OK...I've read through this entire set at +2, oldest-first, nested. I've got some sampling of what people are saying.
I see bickering, complaining, whining, 'I-told-you-so'ing and (gasp) toleration of things in nations where lack of toleration made change! (No, I'm not racist, and I'm not advocating racism.)
Will somebody PLEASE get off their ass and actually do something about all of this? A while back I posted a comment on how special-interest groups are what cause politics to happen. I've seen several people offer (via/.) to host campaigns etc. against policies most here either agree with or give lip service to. I suppose I'll start one right now.
Here's what we need:
A People with money
B People with an understanding of politics
C People good at strategy
D People with time.
I don't have A, B, C, or D, but I'm sick of hearing about all of this crap. Let's get this together people! Once we've got enough money, political understanding, strategy and time, we can start changing things. Leave me a note in my email.
How far did the Oil companies get before the Sherman Antitrust Act was created? Whether or not we've already reached by that point, lets not let this get any further?
People keep complaining about how Microsoft has a monopoly. Has anyone compared RIAA/MPAA with monopolistic policies lately? The biggest difference I can see is that Microsoft doesn't flagrantly pay the government to see its way. Hm. Maybe they have some ethics after all.
Books have their uses, especially for people like me. I've been forced to use a w32 machine since Christmas (some gift!), and my parents have a stranglehold (yes, I sometimes want to strangle them) over what software/hardware I can install.
To put it simply, I wanted to learn PHP, and had to learn out of a book. (My mom has wanted me to learn ASP for a long time, so she refused to let me install PHP for w32.)
I've been working since 15-years-old (only two years ago) as technical support for the family business. If i could leave the position, I would. As the business is run from the home, and I'm the only one home from 3:00PM to (usually) 5:00PM, I've got two hours of hell to deal with, daily.
At least my parents are pushing for ISO certification. When my brain goes kaput, I've got this nice binder to walk through with the customer...
Just slap some molecular-sized heat transfer goop on a heat sink, combine it with a thermal transfer plate, (don't remember the name of the things..) and it'll work... Or my name isn't Bill Clinton.
I like how a story can be updated before it's written. At the very least, it reminds me that there's someone suffering from an alarm clock somewhere in the world...
While I'm nothing resembling 'up-to-date' in regards to video games and consoles, wouldn't it be other companies that developed the games?
Perhaps Sega released the specs, and other companies didn't incorperate the feature for fear of faulty, untested code. (I have doubts as to whether other developers had access to prototypes)
Perhaps Sega, or its developer, simply forgot to release the specs ahead of time...
Perhaps the game developers have been designing with this component in mind, but haven't released their game yet...
By the time my grandkids are my current age(17), 'ping' will probably be close to obsolete, what with fiber-optic to the home, and things like that. I mean, why bother timing how long it takes light to travel the forty-thousand miles along optic fiber?
You guys, I really think that if I were to tell my grandkids, "I had a 15ms ping time to my own ISP" (which I do...ISDN), I don't think they'd know what I meant.
All-optical routers have really done a number on us...It just doesn't seem right to feel obsolete at 17. (No jokes about the ISDN, plz.:)
Sure it's impossible to completely secure a computer with a network connection and/or physical access. It's also impossible to have a completely safe car if it's in use, or if it even exists in physical form at all.
I'm not in any trouble (laws unkbenownst to me not withstanding) if I retrofit my car with a four-hundred-gallon gas tank...But here are a few situations where I would be liable, if I survived:
I leave it in my home, someone steals it by knowing how to open my electronic garage door opener, and they get in an accident. KABOOM!
I take it for a drive, and someone rear-ends me.
I go for a drive, try to stop at a stop light, and discover a nice patch of ice. I slide out into the intersection, and someone broadsides me.
Each of these situations demonstrate me as tje source of the problem. While you may agree with some of the examples more than the others, I can be held accountable for each of them.
I know it seems like the media, courts, corporations and lawmakers are out to squash the techno-geek culture, but here's the main point: We need to take responsibility somewhere along the line. This is a good point right here.
Reminiscent of a flag made by Ben Franklin, right? At least I remember something from 8thgrade History class.
The flag was a picture of a snake, cut into thirteen pieces. The flag was intended to drive home the seriousness of the colonists' anger towards the British rule.
(forgot to set to 'HTML', and accidentally hit the 'submit' button instead of 'preview'.)
Dem's the breaks of starting from scratch. I'm certain that gun control was an issue since before the IRA. I suppose that if someone were to spend the time going back through/.'s references to the DoJ, M$, and many other large-capital corps, there ought to be enough information to start with.
Here's how I see it:
Equate oligopolies with the annoyances of telephone companies. ("There is no answer yet. If you would like, you can record a message for them to play back at a later time. To activate, for 75 cents, please press..." When I'd rather listen to the 'ringing' sound, and it's only rung twice. That's worse than most 'hold' music.)
Take screenshots of bluescreens or GP errors...anything you often see in Windows that annoys you.
Raise money to run a few adds on CNN or Fox, and get public attention.
When the inevitable local groups form, coordinate them, and get some sort of steady income going.
I think that's all that's necessary, at least to start.
Once you have a couple thousand people focusing on the subject, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with ways to pressure polititians. (sp)
Dem's the breaks of starting from scratch. I'm certain that gun control was an issue since before the IRA. I suppose that if someone were to spend the time going back through/.'s references to the DoJ, M$, and many other large-capital corps, there ought to be enough information to start with.
Here's how I see it:
Equate oligopolies with the annoyances of telephone companies. ("There is no answer yet. If you would like, you can record a message for them to play back at a later time. To activate, for 75 cents, please press..." When I'd rather listen to the 'ringing' sound.)
Take screenshots of bluescreens or GP errors...anything you often see in Windows that annoys you.
Raise money to run a few adds on CNN or Fox, and get public attention.
When the inevitable local groups form, coordinate them, and get some sort of steady income going.
I think that's all that's necessary, at least to start.
Once you have a couple thousand people focusing on the subject, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with ways to pressure polititians. (sp)
I remember reading in a Heinlein book some while ago that a computer can only be as intelligent as its designer.
A) There's more than one type of intelligence
B) The intelligence of a group of people may not even exceed the intelligence of just one.
C) Being bent on your creator's destruction sounds like either a bad storyline(Don't get me wrong...I like The Matrix) or a seriously improbable malfunction.
D) There's not enough intelligence on this planet to be able to figure out just how to instill a sizable portion of that intelligence.
In short, transfer of intelligence (by design or whatever) from human to machine is too inefficient for it to happen any time good...
However, don't forget about genetic algorithms...We only call 'random chance' because we're not smart enough to find the pattern.
As someone has mentioned elsewhere in here, CPRM is part of the drive communication standard...not an actual part of the drive.
The can do the same thing M$ did years ago and say, "If you want your drive to communicate with ATA, you must implement the whole standard."
Heck...They might require controller manufacturers to perform a check on the hard drive to make sure it complies with the whole standard. May break compatability, but I wouldn't know.
If requiring CPRM became an option in BIOS, 4C could prohibit mixed-systems...Disallow non-CPRM drives when you have a CPRM drive, and vice-versa.
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OK...I've read through this entire set at +2, oldest-first, nested. I've got some sampling of what people are saying.
/.) to host campaigns etc. against policies most here either agree with or give lip service to. I suppose I'll start one right now.
I see bickering, complaining, whining, 'I-told-you-so'ing and (gasp) toleration of things in nations where lack of toleration made change! (No, I'm not racist, and I'm not advocating racism.)
Will somebody PLEASE get off their ass and actually do something about all of this? A while back I posted a comment on how special-interest groups are what cause politics to happen. I've seen several people offer (via
Here's what we need:
A People with money
B People with an understanding of politics
C People good at strategy
D People with time.
I don't have A, B, C, or D, but I'm sick of hearing about all of this crap. Let's get this together people! Once we've got enough money, political understanding, strategy and time, we can start changing things. Leave me a note in my email.
How far did the Oil companies get before the Sherman Antitrust Act was created? Whether or not we've already reached by that point, lets not let this get any further?
People keep complaining about how Microsoft has a monopoly. Has anyone compared RIAA/MPAA with monopolistic policies lately? The biggest difference I can see is that Microsoft doesn't flagrantly pay the government to see its way. Hm. Maybe they have some ethics after all.
With many types of CD-R's, you can tell if they're blank or not. There's a sort of fuzzy appearance wherever there's writing.
So, as soon as someone figures out how to give this fuzzy appearance without making the thing unwritable...
That kind of logic doesn't apply in many companies. Take Iraq for example. Or maybe Iran. Israel, for crying out loud.
I don't see that anyone has made a logic error here. The RIAA/MPAA wants money. That's all the logic necessary to explain much of this bull****.
Books have their uses, especially for people like me. I've been forced to use a w32 machine since Christmas (some gift!), and my parents have a stranglehold (yes, I sometimes want to strangle them) over what software/hardware I can install.
To put it simply, I wanted to learn PHP, and had to learn out of a book. (My mom has wanted me to learn ASP for a long time, so she refused to let me install PHP for w32.)
Isn't that what disclaimers are for?
GNOME and KDE handhelds? Gosh, that'll be even more stable than Windows!
In regards to your comment, look at my sig....It may apply.
Uhh.. 7 years, short?
I've been working since 15-years-old (only two years ago) as technical support for the family business. If i could leave the position, I would. As the business is run from the home, and I'm the only one home from 3:00PM to (usually) 5:00PM, I've got two hours of hell to deal with, daily.
At least my parents are pushing for ISO certification. When my brain goes kaput, I've got this nice binder to walk through with the customer...
Oh, and the job pays 5$ per week.
As far as I can tell, there are two things hyped up as the next generation's CPU circuitry: fiber optics and superconductors.
I'll venture a guess that fiber optics will take home base, but here are som pros and cons that I've thought of:
Superconductors
(srry about the length of the list...Couldn't figure out how to clear out any more whitespace...)
I think their idea of 'room temperature' may be a lot lower than mine.... ;)
Nah....
Just slap some molecular-sized heat transfer goop on a heat sink, combine it with a thermal transfer plate, (don't remember the name of the things..) and it'll work... Or my name isn't Bill Clinton.
(which it isn't.)
I like how a story can be updated before it's written. At the very least, it reminds me that there's someone suffering from an alarm clock somewhere in the world...
Sounds like one further step from MPEG layer 3 and MP4. M$, Thomas, (and everal other corps), take that!
At least, it'll work for voice. (If I understood this post..)
What's so funny? It's too damn true!!
Unless, of course, my personal view(which equals this) is a joke.
I always did try to be funny...
While I'm nothing resembling 'up-to-date' in regards to video games and consoles, wouldn't it be other companies that developed the games?
Perhaps Sega released the specs, and other companies didn't incorperate the feature for fear of faulty, untested code. (I have doubts as to whether other developers had access to prototypes)
Perhaps Sega, or its developer, simply forgot to release the specs ahead of time...
Perhaps the game developers have been designing with this component in mind, but haven't released their game yet...
By the time my grandkids are my current age(17), 'ping' will probably be close to obsolete, what with fiber-optic to the home, and things like that. I mean, why bother timing how long it takes light to travel the forty-thousand miles along optic fiber?
You guys, I really think that if I were to tell my grandkids, "I had a 15ms ping time to my own ISP" (which I do...ISDN), I don't think they'd know what I meant.
All-optical routers have really done a number on us...It just doesn't seem right to feel obsolete at 17. (No jokes about the ISDN, plz. :)
Sure it's impossible to completely secure a computer with a network connection and/or physical access. It's also impossible to have a completely safe car if it's in use, or if it even exists in physical form at all.
I'm not in any trouble (laws unkbenownst to me not withstanding) if I retrofit my car with a four-hundred-gallon gas tank...But here are a few situations where I would be liable, if I survived:
Each of these situations demonstrate me as tje source of the problem. While you may agree with some of the examples more than the others, I can be held accountable for each of them.
I know it seems like the media, courts, corporations and lawmakers are out to squash the techno-geek culture, but here's the main point: We need to take responsibility somewhere along the line. This is a good point right here.
As was the point earlier in this thread, no, there isn't a difference. I beleive the term is 'criminal negligence.'
Reminiscent of a flag made by Ben Franklin, right? At least I remember something from 8thgrade History class.
The flag was a picture of a snake, cut into thirteen pieces. The flag was intended to drive home the seriousness of the colonists' anger towards the British rule.
(forgot to set to 'HTML', and accidentally hit the 'submit' button instead of 'preview'.)
Dem's the breaks of starting from scratch. I'm certain that gun control was an issue since before the IRA. I suppose that if someone were to spend the time going back through /.'s references to the DoJ, M$, and many other large-capital corps, there ought to be enough information to start with.
Here's how I see it:
I think that's all that's necessary, at least to start.
Once you have a couple thousand people focusing on the subject, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with ways to pressure polititians. (sp)
Here's how I see it:
I think that's all that's necessary, at least to start.
Once you have a couple thousand people focusing on the subject, it shouldn't be too difficult to come up with ways to pressure polititians. (sp)
I remember reading in a Heinlein book some while ago that a computer can only be as intelligent as its designer.
A) There's more than one type of intelligence
B) The intelligence of a group of people may not even exceed the intelligence of just one.
C) Being bent on your creator's destruction sounds like either a bad storyline(Don't get me wrong...I like The Matrix) or a seriously improbable malfunction.
D) There's not enough intelligence on this planet to be able to figure out just how to instill a sizable portion of that intelligence.
In short, transfer of intelligence (by design or whatever) from human to machine is too inefficient for it to happen any time good...
However, don't forget about genetic algorithms...We only call 'random chance' because we're not smart enough to find the pattern.
As someone has mentioned elsewhere in here, CPRM is part of the drive communication standard...not an actual part of the drive.
The can do the same thing M$ did years ago and say, "If you want your drive to communicate with ATA, you must implement the whole standard."
Heck...They might require controller manufacturers to perform a check on the hard drive to make sure it complies with the whole standard. May break compatability, but I wouldn't know.
If requiring CPRM became an option in BIOS, 4C could prohibit mixed-systems...Disallow non-CPRM drives when you have a CPRM drive, and vice-versa.
Just my $.02US
I give up. Why?
(j/k)