What is the probability that vendors won't exploit the lock-in capabilities with UEFI? I bet close to 0%.
Good luck trying to convince people that vendor lock-in is a bad thing, though. Seems like most just want a fucking iPad so they can play Angry Birds...
What is wrong with the BIOS anyway? Why does the boot process need to be all flashy? It seems like adding complexity there will just end up causing problems...
Maybe I'm just a relic...a lot of people don't even know how to get into their BIOS anymore, let alone what the POST and such is afterwards.
However, for all intents and purposes, it might as well not. The amount one would have to consume is so far beyond anything we'd even be capable of that it doesn't matter. However, it would be totally possible to distill the THC down into pill form and overdose that way, if one were so inclined. Given my excessive familiarity with the effects of marijuana, though, I doubt anyone with that much weed would want to waste it by making suicide pills out of it...and certainly not the motivation required to actually do it.
Ah, the "I know a person that can do it, so that means everyone can" argument. I know it well, I hear it a lot when talking to people about the cyclical nature of poverty and wage slavery. "[Insert name here] made it out of the ghetto and became a multimillionaire, that means that everyone in the ghetto is there by their own choice!" "[Insert name here] started in the mail room and worked his way up to CEO, therefore everyone can do it if they really want it bad enough!"
The reason why that is notable is because of the extremely long odds they beat to get where they ended up. For every person that made that climb from entry level to CEO, there are 99,999 that never made it beyond entry level, not because they were necessarily any less qualified or driven, but because they just weren't in the right place at the right time. You think the best man for the job gets promoted in today's business world? LOL
For every person that is able to make it out of the ghetto and become successful, there are thousands more that try just as hard and don't make it. Once social services get severely curtailed, if not axed entirely, due to this carefully engineered economic crisis, even fewer people will be able to make it. Are they all lazy? I mean, it certainly sounds like that's what you're saying, 85% of people are lazy. Couldn't it be that they're trapped in a dead end job because they lack the resources required to go out and get a better one? That's even ignoring the health care aspect, you know, the people that are stuck in a shitty job because they need health insurance for their sick spouse or child, insurance they will lose when they change employers. What should they do? Throw caution to the wind and bet on "making it?" Those with money can afford to take risks, hell, we just got done handing trillions of dollars to banks to cover the losses of their speculation. Those working at Walmart can not, and even if they could, you think a bailout is waiting for them?
If you're unable to see how much of this game relies on luck then you're either blind or willfully ignorant.
I bet the ease with which a politician justifies policy like this is directly proportional to the amount of money those that benefit most from it give to those politicians so that they can remain politicians.
Why would you need to find a job? Make a good business plan or come up with an innovative idea, get some financial backing behind it and there's your success. That's what I meant with working hard, not some dead-end McDonalds job.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about reality here. You're right, everyone should just be an entrepreneur, what was I thinking?
There's nothing, absolutely nothing stopping you from trying so.
Well, except for that whole "lack of money" thing. Oh yeah, and a lack of time since you already work 2 full-time jobs just to continue living at a first world level. And the kids, yeah, we'll have our nanny take our kids off our hands for a few weeks while we hammer out a business plan and shop it around to investors (I mean, we all know venture capitalists, amirite?). If we blow off our annual trip to the Caribbean we should have enough to cover the mortgage and car payments for a month while we get our new business off the ground, and once the money from our business starts rolling in (it'll have to, there's no way a business could crash and burn!), we'll be on easy street!
You've been reading too much pro-Capitalism propaganda. It's a game, and the game is rigged...it has been for at least a hundred years.
This is the general consensus on slashdot: lock in by Microsoft in order to combat malware = BAD, but lock in by Apple in order to combat malware = GOOD?
Man, it's amazing how much some people will vilify one company while championing another when both do the exact same shit.
I wonder how many of the people bitching the loudest here support Apple's patent warfare? This is just another tool to limit competition. This is what capitalism is all about, is it not?
At least with capitalism countries you can work to make your life better.
Yeah, tell that to the millions of people stuck working in dead end jobs like Walmart and McDonalds. You can work and work and work in jobs like that and never get ahead at all. Guess which types of jobs are growing the much lately here in the US? That's right, McDonalds and Walmart-type jobs.
I know people with 4 year degrees delivering pizzas because there's no jobs in their field. They live at home and spend every dime they make paying off their ridiculous student loan debt. They worked their ass off and where are they now? The same place they were before, living at home working at Pizza Hut.
The people that champion capitalism as being the most fair have no idea how much luck is required to be successful in it. Hard work != success, at all. Succes != hard work, at all. If you think that's fair, then I suspect you're one of the lucky ones.
Be grateful for what you have. Here in the US if you get sick at the wrong time you lose every possession you have trying to fight it, and you are insured by companies that will use whatever means necessary to not actually pay benefits out, including every legal trick in the book once you try to sue them to hold up their end of the bargain, and to top it all off, we will soon be mandated to purchase this insurance! Yeah, the US is just so great...
Being rich is by far no proof to have worked hard.
I know a fair number of wealthy people and I can absolutely agree with this. Almost all of the money they have was earned by grandparents and great-grandparents who were the true entrepreneurs. The subsequent generations just give the money to investment bankers and live on the returns. These people haven't worked a hard day in their life. They didn't even have to work to get into school because their families all donated large sums of money to them so they get in by default, as well as pass (because the last thing you want is a family pulling their annual endowment, better give the junior fuck up a good grade).
There are a few that took the money and worked to start their own businesses and make their own names for themselves, but they are the minority. Mostly it's just coasting on money earned the last time there was no middle class in this country, i.e., pre-WWII...
That sweet tax-free lifestyle is available to you anytime you want. Simply give away all your possessions, get yourself a job cashiering at Walmart, and enjoy that awesome tax-free lifestyle LIKE A BOSS!
Oh, wait...then you'd have to live like a poor person. I can see now why you choose be rich. Guess those taxes aren't so bad after all, huh?
And that will never change...the last president that tried to take on the military industrial complex got his brains blown out in Dallas by a "communist" named Lee Harvey Oswald.
The money of the wealthy isn't locked up in a vault or giant mattress, it's out there in investments.
You're right, it is...unfortunately, the investments are all on the other side of the world. Companies in the US get tax breaks which affords them more money to lobby government and make it easier for them to move more money overseas.
If they were actually investing in this country we wouldn't have the massive unemployment we do. It's fairly obvious that the money is only moving one way right now, out of this country. If you want to blame Americans for wanting a first world salary for their labor, that's fine, but I doubt you're going to find much popular support for that Randian bullshit.
I won't support making every subject in existence mandatory simply because a few people don't know what they like.
Of course not, and I'm sure the mandatory exposure to programming will be pretty elementary. This is no different than the computer labs we all had to go through when we were in school. We didn't even own a computer in my house until I was 16 years old, but when we eventually DID get it I was the only one in the house that had any idea what the hell was going on. My parents were sitting there with the phone book sized instruction manuals that came with the beige monstrosity trying to figure out how to copy a file from a floppy to the hard drive, but I already knew how, even though I never used the knowledge in practical application.
How the hell do people even know what will be useful to them in the future? Are they time travelers?
We don't need more specialized education, we already have enough troubles with kids getting a rounded education as it is. If all we do is teach our kids to push a button, what the hell are they going to do if there are no jobs pushing buttons? And if the field that interests them is all filled up, what do they do then? Sit on their ass and curse their younger selves for not branching out from that one specific interest?
I'll agree that some skills are probably not going to be used no matter what. Kids are probably NOT going to be writing in cursive outside of signing their name. I certainly doubt I'll ever need to diagram a sentence again for the rest of my life. But mandating that kids receive a rounded education is not in itself a terrible idea. Personally, I think a future where kids decide what they want to do for the rest of their life in middle school and high school and they learn only that is terrifying and awful.
When they get to college and start learning a specific field, it makes sense to focus on one particular skill set, but Primary education should be broad.
We need to have the patience to wait while Apple develops a proprietary "iPort", which will provide exclusive connectivity to approved devices that meet the elite standards of the iPad and its users.
I took auto mechanics in high school. I'm not an auto mechanic, but it is a useful knowledge set for driving a car. As programming is a useful knowledge set for using a computer.
Exactly. I couldn't actually repair my car to save my life, but my father taught me enough growing up as I helped him repair his that now, when something is wrong with my car, I can at least have some concept of what the problem might be, and it's severity. It helps me narrow down problems, which in turn helps keep me from getting completely ripped off at the mechanic. Even if I don't use the knowledge directly, it's good to have.
At the end of the day, I'm still taking my car to someone else to get fixed, just like the person that shows up and says "My car is broke. It won't go." like a Pakled. The difference is I'm not paying for oil flushes when I just need my brakes done...
Programming may not be used directly by 99% of the population, but having some concept of it may help reduce the large number of people out there that recoil in fear at the first sight of a strange dialog box and go running for Geek Squad or the Genius Bar. This is good for all of us.
Why force 99% of kids to read classic works of literature? Why force 99% of kids to participate in physical education?
How the hell do they know if they have an interest before they've really been exposed to it? I know people that went from the "something is wrong with my retractable cup holder on my Compaq" camp to discussing the pros and cons of different hardware builds as they designed their newest tower in just a few years. All it took was exposure in a learning environment and patience and the computer stuff they weren't interested in before was a hell of a lot more interesting to them.
Why? Seriously, when was this decided? I hear it all the time, how people that desire more out of a tablet are somehow wrong in wanting that because "it's not a PC." What the hell is a "PC"? Why does a tablet have to be placed outside of that group? Is a laptop a PC? Is a Macbook Air a PC? But it's portable!! But wait, it has a keyboard!!! OH NOES!!!!
Come on. The argument that tablets, by definition, should not do one thing or the other is ridiculous...tablets are a Laptop with the keyboard removed and a touch screen. Seriously, what is different beyond that? They use different internal parts? Big deal, they have the capability of the same amount of functionality. Why is it not included anyway, for those that want to use it?
Oh, right. That would mean people wouldn't have to run out and repurchase a bunch of software and accessories. God Forbid.
It's so odd how the people that want a tablet with the functionality of a real computer are looked at like they're bizarro. What is so strange about wanting a fully featured device? It's like the people that were going off about how iPad's don't need USB functionality, insinuating that there is no point to having USB on the tablet. Uh, what? Who could possibly see more connectivity or functionality as a bad thing?
So, once again we're going to end up having to replace a metric shit ton of applications because of an OS change. Man, I love this war on backward compatibility and long product life cycles. Not only is our hardware designed for the dump, but now our software is, too. The future sure is looking bright...
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What is the probability that vendors won't exploit the lock-in capabilities with UEFI? I bet close to 0%.
Good luck trying to convince people that vendor lock-in is a bad thing, though. Seems like most just want a fucking iPad so they can play Angry Birds...
What is wrong with the BIOS anyway? Why does the boot process need to be all flashy? It seems like adding complexity there will just end up causing problems...
Maybe I'm just a relic...a lot of people don't even know how to get into their BIOS anymore, let alone what the POST and such is afterwards.
Marijuana doesn't even have a LD50.
Actually, it does.
However, for all intents and purposes, it might as well not. The amount one would have to consume is so far beyond anything we'd even be capable of that it doesn't matter. However, it would be totally possible to distill the THC down into pill form and overdose that way, if one were so inclined. Given my excessive familiarity with the effects of marijuana, though, I doubt anyone with that much weed would want to waste it by making suicide pills out of it...and certainly not the motivation required to actually do it.
Ah, the "I know a person that can do it, so that means everyone can" argument. I know it well, I hear it a lot when talking to people about the cyclical nature of poverty and wage slavery. "[Insert name here] made it out of the ghetto and became a multimillionaire, that means that everyone in the ghetto is there by their own choice!" "[Insert name here] started in the mail room and worked his way up to CEO, therefore everyone can do it if they really want it bad enough!"
The reason why that is notable is because of the extremely long odds they beat to get where they ended up. For every person that made that climb from entry level to CEO, there are 99,999 that never made it beyond entry level, not because they were necessarily any less qualified or driven, but because they just weren't in the right place at the right time. You think the best man for the job gets promoted in today's business world? LOL
For every person that is able to make it out of the ghetto and become successful, there are thousands more that try just as hard and don't make it. Once social services get severely curtailed, if not axed entirely, due to this carefully engineered economic crisis, even fewer people will be able to make it. Are they all lazy? I mean, it certainly sounds like that's what you're saying, 85% of people are lazy. Couldn't it be that they're trapped in a dead end job because they lack the resources required to go out and get a better one? That's even ignoring the health care aspect, you know, the people that are stuck in a shitty job because they need health insurance for their sick spouse or child, insurance they will lose when they change employers. What should they do? Throw caution to the wind and bet on "making it?" Those with money can afford to take risks, hell, we just got done handing trillions of dollars to banks to cover the losses of their speculation. Those working at Walmart can not, and even if they could, you think a bailout is waiting for them?
If you're unable to see how much of this game relies on luck then you're either blind or willfully ignorant.
I've seen no indication yet that they're doing the US's (actually RIAA/MPAA) bidding.
Really??
I bet the ease with which a politician justifies policy like this is directly proportional to the amount of money those that benefit most from it give to those politicians so that they can remain politicians.
Capitalism! Fuck Yeah!
Why would you need to find a job? Make a good business plan or come up with an innovative idea, get some financial backing behind it and there's your success. That's what I meant with working hard, not some dead-end McDonalds job.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about reality here. You're right, everyone should just be an entrepreneur, what was I thinking?
There's nothing, absolutely nothing stopping you from trying so.
Well, except for that whole "lack of money" thing. Oh yeah, and a lack of time since you already work 2 full-time jobs just to continue living at a first world level. And the kids, yeah, we'll have our nanny take our kids off our hands for a few weeks while we hammer out a business plan and shop it around to investors (I mean, we all know venture capitalists, amirite?). If we blow off our annual trip to the Caribbean we should have enough to cover the mortgage and car payments for a month while we get our new business off the ground, and once the money from our business starts rolling in (it'll have to, there's no way a business could crash and burn!), we'll be on easy street!
You've been reading too much pro-Capitalism propaganda. It's a game, and the game is rigged...it has been for at least a hundred years.
This is the general consensus on slashdot: lock in by Microsoft in order to combat malware = BAD, but lock in by Apple in order to combat malware = GOOD?
Man, it's amazing how much some people will vilify one company while championing another when both do the exact same shit.
I wonder how many of the people bitching the loudest here support Apple's patent warfare? This is just another tool to limit competition. This is what capitalism is all about, is it not?
At least with capitalism countries you can work to make your life better.
Yeah, tell that to the millions of people stuck working in dead end jobs like Walmart and McDonalds. You can work and work and work in jobs like that and never get ahead at all. Guess which types of jobs are growing the much lately here in the US? That's right, McDonalds and Walmart-type jobs.
I know people with 4 year degrees delivering pizzas because there's no jobs in their field. They live at home and spend every dime they make paying off their ridiculous student loan debt. They worked their ass off and where are they now? The same place they were before, living at home working at Pizza Hut.
The people that champion capitalism as being the most fair have no idea how much luck is required to be successful in it. Hard work != success, at all. Succes != hard work, at all. If you think that's fair, then I suspect you're one of the lucky ones.
Be grateful for what you have. Here in the US if you get sick at the wrong time you lose every possession you have trying to fight it, and you are insured by companies that will use whatever means necessary to not actually pay benefits out, including every legal trick in the book once you try to sue them to hold up their end of the bargain, and to top it all off, we will soon be mandated to purchase this insurance! Yeah, the US is just so great...
Is my internet sucking again or did the site already get slashdotted?
Being rich is by far no proof to have worked hard.
I know a fair number of wealthy people and I can absolutely agree with this. Almost all of the money they have was earned by grandparents and great-grandparents who were the true entrepreneurs. The subsequent generations just give the money to investment bankers and live on the returns. These people haven't worked a hard day in their life. They didn't even have to work to get into school because their families all donated large sums of money to them so they get in by default, as well as pass (because the last thing you want is a family pulling their annual endowment, better give the junior fuck up a good grade).
There are a few that took the money and worked to start their own businesses and make their own names for themselves, but they are the minority. Mostly it's just coasting on money earned the last time there was no middle class in this country, i.e., pre-WWII...
That sweet tax-free lifestyle is available to you anytime you want. Simply give away all your possessions, get yourself a job cashiering at Walmart, and enjoy that awesome tax-free lifestyle LIKE A BOSS!
Oh, wait...then you'd have to live like a poor person. I can see now why you choose be rich. Guess those taxes aren't so bad after all, huh?
And that will never change...the last president that tried to take on the military industrial complex got his brains blown out in Dallas by a "communist" named Lee Harvey Oswald.
Sure, there's a lot of money that could be made once we crippled the Military Industrial Complex and gut useless agencies like the TSA.
Oh, wait, rich people invest in all those companies so that spending is ok. I forget sometimes.
At the end of the day, we're going to end up a global Neo-Feudalist society with megacorporations and keiretsu standing in for the nobility.
The money of the wealthy isn't locked up in a vault or giant mattress, it's out there in investments.
You're right, it is...unfortunately, the investments are all on the other side of the world. Companies in the US get tax breaks which affords them more money to lobby government and make it easier for them to move more money overseas.
If they were actually investing in this country we wouldn't have the massive unemployment we do. It's fairly obvious that the money is only moving one way right now, out of this country. If you want to blame Americans for wanting a first world salary for their labor, that's fine, but I doubt you're going to find much popular support for that Randian bullshit.
"Diskflix" would have been much better tho.
Looks great on paper, but I assure you, in speaking that would end up "Dickflix" or even "Dickpics" in no time.
I won't support making every subject in existence mandatory simply because a few people don't know what they like.
Of course not, and I'm sure the mandatory exposure to programming will be pretty elementary. This is no different than the computer labs we all had to go through when we were in school. We didn't even own a computer in my house until I was 16 years old, but when we eventually DID get it I was the only one in the house that had any idea what the hell was going on. My parents were sitting there with the phone book sized instruction manuals that came with the beige monstrosity trying to figure out how to copy a file from a floppy to the hard drive, but I already knew how, even though I never used the knowledge in practical application.
How the hell do people even know what will be useful to them in the future? Are they time travelers?
We don't need more specialized education, we already have enough troubles with kids getting a rounded education as it is. If all we do is teach our kids to push a button, what the hell are they going to do if there are no jobs pushing buttons? And if the field that interests them is all filled up, what do they do then? Sit on their ass and curse their younger selves for not branching out from that one specific interest?
I'll agree that some skills are probably not going to be used no matter what. Kids are probably NOT going to be writing in cursive outside of signing their name. I certainly doubt I'll ever need to diagram a sentence again for the rest of my life. But mandating that kids receive a rounded education is not in itself a terrible idea. Personally, I think a future where kids decide what they want to do for the rest of their life in middle school and high school and they learn only that is terrifying and awful.
When they get to college and start learning a specific field, it makes sense to focus on one particular skill set, but Primary education should be broad.
We need to have the patience to wait while Apple develops a proprietary "iPort", which will provide exclusive connectivity to approved devices that meet the elite standards of the iPad and its users.
Thunderbolt?
I took auto mechanics in high school. I'm not an auto mechanic, but it is a useful knowledge set for driving a car. As programming is a useful knowledge set for using a computer.
Exactly. I couldn't actually repair my car to save my life, but my father taught me enough growing up as I helped him repair his that now, when something is wrong with my car, I can at least have some concept of what the problem might be, and it's severity. It helps me narrow down problems, which in turn helps keep me from getting completely ripped off at the mechanic. Even if I don't use the knowledge directly, it's good to have.
At the end of the day, I'm still taking my car to someone else to get fixed, just like the person that shows up and says "My car is broke. It won't go." like a Pakled. The difference is I'm not paying for oil flushes when I just need my brakes done...
Programming may not be used directly by 99% of the population, but having some concept of it may help reduce the large number of people out there that recoil in fear at the first sight of a strange dialog box and go running for Geek Squad or the Genius Bar. This is good for all of us.
Why force 99% of kids to read classic works of literature? Why force 99% of kids to participate in physical education?
How the hell do they know if they have an interest before they've really been exposed to it? I know people that went from the "something is wrong with my retractable cup holder on my Compaq" camp to discussing the pros and cons of different hardware builds as they designed their newest tower in just a few years. All it took was exposure in a learning environment and patience and the computer stuff they weren't interested in before was a hell of a lot more interesting to them.
A tablet is not, and should not be, a PC.
Why? Seriously, when was this decided? I hear it all the time, how people that desire more out of a tablet are somehow wrong in wanting that because "it's not a PC." What the hell is a "PC"? Why does a tablet have to be placed outside of that group? Is a laptop a PC? Is a Macbook Air a PC? But it's portable!! But wait, it has a keyboard!!! OH NOES!!!!
Come on. The argument that tablets, by definition, should not do one thing or the other is ridiculous...tablets are a Laptop with the keyboard removed and a touch screen. Seriously, what is different beyond that? They use different internal parts? Big deal, they have the capability of the same amount of functionality. Why is it not included anyway, for those that want to use it?
Oh, right. That would mean people wouldn't have to run out and repurchase a bunch of software and accessories. God Forbid.
It's so odd how the people that want a tablet with the functionality of a real computer are looked at like they're bizarro. What is so strange about wanting a fully featured device? It's like the people that were going off about how iPad's don't need USB functionality, insinuating that there is no point to having USB on the tablet. Uh, what? Who could possibly see more connectivity or functionality as a bad thing?
So, once again we're going to end up having to replace a metric shit ton of applications because of an OS change. Man, I love this war on backward compatibility and long product life cycles. Not only is our hardware designed for the dump, but now our software is, too. The future sure is looking bright...
The EA Store is one of the most broken things on the planet. I refuse to infect my computer with it.