Remotely controlled robots where the human interface is just like playing a game (safe from real hard and point scoring), but with the added advantage of anon. protection when needed.
... Seems to me people should start billing MS for any time and resources they have wasted in dealing with teh software, regardless of the double standard licensing. (we, MS, get everything and you get no garentee of anything)
If I were Stallman I wouldn't say software will only be free when it is easy enough to create that anyone can and will upon need or inspiration, create the software they need or are inspired to create..
No different than how anyone who needs to calculate something can use a calculator today. Unlike the time of Roman Numeral where only elite accountant could handle the then large stock and coin of trade.
The way it works is that each company interested takes their patent portfoilo and measures it height. the company with teh biggest stack gets paid by the others based upon the difference in height. The payment is protection money.
The consumers are not allowed to see this and are otherwise just the crowd that has no choice but to suffer it.
But the great consumer has the most power.... not to buy.
People are smart, society is stupid, or so that seems to be the problem.
but if you pile up the camels back enough it will break.
by not participating you don't help the fraud of software patents contiunue
... since they are in essence acts of fraud and the patent office is supporting them....
Consider who you are dealing with.
The way to win the software patent game is to not play it, don't participate. Let it fall upon itself to flush out the reality of software not being patentable.
By fighting againts software patents via prior art, you are doing so in a supporting the existance of software patents.
The real fight is exposing and getting the general population to recognize that due the nature of software it is simply not patentable and any organization supporting software patents are commiting fraud against others.
with the human population growth and advancing technology that improves our standard of living, allowing us to take longer vacations, and higher unemployment rates.....
A new industry is born....called... pollination --- humans doing the task that bees once did.
So its not really a bad thing..... Sooner or latter the IT industry is going to have to find other work...
There is plenty to do, be entertained by, etc. without pirating.
It didn't use to be like that however. Things change and just as old hardware gets tossed as new and better comes out, software piracy and piracy of other digital data is going to wear out and be replaced by that which isn't so considered piratable.
And where will that put those who support the media of interest to pirates today?
But if you are a game player and what's in FreeSoftware is not keeping up with Rob and Brazilton then isn't it really a choice to extend the game to real life, not getting caught? The 1337 game, so smart so smart with all your tricks....
Live by the game, die by the game.
I found that my DSL (the new AT&T) provider can see everything I do including my password (which I can't even see on my system when I enter them). And since this is going over two copper wires or thru the phone system controlled by... trace capable technology and knowledge how to use it.
Oh so smart.....what we make we can break and we can also certainly trace it...
Only when a system is set up to intentionally break trace ability can a trace fail, but a trace will lead to that system, just not beyond it. Here is where pressure might be applied, unless its run my a university of law supporting anon.....
Some of what goes on is like shoplifting in a store with hidden cameras, only you are doing it from anywhere in teh world with the camera being somewhere on the data transfer path.
If you want to pirate stuff safely (more or less) don't use data lines, use something more detached from data lines, like CDs, DVD, USB thumb drives, or even removable or external hard drives., etc...
For those who think I'm uninformed about the tricks, well there have been deception tricks long before computers came about. The only thing new here is the illusion of not being seen in broad daylight doing something you shouldn't and even more important, don't need to do.
Support FreeSoftware.... or play a game for real and risk punishment...
BTW, my expreience with bittorrent (dl'ing free software DVD distros like ArtistX and Debians latest) has been poor, problemmatic and anti-productive (I have no problem in giving back since being on DSL is a constant connection that runs when I'm not using it)... but when the p2p connection has problems that don't help me give back....
It took me 3-4 days, and alot of restarts to get the first DVD for Debain Etch, while the last two parts took alot less as a direct download. ArtistX (formerly MusicX) is only available thru bittorrent and its just over 2 gigs. Took over a week and a total download of probably more than twice that... alot of wasted band width.
I've tested my bittorrent ability and can get as much bandwidth incomming as the plan I'm on gives (my setting are fine), but apparently there are other factors the can influence specific targets.
direct down load mirrors are much better, using wget.... Only I can't give back....
torrents are a good idea..... but not so reliable. And apparently risky for pirates.
Pretty much if you go to an electronics recycling event and see what others are tossing it'll probably make you see that you've collected alot of junk. But the important thing is to recycle the junk properly.
That can be hard to do even if you find a free recycling event as they may be limited to once a year and only for a part day (not 8 hours).
If you are a serious collector then you've done your research as to what is worth keeping and know the cost of maintainance as moving hardware components can deteriorate over time and non moving components are subject to deterioration too, just takes longer.
But what is really needed is a fast and small OS that can easily be ported to the otherwise "junk" to bring a bit more life and use to it before its final destination of landfill of recycling by better methods.
There are some small and fast OS... More than the ones I know about, Minix 3, AROS, Damnsmall Linux, etc.. and there is new hardware that allows FPGA programming of emulations of some of the old system, hardware such as the C=ONE.
Directing it to an individual, that only that individual can hear it would be good for an away team in a dangerous situation.
but how they dial the individuals com badge number can be a simple thing, as an away team with com badge access can be limited in size where it can easily be a combination of taps and number of fingers, etc...
I mean damn, don't keyboards just keep getting smaller and smaller?
Maybe if there were some large mechanical switches then it'd be more believable? (NOT)
But its no supprise that the MS marking is trying to generate a bandwagon trend.
Seriously, with more and more large government organization picking up linux and other things advancing with linux, there is a market loss for MS. Apple moved with the flow to go with intel based CPUs and a change in its OS at the core towards a unix base.
MS days are numbered and they know it. But they don't really know how to deal with it as their business methodology that made MS successful is now not working and they are to big and had worked to hard for their reputation to change it.
Today Linux is plenty capable of doing most of what most consumers want. And the drive is heading towards business. Its really a matter of key applications being made available on linux or mac.
... the idea is that you swollow it and you become smarter for 24 hr. You can calculate as fact as a com,puter, see mental pictures very clearly and navigate any network by pluging any cable into any of your orfices.
Many years ago the game industry did some research on internet based communications. For online gaming purposes. Overall they found that communication can more easily degenerate into flames over the internet than into being productive as opposed to face to face communication.
Ultimately each mode of communication has its upside and down side and side effects.
Microsoft is first and foremost a marketing company.
They can and will say what ever they need to to get people to buy.
Second in priority is Microsoft is their own legal advisors to advise themselves, (based on their interpretation of the law - no different than any other lawyer or law firm) on what they can get away with, what they can get in trouble for but balanced against what they gain in breaking the law (do they gain more than they lose - if so then they see it as a cost of doing business).
Third in priority is the bullying and buy out of the competition. Of course their legal house is involved in this too.
Forth has become the application submittal for as many patents as they can get, even stupid stuff that is clearly not patentable. In the battle against open source this will become combined with the third priority more and more.
What you don't see in any of the above is genuine innovation.
Microsoft does NOT enable fair play. But they often make claims in contridiction of what they actually do.
Microsoft has a very long and hard earned reputation of being dishonest with marketing speak.
But we all know this, those of use that read slashdot.
And slashdot users are not who this markting bull is aimed at.
Or maybe we should thank MS for enabling us to be open?
But first there needs to be a change in the way we understand the creation and use of abstractions that lead to higher level languages.
Take any computer language of a higher level of abstraction that assembly language and know that it can be reduced down to assembly language which is far more efficient in its use of clock cycles then higher level languages (which all have to eventually be reduced down to machine language or 1's and 0's)
Now in knowing this, it's obvious that it really comes down to doing the translation down the abstraction ladder BEFORE a compile or assembly into machine language (binary).
Todays methods are sloppy and generate more binary than is really needed to create most any program done in a higher level language. And the more binary also means the higher probability of human error.
This all shows where Computer Science has failed, as the genuine science shoudl have been focused on such prior to binary generation, translation down the abstraction ladder in a manner that holds better output.
However, as software takes the skill of abstraction creation and manipulation understanding to produce, it is also the one industry where the phrase "if you can't dazzel them with brilliance, baffel them with bullshit" really sums up what all the abstractions can be used for.
All to often the sales hype makes all sorts of claims that in actual use are not what they were said to be.
Its all about the use of abstractions.
Its just to bad that Computer Science itself became polluted and distracted from honest science so much that the real research of dealing with Abstraction Physics and the abstraction ladder reduction for code output has in practicality been forgotten.
But it took 300 years for the easier and much more empowering hundu-arabic decimal system overcame the highly inherently constrained roman numeral system of doing math.
And just as computer technology couldn't even been imagined thru such limitations as the roman numeral system presented, so is there advances and technology and markets yet to be imagined with the current failure of Computer Science.
Imagine the task of writing just the software for a holodeck? And since that is beyond the reach todays programming methods, certainly the physical interactive interface as depicted on star trek, is preceived as only ever being fictional.
Slashdot Mirror
... then the new peer to patent http://dotank.nyls.edu/communitypatent/ and FLOSS as prior art http://osapa.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page efforts would be in the clearest sense, intent to deceive as they would then be used as a resource for filing.
There is a requirement of proof of inventorship that does not go away with first to file.
Prior art still applies, but this reform is supposedly designed for hair splitting decissions.
We shall see. If its about deception then it will end the patent system.
Remotely controlled robots where the human interface is just like playing a game (safe from real hard and point scoring), but with the added advantage of anon. protection when needed.
Who wouldn't like that?
Humans that have to face the kill bots.
... Seems to me people should start billing MS for any time and resources they have wasted in dealing with teh software, regardless of the double standard licensing. (we, MS, get everything and you get no garentee of anything)
If I were Stallman I wouldn't say software will only be free when it is easy enough to create that anyone can and will upon need or inspiration, create the software they need or are inspired to create..
No different than how anyone who needs to calculate something can use a calculator today. Unlike the time of Roman Numeral where only elite accountant could handle the then large stock and coin of trade.
The way it works is that each company interested takes their patent portfoilo and measures it height. the company with teh biggest stack gets paid by the others based upon the difference in height. The payment is protection money.
The consumers are not allowed to see this and are otherwise just the crowd that has no choice but to suffer it.
But the great consumer has the most power.... not to buy.
People are smart, society is stupid, or so that seems to be the problem.
but if you pile up the camels back enough it will break.
by not participating you don't help the fraud of software patents contiunue
Get a clue!
http://threeseas.net/abstraction_physics.html
Software is NOT patentable.
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a/ mod02/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
k market.html
real motive behind 9/11
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stoc
what kind of games would such a coward as you play?
... since they are in essence acts of fraud and the patent office is supporting them....
Consider who you are dealing with.
The way to win the software patent game is to not play it, don't participate. Let it fall upon itself to flush out the reality of software not being patentable.
By fighting againts software patents via prior art, you are doing so in a supporting the existance of software patents.
The real fight is exposing and getting the general population to recognize that due the nature of software it is simply not patentable and any organization supporting software patents are commiting fraud against others.
absolutely! Yes!
The evidence of this is shown in the development of GPLv3
It's old school to bait and switch.
It up and coming to be Honest and open.
Perhaps honesty and openness was what was needed regarding the concerns that resulted in the flip flop?
Would the flip flop had happened?
with the human population growth and advancing technology that improves our standard of living, allowing us to take longer vacations, and higher unemployment rates.....
... pollination --- humans doing the task that bees once did.
A new industry is born....called
So its not really a bad thing..... Sooner or latter the IT industry is going to have to find other work...
Lets see now, it 46 degrees F. today in Atlanta Georgia and its April 15.
Maybe the Bees just think its still winter, nothing to pollinate...
What I have noticed is the common application of saying one thing but the opposite actually being true.
Maybe we just need to engineer a super bee.... we have the technology...
BTW anyone know how the fire ants are doing? Are they still migrating through the US?
What about Frogs and the many species of them, they still dying off, becoming extinct, too?
What about tomorrow, whats going to die off tomorrow?
To Pirates:
... or 55371337
what do you spend your time doing?
And more Important: Why?
There is plenty to do, be entertained by, etc. without pirating.
It didn't use to be like that however. Things change and just as old hardware gets tossed as new and better comes out, software piracy and piracy of other digital data is going to wear out and be replaced by that which isn't so considered piratable.
And where will that put those who support the media of interest to pirates today?
Obsolete
It's called FreeSoftware.....
....
... trace capable technology and knowledge how to use it.
But if you are a game player and what's in FreeSoftware is not keeping up with Rob and Brazilton then isn't it really a choice to extend the game to real life, not getting caught? The 1337 game, so smart so smart with all your tricks
Live by the game, die by the game.
I found that my DSL (the new AT&T) provider can see everything I do including my password (which I can't even see on my system when I enter them). And since this is going over two copper wires or thru the phone system controlled by
Oh so smart.....what we make we can break and we can also certainly trace it...
Only when a system is set up to intentionally break trace ability can a trace fail, but a trace will lead to that system, just not beyond it. Here is where pressure might be applied, unless its run my a university of law supporting anon.....
Some of what goes on is like shoplifting in a store with hidden cameras, only you are doing it from anywhere in teh world with the camera being somewhere on the data transfer path.
If you want to pirate stuff safely (more or less) don't use data lines, use something more detached from data lines, like CDs, DVD, USB thumb drives, or even removable or external hard drives., etc...
For those who think I'm uninformed about the tricks, well there have been deception tricks long before computers came about. The only thing new here is the illusion of not being seen in broad daylight doing something you shouldn't and even more important, don't need to do.
Support FreeSoftware.... or play a game for real and risk punishment...
BTW, my expreience with bittorrent (dl'ing free software DVD distros like ArtistX and Debians latest) has been poor, problemmatic and anti-productive (I have no problem in giving back since being on DSL is a constant connection that runs when I'm not using it)... but when the p2p connection has problems that don't help me give back....
It took me 3-4 days, and alot of restarts to get the first DVD for Debain Etch, while the last two parts took alot less as a direct download. ArtistX (formerly MusicX) is only available thru bittorrent and its just over 2 gigs. Took over a week and a total download of probably more than twice that... alot of wasted band width.
I've tested my bittorrent ability and can get as much bandwidth incomming as the plan I'm on gives (my setting are fine), but apparently there are other factors the can influence specific targets.
direct down load mirrors are much better, using wget.... Only I can't give back....
torrents are a good idea..... but not so reliable. And apparently risky for pirates.
Pretty much if you go to an electronics recycling event and see what others are tossing it'll probably make you see that you've collected alot of junk. But the important thing is to recycle the junk properly.
That can be hard to do even if you find a free recycling event as they may be limited to once a year and only for a part day (not 8 hours).
If you are a serious collector then you've done your research as to what is worth keeping and know the cost of maintainance as moving hardware components can deteriorate over time and non moving components are subject to deterioration too, just takes longer.
But what is really needed is a fast and small OS that can easily be ported to the otherwise "junk" to bring a bit more life and use to it before its final destination of landfill of recycling by better methods.
There are some small and fast OS... More than the ones I know about, Minix 3, AROS, Damnsmall Linux, etc.. and there is new hardware that allows FPGA programming of emulations of some of the old system, hardware such as the C=ONE.
Quantum tanning sun beds being the new craze in tanning...
... The false sense of Security..
http://www.neurophone.com/tech.htm
the transmission method of a com badge.
Directing it to an individual, that only that individual can hear it would be good for an away team in a dangerous situation.
but how they dial the individuals com badge number can be a simple thing, as an away team with com badge access can be limited in size where it can easily be a combination of taps and number of fingers, etc...
I mean damn, don't keyboards just keep getting smaller and smaller?
Maybe if there were some large mechanical switches then it'd be more believable? (NOT)
...anyone got a map of the way it was?
..... not representing what we have today...
All in all, It wouldn't hurt for there to be a way to get a date on any map block/photo.
Overlay street maps??? imagine all those old maps are
The only issue here is one of time line notice.
...demistifying it to the simple then you are also an expert at the reverse.
Though it is possible tragedy happened, it is also possible that he "Simply" decided to vanish.
Vista sales are clearly not doing so well.
But its no supprise that the MS marking is trying to generate a bandwagon trend.
Seriously, with more and more large government organization picking up linux and other things advancing with linux, there is a market loss for MS. Apple moved with the flow to go with intel based CPUs and a change in its OS at the core towards a unix base.
MS days are numbered and they know it. But they don't really know how to deal with it as their business methodology that made MS successful is now not working and they are to big and had worked to hard for their reputation to change it.
Today Linux is plenty capable of doing most of what most consumers want. And the drive is heading towards business.
Its really a matter of key applications being made available on linux or mac.
... the idea is that you swollow it and you become smarter for 24 hr. You can calculate as fact as a com,puter, see mental pictures very clearly and navigate any network by pluging any cable into any of your orfices.
It also improived yur spellin...
Hmmm, time for another one....
Many years ago the game industry did some research on internet based communications. For online gaming purposes.
Overall they found that communication can more easily degenerate into flames over the internet than into being productive as opposed to face to face communication.
Ultimately each mode of communication has its upside and down side and side effects.
Microsoft is first and foremost a marketing company.
They can and will say what ever they need to to get people to buy.
Second in priority is Microsoft is their own legal advisors to advise
themselves, (based on their interpretation of the law - no different
than any other lawyer or law firm) on what they can get away with, what
they can get in trouble for but balanced against what they gain in
breaking the law (do they gain more than they lose - if so then they
see it as a cost of doing business).
Third in priority is the bullying and buy out of the competition. Of
course their legal house is involved in this too.
Forth has become the application submittal for as many patents as
they can get, even stupid stuff that is clearly not patentable. In
the battle against open source this will become combined with the
third priority more and more.
What you don't see in any of the above is genuine innovation.
Microsoft does NOT enable fair play. But they often make claims
in contridiction of what they actually do.
Microsoft has a very long and hard earned reputation of being
dishonest with marketing speak.
But we all know this, those of use that read slashdot.
And slashdot users are not who this markting bull is aimed at.
Or maybe we should thank MS for enabling us to be open?
Maybe the quantization is not quite what you might think, but at all levels there are constant (actions) that exist.
http://threeseas.net/abstraction_physics.html
.. even more so tomorrow.
But first there needs to be a change in the way we understand the creation and use of abstractions that lead to higher level languages.
Take any computer language of a higher level of abstraction that assembly language and know that it can be reduced down to assembly language which is far more efficient in its use of clock cycles then higher level languages (which all have to eventually be reduced down to machine language or 1's and 0's)
Now in knowing this, it's obvious that it really comes down to doing the translation down the abstraction ladder BEFORE a compile or assembly into machine language (binary).
Todays methods are sloppy and generate more binary than is really needed to create most any program done in a higher level language. And the more binary also means the higher probability of human error.
This all shows where Computer Science has failed, as the genuine science shoudl have been focused on such prior to binary generation, translation down the abstraction ladder in a manner that holds better output.
However, as software takes the skill of abstraction creation and manipulation understanding to produce, it is also the one industry where the phrase "if you can't dazzel them with brilliance, baffel them with bullshit" really sums up what all the abstractions can be used for.
All to often the sales hype makes all sorts of claims that in actual use are not what they were said to be.
Its all about the use of abstractions.
Its just to bad that Computer Science itself became polluted and distracted from honest science so much that the real research of dealing with Abstraction Physics and the abstraction ladder reduction for code output has in practicality been forgotten.
But it took 300 years for the easier and much more empowering hundu-arabic decimal system overcame the highly inherently constrained roman numeral system of doing math.
And just as computer technology couldn't even been imagined thru such limitations as the roman numeral system presented, so is there advances and technology and markets yet to be imagined with the current failure of Computer Science.
Imagine the task of writing just the software for a holodeck? And since that is beyond the reach todays programming methods, certainly the physical interactive interface as depicted on star trek, is preceived as only ever being fictional.