...independence of journalism in what could be called a "capitalist command economy..."
Even if we could get somebody to be objective, their objectivity is bounded by their knowledge. Facts can be as easily distorted by ignorance as malevolence.
Dropping Java might have been related to the MS/Sun legal thumbwrestling. Lawyers are the friction of our society; you need the stability, but note the expenditure of gain.
One thing I'd like to see on the PalmOS is an RPN calculator. As long as I'm going to forsake my HP48GX for another gadget, I might as well be able to do math in ways that terrify the masses.
I'm opting for that pdq 6035 gadget. Already have the hands-free earpiece to overcome the can't-talk-and-scribble scenario. I want the uber-gadget, so when it is torn, spindled, or mutilated, I can be utterly tubed.
While we're thinking out loud, how about a spiffy bandolier to hold the thing. You could have extra batteries, a built-in antenna, pockets for legacy gadgets, and some attempt at being stylish (leather?).
This gets us out of fanny-pack territory, which is too un-masculine. And how about shielding, so I don't sterilize myself while wearing it?
...exists to terrify those who work within a floor or two by simply showing up office/cubicle/cage and speaking to them in person, instead of hiding behind email or voice mail. Why?
Because, for all the d(Technology)/d(t) tends to something big, human nature is a constant. Folks like other folks, for all they simultaneously hate them. Gadgetry in moderation, please.
My remark tried to characterize the state of the audience.
What Intel could do (not that I would expect it to) is see what can be done to improve the 'last mile' situation.
In the US, we have some phone companies which, for any number of reasons, are not satisfying Joe User with their broadband offerings. Waaah, waaah, waaah, my inner child is pouting.
Next, Intel can kick up system board speed, and how about world hunger for an encore?;)
That is one of the funniest posts I've seen on/. Hats off to-ya.
In response to the preceding posts, I'd argue that the only way to be anonymous would be to call an intermediate number and have something else forward the encrypted traffic.
My argument is that there might not be any way to obscure ALL marks (identifying high frequencies in a voice modulator device, for example).
We're talking about a classic cryptology game here, and if price is no object only the mists of antiquity offer security...
I bet I'd release the PREVIOUS stable version under GPL. You'd buy the accolades of being OSS friendly.
When someone comes up with something truly innovative based on the old version (8i right now, I guess), you stun them with an avalanche of money and fold their swell ideas into the newest version.
You keep your flagship product in paint and powder, and use the Open Source community as a development lab. Those on the kool-aid budgets get a quality product, and the champagne-class still keeps the share price safely stratospheric.
As far as the O'Reilly book goes, peer into the future. Who can argue that the increasing maturity of OSS is not eroding software prices? While complicated, niche products might never be Open Source (military combat system software, for example) large price tags for operating systems and office software might well go the way of music, as word processor programmers join the Renaissance minstrels in the ranks of those who work for a bite to eat.
I think it was Frank Zappa, during congressional testimony for Tipper Gore, who described censorship as (paraphrase) 'treating dandruff through decaptiation'.
So goes the glory of my country, as we see another example of blaming hardware for perceived woes of the people-ware.
A corollary to your argument is that theft implies loss of value.
I can't think of anybody I hate enough to afflict them with the pestilence that is network television. (Even Clinton). You get up from the futon stupider than when you sat down. And look at the/. time going to waste.
They'd put as much emphasis on the real performance bottlenecks. What good are the excess MIPS to Joe User saddled with a 100Mhz system board and a 56k dial-up modem?
Sicker than the thought of mere bankruptcy, how about if we buy the competition and then sink their product? We can use a legal Super-RBOC (Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff) launcher to get enough paper airborne to confuse the anti-trust nazis, and then Rule the World...
Our society is a moral outrage. I'm unclear, given the desire to be 'in the world, but not of it', just how you balance things on the fulcrum of the comma in that phrase.
Your post is a great shot across the bow. Seriously: shall we become Amish?
I kind of agree with you, but, after awhile, the sheer absence of value in all nonsense, to include pornographic material, gambling drugs, etc., becomes its own answer, don't you think?
Arguments for censorship become moot if we educate the demand away. Attempts at censorship, ironically, fuel demand due to the perversity of the human heart.
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Even if we could get somebody to be objective, their objectivity is bounded by their knowledge. Facts can be as easily distorted by ignorance as malevolence.
While we're thinking out loud, how about a spiffy bandolier to hold the thing. You could have extra batteries, a built-in antenna, pockets for legacy gadgets, and some attempt at being stylish (leather?).
This gets us out of fanny-pack territory, which is too un-masculine. And how about shielding, so I don't sterilize myself while wearing it?
ThinkGeek, get hot!
Because, for all the d(Technology)/d(t) tends to something big, human nature is a constant. Folks like other folks, for all they simultaneously hate them. Gadgetry in moderation, please.
What Intel could do (not that I would expect it to) is see what can be done to improve the 'last mile' situation.
In the US, we have some phone companies which, for any number of reasons, are not satisfying Joe User with their broadband offerings. Waaah, waaah, waaah, my inner child is pouting.
Next, Intel can kick up system board speed, and how about world hunger for an encore? ;)
In response to the preceding posts, I'd argue that the only way to be anonymous would be to call an intermediate number and have something else forward the encrypted traffic.
My argument is that there might not be any way to obscure ALL marks (identifying high frequencies in a voice modulator device, for example).
We're talking about a classic cryptology game here, and if price is no object only the mists of antiquity offer security...
When someone comes up with something truly innovative based on the old version (8i right now, I guess), you stun them with an avalanche of money and fold their swell ideas into the newest version.
You keep your flagship product in paint and powder, and use the Open Source community as a development lab. Those on the kool-aid budgets get a quality product, and the champagne-class still keeps the share price safely stratospheric.
As far as the O'Reilly book goes, peer into the future. Who can argue that the increasing maturity of OSS is not eroding software prices? While complicated, niche products might never be Open Source (military combat system software, for example) large price tags for operating systems and office software might well go the way of music, as word processor programmers join the Renaissance minstrels in the ranks of those who work for a bite to eat.
I'm not picking up the Chicken Little end of the argument so much as questioning whether any sense of security using a payphone is a placebo.
So goes the glory of my country, as we see another example of blaming hardware for perceived woes of the people-ware.
I can't think of anybody I hate enough to afflict them with the pestilence that is network television. (Even Clinton). You get up from the futon stupider than when you sat down. And look at the /. time going to waste.
"The time for honoring yourself will soon be over, highness."
I will go so far with you as to agree that PDAs, guns, and alcohol require responsibility on the part of the operator.
Or not.
Our society is a moral outrage. I'm unclear, given the desire to be 'in the world, but not of it', just how you balance things on the fulcrum of the comma in that phrase.
Your post is a great shot across the bow. Seriously: shall we become Amish?
Arguments for censorship become moot if we educate the demand away. Attempts at censorship, ironically, fuel demand due to the perversity of the human heart.