Apple Eating this up with a spoon... Can you imagine?
"Now, rather than choose from 5 colors for your iMac, you can select which color you want from this handy-dandy control panel! Import pictures of the kids! Use Hendrix inspired Psychedelic Colors! Show the man you don't want to take the same ol' beige!"
I can see this starting a new group of people, who think they're good enough to make a living off of this. It wouldn't be a big surprise, seeing the way that people did the same with Magic cards when they were really hot, and try to do the same with other hobbies. However, I think after the initial few months of excitement, we'll end up with the same sort of group... Unemployed folks, who didn't see a trend dying before it was too late...
That's like saying that, just because you can see things that are falling, that does nothing to prove gravity. This is as direct as the evidence can get without actually going and jumping into one.
The most interesting part of all of this is that I think this is the first tim I've seen someone braced for the/. effect... I'm not too much of an old timer, but is this a first? Did the/. crew actually suggest this to someone, or was it his own idea?
Associate Justice Minister Paul Swain, who is overseeing the law changes, has defended the proposals, saying law-abiding New Zealanders have nothing to fear.
Unless, of course, you're innocent when they get the warrant.
The thing that makes this law, and laws like it, so scary is the fact that there's nothing saying they can't just make up a reason to peg you, then search until they find something. Hell, they can put shit on your computer and dump the logs, if they have any skill. What's to say a government who wants to fuck a citizen over won't just telnet into someone's box, create a whole directory of Kiddie Porn, and smash the logs, then claim that he found it?
This is just one more reason for really good security. Who cares if Skript Kiddies can root your box. Watch out for Big Borther!
I hear ya... When I worked for EarthLink/MindSpring, we were told to avoid giving users UUNet POPs at all costs. Unless they had no choice, it was verboten. And, if people used too many hours, they would get the onus on their shoulders of being 'UUNet Disabled'. The "Largest Provider of the Real Internet" really wants to make sure they avoid paying as much as possible to these guys... They really rip them off.
Dear christ... Do we worry about making sure peopel have training when they get on a bus, or in an airplane? You don't need special training to be a passenger on a flight, no matter how high it gets. If things Go Really Wrong(TM), then everyone dies, most likely. Either the people who are trained to fix it do so, or everyone dies.
The most important thing about this is the common man getting something into space. Space needs to be available to everyone, not just Governments and corporations. If this attempt had failed miserably, it would have had a similar effect to Challenger, I believe. People would have frozen on the idea of trying to launch another, and they'd sure as hell use it as precident if a person wanted to go to space...
Did you notice that most of these ads point out how 'easy to program' these computers were? It's nice to remember a day when 80% of computer users knew how to at least write themselves a simple program when they didn't have the functionality already built in, or in a 5 1/4 they had lying about.
A moment of silence for the generically named 'Good ol' days'...
It's desired goal, helping people with carpal tunnel, doesn't look like it's very effective. Woulnd't one just end up with strained wrists in the long run?
The Half a keyboard also seems to be pretty lame... It'll take twice as long to type anything, and you still have to type on the damned thing. It's not convienient enough for anyone to feel the need to learn a new system.
The DataHand looks like the best of the bunch. 4 crosses, each of them quite small, provide plenty of ease of use, but the major issue I have with it is that there's only room for 20 characters on there. Anyone using a Roman Alphabet will soon find that to be pretty inconvienient, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the article showing how the missing letters/numbers are retrieved.
In short, it looks like there's going to be a few new standards on the horizon that will be rejected out of hand by the consumer. It looks like they may have a bit of potential, but it's too much of a pain in the ass to ask Joe Six-Pack to adopt yet another standard.
The fact that such a wonderful writer is dead is a terrible tragedy. It is wonderful to have a chance to hear him reach out over the years, his voice reaching out to us.
The other thing I love about this is the idea of one of the most wonderful of all geek heroes lending his voice to the movement showing that mp3s are for more than stealing the music of Christina Aguellara.(sp, I'm sure)
A moment of silence for such a great man. This is a fitting tribute.
Anonymous Coward is there as a safe guard. No one should have to show their face, if they don't want to say something controversial. Even if 99% of AC's don't use it for the purpose of hiding, the other 1% needs it to be able to speak out with information that could get them in legal trouble if it could be traced to them. (i.e. Modified MS 'Kerberos' protocol source code, posted to/.)
If what you want is to teach him more about programming, and he really is smart enough to pick up on things quickly, your best bet is probably to just let him loose on the source for Linux, Mozilla, etc. while you sit with him and help him figure out anything in the code he doesn't understand.
I know I'll probably end up getting moderated down for this, but I have an honest point to make here...
As most of you know, the MPAA case against 2600 had many people in the sub-culture of Slashdot demanding that there be a boycot of the MPAA until such a time as they dropped the case, etc. Since that time, Rob has certainlynotboycotted very many movies at all.
However, all of the above are excellent films, and as a result, I find that somewhat forgiveable. My problem, at this point, is that now, Rob is giving his Gold Stamp of Approval to a movie he even admits is somewhat mediocre! If we actually listen to him is irrelevant. The point is, he's a well known figure in the community, and it's assumed that we at LEAST take his advice into account when making decisions.
So, while we watch Rob tell us all about the Emperor's New Groove, the MPAA sits back, knowing that they're still more than content with their profits. I'm not trying to beat Rob up here. I'm not trying to paint him as a hypocrite. What I/am/ doing is asking that he think a bit more about his impact on the community, and perhaps use the power of his voice for the betterment, not the detriment, of the good fight he wants us all to fight.
Basically, it's to get people to start moderating up people for being intelligent, and not ocus so much on modding down people, when modding people down really doesn't get anything done. It's alot easier to go about amplifying the signal around here, instead of trying to turn down the noise. * syringe alone created more noise than any 5 people together produced signal. Once I got to the point where I was posting at a defaul of 0, there is no good reason for me to be modded down, even when I post a huge rant about anally raping someone's mother with a bucher knife.
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Eris mmust love this place... So much disorder through ignorance...
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It's nice to finally see these things drop in price, but what sort of an impact on quality are we having to deal with here? I'm fairly interested in making sure that my MP3s, already a lossy format, don't sound any more shitty than they are.
Dear Christ. It's amazing what/bots will bite at these days, isn't it?
MS is soon to become legacy software is the biggest fallacy I have ever heard. It's something that you may think would be nice, but there is little to no chance of it happening any time in the next 30 years. You think that MS is going to fall, but you think it because of precisely the thing which you argue with me about... presumptions about the rest of th world./ The user of tomorrow doesn't want much different than the user of today... An idiot box. A TV with extra buttons. That's it. They don't want a fucking command line. They want to feel like they are making a legitimate buisness transaction. They don't want to be 'Computer Users' Regardless of Time Magazine talkin about 'geek sheik', Geeks are lame in the eyes of most people. No one wants to vecome a command line hacker. They want to sit down, get their e-mail, some pr0n, and that's it. Grow the fuck up, and get out of your delusional world, and realize that MS will have the home user market cornered for many decades to come.
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Apple Eating this up with a spoon... Can you imagine?
"Now, rather than choose from 5 colors for your iMac, you can select which color you want from this handy-dandy control panel! Import pictures of the kids! Use Hendrix inspired Psychedelic Colors! Show the man you don't want to take the same ol' beige!"
I can see this starting a new group of people, who think they're good enough to make a living off of this. It wouldn't be a big surprise, seeing the way that people did the same with Magic cards when they were really hot, and try to do the same with other hobbies. However, I think after the initial few months of excitement, we'll end up with the same sort of group... Unemployed folks, who didn't see a trend dying before it was too late...
That's like saying that, just because you can see things that are falling, that does nothing to prove gravity. This is as direct as the evidence can get without actually going and jumping into one.
The most interesting part of all of this is that I think this is the first tim I've seen someone braced for the /. effect... I'm not too much of an old timer, but is this a first? Did the /. crew actually suggest this to someone, or was it his own idea?
Associate Justice Minister Paul Swain, who is overseeing the law changes, has defended the proposals, saying law-abiding New Zealanders have nothing to fear.
Unless, of course, you're innocent when they get the warrant.
The thing that makes this law, and laws like it, so scary is the fact that there's nothing saying they can't just make up a reason to peg you, then search until they find something. Hell, they can put shit on your computer and dump the logs, if they have any skill. What's to say a government who wants to fuck a citizen over won't just telnet into someone's box, create a whole directory of Kiddie Porn, and smash the logs, then claim that he found it?
This is just one more reason for really good security. Who cares if Skript Kiddies can root your box. Watch out for Big Borther!
I hear ya... When I worked for EarthLink/MindSpring, we were told to avoid giving users UUNet POPs at all costs. Unless they had no choice, it was verboten. And, if people used too many hours, they would get the onus on their shoulders of being 'UUNet Disabled'. The "Largest Provider of the Real Internet" really wants to make sure they avoid paying as much as possible to these guys... They really rip them off.
Dear christ... Do we worry about making sure peopel have training when they get on a bus, or in an airplane? You don't need special training to be a passenger on a flight, no matter how high it gets. If things Go Really Wrong(TM), then everyone dies, most likely. Either the people who are trained to fix it do so, or everyone dies.
The most important thing about this is the common man getting something into space. Space needs to be available to everyone, not just Governments and corporations. If this attempt had failed miserably, it would have had a similar effect to Challenger, I believe. People would have frozen on the idea of trying to launch another, and they'd sure as hell use it as precident if a person wanted to go to space...
Did you notice that most of these ads point out how 'easy to program' these computers were? It's nice to remember a day when 80% of computer users knew how to at least write themselves a simple program when they didn't have the functionality already built in, or in a 5 1/4 they had lying about.
A moment of silence for the generically named 'Good ol' days'...
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It's desired goal, helping people with carpal tunnel, doesn't look like it's very effective. Woulnd't one just end up with strained wrists in the long run?
The Half a keyboard also seems to be pretty lame... It'll take twice as long to type anything, and you still have to type on the damned thing. It's not convienient enough for anyone to feel the need to learn a new system.
The DataHand looks like the best of the bunch. 4 crosses, each of them quite small, provide plenty of ease of use, but the major issue I have with it is that there's only room for 20 characters on there. Anyone using a Roman Alphabet will soon find that to be pretty inconvienient, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the article showing how the missing letters/numbers are retrieved.
In short, it looks like there's going to be a few new standards on the horizon that will be rejected out of hand by the consumer. It looks like they may have a bit of potential, but it's too much of a pain in the ass to ask Joe Six-Pack to adopt yet another standard.
The fact that such a wonderful writer is dead is a terrible tragedy. It is wonderful to have a chance to hear him reach out over the years, his voice reaching out to us.
The other thing I love about this is the idea of one of the most wonderful of all geek heroes lending his voice to the movement showing that mp3s are for more than stealing the music of Christina Aguellara.(sp, I'm sure)
A moment of silence for such a great man. This is a fitting tribute.
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Anonymous Coward is there as a safe guard. No one should have to show their face, if they don't want to say something controversial. Even if 99% of AC's don't use it for the purpose of hiding, the other 1% needs it to be able to speak out with information that could get them in legal trouble if it could be traced to them. (i.e. Modified MS 'Kerberos' protocol source code, posted to /.)
If what you want is to teach him more about programming, and he really is smart enough to pick up on things quickly, your best bet is probably to just let him loose on the source for Linux, Mozilla, etc. while you sit with him and help him figure out anything in the code he doesn't understand.
I know I'll probably end up getting moderated down for this, but I have an honest point to make here...
/am/ doing is asking that he think a bit more about his impact on the community, and perhaps use the power of his voice for the betterment, not the detriment, of the good fight he wants us all to fight.
As most of you know, the MPAA case against 2600 had many people in the sub-culture of Slashdot demanding that there be a boycot of the MPAA until such a time as they dropped the case, etc. Since that time, Rob has certainly not boycotted very many movies at all.
However, all of the above are excellent films, and as a result, I find that somewhat forgiveable. My problem, at this point, is that now, Rob is giving his Gold Stamp of Approval to a movie he even admits is somewhat mediocre! If we actually listen to him is irrelevant. The point is, he's a well known figure in the community, and it's assumed that we at LEAST take his advice into account when making decisions.
So, while we watch Rob tell us all about the Emperor's New Groove, the MPAA sits back, knowing that they're still more than content with their profits. I'm not trying to beat Rob up here. I'm not trying to paint him as a hypocrite. What I
Whoa!
Basically, it's to get people to start moderating up people for being intelligent, and not ocus so much on modding down people, when modding people down really doesn't get anything done. It's alot easier to go about amplifying the signal around here, instead of trying to turn down the noise. * syringe alone created more noise than any 5 people together produced signal. Once I got to the point where I was posting at a defaul of 0, there is no good reason for me to be modded down, even when I post a huge rant about anally raping someone's mother with a bucher knife.
Mod Me Down.
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You';re older than you've ever been, and now you're even older. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older. And now you're older still.
Time... Is marching on!
And Time... Is still marching on!!!
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BTW, 23rd post bitches! Hail Eris! All Hail Dischordia!
Eris mmust love this place... So much disorder through ignorance...
Down with Greyface! Up with people! Down with Aneristic Vibes! Up The Academy!
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It's nice to finally see these things drop in price, but what sort of an impact on quality are we having to deal with here? I'm fairly interested in making sure that my MP3s, already a lossy format, don't sound any more shitty than they are.
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Dear Christ. It's amazing what /bots will bite at these days, isn't it?
MS is soon to become legacy software is the biggest fallacy I have ever heard. It's something that you may think would be nice, but there is little to no chance of it happening any time in the next 30 years. You think that MS is going to fall, but you think it because of precisely the thing which you argue with me about... presumptions about the rest of th world./ The user of tomorrow doesn't want much different than the user of today... An idiot box. A TV with extra buttons. That's it. They don't want a fucking command line. They want to feel like they are making a legitimate buisness transaction. They don't want to be 'Computer Users' Regardless of Time Magazine talkin about 'geek sheik', Geeks are lame in the eyes of most people. No one wants to vecome a command line hacker. They want to sit down, get their e-mail, some pr0n, and that's it. Grow the fuck up, and get out of your delusional world, and realize that MS will have the home user market cornered for many decades to come.
Mod Me Down.
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