If we were talking about a competetive arena, then there would be no ethical reason why people shouldn't share resources.
But we are talking about a monopoly which means that certain controls must be put in place. It's a two edged sword.
The cable/wirephone company is required to provide certain residential services at a set price. In return, they are given exclusive rights to install wires and poles all over the place.
The consumer cannot be allowed to abuse his status as residential customer by acting as a reseller to his neighbors.
That said... prohibiting a family from using their residential service any way they want is, or should be criminal.
I hope i'm not the only one old enough to remember when it was illegal to attach your own telephone/modem/answerer to the line.
People used to cheat, and Ma Bell would go to great lengths to catch them. That fascist policy is gone.
Ma Bell had a monopoly on phone service just as the cable companies have with coax-internet today. Unregulated, they will RAPE THE PUBLIC.
Policies such as this MUST BE KILLED. If THESE BASTARDS can't be held responsible for providing GOOD SERVICE AND GOOD VALUE, then they should get their UGLY POLES AND WIRES out of OUR COMMUNITIES.
Personlly I don't care what Yahoo does, but I do care about Google because, well they rock.
The others are all the same, they decided to make money by shoving a maze of electronic billboards in their users' faces.
Google seems to be moving in the right direction and I think they can continue to find sources of revenue without abusing and insulting their users.
They could extend their database with detailed consumer goods records. They could add a "product research mode" to the normal search interface.
References to specific items could show up as records containing a link to the manufacturer's webpage for THAT SPECIFIC PRODUCT, as well as the "add to cart" function at ANY COMPANY WHO PAYS A NOMINAL FEE for having their catalog included in the database. Think about how many mouseclicks it could save the average slashdot reader trying to research/buy an mp3 player for example.
And why not tie it right in with the UPC database so that if i want to buy more of (or maybe find out the antedote for) something i already have i can just enter (cuecat?) the code and go directly to a mfg page about the item and non-discriminatory links to where i can purchase it either online or locally?
User friendliness features could include personal vendor rating rules, etc. and could be done clientside or serverside.
A forward thinking company like Google which doesn't do banner ads, could even provide non web-based (few lines of perl maybe) access to the database without hurting the revenue stream because it would be the catalog publishers who would be footing the bill, not eyeball time.
Imagine a perl program which accepts a list of pc components for a custom system then automatically generates optimized web-based purchase orders for the stuff based on direct Google queries, personal vendor preferences, etc!
Makes me think wonder about what AMD could do in their marketing dept to combat Intel's incumbent position. The bang-for-the buck argument is what they've got to get across to the public.
Maybe...A superbowl ad that analogizes computer performance with a football game, sorta like the Bud Bowl. AMD could call it the Bit Bowl.
Cool is in the eye of the beholder i guess. My computing experience includes some older Unices, and some PDPs, and i've read books by the coders at Bell Labs; so to me anyway, it's cool.
It's not going to change many people's lives, but it's still cool, or at least kewl.
IE is not/never was free (as in beer). You must purchase an MS OS before it will work. "Buy windows now and we'll THROW IN IE absolutely free". Yeah right. Like those "free" floormats you got when you bought a new car.
Now they're raising the price of windows upgrades partly because they are SELLING you not just an OS, but a browser as well.
They leveraged their monopoly in desktop OSes to create a monopoly in web browsers. It's just as Netscape claimed, and just as the courts found.
MS owes its entire existence to the fact that they cheat in the marketplace. The courts should have fined them all the way back to Albuquerque.
W was the successor to V ( a window system) which dates back to 1981.
Here's a usenet thread from 1986 discussing the HISTORY of V, W, and X.
The word window is just part of the jargon, and has been since way before MS hijacked it. It's like a paper company trademarking the word 'Tissues' and then suing everyone over it.
Once again, Microsoft is trying to take credit for innovation, when in truth, the success of their company is owed to what is written not by their programmers, but by their lawyers.
And I am trying to hide something. But it's none of their fscking business what it is. They'll never know whether it's illegal, cuz they aren't going to see it.
...liberty and justice for all.
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A recent study indicates that it's real cool to let half the air out of your tires, tie a bunch of heavy stuff to the roof and slalom between the lo and high speed lanes on I-95 without running over any painted stripes in the road. More advanced morons may want to get hammered first.
I can imagine that audio and video output devices (monitors and speakers) will be required by law to accept only rights-managed digital streams. Break the seal on the device and go to jail with the other terrorists.
After that, they can outlaw tree-based books in favor of similarly controlled ebooks.
For those who are deaf, they could make a rights-controlled cochlear implant.
I wish there had been forum for people to bitch about the abhorrent keyboard those things had.
Nearly impossible to press '4' without getting '44444'. Wasted 2 months of paper route money to buy it.
The great feature of that thing was "Constant Memory" (the c in the model name). Must work cuz the calc is long since buried, but i haven't forgotten how bad it sucked.
Seems to me that Sorenson should charge for the compressor, and give away (binary at least) the decompressor. The $$$ value of the video creation module would be enhanced by the ubiquity of the playback module.
The goal of content providers is to hit as many eyeballs as possible. They, IMNSHO, should use technology which fits that model.
BTW, Mplayer 0.5 and 0.6 build/work great on my Mandrake box despite the gcc warning.
I'm not sure exactly what the author is driving at, but here's what it's lead me to think the ui could be. I realize that most of this has already been invented.
Instead of a desktop, or 2d grid of virtual desktops, the ui could be rooms within rooms.
My house contains my woodshop and my photo studio. The photo studio contains my darkroom which contains the Gimp. When i enter the darkroom, the lights are on (red light), and Gimp is running with various projects ready for me to bestow them with artistic brilliance.
When i leave the darkroom, i can leave the light on or turn it off. If i leave it on, the room remains in its present state. If i turn it off, Gimp closes the projects and becomes iconic.
Rooms can be created/destroyed/dupicated at will and can be nested. They can also contain wormholes leading to other rooms.
Existing deskop environments already have most of the stuff needed to implement this. The missing piece would seem to be "sub-session" management. That is, the ability to save state in the darkroom without also saving the mess i made in the woodshop.
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Here's the way i see it...
If we were talking about a competetive arena, then there would be no ethical reason why people shouldn't share resources.
But we are talking about a monopoly which means that certain controls must be put in place. It's a two edged sword.
The cable/wirephone company is required to provide certain residential services at a set price. In return, they are given exclusive rights to install wires and poles all over the place.
The consumer cannot be allowed to abuse his status as residential customer by acting as a reseller to his neighbors.
That said... prohibiting a family from using their residential service any way they want is, or should be criminal.
I hope i'm not the only one old enough to remember when it was illegal to attach your own telephone/modem/answerer to the line.
People used to cheat, and Ma Bell would go to great lengths to catch them. That fascist policy is gone.
Ma Bell had a monopoly on phone service just as the cable companies have with coax-internet today. Unregulated, they will RAPE THE PUBLIC.
Policies such as this MUST BE KILLED. If THESE BASTARDS can't be held responsible for providing GOOD SERVICE AND GOOD VALUE, then they should get their UGLY POLES AND WIRES out of OUR COMMUNITIES.
Personlly I don't care what Yahoo does, but I do care about Google because, well they rock.
The others are all the same, they decided to make money by shoving a maze of electronic billboards in their users' faces.
Google seems to be moving in the right direction and I think they can continue to find sources of revenue without abusing and insulting their users.
They could extend their database with detailed consumer goods records. They could add a "product research mode" to the normal search interface.
References to specific items could show up as records containing a link to the manufacturer's webpage for THAT SPECIFIC PRODUCT, as well as the "add to cart" function at ANY COMPANY WHO PAYS A NOMINAL FEE for having their catalog included in the database. Think about how many mouseclicks it could save the average slashdot reader trying to research/buy an mp3 player for example.
And why not tie it right in with the UPC database so that if i want to buy more of (or maybe find out the antedote for) something i already have i can just enter (cuecat?) the code and go directly to a mfg page about the item and non-discriminatory links to where i can purchase it either online or locally?
User friendliness features could include personal vendor rating rules, etc. and could be done clientside or serverside.
A forward thinking company like Google which doesn't do banner ads, could even provide non web-based (few lines of perl maybe) access to the database without hurting the revenue stream because it would be the catalog publishers who would be footing the bill, not eyeball time.
Imagine a perl program which accepts a list of pc components for a custom system then automatically generates optimized web-based purchase orders for the stuff based on direct Google queries, personal vendor preferences, etc!
Yeah, don't ya just hate when that happens?
I rate your post a 6!
Right.
Makes me think wonder about what AMD could do in their marketing dept to combat Intel's incumbent position. The bang-for-the buck argument is what they've got to get across to the public.
Maybe...A superbowl ad that analogizes computer performance with a football game, sorta like the Bud Bowl. AMD could call it the Bit Bowl.
Or get a Real One!
Cool is in the eye of the beholder i guess. My computing experience includes some older Unices, and some PDPs, and i've read books by the coders at Bell Labs; so to me anyway, it's cool.
It's not going to change many people's lives, but it's still cool, or at least kewl.
I think it might have some uses as an ActiveX component.
...opens even larger can of worms
Right you are.
IE is not/never was free (as in beer). You must purchase an MS OS before it will work. "Buy windows now and we'll THROW IN IE absolutely free". Yeah right. Like those "free" floormats you got when you bought a new car.
Now they're raising the price of windows upgrades partly because they are SELLING you not just an OS, but a browser as well.
They leveraged their monopoly in desktop OSes to create a monopoly in web browsers. It's just as Netscape claimed, and just as the courts found.
MS owes its entire existence to the fact that they cheat in the marketplace. The courts should have fined them all the way back to Albuquerque.
W was the successor to V ( a window system) which dates back to 1981.
Here's a usenet thread from 1986 discussing the HISTORY of V, W, and X.
The word window is just part of the jargon, and has been since way before MS hijacked it. It's like a paper company trademarking the word 'Tissues' and then suing everyone over it.
Once again, Microsoft is trying to take credit for innovation, when in truth, the success of their company is owed to what is written not by their programmers, but by their lawyers.
I remember reading that X was the successor to W. What was the full name of that windowing system.
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You're that sneaky land shark aren't you?
Ah, I'm just a porpoise ma'am.
...just to bug the Oracle lawyers (sharks?)
Make that "The Big Deal" and put it on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
It's a huge deal being forced on the public by greedy corporations increasingly influenced by a singularly evil person.
And I am trying to hide something. But it's none of their fscking business what it is. They'll never know whether it's illegal, cuz they aren't going to see it.
...liberty and justice for all.
A recent study indicates that it's real cool to let half the air out of your tires, tie a bunch of heavy stuff to the roof and slalom between the lo and high speed lanes on I-95 without running over any painted stripes in the road. More advanced morons may want to get hammered first.
Taking the 1984 POV for a sec...
I can imagine that audio and video output devices (monitors and speakers) will be required by law to accept only rights-managed digital streams. Break the seal on the device and go to jail with the other terrorists.
After that, they can outlaw tree-based books in favor of similarly controlled ebooks.
For those who are deaf, they could make a rights-controlled cochlear implant.
All your thoughts are belong to us.
"Space helmet on Captain Video!"
I wish there had been forum for people to bitch about the abhorrent keyboard those things had.
Nearly impossible to press '4' without getting '44444'. Wasted 2 months of paper route money to buy it.
The great feature of that thing was "Constant Memory" (the c in the model name). Must work cuz the calc is long since buried, but i haven't forgotten how bad it sucked.
Seems to me that Sorenson should charge for the compressor, and give away (binary at least) the decompressor. The $$$ value of the video creation module would be enhanced by the ubiquity of the playback module.
The goal of content providers is to hit as many eyeballs as possible. They, IMNSHO, should use technology which fits that model.
BTW, Mplayer 0.5 and 0.6 build/work great on my Mandrake box despite the gcc warning.
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Artists don't need the megaexpensive advertising...
True, they just need what Brittney Spears has got. Doesn't hurt if they can sing either.
I'm not sure exactly what the author is driving at, but here's what it's lead me to think the ui could be. I realize that most of this has already been invented.
Instead of a desktop, or 2d grid of virtual desktops, the ui could be rooms within rooms.
My house contains my woodshop and my photo studio. The photo studio contains my darkroom which contains the Gimp. When i enter the darkroom, the lights are on (red light), and Gimp is running with various projects ready for me to bestow them with artistic brilliance.
When i leave the darkroom, i can leave the light on or turn it off. If i leave it on, the room remains in its present state. If i turn it off, Gimp closes the projects and becomes iconic.
Rooms can be created/destroyed/dupicated at will and can be nested. They can also contain wormholes leading to other rooms.
Existing deskop environments already have most of the stuff needed to implement this. The missing piece would seem to be "sub-session" management. That is, the ability to save state in the darkroom without also saving the mess i made in the woodshop.
Who ever heard of windows on a desktop anyway?
I use the analogy of a car engine.
The most important number is horsepower. I don't care if it's got a 10,000 rpm redline if it hasn't got enough torque to open a bottle of Jolt.
Integer and FP benchmarks are like a dyno test.
Kernel compiles and similar real world benchmarks are like putting the engine in a car and racing it.