build several dozen extra ICBMs, and the North Koreans to step up research for their back-of-an-unmarked-truck payload delivery system. (/flamebait)
In a world without publishers, would you want to have to start reading 10 books in order to find the one that's half-decent?
Of course not. In a world without publishers, you would decide which books to read based on the recommendations of people whose opinions you trust/respect. I'm imagining Slashdot-style "book club" sites where the editors of the sites recommend an e-text a day or so.
(and who would pay these editors? Well, in many cases the editors would maintain the site just because they are fans and like to do so)
I still don't see any reason to have a separate format for eBooks, when HTML would work just fine. Then any eBook reader with a modem or wireless data connection would double as a web browser, and you could read the "book" of anyone who wanted to post text, instead of just the ones "published" by some commercial entity.
(open my 10-eBook in Adobe's viewer)
(PrintScreen)
(PageDown)
(PrintScreen)
(PageDown)
(repeat several hundred times... use a macro/script if necessary)
(close eBook)
(read the story at my own bloody leisure)
Oops, oh dear, I appear to have circumvented their access controls. Time for the DMCA police to send me and/or the programmer of my OS's printscreen utility to prison...
BTW, I'm not one who is willing to forgive Adobe just because they now say they won't support the prosecution. They are still SOLELY to blame for this travesty, and the soul of whomever is responsible WILL bear this.
I understand your feelings, but I don't entirely agree. If it hadn't been Adobe this month, it would have been another company next month. The DMCA is a massive "security hole" in our civil liberties, and Adobe was just the first company to exploit it. That's not an admirable action, but it must be said that the primary problem lies with DMCA, and Adobe is only a secondary culprit.
I've been using BeOS daily for 4 years now, and I have yet to miss multi-user capabilities. While it's true that multiuser would be nice to have, the fact is that the chances of wiping out your BeOS system through a 'dumb mistake' are rather small. This probably springs from the beautifully designed file system layout--all the OS files are in their area, and all the files you work with from day to day are in yours. Furthermore, Tracker (the filesystem's UI) guards the OS's folders with "Are you really sure?" requesters if you try to modify them.
In any case, MacOS9 and Windows 9x seem to do okay without multi-user capabilities.
If someone sends us a briefcase nuke, we send them a payload so big they won't be able to fit what's left of their country into a briefcase.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this exactly backwards? If a foreign country launches an ICBM at us, our satellites will tell us exactly where it was launched from and we can retaliate. If a country smuggles in a briefcase nuke, all we'll know is that New York was there yesterday and isn't there today... the destruction will wipe out most any evidence regarding who did it.
Given that, I don't think any (non-suicidal) foreign countries will be launching nukes at us, Star Wars or no Star Wars. Hence it appears Star Wars' only use is as another welfare program for the defense industry.
Presumably each Linux PC is responsible for generating a subrectangle of the display. Yes, that would make it one of those "wussy grids of normal displays", but since they are using LCD projectors to throw up the image, they can calibrate them so as to make the tiled display fairly seamless.
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FWIW, I think they were just trying to show how serious they were. I don't believe they really are considering a nuclear strike (knock on wood)
If they did rebuild the WTC, what do you think of including some sort of anti-aircraft/anti-missile system on it somewhere? I know it's probably silly, but rebuilding the WTC would be seen as a challenge to the terrorists, and we wouldn't want to have to rebuild it a second time....
The worst thing about violence is that it causes people who were previously non-violent to become violent. Don't let the terrorists make you one of them!
Well, to be fair, we can't say how many potential terrorist hijaakings were never carried out because the potential perpetrators figured they wouldn't get away with it.
Having said that, a more effective way of avoiding terrorism would be foreign policies that don't treat other countries as if they exist merely to serve our commercial needs.
When you can fold up an LCD display and put it in your wallet, let me know.
The "killer app" to run on this display technology is a wireless HTML browser; nothing less, nothing more. Already HTML can do much more than any so-called e-book format, simply because it isn't artificially limited by herds of lawyers.
Not at all. He only loses if he abandons the GPL. And if it weren't for the GPL, he might have never had access to that code in the first place (the authors wouldn't have distributed the source if they felt people were going to use it without contributing anything back)
Another way to do it is to accept voluntary contributions
No, it wouldn't. If you wanted everything to take up less screen space, you could just dial down the scaling. Moving away from explicit pixel-based graphics allows you to do that sort of thing.
Things *wouldnt* end up looking more detailed at a higher resolution. They would be scaled bigger, and still look big and chunky.
They would take up the same number of centimeters on the screen, so they would be no bigger or smaller than before. Since they are based on vectors instead of rasters, they wouldn't look jaggy; in fact they would look smoother than they did at lower resolution, since the pixels that make them up are smaller relative to the size of the objects.
True, assuming that you, the user, are comfortable enough with computers to know how to install your own operating system. But you and I both know that doing so isn't a realistic option for most people--you might as well ask them to replace the carbeurator in their car.
Microsoft has made sure the public does not have the option of buying a computer that dual-boots Windows and a non-Microsoft operating system, and that's what counts, not the hypothetical possibilities of what people could do if they were all computer geeks, which they surely aren't.
But what fun is a remedy that doesn't hurt? I wanna see blood!
Love it or hate it, MS has the right to release
Don't people typically lose many of their rights to do what they want when they are convicted of a crime? It's not clear to me why corporations should be treated any different...
If you decide you do give a damn about the artist, check out the FairTunes. There you can send money to the artist without any of it being siphoned off by a record label.
Not necessarily. Now instead of starving this year in a lush environment, they will starve next year in a ruined environment.
Right now, you are correct. In 50 years, I honestly think that downloading any and all digital content will be considered a right, in the same way that humming a tune you heard on the radio is now considered to be a right. If enough people can do something easily enough they come to expect it, and *poof* a new right is born.
(flamebait) And the fact is that they aren't going to get even that, because future taxes are going to go towards (a) covering the budget shortfall and debt interest generated by this year's $300-a-person political bribe, and (b) that amazing missile defense plan that will cost several hundred billion to do nothing but force the Chinese to build several dozen extra ICBMs, and the North Koreans to step up research for their back-of-an-unmarked-truck payload delivery system. (/flamebait)
Of course not. In a world without publishers, you would decide which books to read based on the recommendations of people whose opinions you trust/respect. I'm imagining Slashdot-style "book club" sites where the editors of the sites recommend an e-text a day or so.
(and who would pay these editors? Well, in many cases the editors would maintain the site just because they are fans and like to do so)
I still don't see any reason to have a separate format for eBooks, when HTML would work just fine. Then any eBook reader with a modem or wireless data connection would double as a web browser, and you could read the "book" of anyone who wanted to post text, instead of just the ones "published" by some commercial entity.
(open my 10-eBook in Adobe's viewer)
(PrintScreen)
(PageDown)
(PrintScreen)
(PageDown)
(repeat several hundred times... use a macro/script if necessary)
(close eBook)
(read the story at my own bloody leisure)
Oops, oh dear, I appear to have circumvented their access controls. Time for the DMCA police to send me and/or the programmer of my OS's printscreen utility to prison...
I understand your feelings, but I don't entirely agree. If it hadn't been Adobe this month, it would have been another company next month. The DMCA is a massive "security hole" in our civil liberties, and Adobe was just the first company to exploit it. That's not an admirable action, but it must be said that the primary problem lies with DMCA, and Adobe is only a secondary culprit.
In any case, MacOS9 and Windows 9x seem to do okay without multi-user capabilities.
And in about a week, we'll be overrun by worms disguised as "automatic security updates"... fun
Indeed. I'll buy a case of beer for the first guy who builds a quantum computer that can search all the digits of pi simultaneously to do this. ;^)
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this exactly backwards? If a foreign country launches an ICBM at us, our satellites will tell us exactly where it was launched from and we can retaliate. If a country smuggles in a briefcase nuke, all we'll know is that New York was there yesterday and isn't there today... the destruction will wipe out most any evidence regarding who did it.
Given that, I don't think any (non-suicidal) foreign countries will be launching nukes at us, Star Wars or no Star Wars. Hence it appears Star Wars' only use is as another welfare program for the defense industry.
Presumably each Linux PC is responsible for generating a subrectangle of the display. Yes, that would make it one of those "wussy grids of normal displays", but since they are using LCD projectors to throw up the image, they can calibrate them so as to make the tiled display fairly seamless.
Reported is that all software that is able to rip at Burst Copy Mode .... is able to rip SafeAudio protected CD's.
So does this mean that these Burst Copy Mode programs, while previously legal, are now "circumvention devices" under the DMCA?
If so, can I make a "protected" file format that Microsoft Office just happens to be able to read, and get Bill Gates arrested?