And don't you think that the whole "self-entitlement" thing is getting overused?
You see, things that are free are still things that people do use and therefore it is an issue if the service is gone. If the gmail would be gone tomorrow for good without any warning, would you still repeat the same mantra? It is for free after all... except that a good portion of the business world relies on it beyond the personal "freerider" usage. Just because one runs a free service doesn't mean that one isn't responsible for the service.
You misinterpreted that sentence. What I said was that there has been a sustained smear campaign and scare tactics against the torrent protocol, which is why most of the major businesses avoiding to use it. HTTP/S, and indeed most of the internet protocols suffer the similar problem as does BT, but there was no similar campaign against HTTP/S while it is clear that people share stuff on websites too. The whole thing has nothing to do with risk-awareness, more to the sheepish flocking of business-types.
I find those who sling GUI around like it is an insult to be pathetically entrenched fan-boys who refuse to admit their choice of computing has been vastly outpaced.
Dude, calm down. Listen, and maybe you can learn something. If programs (not applications, solutions and other foggy business terms) are designed to do a single business it has certain value. For example, given the diverse amount of devices floating around, if you would like to get a widely adopted software, you should implement it on the most common interface available. That's the terminal. It is available on virtually every operating system, every device. Fucking old tech, but it works and it is quick and easy to implement.
Also good stuff about the CLI interface that if you make a consistent format for your information output on the terminal, you can easily add GUI layers that uses the CLI program in/out terminals, but isn't tied to the executable thus it can be separately developed (no unintended security bug introduced, which is a good thing), can be used remotely (many torrent clients today is capable of running a simple web service for controlling the process too, but one of the most accessible remote control technology, like ssh and friends can also be used), and most importantly, it can be easily automatized for the user's own purposes. You know, if you use programs instead of application, you will realize that these programs can be used for other purposes than the usual use-case. A torrent client can be used as a content updater between creative groups used along with some basic version tracking information, let's say. The problem with "apps" (program+GUI) the problem is that the GUI is rarely and hardly customizable once it's burned in to the executable. With a good CLI support however, you can embed the program in to an entire ecosystem to your liking.
Learn and watch patiently: command line programs and remotely operated web interface/scripted GUI for fancy look is at the heart of modern computing.
I guess you aren't the sharpest tool in the box... As with most network related software, bug fixes are necessary part of the life cycle. If you stuck with an older version with a well-known bug that exposes your system, there's a growing chance in time that your system will be hacked and used for purposes other than yours.
Thus, you want to have fixes for your system. uTorrent is a secretive sourced product, thus the users supposed to get their security patches through the regular update channel of the software, which is now includes a shit load of bloatware, which also produces security risk, especially when a software start to act as an other software which the user don't need. In this case, displaying images all over the place, which has no structural role, like the elements of the GUI, but some shit pictures, that qualify as garbage in any honest computer user's house. So, problem can only be solved by leaving this software behind and find an other, regularly maintained software that does what it is expected to do by the user. Downloading and uploading the specified items that the user intends to.
It is also a self-conscious step to not use uTorrent at all: it's a showcase of what's wrong with the commercial attitudes in software production: making money from things that the user don't want to have on their system is not simply a morally wrong thing to do, but also distorts the whole industry, and set it on the path of self-sabotage. Since the PC became a world-wide phenomenon software and content development companies reinvent the wheel every half a year, making the same shit with different logos, wasting millions of hours of development in the name of secrecy in the software production, not to mention the zombified user base tied in to a brand-based consumer indoctrination.
OK, man, but your argument has been countered successfully. The BT protocol works out of the box the way how validated downloads work: they send you a hash, and once you downloaded, it will check if the file produces the same hash as the source. Can the hash be faked? Sure, there are some ways to do that, but that is a problem with HTTP downloads as well. From a cost and technical point of view BT should be perfectly legitimate choice for a company to distribute their shit.
The real deal here is the bad reputation of BT in the media. There's a whole crusade against file sharing and BT in particular, the technology is associated with criminals, hackerz, child pornography, necrophilia, and communism. Can you imagine the suits in the director board meeting taking the chances for such an association? They rather pay for bandwidth. As a side effect, our internet infrastructure is distorted with having terrible download/upload speed ratios and you have to pay a fortune just for getting a static ip with a decent upload speed. If central repository distribution is a business model that became supported by many parties, including ISPs, cloud service providers, social media and audio/video streaming.
I'm not sure how, after the disaster of 20th century communism, fascism and social democracy, somehow it is markets who are seen as having failed. It's takes phenomenal ignorance of history and economics to make that argument.
Errr... Fail. All of those you mention was directly or indirectly a response to the growing capitalist fears of the organized working class, the real sufferer of that beloved free market ideology. The "markets" somehow piss themselves and run immediately to the authoritarian solutions, when communism (which has nothing to do with the Eastern European radical social democratic political structures. I'm coming from one of these countries, so I have some ideas about the topic.) appears.
This whole free market bullshit is just an other dream, an other idealistic cry of the small capital owners. The big ones have already rigged the game for themselves around 100-150 years ago, so it is time for these libertarians to wake up really, and realize that what they want is a simple anachronism, or even just a misplaced nostalgia. With corporations, with an income of entire government budgets, there's no free market, there is an overlapping corporate and government interest, with ever bitter struggles, within the corporate and government structures. Funny thing is, that what this free market crowd wants, only a strong government organization can provide, enforcing the dismantling these large capital concentrations. Free market and its individualistic utopia brought us here, in to the middle of individualistic but highly accumulated power structures.
Because now it isn't about consoles. A truly multifunctional device (of course, game consoles are just plain computer and one could do many things with them, but people tend to see the game console as a different species, only good for gaming) that is limited by the manufacturer is more painful than that you bought for gaming only.
It is on my desktop, it is on the majority of my workmates' desktop. It is on my sister's desktop. While surely it is not majority to say that it is not on virtually any is quite an exaggeration.
If you work with computers for a while, you realize that there's ain't such thing as killer app. At least, not for steady PC users. The whole concept works much better in the mobile arena and mostly for teenagers.
GNU/Linux has perhaps failed to get widespread deployment on desktops because the competition used mostly competition rigging methods, like making OEM contracts and government contracts for teaching the One True Software environment. The One True Software company has contracts with hardware manufacturers, so GNU/Linux gets treated as a secondary citizen, because the project has no support from monopolistic solutions. Hence the lack of serious drive for developing games.
But GNU/Linux is looking forward to steadily optimistic future: The Free Culture gets a lot of attention these days, much more than ever before. While Free Software was seen by the average Joe as a something ultra-geek dreamland with no relevance to his own needs, today many people start to realize what software freedom means through the bitter experience with the controlled software ecosystems such as Apple, or by the understanding that DRM can only be possible because the underlying software stack is hidden. Free culture drew attention to Linux too and I expect a growth in the GNU/Linux user base on desktop/laptop in the near future.
As time passing, more and more people get in to computers and understand what these terms mean: hardware, software, source code, etc. and will know how to use a computer properly, no matter what the OS is. For any users who is above the Basic User of Word level, Windows full of limitations. OSX on the other hand is way too expensive given that you need to buy along with a good, but also way too expensive hardware. I'm hoping that W8 will just accelerate this effect and W8 will force desktop users to migrate to Unix-like land, thus game developers and gamers have to come along too.
I read a paper about the steady rate of insanity inflation and one about with an exponential one. But the universe will only be affected, if the inflation turns in to a t -> iic * (t^t^t^...^t repeated t times) rate of expansion, in which iic, the insanity inflationary constant is actually irrelevant. At any level, stupidity only could spread through the means of godless speculation about the origin, age, size and shape of the universe, therefore if stupidity will be taken seriously, I'm afraid it won't be able to spread after a point.
Oh, I'm so tired of the repeated debates over god and science and all that bullshit, I'm even try to be funny at the expense of the rest of human kind.
Well, there's something in to this. For example, that religion is based on faith. Don't question, don't be critical, just have faith. Same goes for authoritarian ideologies. Faith in the leader, faith in the system. So the real problem at the roots is the lack of critical thinking. The problem isn't simply religion, it is faith. Faith in anything. Agnostic, critical, sceptical thinking isn't something that comes for free. It is a long battle since childhood with the built-in fears and wrong abstractions, the mess of different ideologies bombarding us. Critical thinking, scepticism is way harder, than faith. Unless the conditions will change, it will be always a minority in the population who can be considered as a critical thinker and even those will not be able to use it in all areas of their lives. The real difference however, that while a person of faith would be proud to not have a doubt in their belief system, the sceptical will be always embarrassed with her current level of criticism, because there could be never enough. (Of course within the boundaries what a healthy person can take mentally without loosing the sense of reality completely).
It is not the social benefit system that went pear shaped but the ideological framework has changed to that of khallow. The ageing, actively voting, property owning strata of society became the focus of politics because they happened to be the generations that benefited from the social democratic reforms. This means that the bourgeois politics produced mass support for the outright bourgeois ideologies. The working class that supposed to be represented by social democratic parties in a parliamentary democracy lost this representation because the reforms that were committed in the name of social justice. At the very heart of the '68 movements there was already a generational struggle which ran along the lines of the class conflict of capitalism thus the welfare state appears as a vehicle of social control rather than of the emancipation of the working class. It shields the capitalist relationships of the society with other conflicts, reducing everything to a display petite self-interest.
I think you misunderstood what he said. He said substantial, not more Silver Falcon-like.
Judging from the comparison between this cg concept and the picture in the article, the current status of the Orion space craft is far from being any substantial for its purpose.
Strange thing, but there's truth in this. In an other discussion I was wondering that the current trend in demographics in relation to electorate politics creates a political system that is by nature becomes the enemy of the younger generations, and that is easy to show all over Western Europe. Most of the politicians and the people who vote for them were educated on the expense of the budget, that is, "for free". This generation benefited of the welfare state in every way, health case, job protection, rent control, council housing, cheap mortgage and property prices, so they could cut these services with the line "there ain't such thing as free lunch".
Ageing population is a real political concern for the under-thirties generation.
You know, this is sort of funny. When the first iPods came about I was horrified by their look. I had a flash drive with 3 buttons on it, and I was able to listen music. It couldn't hold all my music for sure. But 1GB mp3 is plenty music. Also, if you have 1-2GB music, you don't really need any "innovative" UI, just a play/pause button and a next/prev track.
And by the time I thought I would need a better stuff, smartphones have come along, where the UI was given on a touch screen, storage was also plenty and they do other things than playing mp3.
This whole NFC thing is again an other marketing bullshit. There were solid solutions for near field communication before, perhaps most notably PSP. Sticking an additional networking interface isn't such a big deal, doesn't need innovation. For fuck sake, it's just the same ol' wireless networking...
11 secret herbs and spices? What? And for the record, I do roast my own chicken man, it's not that hard... Also, very week analogy as the chicken is easily paired with other food because it's a quick taste and you know what sides it needs. Also, you have the information that it is a chicken. That's the fucking big difference. You can find the sketch of chickens in any biology book.
On the other hand, your argument is getting weaker every time I think about it. The fact that people use stuff with built-in secrets does not make the problem go away. We have a politico-economical system that encourage keeping dangerous secrets, and then people wonder why the fucking economy falls apart. I tell you why: consumers and producers are kept in dark, lack of information that would be essential to make informed decisions. So much for markets, and so much for democracy. So, if that is the case, we ought to change it IMHO.
Maaaan... don't distort things, it wasn't the Soviets, and it was mostly likely said by Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. Never the less the communists weren't around when this quote was known. Unnecessary commie bashing is counter-productive.
Other than that, I agree. I summon George Carlin on this.
This has nothing to do with putting on restrictions on the available internet sites. Teaching the children about how to handle information is always a better choice of dealing with these things...
I just wrote some days ago a script that collects the magnet links to torrents from the piratebay. All of them. People should have the latest one before it gets completely shut down. This will help not to loose any previous torrent at all. And instead of using torrent browser websites, we make a p2p network for torrent search. There are already systems for that. So with, or without piratebay, we gonna be ok.
The bigger problem could be the deep packet inspection, but that's gonna be a cryptographic war, where there's no one with the upper hand, only for the time being.
But the real deal here, is that with so much devices with networking capability, we should just avoid ISPs all together. WiFi in air.... lalalllla
It's certainly not impossible to do, but there's a huge difficulty. Computer architectures today involve a lot different bits and pieces from different manufacturers. To get all the pieces from completely new manufacturers who are willing to give all the specs, I mean, ALL THE SPECS is pretty hard given that most of the existing companies are involved in some market distorting practices, such as patents, holding back the manuals, and copyright and other bullshit.
Even worse, because we already have a billion-magnitude user base who have gadgets and computers based on standards which come these dodgy practices, a completely new architecture would be doomed to fail because the market is saturated in terms of available options that consumers are willing to choose. You have to serve millions of legacy apps and if the new brand fails any of that, the system will not last long. I mean, you can see here and elsewhere that the consumer culture of technology is deliberately was kept in the dark, and now the darkness dictates not any rational sense. So, when somebody considers a new phone, don't give a shit about the actual technical issues or the software maintainability on the really long run, only the cool factor and the possibility of running the Angry Birds. Symptomatic to our age, the consumer age, where everything made for throwing away in order to generate false growth. Anyway, a completely open architecture would be enormous advance in our life time, but it must measure up to the currently existing technologies right away, or will phase out without a trace.
And what do you just think, why is Linux gaming in its infancy still? Think about it while you re-read your own post.
I remember when NVIDIA came to our gaming studio, trying to sell their shit, with the promise that they make our game work better with driver updates. Of course, for some money. That means anti-competition behaviour that is tolerated in the name of IP.
Yet, I can easily conceive of situations where seeing driver source code might reveal something about the underlying hardware.
That is still this stupid IP argument. If for instance the AMD can see how the underlying hardware works, then what? If there are people who are ready to reverse engineer software and make high resolution microscopic images of the chips, I would say that is an other chip manufacturer, like AMD anyway. So what if they see?
There's no excuse for keeping secrets no matter what you say. For people of the world the only beneficial way to run an economy where everybody is honest and do not hold back information. It is possible to make profit without keeping secrets, which means that secrecy is a criminal way to gain profits. Pure and simple.
That's the thing. They shouldn't. They should just fucking release the how-to for their bloody products. We would do the rest. But what they don't want is that customer made drivers would not have preferences for games against others and other anti-competition deals what they have now.
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And don't you think that the whole "self-entitlement" thing is getting overused?
You see, things that are free are still things that people do use and therefore it is an issue if the service is gone. If the gmail would be gone tomorrow for good without any warning, would you still repeat the same mantra? It is for free after all... except that a good portion of the business world relies on it beyond the personal "freerider" usage. Just because one runs a free service doesn't mean that one isn't responsible for the service.
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You misinterpreted that sentence. What I said was that there has been a sustained smear campaign and scare tactics against the torrent protocol, which is why most of the major businesses avoiding to use it. HTTP/S, and indeed most of the internet protocols suffer the similar problem as does BT, but there was no similar campaign against HTTP/S while it is clear that people share stuff on websites too. The whole thing has nothing to do with risk-awareness, more to the sheepish flocking of business-types.
I find those who sling GUI around like it is an insult to be pathetically entrenched fan-boys who refuse to admit their choice of computing has been vastly outpaced.
Dude, calm down. Listen, and maybe you can learn something. If programs (not applications, solutions and other foggy business terms) are designed to do a single business it has certain value. For example, given the diverse amount of devices floating around, if you would like to get a widely adopted software, you should implement it on the most common interface available. That's the terminal. It is available on virtually every operating system, every device. Fucking old tech, but it works and it is quick and easy to implement.
Also good stuff about the CLI interface that if you make a consistent format for your information output on the terminal, you can easily add GUI layers that uses the CLI program in/out terminals, but isn't tied to the executable thus it can be separately developed (no unintended security bug introduced, which is a good thing), can be used remotely (many torrent clients today is capable of running a simple web service for controlling the process too, but one of the most accessible remote control technology, like ssh and friends can also be used), and most importantly, it can be easily automatized for the user's own purposes. You know, if you use programs instead of application, you will realize that these programs can be used for other purposes than the usual use-case. A torrent client can be used as a content updater between creative groups used along with some basic version tracking information, let's say. The problem with "apps" (program+GUI) the problem is that the GUI is rarely and hardly customizable once it's burned in to the executable. With a good CLI support however, you can embed the program in to an entire ecosystem to your liking.
Learn and watch patiently: command line programs and remotely operated web interface/scripted GUI for fancy look is at the heart of modern computing.
I guess you aren't the sharpest tool in the box... As with most network related software, bug fixes are necessary part of the life cycle. If you stuck with an older version with a well-known bug that exposes your system, there's a growing chance in time that your system will be hacked and used for purposes other than yours.
Thus, you want to have fixes for your system. uTorrent is a secretive sourced product, thus the users supposed to get their security patches through the regular update channel of the software, which is now includes a shit load of bloatware, which also produces security risk, especially when a software start to act as an other software which the user don't need. In this case, displaying images all over the place, which has no structural role, like the elements of the GUI, but some shit pictures, that qualify as garbage in any honest computer user's house. So, problem can only be solved by leaving this software behind and find an other, regularly maintained software that does what it is expected to do by the user. Downloading and uploading the specified items that the user intends to.
It is also a self-conscious step to not use uTorrent at all: it's a showcase of what's wrong with the commercial attitudes in software production: making money from things that the user don't want to have on their system is not simply a morally wrong thing to do, but also distorts the whole industry, and set it on the path of self-sabotage. Since the PC became a world-wide phenomenon software and content development companies reinvent the wheel every half a year, making the same shit with different logos, wasting millions of hours of development in the name of secrecy in the software production, not to mention the zombified user base tied in to a brand-based consumer indoctrination.
OK, man, but your argument has been countered successfully. The BT protocol works out of the box the way how validated downloads work: they send you a hash, and once you downloaded, it will check if the file produces the same hash as the source. Can the hash be faked? Sure, there are some ways to do that, but that is a problem with HTTP downloads as well. From a cost and technical point of view BT should be perfectly legitimate choice for a company to distribute their shit.
The real deal here is the bad reputation of BT in the media. There's a whole crusade against file sharing and BT in particular, the technology is associated with criminals, hackerz, child pornography, necrophilia, and communism. Can you imagine the suits in the director board meeting taking the chances for such an association? They rather pay for bandwidth. As a side effect, our internet infrastructure is distorted with having terrible download/upload speed ratios and you have to pay a fortune just for getting a static ip with a decent upload speed. If central repository distribution is a business model that became supported by many parties, including ISPs, cloud service providers, social media and audio/video streaming.
I'm not sure how, after the disaster of 20th century communism, fascism and social democracy, somehow it is markets who are seen as having failed. It's takes phenomenal ignorance of history and economics to make that argument.
Errr... Fail. All of those you mention was directly or indirectly a response to the growing capitalist fears of the organized working class, the real sufferer of that beloved free market ideology. The "markets" somehow piss themselves and run immediately to the authoritarian solutions, when communism (which has nothing to do with the Eastern European radical social democratic political structures. I'm coming from one of these countries, so I have some ideas about the topic.) appears.
This whole free market bullshit is just an other dream, an other idealistic cry of the small capital owners. The big ones have already rigged the game for themselves around 100-150 years ago, so it is time for these libertarians to wake up really, and realize that what they want is a simple anachronism, or even just a misplaced nostalgia. With corporations, with an income of entire government budgets, there's no free market, there is an overlapping corporate and government interest, with ever bitter struggles, within the corporate and government structures. Funny thing is, that what this free market crowd wants, only a strong government organization can provide, enforcing the dismantling these large capital concentrations. Free market and its individualistic utopia brought us here, in to the middle of individualistic but highly accumulated power structures.
Because now it isn't about consoles. A truly multifunctional device (of course, game consoles are just plain computer and one could do many things with them, but people tend to see the game console as a different species, only good for gaming) that is limited by the manufacturer is more painful than that you bought for gaming only.
It is on my desktop, it is on the majority of my workmates' desktop. It is on my sister's desktop. While surely it is not majority to say that it is not on virtually any is quite an exaggeration.
If you work with computers for a while, you realize that there's ain't such thing as killer app. At least, not for steady PC users. The whole concept works much better in the mobile arena and mostly for teenagers.
GNU/Linux has perhaps failed to get widespread deployment on desktops because the competition used mostly competition rigging methods, like making OEM contracts and government contracts for teaching the One True Software environment. The One True Software company has contracts with hardware manufacturers, so GNU/Linux gets treated as a secondary citizen, because the project has no support from monopolistic solutions. Hence the lack of serious drive for developing games.
But GNU/Linux is looking forward to steadily optimistic future: The Free Culture gets a lot of attention these days, much more than ever before. While Free Software was seen by the average Joe as a something ultra-geek dreamland with no relevance to his own needs, today many people start to realize what software freedom means through the bitter experience with the controlled software ecosystems such as Apple, or by the understanding that DRM can only be possible because the underlying software stack is hidden. Free culture drew attention to Linux too and I expect a growth in the GNU/Linux user base on desktop/laptop in the near future.
As time passing, more and more people get in to computers and understand what these terms mean: hardware, software, source code, etc. and will know how to use a computer properly, no matter what the OS is. For any users who is above the Basic User of Word level, Windows full of limitations. OSX on the other hand is way too expensive given that you need to buy along with a good, but also way too expensive hardware. I'm hoping that W8 will just accelerate this effect and W8 will force desktop users to migrate to Unix-like land, thus game developers and gamers have to come along too.
I read a paper about the steady rate of insanity inflation and one about with an exponential one. But the universe will only be affected, if the inflation turns in to a t -> iic * (t^t^t^...^t repeated t times) rate of expansion, in which iic, the insanity inflationary constant is actually irrelevant. At any level, stupidity only could spread through the means of godless speculation about the origin, age, size and shape of the universe, therefore if stupidity will be taken seriously, I'm afraid it won't be able to spread after a point.
Oh, I'm so tired of the repeated debates over god and science and all that bullshit, I'm even try to be funny at the expense of the rest of human kind.
Well, there's something in to this. For example, that religion is based on faith. Don't question, don't be critical, just have faith. Same goes for authoritarian ideologies. Faith in the leader, faith in the system. So the real problem at the roots is the lack of critical thinking. The problem isn't simply religion, it is faith. Faith in anything. Agnostic, critical, sceptical thinking isn't something that comes for free. It is a long battle since childhood with the built-in fears and wrong abstractions, the mess of different ideologies bombarding us. Critical thinking, scepticism is way harder, than faith. Unless the conditions will change, it will be always a minority in the population who can be considered as a critical thinker and even those will not be able to use it in all areas of their lives. The real difference however, that while a person of faith would be proud to not have a doubt in their belief system, the sceptical will be always embarrassed with her current level of criticism, because there could be never enough. (Of course within the boundaries what a healthy person can take mentally without loosing the sense of reality completely).
Brief, but good insight.
It is not the social benefit system that went pear shaped but the ideological framework has changed to that of khallow. The ageing, actively voting, property owning strata of society became the focus of politics because they happened to be the generations that benefited from the social democratic reforms. This means that the bourgeois politics produced mass support for the outright bourgeois ideologies. The working class that supposed to be represented by social democratic parties in a parliamentary democracy lost this representation because the reforms that were committed in the name of social justice. At the very heart of the '68 movements there was already a generational struggle which ran along the lines of the class conflict of capitalism thus the welfare state appears as a vehicle of social control rather than of the emancipation of the working class. It shields the capitalist relationships of the society with other conflicts, reducing everything to a display petite self-interest.
I think you misunderstood what he said. He said substantial, not more Silver Falcon-like.
Judging from the comparison between this cg concept and the picture in the article, the current status of the Orion space craft is far from being any substantial for its purpose.
Strange thing, but there's truth in this. In an other discussion I was wondering that the current trend in demographics in relation to electorate politics creates a political system that is by nature becomes the enemy of the younger generations, and that is easy to show all over Western Europe. Most of the politicians and the people who vote for them were educated on the expense of the budget, that is, "for free". This generation benefited of the welfare state in every way, health case, job protection, rent control, council housing, cheap mortgage and property prices, so they could cut these services with the line "there ain't such thing as free lunch".
Ageing population is a real political concern for the under-thirties generation.
for the mp3 player thing:
You know, this is sort of funny. When the first iPods came about I was horrified by their look. I had a flash drive with 3 buttons on it, and I was able to listen music. It couldn't hold all my music for sure. But 1GB mp3 is plenty music. Also, if you have 1-2GB music, you don't really need any "innovative" UI, just a play/pause button and a next/prev track.
And by the time I thought I would need a better stuff, smartphones have come along, where the UI was given on a touch screen, storage was also plenty and they do other things than playing mp3.
This whole NFC thing is again an other marketing bullshit. There were solid solutions for near field communication before, perhaps most notably PSP. Sticking an additional networking interface isn't such a big deal, doesn't need innovation. For fuck sake, it's just the same ol' wireless networking...
11 secret herbs and spices? What? And for the record, I do roast my own chicken man, it's not that hard... Also, very week analogy as the chicken is easily paired with other food because it's a quick taste and you know what sides it needs. Also, you have the information that it is a chicken. That's the fucking big difference. You can find the sketch of chickens in any biology book.
On the other hand, your argument is getting weaker every time I think about it. The fact that people use stuff with built-in secrets does not make the problem go away. We have a politico-economical system that encourage keeping dangerous secrets, and then people wonder why the fucking economy falls apart. I tell you why: consumers and producers are kept in dark, lack of information that would be essential to make informed decisions. So much for markets, and so much for democracy. So, if that is the case, we ought to change it IMHO.
I'm sorry, this one I really meant.
Maaaan... don't distort things, it wasn't the Soviets, and it was mostly likely said by Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. Never the less the communists weren't around when this quote was known. Unnecessary commie bashing is counter-productive.
Other than that, I agree. I summon George Carlin on this.
This has nothing to do with putting on restrictions on the available internet sites. Teaching the children about how to handle information is always a better choice of dealing with these things...
I just wrote some days ago a script that collects the magnet links to torrents from the piratebay. All of them. People should have the latest one before it gets completely shut down. This will help not to loose any previous torrent at all. And instead of using torrent browser websites, we make a p2p network for torrent search. There are already systems for that. So with, or without piratebay, we gonna be ok. The bigger problem could be the deep packet inspection, but that's gonna be a cryptographic war, where there's no one with the upper hand, only for the time being. But the real deal here, is that with so much devices with networking capability, we should just avoid ISPs all together. WiFi in air.... lalalllla
It's certainly not impossible to do, but there's a huge difficulty. Computer architectures today involve a lot different bits and pieces from different manufacturers. To get all the pieces from completely new manufacturers who are willing to give all the specs, I mean, ALL THE SPECS is pretty hard given that most of the existing companies are involved in some market distorting practices, such as patents, holding back the manuals, and copyright and other bullshit.
Even worse, because we already have a billion-magnitude user base who have gadgets and computers based on standards which come these dodgy practices, a completely new architecture would be doomed to fail because the market is saturated in terms of available options that consumers are willing to choose. You have to serve millions of legacy apps and if the new brand fails any of that, the system will not last long. I mean, you can see here and elsewhere that the consumer culture of technology is deliberately was kept in the dark, and now the darkness dictates not any rational sense. So, when somebody considers a new phone, don't give a shit about the actual technical issues or the software maintainability on the really long run, only the cool factor and the possibility of running the Angry Birds. Symptomatic to our age, the consumer age, where everything made for throwing away in order to generate false growth. Anyway, a completely open architecture would be enormous advance in our life time, but it must measure up to the currently existing technologies right away, or will phase out without a trace.
And what do you just think, why is Linux gaming in its infancy still? Think about it while you re-read your own post.
I remember when NVIDIA came to our gaming studio, trying to sell their shit, with the promise that they make our game work better with driver updates. Of course, for some money. That means anti-competition behaviour that is tolerated in the name of IP.
Yet, I can easily conceive of situations where seeing driver source code might reveal something about the underlying hardware.
That is still this stupid IP argument. If for instance the AMD can see how the underlying hardware works, then what? If there are people who are ready to reverse engineer software and make high resolution microscopic images of the chips, I would say that is an other chip manufacturer, like AMD anyway. So what if they see?
There's no excuse for keeping secrets no matter what you say. For people of the world the only beneficial way to run an economy where everybody is honest and do not hold back information. It is possible to make profit without keeping secrets, which means that secrecy is a criminal way to gain profits. Pure and simple.
That's the thing. They shouldn't. They should just fucking release the how-to for their bloody products. We would do the rest. But what they don't want is that customer made drivers would not have preferences for games against others and other anti-competition deals what they have now.