From what I understand, the main reason no one seems to want to hack this thing is that it really isn't a challenge. When the thing is released, there will be a need for a workmanlike tool to deal with it, and then some able programmer will do the hack, but for now, it isn't even interesting.
Caffeine is a drug. It's a drug that narrows the field of consciousness, allowing greater concentration. It reduces distractions and can reduce stress levels in certain character types. It isn't for everyone, but it is certainly for me. I couldn't code on a regular basis without a venti mocha frappucino. Other Starbucks addicts know what I mean.
Let's not forget that a lot of the mess Wintel machines are in is derived from the incredible headache Intel hardware is. I used to be a tech, and twelve hour days sorting out some server's problem with two scsi busses, two network cards, and a sound card are what I remember of Intel. That *was* a linux box. Heaven forbid you ever install a 3com in an NT4 box without fixpacs. Geez.
Mac hardware is easier to work on because there are no IRQs, there are no base addresses, the drivers are often on the board in rom, so the thing at least *works* after install. Maybe not well, but it works.
I haven't used OSX, so I can't vouch for it, but from what I've heard, it is pretty much just as easy to integrate as previous MacOS versions.
I was raised conservative christian. My upbringing made me an agnostic, despite the fact that I was raised in a very sheltered environment, as my parents were missionaries, and could easily control everything I saw.
The fact is that once I found out about all the *thought* in the world, I chose thought rather than rehearsed drivel.
There's vast amounts of information available, even on porn sites, where you can learn a *lot* about human sexuality and the nature of peoples' fetishes. Maybe this knowledge isn't good for young children, but it is of inestimable value in studying the human condition.
I don't think any of the separation ideas are going to really work, because the information I may be looking for may actually be on a porn site. Anyone else remember Playboy.com's Link Everything Online of a few years back? That's how we won the censorship battle at the university I attended.
So you shouldn't think that in a case where my son might be involved, it'd be any less hard, so the law doesn't apply.
Anyone else notice he reasoned parallel to the law? He didn't deal with the law on a point for point basis, he said he had a good reason for not obeying the law (even number of judges, tie potential), he really didn't think his kid would cloud his judgement, and besides, he makes hard decisions all the time. So, he shouldn't have to follow the law.
Hmm. I'm hungry, I think I'll go steal some food.
The law is the law, folks, and if a *supreme court* justice can't follow it, I think we have a real problem. It doesn't allow him to consider whether he should or shouldn't recuse himself, nor does it allow him to consider the magnitude of the impact on his son's interest. It also doesn't matter that the court voted 8-1. He should have recused himself, period.
The law says nothing about the person having to be on trial. It merely says that if there's a potential conflict of interest, the judge should recuse himself, and conflicts of interest include up to third degree involvement of interest. Certainly, if his son were on trial, that would be conflict of interest, but his son defending the same entity in another case also clearly falls within the language of the law.
Second thought: so, I, and all the other people who doubt his objectivity are simply being unreasonable?
Like, say, switchblades, double-edged knives, guns, computers, cars, houses, countries (US rape of Mexico, German rape of most of Europe). Much safer life here in my mud hut with no fire and only what I can cultivate with my bare hands. Oh, and the maurauding bands that own all the guns don't bother me much, anyway. Since phones are illegal, all I have to do is run the three miles to the local police department, where they will arrest me for disturbing the peace.
Oh, geez. Where to start.
Nixon didn't go to jail because Ford felt that the country didn't need that spectacle. That was Ford's decision.
OJ is quite possibly innocent. The fact that you assume him guilty shows you just as racist as those who say that Rodney King deserved his beating. Fact is that any half-competent lawyer could have gotten OJ off. There just wasn't enough evidence to convict.
Rodney King was drugged and led the police on a high-speed chase that resulted in an arrest situation that was charged, and then he tried to run away. The behaviour by the police was excessive, but he wasn't selling girl scout cookies, either. As a matter of fact, the police officers ended up convicted largely because they were white, in an odd case of reverse prejudice.
Microsoft may rely on the American political system to turn a blind eye, but that hasn't happened yet.
This is an unbased accusation. Bush has never used his influence to achieve something outside of his jurisdiction while in Texas, despite taking heat for it on several occasions. I think that fud is what most of Nader's campaign is based on. Nader is the master of irrational fear. Not all corporations are bad. Corporate entities are a part of the landscape. Unless Nader has a better idea, killing corporations doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Oh, geez, the priveleged classes? Why not the.com rich? Warmed over class warfare...
The net is cheaply available to anyone willing to shell out $10-$20 a month. Who can't afford that? Well, the people who can't afford that can easily go down to the library, etc.
Fact is that the narrow demographics on the web have nothing to do with privelege and everything to do with motivation, as is the case in almost every case where someone throws up the 'priveleged class' since the great depression.
Um, these arguments strike me as largely specious and come from the first Cantonese president in American history. After all, it was during Clinton's reign as chief traitor that China acquired the technology to do what everyone is worried they might do if we build a system to prevent them from doing it. This is dumb. It's like saying that if we put up a fence, the dog might try to get out. Geez.
This is a good point. Fact is that until we make some manner of governmental maintenance, then perhaps we are doomed to the entropy-revolt cycle forever.
Ok, this is goofy. I read the entire EULA, and it is going to be awful hard to hold that thing up in court. Never mind 'fair use', I don't think anyone has ever been able to liscense hardware. But, even that isn't the funniest part. They go on to say that they cannot be held liable for any damages caused by the use or misuse of the cuecat. This agreement is in conflict with the laws of many states. But, that isn't the funniest part, either. The funniest part is that they insist that should you ever reverse-engineer anything on the cuecat, you must turn any derived data over to them, never mind the fact that you are in point of fact in breach of contract at that point. The fifth amendment covers this one. It is an interesting point that once you've reverse-engineered something, they can't require you to incriminate yourself by telling them. Finally, this type of contract is going to be hard to enforce without an actual signature, in my opinion. I could just say I never saw the darn thing.
I agree that the political system as a whole is largely clueless, but remember that every other major upheaval of socio-political standards has resulted in bloodshed.
Right now, our government is very much a reflection of our society. Our society believes with a moral certainty such absurdities as guns are bad and copyrights are enforceable. Freedoms are being happily revoked 'for the children' and because 'no one needs to do that', two reasons that would make the founding fathers apoplectic. The government lies to the populace with startling regularity; but that's allright, our schools lie to our kids. How am I as a young 'netizen' ever going to trust these systems? However, I'm certainly not turning my back on them. They have real teeth, and when the revolution does come, it may involve actual bloodshed.
Just a thought.
I'm part of the new wave of IT professionals. I got into programming to avoid work. Sure, I'm making less in the position I'm in, but I can come in late and leave early and as long as I get actual stuff done, the boss doesn't mind. I'm using my skills to make an adequate level of compensation in exchange for less real work.
Actually, as I understand it, they all run on a Mach kernel. OS X doesn't run on BSD, it runs beside BSD and talks to it. It would be theoretically possible to make a port of MKLinux that ran on the same Mach kernel...
Of course, you're talking now about Win2k or any other Microsquish product. MacOS is *vastly* easier to install. You can pretty much run with the defaults on any Mac because the installer and the drivers are smart enough to know what is needed.
Fact is that every example you've stated cost about the same as M$FT products, but provided *superior* functionality. Take, for instance, DRDOS, which clearly gave more memory, was more stable, was completely open to developers, and was faster than DOS. OS/2, MacOS, and Linux are all superior to any Winblows platform. As to more expensive hardware in MacOS, the time to obsolescence of Macs is longer, evening it out.
I used to do support, and, much as I hate to admit it, I made more money off of M$FT products than *anything* else. Imagine an hour and a half to configure a netcard? Two hours to track down a silly NT printing problem? I got paid by the hour, man.
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From what I understand, the main reason no one seems to want to hack this thing is that it really isn't a challenge. When the thing is released, there will be a need for a workmanlike tool to deal with it, and then some able programmer will do the hack, but for now, it isn't even interesting.
Caffeine is a drug. It's a drug that narrows the field of consciousness, allowing greater concentration. It reduces distractions and can reduce stress levels in certain character types. It isn't for everyone, but it is certainly for me. I couldn't code on a regular basis without a venti mocha frappucino. Other Starbucks addicts know what I mean.
Let's not forget that a lot of the mess Wintel machines are in is derived from the incredible headache Intel hardware is. I used to be a tech, and twelve hour days sorting out some server's problem with two scsi busses, two network cards, and a sound card are what I remember of Intel. That *was* a linux box. Heaven forbid you ever install a 3com in an NT4 box without fixpacs. Geez.
Mac hardware is easier to work on because there are no IRQs, there are no base addresses, the drivers are often on the board in rom, so the thing at least *works* after install. Maybe not well, but it works.
I haven't used OSX, so I can't vouch for it, but from what I've heard, it is pretty much just as easy to integrate as previous MacOS versions.
I was raised conservative christian. My upbringing made me an agnostic, despite the fact that I was raised in a very sheltered environment, as my parents were missionaries, and could easily control everything I saw.
The fact is that once I found out about all the *thought* in the world, I chose thought rather than rehearsed drivel.
There's vast amounts of information available, even on porn sites, where you can learn a *lot* about human sexuality and the nature of peoples' fetishes. Maybe this knowledge isn't good for young children, but it is of inestimable value in studying the human condition.
I don't think any of the separation ideas are going to really work, because the information I may be looking for may actually be on a porn site. Anyone else remember Playboy.com's Link Everything Online of a few years back? That's how we won the censorship battle at the university I attended.
So you shouldn't think that in a case where my son might be involved, it'd be any less hard, so the law doesn't apply.
Anyone else notice he reasoned parallel to the law? He didn't deal with the law on a point for point basis, he said he had a good reason for not obeying the law (even number of judges, tie potential), he really didn't think his kid would cloud his judgement, and besides, he makes hard decisions all the time. So, he shouldn't have to follow the law.
Hmm. I'm hungry, I think I'll go steal some food.
The law is the law, folks, and if a *supreme court* justice can't follow it, I think we have a real problem. It doesn't allow him to consider whether he should or shouldn't recuse himself, nor does it allow him to consider the magnitude of the impact on his son's interest. It also doesn't matter that the court voted 8-1. He should have recused himself, period.
The law says nothing about the person having to be on trial. It merely says that if there's a potential conflict of interest, the judge should recuse himself, and conflicts of interest include up to third degree involvement of interest. Certainly, if his son were on trial, that would be conflict of interest, but his son defending the same entity in another case also clearly falls within the language of the law.
Second thought: so, I, and all the other people who doubt his objectivity are simply being unreasonable?
Like, say, switchblades, double-edged knives, guns, computers, cars, houses, countries (US rape of Mexico, German rape of most of Europe). Much safer life here in my mud hut with no fire and only what I can cultivate with my bare hands. Oh, and the maurauding bands that own all the guns don't bother me much, anyway. Since phones are illegal, all I have to do is run the three miles to the local police department, where they will arrest me for disturbing the peace.
Oh, geez. Where to start.
Nixon didn't go to jail because Ford felt that the country didn't need that spectacle. That was Ford's decision.
OJ is quite possibly innocent. The fact that you assume him guilty shows you just as racist as those who say that Rodney King deserved his beating. Fact is that any half-competent lawyer could have gotten OJ off. There just wasn't enough evidence to convict.
Rodney King was drugged and led the police on a high-speed chase that resulted in an arrest situation that was charged, and then he tried to run away. The behaviour by the police was excessive, but he wasn't selling girl scout cookies, either. As a matter of fact, the police officers ended up convicted largely because they were white, in an odd case of reverse prejudice.
Microsoft may rely on the American political system to turn a blind eye, but that hasn't happened yet.
This is an unbased accusation. Bush has never used his influence to achieve something outside of his jurisdiction while in Texas, despite taking heat for it on several occasions. I think that fud is what most of Nader's campaign is based on. Nader is the master of irrational fear. Not all corporations are bad. Corporate entities are a part of the landscape. Unless Nader has a better idea, killing corporations doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Oh, geez, the priveleged classes? Why not the .com rich? Warmed over class warfare...
The net is cheaply available to anyone willing to shell out $10-$20 a month. Who can't afford that? Well, the people who can't afford that can easily go down to the library, etc.
Fact is that the narrow demographics on the web have nothing to do with privelege and everything to do with motivation, as is the case in almost every case where someone throws up the 'priveleged class' since the great depression.
Um, these arguments strike me as largely specious and come from the first Cantonese president in American history. After all, it was during Clinton's reign as chief traitor that China acquired the technology to do what everyone is worried they might do if we build a system to prevent them from doing it. This is dumb. It's like saying that if we put up a fence, the dog might try to get out. Geez.
This is a good point. Fact is that until we make some manner of governmental maintenance, then perhaps we are doomed to the entropy-revolt cycle forever.
Ok, this is goofy. I read the entire EULA, and it is going to be awful hard to hold that thing up in court. Never mind 'fair use', I don't think anyone has ever been able to liscense hardware. But, even that isn't the funniest part. They go on to say that they cannot be held liable for any damages caused by the use or misuse of the cuecat. This agreement is in conflict with the laws of many states. But, that isn't the funniest part, either.
The funniest part is that they insist that should you ever reverse-engineer anything on the cuecat, you must turn any derived data over to them, never mind the fact that you are in point of fact in breach of contract at that point. The fifth amendment covers this one. It is an interesting point that once you've reverse-engineered something, they can't require you to incriminate yourself by telling them.
Finally, this type of contract is going to be hard to enforce without an actual signature, in my opinion. I could just say I never saw the darn thing.
I agree that the political system as a whole is largely clueless, but remember that every other major upheaval of socio-political standards has resulted in bloodshed.
Right now, our government is very much a reflection of our society. Our society believes with a moral certainty such absurdities as guns are bad and copyrights are enforceable. Freedoms are being happily revoked 'for the children' and because 'no one needs to do that', two reasons that would make the founding fathers apoplectic. The government lies to the populace with startling regularity; but that's allright, our schools lie to our kids. How am I as a young 'netizen' ever going to trust these systems? However, I'm certainly not turning my back on them. They have real teeth, and when the revolution does come, it may involve actual bloodshed.
Just a thought.
I'm part of the new wave of IT professionals. I got into programming to avoid work. Sure, I'm making less in the position I'm in, but I can come in late and leave early and as long as I get actual stuff done, the boss doesn't mind. I'm using my skills to make an adequate level of compensation in exchange for less real work.
Actually, as I understand it, they all run on a Mach kernel. OS X doesn't run on BSD, it runs beside BSD and talks to it. It would be theoretically possible to make a port of MKLinux that ran on the same Mach kernel...
Of course, you're talking now about Win2k or any other Microsquish product. MacOS is *vastly* easier to install. You can pretty much run with the defaults on any Mac because the installer and the drivers are smart enough to know what is needed.
Take the incoming signal, analyse it, remove tags, shouldn't be too hard.
Fact is that every example you've stated cost about the same as M$FT products, but provided *superior* functionality. Take, for instance, DRDOS, which clearly gave more memory, was more stable, was completely open to developers, and was faster than DOS. OS/2, MacOS, and Linux are all superior to any Winblows platform. As to more expensive hardware in MacOS, the time to obsolescence of Macs is longer, evening it out. I used to do support, and, much as I hate to admit it, I made more money off of M$FT products than *anything* else. Imagine an hour and a half to configure a netcard? Two hours to track down a silly NT printing problem? I got paid by the hour, man.