Apparently Monetization is creating an environment (or set of rules) for a thing that isn't money so that one can use said thing like money. Like the well known phrase "I'll pay you four van Goghs for that ratburger". Which is kind of odd really for the Entertainment industry to go that way since you usually monetize non precious things (common metals or rock, hemp etc.) to monetize representations of art like music files, video recordings or image files is openly admitting that those things do not have a value other than the perceived/mandated one and that production of said forms of legal tender is negligible (aka you can't steal an mp3 or gif because it has no value of its own).
Ok, so they are trying to go the route of IBM wit their OS/2? Does that mean that in a couple of years nobody will want to have anythign to do with it?
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Seriously I think that naming your OS "OS <number>" as in Operating System <number> without applying a descriptive qualifier (Windows, Mac) is so egotistic egotists will be ashamed of themselves.
I get the point, still You will find me in (non absolute) agreement to Brin's statement. Sure Google can become dangerous, but for what concerns Internet freedom the walled garden that is Facebook is much more dangerous than the constantly recording tape of Google analytics. Same so any OS other than an open source one is wrong and no Android doesn't make the cut either for this and other reasons (see java or the fact that devices are allowed to come with restrictive bootloaders).
Google may well suck but Brinn gets my support to this point. Different assailants require different defenses. I for example have completely decoupled from Google but still have to push data through Facebook if I want to reach Joes and Janes.
In the end, sometimes a little initial hell is worth the real-world game-changing progress that ensues.
Yep. Completely, absolutely, irrefutably correct. The only reason why the FOSS culture and the free desktop (as in the free OS) have gone such a long way since the early days of slackware is because there were people who wanted to get their hands dirty and muck about for days on a toy OS in order to get somewhere (usually the goal was understanding, more than achieving an actual OS). Those people later on became integral parts of the development progress, highlighting developers mistakes and decisive disadvantages of various decisions made and providing solutions and custom scripts to automate stuff in a non breaking way. Not to forget the part well versed early adopters played in community support.
The truth is that if FOSS developers were to wait for a perfect product until they released we would still be trying to init the GNU userland on HURD, or not even that one since almost the whole body of the GNU userland came out as incomplete alphas at first and those alphas then drove interest and development.
Wayland development seems have to made leaps since the last time I looked at it last year. Hopefully in the next 18 months we will be actually getting some workable prototype OS with it.
Apparently the framework only works well on chrome, FF aurora and opera do crash. But that's pretty much a side effect of being in development. Most devs (or at least the ones that trust in their js skills) write against either chrome or firefox and the integrate on the other browsers.
Actually client side Java in the browser should go away all together. It was is and always will be a disgrace to the Internet as well as a giant vulnerability generator. Plus when, finally, all those plugin cancers (Java applets, Flash, unity3d web whatsoever) get eradicated the WWW experience will become much more concise, user safe, efficient, homogenous and enjoyable.
Radio should only be required if he wants live views/interaction. The whole thing could be engineered to be autonomous. Ditching policy will be a problem if it is going to fly in a populated area.
I guess mountains will have high airflow so anything lighter than air or rotating wing is invalid. A large size (1m wingspan) RC airplane could be a starting point. Autonomous flight will mean that initially fuel will become an issue because engine management is quite complex to do (while keeping the thing flying under all conditions). I remember a talk about an autonomous drone in that size range about a couple of years ago, I think there also was a company behind it. Landing isn't that much of a problem, you can equip a parachute or make a short range radio override for manual landing, but as said before the price will probably be over 5k for such a thing, possibly even higher since you will need liquid fuel engines.
I've seen those pattents. I especially liked the one called: "How to lose millions of users - across the all your products - to Google®, while focusing on share prices"
Do you think Yahoo are seeing the future here? Or suing the future here?
The problem with this type of UI decision is that users have to actually remember the keywords that hit the bookmark they are looking for. Many modern browsers do populate url suggestions from history + bookmarks (Opera, FF, chrome all do it either natively or through settings) but it just isn't intelligent enough for human use.
Rant aside, I would say the comments depict quite aptly the general opinion about win8. There is some consideration that a "Public Preview" should be feature complete and not just an aesthetics demo. Sure Microsoft has time to fix all their inconsistencies (maybe even adopt an open source kernel) but will it actually happen? No one can say.
BTW. After posting this I did some research on that topic. Turns out that there are ways to hack yourself into PSN and use it as if your console was vanilla but it isn't your typical patch `this' via USB hack and it also does get bust from time to time.
Well, it sells 100% more than HDDVD. That was the goal of the last format wars. If the format will turn out to be profitable or not wasn't actually a factor. Bluray may well be the last widely consumed optical medium but that has nothing to do with the fact that it won the format war.
Ohh and btw the PlayStation online store is the worst implementation of an online marketplace since v1 of craigslist and at least that one was aesthetically pleasing and lightweight! I seriously expected them to ask me to mail in my 20 euros the first time I charged up the account.
AFAIK and correct me if I'm wrong, console owners (like in SONY, not you and me) will promptly loack you out of their gaming networks and DL services if you run a cracked OS. So I would say that this isn't a viable option.
It is really scary to think: Back in the PSX (and earlier) days a console couldn't really do many things. You insert a game disk and it plays it. The end. That's it. Now when consoles have become feature complete with persistent storage, networking capabilities, multiple IOs; now that consoles are nothing more than a PC with guaranteed (as in standardized) hardware specs, you aren't allowed to actually own the devices. Consoles always were hesitant about homebrew and other OSs, both terms - as I see it - have been only used to win market share. Modding, a part of gaming culture that in great ways made gaming what it is today, while totally doable on a PS3 is banned because "it would decrease the quality of the user experience" (Sony spokesperson @ E3 2007).
Then there comes the subsidized economy. The PS3 was being sold for less than its cost for most of its lifecycle. Why? because of two things. Most importantly Sony wanted to put blu ray devices into living rooms to win the format war (and they did so and now they are making money of that fact). A second factor was competition with the Xbox360. So what does this have to do with owning your device? Well apparently it is a very good excuse for the pro DRM side to cut down on your rights to the products you purchase. "Oh, but sir you didn't actually buy the game or the console, you just bought the privilege to use them in the ways we like!". Bull. The PSX and PS2 (or atari and NES or genesis or neoGeo aes, etc, etc) didn't ruin the gaming economy by allowing exchange of games between peers, why is this now such a bad thing?
Modern society is speeding towards a point where in the name of discounts people will end up just renting out the service of things instead of actually owning them. So i guess a welcome is in order, welcome to slavery everyone, I'll go to a corner and cry now.
I do concede that my previous comment is a bit caustic and maybe even a bit ill conceived, still I think you are going one step too far as well. Stalin and Mao are very bad examples. Ever heard of the circular nature of political ideology? Extremes are extremes full stop.
I won't go into detail because I have better things to do. Suffice it to say, people who knew too little ended up organizing masses and burning the one person that could help them solve their problems. People who knew too little led Jews into the baths of Auschwitz. Now guess who doesn't care about education that much.
I was hating on them quite a bit about a year ago but they seem to have started maturing. Now stop being learn shy and go figure out how to use those new DEs like a real nerd!
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Apparently Monetization is creating an environment (or set of rules) for a thing that isn't money so that one can use said thing like money. Like the well known phrase "I'll pay you four van Goghs for that ratburger".
Which is kind of odd really for the Entertainment industry to go that way since you usually monetize non precious things (common metals or rock, hemp etc.) to monetize representations of art like music files, video recordings or image files is openly admitting that those things do not have a value other than the perceived/mandated one and that production of said forms of legal tender is negligible (aka you can't steal an mp3 or gif because it has no value of its own).
ASLR, that's one (1) security factor. An OS has to be better in security across the field in order to be able to seriously claim being the best.
Ok, so they are trying to go the route of IBM wit their OS/2? Does that mean that in a couple of years nobody will want to have anythign to do with it?
</ill_humor>
Seriously I think that naming your OS "OS <number>" as in Operating System <number> without applying a descriptive qualifier (Windows, Mac) is so egotistic egotists will be ashamed of themselves.
I get the point, still You will find me in (non absolute) agreement to Brin's statement. Sure Google can become dangerous, but for what concerns Internet freedom the walled garden that is Facebook is much more dangerous than the constantly recording tape of Google analytics.
Same so any OS other than an open source one is wrong and no Android doesn't make the cut either for this and other reasons (see java or the fact that devices are allowed to come with restrictive bootloaders).
Google may well suck but Brinn gets my support to this point. Different assailants require different defenses. I for example have completely decoupled from Google but still have to push data through Facebook if I want to reach Joes and Janes.
paychecks
ftw
In the end, sometimes a little initial hell is worth the real-world game-changing progress that ensues.
Yep. Completely, absolutely, irrefutably correct. The only reason why the FOSS culture and the free desktop (as in the free OS) have gone such a long way since the early days of slackware is because there were people who wanted to get their hands dirty and muck about for days on a toy OS in order to get somewhere (usually the goal was understanding, more than achieving an actual OS). Those people later on became integral parts of the development progress, highlighting developers mistakes and decisive disadvantages of various decisions made and providing solutions and custom scripts to automate stuff in a non breaking way. Not to forget the part well versed early adopters played in community support.
The truth is that if FOSS developers were to wait for a perfect product until they released we would still be trying to init the GNU userland on HURD, or not even that one since almost the whole body of the GNU userland came out as incomplete alphas at first and those alphas then drove interest and development.
Wayland development seems have to made leaps since the last time I looked at it last year. Hopefully in the next 18 months we will be actually getting some workable prototype OS with it.
Apparently the framework only works well on chrome, FF aurora and opera do crash. But that's pretty much a side effect of being in development. Most devs (or at least the ones that trust in their js skills) write against either chrome or firefox and the integrate on the other browsers.
Actually client side Java in the browser should go away all together. It was is and always will be a disgrace to the Internet
as well as a giant vulnerability generator. Plus when, finally, all those plugin cancers (Java applets, Flash, unity3d web
whatsoever) get eradicated the WWW experience will become much more concise, user safe, efficient, homogenous
and enjoyable.
Yep, that is why I mention Ditching policy as a problem for flights over populated areas...
Radio should only be required if he wants live views/interaction. The whole thing could be engineered to be
autonomous. Ditching policy will be a problem if it is going to fly in a populated area.
I guess mountains will have high airflow so anything lighter than air or rotating wing is invalid.
A large size (1m wingspan) RC airplane could be a starting point. Autonomous flight will mean that initially fuel will become an
issue because engine management is quite complex to do (while keeping the thing flying under all conditions). I remember a
talk about an autonomous drone in that size range about a couple of years ago, I think there also was a company behind it.
Landing isn't that much of a problem, you can equip a parachute or make a short range radio override for manual
landing, but as said before the price will probably be over 5k for such a thing, possibly even higher since you will need liquid
fuel engines.
Just my 2c
I've seen those pattents. I especially liked the one called:
"How to lose millions of users - across the all your products - to Google®, while focusing on share prices"
Do you think Yahoo are seeing the future here?
Or suing the future here?
The problem with this type of UI decision is that users have to actually remember the keywords
that hit the bookmark they are looking for. Many modern browsers do populate url suggestions
from history + bookmarks (Opera, FF, chrome all do it either natively or through settings) but it
just isn't intelligent enough for human use.
Rant aside, I would say the comments depict quite aptly the general opinion about win8. There is some consideration that
a "Public Preview" should be feature complete and not just an aesthetics demo. Sure Microsoft has time to fix all their
inconsistencies (maybe even adopt an open source kernel) but will it actually happen? No one can say.
http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
Mr AGILE actually works at Microsoft?
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Well, I guess judges do their best work at Sundays, so I would paint this as "You'll all get a clock in a tower in London if that isn't true"
Your hearing is in the future? How does that work?
BTW. After posting this I did some research on that topic. Turns out that there are ways to hack yourself into PSN and use it as if your console was vanilla but it isn't your typical patch `this' via USB hack and it also does get bust from time to time.
Well, it sells 100% more than HDDVD. That was the goal of the last format wars. If the format will turn out to be profitable or not wasn't actually a factor. Bluray may well be the last widely consumed optical medium but that has nothing to do with the fact that it won the format war.
Ohh and btw the PlayStation online store is the worst implementation of an online marketplace since v1 of craigslist and at least that one was aesthetically pleasing and lightweight! I seriously expected them to ask me to mail in my 20 euros the first time I charged up the account.
I played "Journey" on my non cracked console this week (and I liked it a lot btw).
Can I play "Journey" on a cracked console?
AFAIK and correct me if I'm wrong, console owners (like in SONY, not you and me) will promptly loack you out of their gaming networks and DL services if you run a cracked OS. So I would say that this isn't a viable option.
It is really scary to think: Back in the PSX (and earlier) days a console couldn't really do many things. You insert a game disk and it plays it. The end. That's it. Now when consoles have become feature complete with persistent storage, networking capabilities, multiple IOs; now that consoles are nothing more than a PC with guaranteed (as in standardized) hardware specs, you aren't allowed to actually own the devices. Consoles always were hesitant about homebrew and other OSs, both terms - as I see it - have been only used to win market share. Modding, a part of gaming culture that in great ways made gaming what it is today, while totally doable on a PS3 is banned because "it would decrease the quality of the user experience" (Sony spokesperson @ E3 2007).
Then there comes the subsidized economy. The PS3 was being sold for less than its cost for most of its lifecycle. Why? because of two things. Most importantly Sony wanted to put blu ray devices into living rooms to win the format war (and they did so and now they are making money of that fact). A second factor was competition with the Xbox360. So what does this have to do with owning your device? Well apparently it is a very good excuse for the pro DRM side to cut down on your rights to the products you purchase. "Oh, but sir you didn't actually buy the game or the console, you just bought the privilege to use them in the ways we like!". Bull. The PSX and PS2 (or atari and NES or genesis or neoGeo aes, etc, etc) didn't ruin the gaming economy by allowing exchange of games between peers, why is this now such a bad thing?
Modern society is speeding towards a point where in the name of discounts people will end up just renting out the service of things instead of actually owning them. So i guess a welcome is in order, welcome to slavery everyone, I'll go to a corner and cry now.
At time of writing, YouTube does not appear to have caught up with the decision
It has now... Damn You Tanya Stele!
I do concede that my previous comment is a bit caustic and maybe even a bit ill conceived, still I think you are going one step too far as well. Stalin and Mao are very bad examples. Ever heard of the circular nature of political ideology? Extremes are extremes full stop.
I won't go into detail because I have better things to do. Suffice it to say, people who knew too little ended up organizing masses and burning the one person that could help them solve their problems. People who knew too little led Jews into the baths of Auschwitz. Now guess who doesn't care about education that much.
Have you seen the last gnome 3 and unity?
I was hating on them quite a bit about a year ago but they seem to have started maturing.
Now stop being learn shy and go figure out how to use those new DEs like a real nerd!