If Intel did run away from the rest of the field, and they all went out of business, then there'd be even less open market pressure on them. They'd have a monopoly, and probably eventually after a few decades of stagnation and customer abuse would get broken up by the government a la Ma Bell. So if they have to slow down the pace of progress in order to have viable competition to prevent this, isn't that good?
Memories? BAH! Back in my day, we didn't even have memories. Nothing had happened yet. The universe was still cooling off from the Big Bang, which was all anyone could talk about, since there were no stone tablets yet for us to carve the news in. We had to assemble everything from gluons and bosons and mesons with our bare hands, and we liked it that way. None of those pre-fabricated nucleons with their fancy positive and negative electrical charges.
Yes, you can, but only if the other site supports publishing their blog as an RSS feed. And even so, an RSS feed does not allow you to see anything more than public posts.
If the RSS feed has friends-only posts, you won't be able to receive them without having an account with that service and having been granted access. It'd be wonderful if, for my livejournal blog, I could add friends such as "myfriend@myspace.com" or "myfriend@blogger.com" and have them be able to pull a RSS-like feed of my posts while logged in to their myspace or blogger account, and see protected entries as well as public ones.
It's certainly do-able do build on this and do more, only we're not quite there yet. We're at a point where everyone can interact fully within a given domain, with limited (guest-level) interaction for inter-domain services.
And the hosting service portability is nowhere to be found. There's no easy export-import across services -- they really want to achieve single-vendor lock-in. What'd be best would be a distributed hosting, performed at the ISP-level service protocol perhaps, like nntp, rather than portable/migratable hosting.
I'm on Livejournal, and have a lot of friends who are on LJ as well. I know a lot of them also have myspace sites, but I hate myspace and don't want to use it. It'd be nice, though, if I could put their myspace blogs on the friends list for my LJ account and have everything in an RSS feed-like view so I can aggregate my friends blogs (including their protected friends-only posts) regardless of who they're hosted by, whether it be LJ, some other site that runs LJ's software, blogger, facebook, myspace, or whatever. Presently, this isn't doable so far as I'm aware, but it should be pretty easy to implement as long as everyone cooperated.
A friend of mine who I really liked reading was on Livejournal until the recent censorship flap caused him to migrate his blog to a service he felt respected free speech. Basically, he was not in violation of LJ ToS, or singled out for his blog's content, but he felt strongly enough that what LJ's management did was wrong that he no longer felt safe posting there anymore, and abandoned his blog in protest and moved it to another site where he felt safe. But a good 6 or 7 years of really excellent blog posts weren't able to be migrated to the new site, so he's starting over with no history and no readership. Since I don't feel like creating a blogger account so I can log in and read his protected posts or comment, I'm effectively cut off from this guy who's writing I've admired and enjoyed reading for many years. It'd be awesome if he could migrate an entire blog from one site or service to another, without losing either your backlog of posted blog entries or your readership. If this were possible, it would help bloggers resist censorship -- so long as at least one site offered ToS that respected the free speech and privacy rights of its users, there'd be a haven for their speech.
What a joke. We've been building bridges for the whole of recorded history, and some of them have stood for much of that time. We have the capability and have had it for centuries if not millenia to build a bridge that doesn't fall. We just have to pay attention and maintain what we build. It's not THAT hard.
Maybe if we stop worrying about falsely exaggerated threats like terrorism and manufactured problems like the war on in Iraq, we'll have more than adequate resources to build a really damn good infrastructure, and then things like the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and the steam main explosion in NYC wouldn't ever happen.
By "niche" application, I'm pretty sure he's talking about legacy Windows and DOS apps that would need to be recoded to run on another OS, not common commodity applications such as your typical office suite.
If the cost of recoding the apps is more than the cost of maintaining Windows, they're going to maintain running Windows. They'll cut back to however many Windows boxes they need to run those niche apps. Maybe a Citrix server, something like that.
They give Apple hardware and OS X to the graphics people because that's who'll benefit from them most, not because no one else can use them. Any secretary might work fine in Office on Mac, but if she could just as well use Linux or has to use Windows because of some niche app, there's no reason to spend the extra $$$ on Apple solutions. Apple's expensive. Maybe less so than MS given the management overhead and security headaches. But up front it looks more expensive because you have to buy premium grade hardware, not barely sufficient low-end hardware, and for your grunt-level workforce that seems wasteful.
They give Linux to everyone else, because everyone else can work with Linux apps just fine. It'll run on anything, no vendor will bully you, and it's Free.
This just gets me to thinking that we ought to kill artists once they sell out and stop producing anything of merit, to get their good works into the public domain that much sooner. Let's be careful what we wish for.
Maybe, partially. Cheap hardware won't put an end to Moore's Law; Moore's Law is what's made cheap hardware possible in the first place. If Moore's Law continues unabated, cheap hardware will merely become more capable or even cheaper. If Moore's Law hits a funadamental limit, it will stop of course, unless some workaround can be found. If we ever get to a point where we feel like we have "enough" power, we won't care whether Moore's Law continues, and so R&D budget will probably shift into other areas besides processing speed performance. I think that Moore's Law becomes a lot less important if we can stop software bloat from taking away nearly all the gains that Moore's Law yields.
...but, by introducing different product lines in their OS, Microsoft will only confuse the customer, and they're way too smart and customer oriented to allow something like that to happen.
What they really ought to do is something more like what Apple did with the Classic Mode environment for supporting OS 9 applications, which ran within OS X. Thing is, MS will probably have to support theirs indefinitely, while Apple was able to successfully kill Classic Mode within about 5 years.
On the subject of Jasascript-enabled security holes, I use Javascript because so many sites depend on it, but block all scripts using NoScript until I decide to trust the domain of origin of the script. What I'd really like is a NoScript that will let me look at the script's source code before I decide to trust it, and allow/deny scripts on a per-script rather than per-domain basis.
That said, is there a good Add-on for Firefox that handles password-management more securely? Something that keeps them stored in an encrypted format would be a step in the right direction.
Remain where you are, illegal enemy combatant. Agents from Halliburton Force Delta are being dispatched to your location for extraordinary rendition and eventual re-education. Your cooperation will be rewarded by extra meal rations and exercise yard time. Thank you for reporting this bug.
Mario, Metroid, and Zelda are like big budget films that everyone anticipates and waits in line to see, like the Lord of the Rings or Star Wars films. Everyone loves these games, not just "hard core gamers".
The idea of a "hard core gamer" annoys me to no end. I suppose that people like the "hard core" stereotype do exist, but even someone who merely likes video games but doesn't devote their entire life and entertainment budget to gaming pretty much can get into these games and enjoy them. The so-called hard core gamer just is willing to devote that much time into playing every major release, find every secret, and practice until they've achieved mastery over as much as the game as their skill level can afford them. Many normal gamers enjoy "hard core gamer" titles, but just don't bother unlocking everything or honing their skill at the game until they become a god at it. They beat it once on Easy or Normal, enjoy what it offers, and don't fret over finding every last secret.
Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and other "casual gamer" titles have broad appeal to everyone, not just people who have 9 hours to sit through a colossal blockbuster exteneded edition trilogy marathon viewing. Think of them more like popular YouTube clips. They take less than ten minutes of your time, you enjoy them for what they are, despite not having a huge budget or epic storyline, and then you move on with your life. If they're really catchy, you go back again and again for more laughs when the mood strikes.
Specifically, I hope that Sony had to agree to some EULA-like tough-shit clause that indemnifies whoever wrote that software from any and all defects. I'm sure it was a work for hire done at Sony's direction and that whoever wrote it did exactly what Sony wanted them to do. Sony deserves to bear the brunt for this mistake. After all, it was Sony that stood to make millions of dollars from the distribution of these DRM-CDs; they probably paid a comparatively tiny fee to the developers of the infamous rootkit.
I don't see anything that Ubuntu has that Mandrake didn't have 3 years ago. I'm not sure why Ubuntu is catching all this attention. Maybe I'm missing something really big, but I seriously don't see what makes Ubuntu so much better
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OK, does anyone know? How many XP do you get for killing a Level 3 network?
If Intel did run away from the rest of the field, and they all went out of business, then there'd be even less open market pressure on them. They'd have a monopoly, and probably eventually after a few decades of stagnation and customer abuse would get broken up by the government a la Ma Bell. So if they have to slow down the pace of progress in order to have viable competition to prevent this, isn't that good?
Flumph.
Memories? BAH! Back in my day, we didn't even have memories. Nothing had happened yet. The universe was still cooling off from the Big Bang, which was all anyone could talk about, since there were no stone tablets yet for us to carve the news in. We had to assemble everything from gluons and bosons and mesons with our bare hands, and we liked it that way. None of those pre-fabricated nucleons with their fancy positive and negative electrical charges.
Relax, I just edited the article on ballistics; now projectiles are fast enough so that these stars are in the ballpark as far as their velocities go.
Hmm, I guess I better edit the article on stadiums so that they can accommodate solar-massed objects while I'm at it.
The UN was ineffective due to half-assedly fucking up a security detail? That's un-possible!
Spoiler alert: At the end of the movie, Voltron defeats the Ro-beast using the Blazing Sword.
Yes, you can, but only if the other site supports publishing their blog as an RSS feed. And even so, an RSS feed does not allow you to see anything more than public posts.
If the RSS feed has friends-only posts, you won't be able to receive them without having an account with that service and having been granted access. It'd be wonderful if, for my livejournal blog, I could add friends such as "myfriend@myspace.com" or "myfriend@blogger.com" and have them be able to pull a RSS-like feed of my posts while logged in to their myspace or blogger account, and see protected entries as well as public ones.
It's certainly do-able do build on this and do more, only we're not quite there yet. We're at a point where everyone can interact fully within a given domain, with limited (guest-level) interaction for inter-domain services.
And the hosting service portability is nowhere to be found. There's no easy export-import across services -- they really want to achieve single-vendor lock-in. What'd be best would be a distributed hosting, performed at the ISP-level service protocol perhaps, like nntp, rather than portable/migratable hosting.
Two things that I'd really like to see...
I'm on Livejournal, and have a lot of friends who are on LJ as well. I know a lot of them also have myspace sites, but I hate myspace and don't want to use it. It'd be nice, though, if I could put their myspace blogs on the friends list for my LJ account and have everything in an RSS feed-like view so I can aggregate my friends blogs (including their protected friends-only posts) regardless of who they're hosted by, whether it be LJ, some other site that runs LJ's software, blogger, facebook, myspace, or whatever. Presently, this isn't doable so far as I'm aware, but it should be pretty easy to implement as long as everyone cooperated.
A friend of mine who I really liked reading was on Livejournal until the recent censorship flap caused him to migrate his blog to a service he felt respected free speech. Basically, he was not in violation of LJ ToS, or singled out for his blog's content, but he felt strongly enough that what LJ's management did was wrong that he no longer felt safe posting there anymore, and abandoned his blog in protest and moved it to another site where he felt safe. But a good 6 or 7 years of really excellent blog posts weren't able to be migrated to the new site, so he's starting over with no history and no readership. Since I don't feel like creating a blogger account so I can log in and read his protected posts or comment, I'm effectively cut off from this guy who's writing I've admired and enjoyed reading for many years. It'd be awesome if he could migrate an entire blog from one site or service to another, without losing either your backlog of posted blog entries or your readership. If this were possible, it would help bloggers resist censorship -- so long as at least one site offered ToS that respected the free speech and privacy rights of its users, there'd be a haven for their speech.
What a joke. We've been building bridges for the whole of recorded history, and some of them have stood for much of that time. We have the capability and have had it for centuries if not millenia to build a bridge that doesn't fall. We just have to pay attention and maintain what we build. It's not THAT hard.
Maybe if we stop worrying about falsely exaggerated threats like terrorism and manufactured problems like the war on in Iraq, we'll have more than adequate resources to build a really damn good infrastructure, and then things like the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and the steam main explosion in NYC wouldn't ever happen.
Who will I have to sue in order to "get fries with that"?
It just works. Easier to maintain.
By "niche" application, I'm pretty sure he's talking about legacy Windows and DOS apps that would need to be recoded to run on another OS, not common commodity applications such as your typical office suite.
If the cost of recoding the apps is more than the cost of maintaining Windows, they're going to maintain running Windows. They'll cut back to however many Windows boxes they need to run those niche apps. Maybe a Citrix server, something like that.
They give Apple hardware and OS X to the graphics people because that's who'll benefit from them most, not because no one else can use them. Any secretary might work fine in Office on Mac, but if she could just as well use Linux or has to use Windows because of some niche app, there's no reason to spend the extra $$$ on Apple solutions. Apple's expensive. Maybe less so than MS given the management overhead and security headaches. But up front it looks more expensive because you have to buy premium grade hardware, not barely sufficient low-end hardware, and for your grunt-level workforce that seems wasteful.
They give Linux to everyone else, because everyone else can work with Linux apps just fine. It'll run on anything, no vendor will bully you, and it's Free.
You're making it harder for people to walk. I want money to walk through your train station.
This just gets me to thinking that we ought to kill artists once they sell out and stop producing anything of merit, to get their good works into the public domain that much sooner. Let's be careful what we wish for.
Maybe, partially. Cheap hardware won't put an end to Moore's Law; Moore's Law is what's made cheap hardware possible in the first place. If Moore's Law continues unabated, cheap hardware will merely become more capable or even cheaper. If Moore's Law hits a funadamental limit, it will stop of course, unless some workaround can be found. If we ever get to a point where we feel like we have "enough" power, we won't care whether Moore's Law continues, and so R&D budget will probably shift into other areas besides processing speed performance. I think that Moore's Law becomes a lot less important if we can stop software bloat from taking away nearly all the gains that Moore's Law yields.
...but, by introducing different product lines in their OS, Microsoft will only confuse the customer, and they're way too smart and customer oriented to allow something like that to happen.
What they really ought to do is something more like what Apple did with the Classic Mode environment for supporting OS 9 applications, which ran within OS X. Thing is, MS will probably have to support theirs indefinitely, while Apple was able to successfully kill Classic Mode within about 5 years.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call them "flimsy state" devices, rather than "solid state"?
On the subject of Jasascript-enabled security holes, I use Javascript because so many sites depend on it, but block all scripts using NoScript until I decide to trust the domain of origin of the script. What I'd really like is a NoScript that will let me look at the script's source code before I decide to trust it, and allow/deny scripts on a per-script rather than per-domain basis.
That said, is there a good Add-on for Firefox that handles password-management more securely? Something that keeps them stored in an encrypted format would be a step in the right direction.
Remain where you are, illegal enemy combatant. Agents from Halliburton Force Delta are being dispatched to your location for extraordinary rendition and eventual re-education. Your cooperation will be rewarded by extra meal rations and exercise yard time. Thank you for reporting this bug.
Mario, Metroid, and Zelda are like big budget films that everyone anticipates and waits in line to see, like the Lord of the Rings or Star Wars films. Everyone loves these games, not just "hard core gamers".
The idea of a "hard core gamer" annoys me to no end. I suppose that people like the "hard core" stereotype do exist, but even someone who merely likes video games but doesn't devote their entire life and entertainment budget to gaming pretty much can get into these games and enjoy them. The so-called hard core gamer just is willing to devote that much time into playing every major release, find every secret, and practice until they've achieved mastery over as much as the game as their skill level can afford them. Many normal gamers enjoy "hard core gamer" titles, but just don't bother unlocking everything or honing their skill at the game until they become a god at it. They beat it once on Easy or Normal, enjoy what it offers, and don't fret over finding every last secret.
Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and other "casual gamer" titles have broad appeal to everyone, not just people who have 9 hours to sit through a colossal blockbuster exteneded edition trilogy marathon viewing. Think of them more like popular YouTube clips. They take less than ten minutes of your time, you enjoy them for what they are, despite not having a huge budget or epic storyline, and then you move on with your life. If they're really catchy, you go back again and again for more laughs when the mood strikes.
"All your base" isn't so bad it's funny?
Talk about taking a drink from a firehose... How's her NIC keep up with that throughput? How's her hard drive? Her CPU?
Specifically, I hope that Sony had to agree to some EULA-like tough-shit clause that indemnifies whoever wrote that software from any and all defects. I'm sure it was a work for hire done at Sony's direction and that whoever wrote it did exactly what Sony wanted them to do. Sony deserves to bear the brunt for this mistake. After all, it was Sony that stood to make millions of dollars from the distribution of these DRM-CDs; they probably paid a comparatively tiny fee to the developers of the infamous rootkit.
7 words: Naked people on your desktop by default.