I know Jeff Duntemann is quoted as saying âoeThe PC culture was inherited from the IBM mainframe world. The graphics in that era werenâ(TM)t very good. Until we had Windows to provide the basic ideas of displaying things in windows, PCs had a foot and a half back in the mainframe world" That's just a dumb thing to say. It's like saying "back then turbo charged engines in commercial cars still had a foot in the racing world!" Doh!
Perhaps you were aware of this when you commented, but I think it's pretty clear that Patrizio was specifically referring to PC IDEs, which would necessarily be Microsoft-centric because of their monopoly of the PC operating system. Of course there were interesting and better IDEs for mainframes and minicomputers, and in that sense PCs were a giant step backwards for programming. Which is partly why IBM originally thought PCs would never sell big, let alone become dominant in the computer programming landscape. Not taking all that into consideration kind of misses the point of the article, I think.
"But that's okay, I'm sure English is your first/only language." That seems to be a really lame attempt to insult native English users. There's no grammatical rules against "problems to solve with it." Even "To problem solve with it" is acceptable because the rule against split infinitives is considered obsolete and old fashioned. English has amazing flexibility. It is the perl of human languages!
"Windoze will at least let you install it on any machine you want (legally)" That's a remnant of days when they were minor vendors for IBM. When Compaq and others put out IBM PC "clones," Microsoft took full advantage of the opportunity to stab IBM in the back. Notably, Microsoft is as restrictive, even more so, with Xbox and Xbox360. I can install linux on any PPC or Intel Macintosh without hardware hacks or bizarre workarounds. I should be able to do that with Xboxen as well.
on my Mac, with admittedly low memory, HB can be slow. HD rips take forever. The fact that it is cross-platform FOSS and continues to be actively developed is pretty cool though. On those counts alone I wouldn't recommend anything else.
Their idea is that RIAA or some such group could launch a "guilt-by-association attack" and create a kind of "mailing list" of users (specifically through the ISPs of users) to send out lawsuits. Your comparison to mobsters doesn't apply, because the threat isn't from law enforcement, its about rogue groups slapping civil lawsuits on people, in which case they can bring you to court on guilt by association- which sucks even if you're clean as a whistle. However, you are correct in that so far no one has deployed this tactic, and SwarmScreen won't do much good unless large numbers of people start using it. Which involves accepting a performance penalty, against a vague and uncertain threat, without actually protecting the users identity. IMHO it is less than proof-of-concept, it's an elaborate exercise in providing a false sense of security to torrent users. Its almost ugly.
The funniest case of this is a youtube video "Led Zeppelin's 'Original' Songs" made comparing LedZep songs with other songs. It made a case for repeated plagiarism, and yet, WMG has effectively blocked it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMDR0yrxMw
Curiously "Barracuda" very closely resembles part of Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand." I see Amazon and other places laugh and talk about the LedZep sound or Bonham style drumming, but its really close to outright imitation. However, I would also not be surprised if LedZep ripped off these riffs from someone else. I have become sadly disillusioned with the musicians I loved as a teenager, after already being disgusted with how the public was ripped off from CD sales in the past. I heard today Zappa's widow's lawyers are bullying acts who cover him. Sad sad sad
Computer: How do I make easy money?? 1 Pretend to put together the "initial version" of a computer that actually answers factual questions, a la Star Trek's ship computers 2 Generate publicity from engineered controversy 3 Profit!!!
Wait till Amazon offers the Kindle Android Fembot. And then the lawyers put restrictions on it. Then maybe people like you will come to understand why these issues matter. Or, maybe I should rephrase that...
It would be better for all of us if you were motivated to proactively protect the innocent. Making an example of the judge won't help Hillary now. I mean, apparently it was people who thought "we need to bring scumbag kids like Hillary to justice!" which brought kids like her before the judge in the first place... I don't see more of the same sentiment as being very helpful
For Windows, its a security issue. For Linux, the freakin upgrades are free. Why not?
If I didn't want highspeed internet and be able to upgrade hardware, I'd still be using DOS(or FreeDOS). But they get you sooner or later, there will be some new feature you'll need or even just really, really want.
I think Phoenix is just creating FUD, so they won't be totally squeezed out as Windoze migrates to 64bit EFI-booting boxes.
Its easy to forget that PCs are "universal" computers, and the PC software market is unique in this regard. There are plenty of hardware manufacturers who sell (or want to sell) limited purpose devices. PC software (and firmware) companies cannot compete directly (unless they also sell the Operating System) If you want to access email, or chat, or use a word processor without waiting for the OS to boot, some company is surely selling non-PC to do this, probably with extra bells and whistles, too.(cell phones/iPhone being the latest and most obvious) Although many office drones would find it convenient and cheaper not to have to buy and carry yet another palm/blackberry/organizer/kitchen sink, the market won't let it happen. Phoenix can't make money off bypassing the OS. Even if Microsoft didn't block them somehow, they couldn't compete against terminals, internet clients, and various non-PC devices.
'JFCOM's Blank agreed that SWS, which is using computers and code to do cultural anthropology, does not include any "hard science at this point".' I wish I had thought of selling a repackaged Sims game to the DoD. I mean, really, is this any more useful than making random guesses? Throwing dice? Does it compare to reading a decent history book? Its supposed to simulate how "I" would respond to propaganda? Please. Did it simulate how much money gullible DoD buyers will spend on this kind of crap?
iPhone runs a version of opensource Darwin. I'm not sure what "closed nature" you are talking about, I was with you til that point. XCode and various SDKs are available, at least for Mac OSX. I think your post, and its high rating, illustrates the additional time-delay problem of cluelessness in many IT departments. You set forward all the issues and potential problems before actually doing any research of the device. "Analysis paralysis" sets in from the start. And then you mention how Exchange isn't "closed." OSX has had Exchange support since 2003. Non-issue. What gives??
Yet you are discounting alcohol, which can also be made in the home, yet provides enormous tax revenue. The power of brand names in conjunction with advertising changes the simpler economic calculations. Already many people will pay extra for high-potency- and depend on certain dealers and sources that provide some semblance of quality control. There would likely be luxury brands in addition to cheaper, lower quality product- adding to even more taxable revenue. It is a strange cultural dynamic which enables people to make such an argument (prices would go down so there would be no tax opportunity) when examples to the contrary (tobacco and alcohol) are ubiquitous.
I wish they had kept producing Motorola 65xx-family Apples like the Apple II and III for a low end and Macintosh 680x0 for high end back 20 years ago. I think the IBM clones with Microsoft were able to overwhelm Macs partly because Apple abandoned its established base of Apple customers while x86 makers and M$ worked with some really ugly kludges, just in order to maintain backward compatibility. Jobs likes to burn his bridges, though and I expect Apple will continue the tradition.
I thought the last Word was that it was Intel's ability and willingness to provide iPod chips that made the switch to Intel in all Apple hardware so desireable. Considering iPod is really Apple's cash cow now, that made sense to me. Apple makes Intel a good deal- give us cheap iPod parts, and to sweeten the deal, we'll move the less profitable computer line to Intel CPUs as well. Remember that there must have been a huge overhead in transitioning from PPC to x86, and alienation of some big Apple software vendors Freescale with Code Warrior and Terrasoft Solutions YDL comes to mind. This meant porting Everything, not just a matter of getting cheaper chips. They could have dealt with AMD after all.
Actually I miss old Ma Bell. The phone bill was simple, straightforward, no strange extra charges, including a mess of charges that for me are usually $0.00 It also would have been nice if Ma Bell had fiber cable laid out, and thousands of investors, employees and others wouldn't have gone broke laying out dark fiber. Sigh.
Ya know, the Wowtwit kid was actually using hyperbole, quite correctly. Probably he couldn't explain it, but didn't need someone to bully him about his speech. Also next time you hear someone use "literally" in a metaphorical way, remember, its an exaggeration, hyperbole, not wrong and not a reason to think you have a superior intellect.
I think I use to be like you, and I became very, very unhappy because of my attitude. Be a little more generous and patient. It will pay off.
Kill all human beings. I believe natural forces would quickly, I'm sure surprisingly quickly, bring the atmosphere back into a harmonious balance. Of course, you'd have to leave a few survivors to confirm the results of my brilliant insight into the issue.
Next question?
Because the other things you mentioned are close range, slow torture instruments. If you can harm someone from a distance, it's different. Even bullets, through forensics, can be traced to specific guns and from a particular range and angle. Read up on the abuses of stun-guns. Even Mace requires close range and is an easily witnessed attack (by victim and anyone in the area). A long range weapon is a different story.
Although it also says blinking and looking away protects the eyes, and unless the contacts immediately, instanteously melt(seems unlikely), I think the danger is insignificant. Nice try though, four-eyes
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I know Jeff Duntemann is quoted as saying âoeThe PC culture was inherited from the IBM mainframe world. The graphics in that era werenâ(TM)t very good. Until we had Windows to provide the basic ideas of displaying things in windows, PCs had a foot and a half back in the mainframe world" That's just a dumb thing to say. It's like saying "back then turbo charged engines in commercial cars still had a foot in the racing world!" Doh!
Perhaps you were aware of this when you commented, but I think it's pretty clear that Patrizio was specifically referring to PC IDEs, which would necessarily be Microsoft-centric because of their monopoly of the PC operating system. Of course there were interesting and better IDEs for mainframes and minicomputers, and in that sense PCs were a giant step backwards for programming. Which is partly why IBM originally thought PCs would never sell big, let alone become dominant in the computer programming landscape.
Not taking all that into consideration kind of misses the point of the article, I think.
"But that's okay, I'm sure English is your first/only language." That seems to be a really lame attempt to insult native English users. There's no grammatical rules against "problems to solve with it." Even "To problem solve with it" is acceptable because the rule against split infinitives is considered obsolete and old fashioned. English has amazing flexibility. It is the perl of human languages!
"Windoze will at least let you install it on any machine you want (legally)"
That's a remnant of days when they were minor vendors for IBM. When Compaq and others put out IBM PC "clones," Microsoft took full advantage of the opportunity to stab IBM in the back.
Notably, Microsoft is as restrictive, even more so, with Xbox and Xbox360. I can install linux on any PPC or Intel Macintosh without hardware hacks or bizarre workarounds. I should be able to do that with Xboxen as well.
on my Mac, with admittedly low memory, HB can be slow. HD rips take forever. The fact that it is cross-platform FOSS and continues to be actively developed is pretty cool though.
On those counts alone I wouldn't recommend anything else.
Their idea is that RIAA or some such group could launch a "guilt-by-association attack" and create a kind of "mailing list" of users (specifically through the ISPs of users) to send out lawsuits. Your comparison to mobsters doesn't apply, because the threat isn't from law enforcement, its about rogue groups slapping civil lawsuits on people, in which case they can bring you to court on guilt by association- which sucks even if you're clean as a whistle.
However, you are correct in that so far no one has deployed this tactic, and SwarmScreen won't do much good unless large numbers of people start using it. Which involves accepting a performance penalty, against a vague and uncertain threat, without actually protecting the users identity.
IMHO it is less than proof-of-concept, it's an elaborate exercise in providing a false sense of security to torrent users. Its almost ugly.
The funniest case of this is a youtube video "Led Zeppelin's 'Original' Songs" made comparing LedZep songs with other songs. It made a case for repeated plagiarism, and yet, WMG has effectively blocked it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCMDR0yrxMw
Ridiculous!
Curiously "Barracuda" very closely resembles part of Led Zeppelin's "Achilles Last Stand." I see Amazon and other places laugh and talk about the LedZep sound or Bonham style drumming, but its really close to outright imitation. However, I would also not be surprised if LedZep ripped off these riffs from someone else. I have become sadly disillusioned with the musicians I loved as a teenager, after already being disgusted with how the public was ripped off from CD sales in the past. I heard today Zappa's widow's lawyers are bullying acts who cover him. Sad sad sad
Computer: How do I make easy money??
1 Pretend to put together the "initial version" of a computer that actually answers factual questions, a la Star Trek's ship computers
2 Generate publicity from engineered controversy
3 Profit!!!
Wait till Amazon offers the Kindle Android Fembot. And then the lawyers put restrictions on it.
Then maybe people like you will come to understand why these issues matter. Or, maybe I should rephrase that...
It would be better for all of us if you were motivated to proactively protect the innocent. Making an example of the judge won't help Hillary now.
I mean, apparently it was people who thought "we need to bring scumbag kids like Hillary to justice!" which brought kids like her before the judge in the first place... I don't see more of the same sentiment as being very helpful
"Would you like to play a game of chess?
I play very well." HAL 9000
Or maybe Blinkenlights?
God, I'm old!!!
For Windows, its a security issue.
For Linux, the freakin upgrades are free. Why not?
If I didn't want highspeed internet and be able to upgrade hardware, I'd still be using DOS(or FreeDOS). But they get you sooner or later, there will be some new feature you'll need or even just really, really want.
I think Phoenix is just creating FUD, so they won't be totally squeezed out as Windoze migrates to 64bit EFI-booting boxes.
Its easy to forget that PCs are "universal" computers, and the PC software market is unique in this regard. There are plenty of hardware manufacturers who sell (or want to sell) limited purpose devices. PC software (and firmware) companies cannot compete directly (unless they also sell the Operating System) If you want to access email, or chat, or use a word processor without waiting for the OS to boot, some company is surely selling non-PC to do this, probably with extra bells and whistles, too.(cell phones/iPhone being the latest and most obvious) Although many office drones would find it convenient and cheaper not to have to buy and carry yet another palm/blackberry/organizer/kitchen sink, the market won't let it happen.
Phoenix can't make money off bypassing the OS. Even if Microsoft didn't block them somehow, they couldn't compete against terminals, internet clients, and various non-PC devices.
Welcome our internet monitoring overlords!!!
'JFCOM's Blank agreed that SWS, which is using computers and code to do cultural anthropology, does not include any "hard science at this point".'
I wish I had thought of selling a repackaged Sims game to the DoD.
I mean, really, is this any more useful than making random guesses? Throwing dice? Does it compare to reading a decent history book? Its supposed to simulate how "I" would respond to propaganda? Please. Did it simulate how much money gullible DoD buyers will spend on this kind of crap?
iPhone runs a version of opensource Darwin. I'm not sure what "closed nature" you are talking about, I was with you til that point. XCode and various SDKs are available, at least for Mac OSX. I think your post, and its high rating, illustrates the additional time-delay problem of cluelessness in many IT departments. You set forward all the issues and potential problems before actually doing any research of the device. "Analysis paralysis" sets in from the start. And then you mention how Exchange isn't "closed." OSX has had Exchange support since 2003. Non-issue. What gives??
Yet you are discounting alcohol, which can also be made in the home, yet provides enormous tax revenue. The power of brand names in conjunction with advertising changes the simpler economic calculations. Already many people will pay extra for high-potency- and depend on certain dealers and sources that provide some semblance of quality control. There would likely be luxury brands in addition to cheaper, lower quality product- adding to even more taxable revenue.
It is a strange cultural dynamic which enables people to make such an argument (prices would go down so there would be no tax opportunity) when examples to the contrary (tobacco and alcohol) are ubiquitous.
I wish they had kept producing Motorola 65xx-family Apples like the Apple II and III for a low end and Macintosh 680x0 for high end back 20 years ago. I think the IBM clones with Microsoft were able to overwhelm Macs partly because Apple abandoned its established base of Apple customers while x86 makers and M$ worked with some really ugly kludges, just in order to maintain backward compatibility. Jobs likes to burn his bridges, though and I expect Apple will continue the tradition.
I thought the last Word was that it was Intel's ability and willingness to provide iPod chips that made the switch to Intel in all Apple hardware so desireable. Considering iPod is really Apple's cash cow now, that made sense to me. Apple makes Intel a good deal- give us cheap iPod parts, and to sweeten the deal, we'll move the less profitable computer line to Intel CPUs as well. Remember that there must have been a huge overhead in transitioning from PPC to x86, and alienation of some big Apple software vendors Freescale with Code Warrior and Terrasoft Solutions YDL comes to mind. This meant porting Everything, not just a matter of getting cheaper chips. They could have dealt with AMD after all.
Actually I miss old Ma Bell. The phone bill was simple, straightforward, no strange extra charges, including a mess of charges that for me are usually $0.00
It also would have been nice if Ma Bell had fiber cable laid out, and thousands of investors, employees and others wouldn't have gone broke laying out dark fiber. Sigh.
Ya know, the Wowtwit kid was actually using hyperbole, quite correctly. Probably he couldn't explain it, but didn't need someone to bully him about his speech. Also next time you hear someone use "literally" in a metaphorical way, remember, its an exaggeration, hyperbole, not wrong and not a reason to think you have a superior intellect.
I think I use to be like you, and I became very, very unhappy because of my attitude. Be a little more generous and patient. It will pay off.
Kill all human beings. I believe natural forces would quickly, I'm sure surprisingly quickly, bring the atmosphere back into a harmonious balance.
Of course, you'd have to leave a few survivors to confirm the results of my brilliant insight into the issue.
Next question?
Because the other things you mentioned are close range, slow torture instruments. If you can harm someone from a distance, it's different. Even bullets, through forensics, can be traced to specific guns and from a particular range and angle. Read up on the abuses of stun-guns. Even Mace requires close range and is an easily witnessed attack (by victim and anyone in the area). A long range weapon is a different story.
Although it also says blinking and looking away protects the eyes, and unless the contacts immediately, instanteously melt(seems unlikely), I think the danger is insignificant.
Nice try though, four-eyes