Binary XML is problematic in that there will be competing standards and in the end, the end user/client will need mutiple XML decompressors in order to read the various XML formats that come down the pipe.
I think what needs to happen is the XML (or html or any data for that matter) needs to be compressed as part of the TCP standard. (I can't believe this isn't happening already). XML as viewed by the server and client is uncompressed (and can be edited by any text editor). XML as viewed by the Internet is tightly compressed.
So Gates says they are enabling people by having the ability to have any bits, plus the ability to restrict the use of the bits.
Gizmodo says that because there is no distinction between what is being disabled (medical records/music are treated the same), the technology is inheritently bad. (Evil begin too strong a word).
At the end of the artical Gizmodo suggests that they simply disagree, Gates disagrees with that statement.... (My mind hurts now).
Use http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ festival to do text to speech. Then it's a matter of redirecting stdout to/dev/speech (ok you've got to install the speech driver) and you've got web browsing with speech.
I'm sure there are other apps available. Just a matter of emerging them
This is one of those research projects that could have been solved with a trip to any farm. Animals that do not talk are both left handed and right handed. So perhaps right/left handedness doesn't have much to do with language. Sheesh!
I hate mail in rebates. It's just a way of giving the government more money. Let's say you buy something for $100 on "sale" for $75. Only trick is you've got to pay tax on $100 in order to buy it, for $75!?!
In Canada that's 15%. So instead of paying $11.25 in tax you are paying $15. So your sale prices of $75 is actually $78.75. I know it's only three dollars, but dammit I'm cheap!^H^H^H^H^H^it's the principle of the thing!
Not only that, in order to get the mail in rebate it costs you postage. There's another 50 cents. And my time. (That's gotta be worth at least $20 per hour flippen burgers, so it takes me 5 minutes to fill in the stuff. 5 minutes to find a stamp. 15 minutes to walk down to the mailbox, 15 minutes to walk back.)
Hey this rebate is COSTING ME MONEY!
Hey Best Buy/Future Shop! Why not just put it on sale if you want to put it on sale. Why give your consumers more problems. One of the reasons I perfer to buy from the small independants. (No I'm not a devil customer. I'm not a customer at all!)
Right now ATI and NVIDIA and any other 3d card manufacturer out there feels that it is not in their best interest to reveal these specs. This doesn't make sense because:
1. If a company wants to reverse engineer another company's BIOS it can do it. 2. If a company wants to reverse engineer another company's driver it can do it.
So the reason for hiding these specs is security through obscurity. Not a good reason.
Let's give them a good reason to open source their software. Let's use Money!
So we (as in the Open Source Community) hold a BIOS freedom drive. People put money towards freeing the software of a video card. Any card manufacture can participate. Cards are choosen by eople voting with their dollars as to which two (2) cards they want free. This allows overlap and more compitition between manufactures. The first manufacturer to release the source code under the GPL get's the kitty. The other manufacture get's nothing.
Remember Blender, (the 3d modeling program), when it was opensourced for 100K. The company couldn't make a profit from the software, and decided to get a bit of their money back. They got it back in 3 months. Blender is a little side project compared to video cards. I'm fairly certain Video cards can get a wee bit more money.
The value of a product in a capitalistic system is determined by what the market is willing to bear.
The market is willing to bear a lot for the Linux kernel. It is willing to bear programmers time (and pay them for it). It is willing to bear costs of promotion and advertisment. It is willing to bear spending the time to develop it in the first place. You need to expand your view of the market to be beyond the people who would potentionally (sp) buy the software, to include those that buy and use it in other ways then just money.
This is shown by the unwillingness of the Linux developers to sell their rights to use the software in whatever way they want. The developers sell the price for what the market demands. Their price is market particpation and joining of the development effort.
Trust to mechanical (or electrical) things always involves trust of the person behind it. There is nothing wrong with your system, except that it might be possible for it to break down during an election without the operator (voters) knowing it.
Maintainence on these machines must be certified, etc.
Pen and paper (drawing an X in the appropriate square) have worked for years, but again trust is given to the people tallying the votes.
Your system to me sounds like a better solution then the touch screens. More easily verified as working. Less likely to fail through wear & tear. The advantage I can see for your machines is the speed of tallying the votes. (Which are done as the vote is cast).
Well said. I too, use lighter tools like the koffice suite. But I have used Open Office in the past. And found it to be clunky, but useable. My kids use it on thier XP game machine for school work.
Of course gentoo has had it in beta for the last month.
My own personal experience with it is that it's even faster then before (Not quite blackbox speed but it is approching...). kmail has spam filtering built in. All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see). Still can't get konqueror to run those java games at www.pogo.com so I have to use firefox for that.
Kdevelop is fantastic, along with plugins for valgrind, doxygen and debuggers it is a great development environment.
All in all an incremental change, nothing blindingly new, but a solid base to work from.
Concern for the student, at this point is worthless (he's beyond that). Concern for his family, is worthwhile. Concern for his concerns is worthwhile. Concern for the car is also worthwhile, since it is a positive concept that may be damaged by this tragic accident.
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Binary XML is problematic in that there will be competing standards and in the end, the end user/client will need mutiple XML decompressors in order to read the various XML formats that come down the pipe.
I think what needs to happen is the XML (or html or any data for that matter) needs to be compressed as part of the TCP standard. (I can't believe this isn't happening already). XML as viewed by the server and client is uncompressed (and can be edited by any text editor). XML as viewed by the Internet is tightly compressed.
So Gates says they are enabling people by having the ability to have any bits, plus the ability to restrict the use of the bits.
Gizmodo says that because there is no distinction between what is being disabled (medical records/music are treated the same), the technology is inheritently bad. (Evil begin too strong a word).
At the end of the artical Gizmodo suggests that they simply disagree, Gates disagrees with that statement.... (My mind hurts now).
So tell us how you really feel. You shouldn't hold back so much :)
No I'm not kidding. Go to the story and look at the close up picture. In the top left corner there is another shiny object.
Use http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ festival to do text to speech. Then it's a matter of redirecting stdout to /dev/speech (ok you've got to install the speech driver) and you've got web browsing with speech.
I'm sure there are other apps available. Just a matter of emerging them
This is one of those research projects that could have been solved with a trip to any farm. Animals that do not talk are both left handed and right handed. So perhaps right/left handedness doesn't have much to do with language. Sheesh!
It's Canadian Tire money!
That's hillarious! And I blew my mod points by making some other comments.
Gotta watch for this guy!
I take it you're still working there? :)
I hate mail in rebates. It's just a way of giving the government more money. Let's say you buy something for $100 on "sale" for $75. Only trick is you've got to pay tax on $100 in order to buy it, for $75!?!
In Canada that's 15%. So instead of paying $11.25 in tax you are paying $15. So your sale prices of $75 is actually $78.75. I know it's only three dollars, but dammit I'm cheap!^H^H^H^H^H^it's the principle of the thing!
Not only that, in order to get the mail in rebate it costs you postage. There's another 50 cents. And my time. (That's gotta be worth at least $20 per hour flippen burgers, so it takes me 5 minutes to fill in the stuff. 5 minutes to find a stamp. 15 minutes to walk down to the mailbox, 15 minutes to walk back.)
Hey this rebate is COSTING ME MONEY!
Hey Best Buy/Future Shop! Why not just put it on sale if you want to put it on sale. Why give your consumers more problems. One of the reasons I perfer to buy from the small independants. (No I'm not a devil customer. I'm not a customer at all!)
Or make them Open source and claim for their own! (after all if it's close source, who knows where it came from). (joke).
This is the idea.
Right now ATI and NVIDIA and any other 3d card manufacturer out there feels that it is not in their best interest to reveal these specs. This doesn't make sense because:
1. If a company wants to reverse engineer another company's BIOS it can do it.
2. If a company wants to reverse engineer another company's driver it can do it.
So the reason for hiding these specs is security through obscurity. Not a good reason.
Let's give them a good reason to open source their software. Let's use Money!
So we (as in the Open Source Community) hold a BIOS freedom drive. People put money towards freeing the software of a video card. Any card manufacture can participate. Cards are choosen by eople voting with their dollars as to which two (2) cards they want free. This allows overlap and more compitition between manufactures. The first manufacturer to release the source code under the GPL get's the kitty. The other manufacture get's nothing.
Remember Blender, (the 3d modeling program), when it was opensourced for 100K. The company couldn't make a profit from the software, and decided to get a bit of their money back. They got it back in 3 months. Blender is a little side project compared to video cards. I'm fairly certain Video cards can get a wee bit more money.
GO FOR IT!
Kildall is requesting $699 per cpu of the operating system he invented. :)
Yes, but you still have to trust that all the people present are not in colusion.
The market is willing to bear a lot for the Linux kernel. It is willing to bear programmers time (and pay them for it). It is willing to bear costs of promotion and advertisment. It is willing to bear spending the time to develop it in the first place. You need to expand your view of the market to be beyond the people who would potentionally (sp) buy the software, to include those that buy and use it in other ways then just money.
This is shown by the unwillingness of the Linux developers to sell their rights to use the software in whatever way they want. The developers sell the price for what the market demands. Their price is market particpation and joining of the development effort.
Trust to mechanical (or electrical) things always involves trust of the person behind it. There is nothing wrong with your system, except that it might be possible for it to break down during an election without the operator (voters) knowing it.
Maintainence on these machines must be certified, etc.
Pen and paper (drawing an X in the appropriate square) have worked for years, but again trust is given to the people tallying the votes.
Your system to me sounds like a better solution then the touch screens. More easily verified as working. Less likely to fail through wear & tear. The advantage I can see for your machines is the speed of tallying the votes. (Which are done as the vote is cast).
Well said. I too, use lighter tools like the koffice suite. But I have used Open Office in the past. And found it to be clunky, but useable. My kids use it on thier XP game machine for school work.
Do you view yourself more as an entertainment novelist or an educational novelist? (Not that the two are mutually exclusive).
I ask this, because I always seem to come from your books with more knowledge then when I start. (Esp the Baroque cycle).
They say that Linux viruses may see a sharp increase...
Yah, we might get one.
Of course gentoo has had it in beta for the last month.
My own personal experience with it is that it's even faster then before (Not quite blackbox speed but it is approching...). kmail has spam filtering built in. All of the multimedia mime things work in Konqueror (that I could see). Still can't get konqueror to run those java games at www.pogo.com so I have to use firefox for that.
Kdevelop is fantastic, along with plugins for valgrind, doxygen and debuggers it is a great development environment.
All in all an incremental change, nothing blindingly new, but a solid base to work from.
Concern for the student, at this point is worthless (he's beyond that).
Concern for his family, is worthwhile.
Concern for his concerns is worthwhile.
Concern for the car is also worthwhile, since it is a positive concept that may be damaged by this tragic accident.
I'm wondering why the solar cars are always made lightweight.
A heavier car, once in motion, takes no more power to keep in motion then a light weight car, right?
The energy used to get a heavier car into motion, can be recaptured in the stopping of it.
I suppose there is energy lost in the transfer of starting/stopping, but is that enough of a loss to make the cars unworkable?
Doesn't the post office store your letters until they are delivered? Does this mean the post office can read your mail because they are storing it....
I wonder if the same thing happened to Hercules. It would explain a lot wouldn't it?
He killed snakes bare handed when he was a toddler. ref
Was especially amusing.
"Old geek invents new stick"
Well at least I thought so.