Do you remember the I-Opener, the flagship device of the hardware hacking generation? The reason it was so popular to mod it was because you could spend 20$ on a hard drive and make a damn decent notbook computer out of the 99$ device.
Hardware hacking is here to take advantage of corporate stupidity and cheap devices resulting from it.
This is not a legit arguement! He says that we all don't want to get bored and points to enlightenment as proof. Does anybody else see this as idiotic?
Media is a big force now, so what? If we didn't want video and things like that, why even have a GUI? You can be more productive and encounter far fewer problems if you work at the console, but few do, because they want the pictures, they want the video, they want the media which makes it easier to understand the point (Imagine the difference between a picture of something and a text-only description of it). Graphics may be entertainment quite often, but are mostly tools, not toys.
A cell phone is a horrible design for sending long range signals. It's omnidirectional, pratically powerless, and not at an ideal frequency. If you wanted to send a signal to other worlds, you'd have no problems if you knew what to do. The single problem is the huge ammount of time it takes for a signal to get from one place to another.
Mind you I am speaking on technical merits only, ET is merely a human manifestation of the need for hope that there is something better out there. The new religion if you will.
Reminds me of a commercial here... "Car, Start... Car, To the airport, I 75... Car, hey wait for me...CAAAAAAARRRRRRR......"
Nice one, I'll remember that.
And the government will spend $1000 satisfying each public request to find out where the money was spent.
No, I didn't say that each person's request will be honored. Even under the FOIA the consumer must pay for the cost of retrieving the info. Besides, the price-tag is of no imporance, it is the weeding out of corruption which this will be a part of.
The dark ages will end and women will have the right to choose what they do with their bodies and the tumor growing within which was planted by some tool with a tool.
It takes two to tango. You are 100% at fault for that baby being concieved, just as you would be responisble for any disease you contracted from it. Women have a tendency to flush their kids down toilets (after they're born) and get arrested. What's thew difference before hand?
You call a baby a tumor because it can't support itself, but we have many adults that are crippled and cannot breathe on their own. You would be prosecuted for killing them. It's about damn time someone defended the defenseless unborn murdered masses. Abortion rivals (if not surpasses) the holocaust in terms of lives lost and the time-frame it was accomplished in.
And you assume this new format will take over the world? Lightning doesn't strike twice, they will try and fail just as all others have.
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Based on the MSNBC facts, IT does not exist. I assume some of the facts must be wrong, but that means it won't be very revolutionary then will it?
The story must be frought with misquotes, hype, and just a plain draw to decieve the media. Hell if Tom Green can say two words and get international attention anyone can make the media piss on themselves.
While CDs are dirt cheap, fast, and even Rewriteable, they have one huge obsticle that hasn't been overcome... You can't write to them without special programs. With a hard disk, your PC knows have to write to it natively, that's why you can run an OS off of it. It can write changes to disk, not to mention SWAP, TMP files, etc. With a CD, it's essentially Read-Only Media until the OS has booted and you are using the CD-Burning software to write to the CDs. This is a big problem that is keeping CDs from replacing floppies. The only reasons GAZ disks haven't taken over where the floppies left off is that they are too damn expensive. In other-words, we need a solution that is fast, infinitely rewriteable, compatible with the PC-BIOS 'write' interrupts, and of course, hi-capacity
Well, this may seems good for linux but if you thinking about saving disk space your and idiot! GNOME is very large as is, it's not going to fit on a floppy, or a handheld PC, etc. Besides, I don't see huge ammounts of support as framebuffer is a linux only project, other BSDs and free OSes don't even use FrameBuffer. It sounds like neat news, but it really doesn't have any killer app just yet. I always hear complaints about X, but I've not heard someone say they like framebuffer better!
What kind of idiot are you! You think they're going to be nice and heat the damn tunnel? The tunnel will be iced over if they don't maintain it, a bridge is no different. Besides, if they want to enclose the bridge fine, but if you want it underwater, everything must be air tight and the maintainance crews must check it out under freezing cold water, must repair it under freezing cold water, and will have a hell of a time when we have a decent sized earthquake here on the west coast. Bridges are designed to be flexible, a tube that holds up the FRIGGIN OCEAN must be ridgid.
That's not a very convincing argument, especially considering that hundreds of other corporations have want to, and done, the same thing. Why wouldn't apple just used the BSD or LGPL license? They are less restrictive than the GPL and are, again, time-tested.
Why are corps always making up new software licenses for their 'open-source' projects? Why not just use the proven GPL or BSD license with minor changes where necessary?
Well lets see, we want to connect two continents across the coldest portion of the world... 'Gee, lets go under the water...' Does this seem idiotic to anyone else? Why not build a suspension bridge overland rather than under? It would save a lot of money and be much less maintenance intensive.
You wanna know what's gonna happen in the future ? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! Sorry about that, I couldn't resist. Everything listed will happen within your lifetime (~50 years).
A great push will be made which will right away develop into cars that drive themselves. The push will be fulled by the fact that grown adults are too damn stupid to 'stay between the lines and not kill anybody'. Because human error will be taken out of the picture, speed limits will increase to about double what they are now (can't get it too fast or the cars physically won't be able to handle turns, bumps, potholes, etc).
The world will standardize on GMT time and no more timezones/daylight savings time.
The phone company will disintegrate, each house will have fiber-optics going to and from at least 3 surrounding homes, this serves as an outlet so every home can connect, and redundancy just in case one of the lines goes down. There will thus be no internet backbone as the lines make up the web. Our phones will be internet appliances, when someone wants to call you, they need your phone's IP address and your public-key.
Criminal cases will no longer be subject to jury decision, a panel of judges will decide. These judge's actions will be as public as the voting record of congress and judges will be prosecuted when they make a bad decision (i.e. O.J. would finally get a fair trial, and if not, the judges would face the music)
The budget of the US government will become public record. Every citizen will have the right to see every 500$ toilet seat and can ask for justification. Also, even penny of income to a public offical will be public record. This single measure will nutralize so much of the corruption among public officals you can't imagine.
Women's rights will go either way... Either women will have to register for the draft, fight in wars, and share bathrooms and locker rooms with men, or the oh-so-unequal rights they have now will be stopped (i.e. either women are drafted like the men or no women will be in the military at all, minor fair things like that)
Abortion will be outlawed, I don'tt say this as a hopeful advocate, but as someone who sees it's blatant condradiction with the right of life (you an have an abortion but only after a it is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death).
We will have a single, digital, world wide radio system. Satelites won't be involved at all (kinda like iridium) but each radio will rebroadcast the digital signal it recieves, therefore the more popular it becomes, the further reaching the broadcast will be (the people listening to the radio broadcast at the mouth of the tunnel will rebroadcast it so that everyone in the tunnel will have at least one good signal to lock on to).
HDTV will follow the model set by the digial radios listed above making the broadcasts essentially world wide)
While some things I've said affect the USA alone, the future will see the world shrinking. People in china will get the broadcasts from the USA so information will be censor-less if the government likes it or not. The world is changing, but not as drastically as some would have you believe. We won't have flying cars as they are economically wasteful since we have no shortage of groundspace (once automated cars take over there will be no traffic in LA or new york) Technology will not advance at a great rate, it never has, what will continue is murphy's law, electronics will continue to get faster, smaller and cheaper, but these are manufacturing advancements, not technological. More of the same with a few very neat changes, that's the forecast of the future, have a good millennia.
You are an idiot if you buy offline anyhow. Several times I was the second highest bidder in an auction and got emails from the sellers asking me to buy a similar item. I forwarded these emails to ebay and they did nothing... Great staff on hand don't you think?
If you buy through ebay you are covered if the seller is trying to scam you. If you buy something NOT through ebay you don't have the wonderful little insurance policy to protect your investment.
If you are willing to buy offline, you are just asking to be scammed!
is such an idiotic idea. What he wants is a battery backed hard drive buffer. Does that take 20 pages to explain? I have the same thing right now, I call it an UPS. It does the same thing without the slowdown of a PCI slot throughput and it doesn't cost a lot. So if you're reading this, I ask the question... Why battery back a buffer module and not the whole system? And this is only for production system... Home users would still need a JFS because they sure as hell don't want to pay for this shit! How many home users backup their systems period?
To all JFS developers, 'Nothin to see here, move along' with development.
Umm, try again. There was a big story when sun finalized it's JRE for embedded devices (specifically for cell phones) why don't you try presenting facts next time.
First, yes, my example was meant as a joke anyhow... Secondly, a gui is really not as hard to write in assembly as you might thing. quite a large chunk of the code can be reused. Instead of using C++ libraries, I cut and paste from my toolbox with similiar results, but it's still assembly and it's still going to use a fraction the memory and (if you are a proper programmer) will be astonishingly more stable. If speed/memory/stability is an issue, assemby is the only way to go...
Okay, you said there are reason to go with linux, but other than the GPL you haven't given me one...
You really can't say FreeBSD isn't as featureful because it can run linux binaries unmodified, and can compile source written with linux in mind without problems (assuming the right libaries are in place) You also mention firewalls/proxies but the fact is, FreeBSD does do a better, fast job as a firewall/proxy (in fact, that's the main use of freebsd) eventhough there aren't any versions that fit on a floppy that I know about.
I was just pointing out where the BSDs beat linux. They do just as Damn well in a linux side by side comparison. The single thing linux has that OpenBSD comes up short on is SMP. But! SMP is rarely needed (only on extremely high end machines) and if you want SMP, swap the OpenBSD kernel with the FreeBSD kernel and you've got the best of both worlds (or ABCD XYZ if you prefer)
You've been spouting Rhetoric again buddy...
The SINGLE OpenBSD exploit you mention is insanely rare. Besides, it's a root exploit only in the most perfect of conditions. You can't take the one OpenBSD exploit and compare that to the tons of Linux exploits comming out every day. Besides, FTPD is not enabled by default, you have to know what you are doing and go manually enable it.
You say Linux smokes FreeBSD but it's simply not true. If you've got SEVERAL RECENT benchmarks to prove it you go right ahead and link them...
As far a portablility, NetBSD is currently beign ported to the iPAQ handheld. Besides, what good is a huge, bloated linux OS on a handheld anyhow? Not that linux can't be small, just that it isn't and never has been thus far.
The only solid point you got was the GPL...
BSDs run on S/390s as well, and FreeBSD has the SMP support anyone would want. You're perfectly welcome to use FreeBSDs kernel with SMP support and stick that kernel in an otherwise completely OpenBSD system without major hurdles. I admit a distro is easier, but hey, it wasn't long ago that there was no linux/GNU distros period.
You really didn't answer anything... What I asked is WHY linux got the limelight in the first place. I understand companies go more to the popular platform rather than the 'superior' one, but how and why did linux get to be the press darling it is? There's always some technology that's caused the adoptation in the first place (i.e. beta had better picture quality, it only supported 1 hour of video on a tape, this technology gap was how VHS got the edge).
I guess my words are wasted on you...
When was the last time you heard of someone sueing a corp. that didn't hire them due to being overweight?
While that's not exactly an identical case, it is what's known as precident and will be followed by any judge.
Obesity is one example, there are millions more where a person's disability is held against them. Everything from anemia to being an amputee has been the cause of discrimination, and rarely does the disabled loose (Afterall, there are occasionally cases where the discrimination is false).
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Do you remember the I-Opener, the flagship device of the hardware hacking generation? The reason it was so popular to mod it was because you could spend 20$ on a hard drive and make a damn decent notbook computer out of the 99$ device.
Hardware hacking is here to take advantage of corporate stupidity and cheap devices resulting from it.
This is not a legit arguement! He says that we all don't want to get bored and points to enlightenment as proof. Does anybody else see this as idiotic?
Media is a big force now, so what? If we didn't want video and things like that, why even have a GUI? You can be more productive and encounter far fewer problems if you work at the console, but few do, because they want the pictures, they want the video, they want the media which makes it easier to understand the point (Imagine the difference between a picture of something and a text-only description of it). Graphics may be entertainment quite often, but are mostly tools, not toys.
People are having a hard enough time matching the name to the hole, if you throw a barcode in there all hell will break loose.
A cell phone is a horrible design for sending long range signals. It's omnidirectional, pratically powerless, and not at an ideal frequency. If you wanted to send a signal to other worlds, you'd have no problems if you knew what to do. The single problem is the huge ammount of time it takes for a signal to get from one place to another.
Mind you I am speaking on technical merits only, ET is merely a human manifestation of the need for hope that there is something better out there. The new religion if you will.
Nice one, I'll remember that.
And the government will spend $1000 satisfying each public request to find out where the money was spent.
No, I didn't say that each person's request will be honored. Even under the FOIA the consumer must pay for the cost of retrieving the info. Besides, the price-tag is of no imporance, it is the weeding out of corruption which this will be a part of.
The dark ages will end and women will have the right to choose what they do with their bodies and the tumor growing within which was planted by some tool with a tool.
It takes two to tango. You are 100% at fault for that baby being concieved, just as you would be responisble for any disease you contracted from it. Women have a tendency to flush their kids down toilets (after they're born) and get arrested. What's thew difference before hand?
You call a baby a tumor because it can't support itself, but we have many adults that are crippled and cannot breathe on their own. You would be prosecuted for killing them. It's about damn time someone defended the defenseless unborn murdered masses. Abortion rivals (if not surpasses) the holocaust in terms of lives lost and the time-frame it was accomplished in.
And you assume this new format will take over the world? Lightning doesn't strike twice, they will try and fail just as all others have.
Based on the MSNBC facts, IT does not exist. I assume some of the facts must be wrong, but that means it won't be very revolutionary then will it?
The story must be frought with misquotes, hype, and just a plain draw to decieve the media. Hell if Tom Green can say two words and get international attention anyone can make the media piss on themselves.
While CDs are dirt cheap, fast, and even Rewriteable, they have one huge obsticle that hasn't been overcome... You can't write to them without special programs. With a hard disk, your PC knows have to write to it natively, that's why you can run an OS off of it. It can write changes to disk, not to mention SWAP, TMP files, etc. With a CD, it's essentially Read-Only Media until the OS has booted and you are using the CD-Burning software to write to the CDs. This is a big problem that is keeping CDs from replacing floppies. The only reasons GAZ disks haven't taken over where the floppies left off is that they are too damn expensive. In other-words, we need a solution that is fast, infinitely rewriteable, compatible with the PC-BIOS 'write' interrupts, and of course, hi-capacity
Well, this may seems good for linux but if you thinking about saving disk space your and idiot! GNOME is very large as is, it's not going to fit on a floppy, or a handheld PC, etc. Besides, I don't see huge ammounts of support as framebuffer is a linux only project, other BSDs and free OSes don't even use FrameBuffer. It sounds like neat news, but it really doesn't have any killer app just yet. I always hear complaints about X, but I've not heard someone say they like framebuffer better!
What kind of idiot are you! You think they're going to be nice and heat the damn tunnel? The tunnel will be iced over if they don't maintain it, a bridge is no different. Besides, if they want to enclose the bridge fine, but if you want it underwater, everything must be air tight and the maintainance crews must check it out under freezing cold water, must repair it under freezing cold water, and will have a hell of a time when we have a decent sized earthquake here on the west coast. Bridges are designed to be flexible, a tube that holds up the FRIGGIN OCEAN must be ridgid.
That's not a very convincing argument, especially considering that hundreds of other corporations have want to, and done, the same thing. Why wouldn't apple just used the BSD or LGPL license? They are less restrictive than the GPL and are, again, time-tested.
Why are corps always making up new software licenses for their 'open-source' projects? Why not just use the proven GPL or BSD license with minor changes where necessary?
No, the SPRINT TOS doesn't violate the bill of rights or the constitution, but it does indeed violate several fderal laws.
Well lets see, we want to connect two continents across the coldest portion of the world... 'Gee, lets go under the water...' Does this seem idiotic to anyone else? Why not build a suspension bridge overland rather than under? It would save a lot of money and be much less maintenance intensive.
You wanna know what's gonna happen in the future ? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! Sorry about that, I couldn't resist. Everything listed will happen within your lifetime (~50 years).
A great push will be made which will right away develop into cars that drive themselves. The push will be fulled by the fact that grown adults are too damn stupid to 'stay between the lines and not kill anybody'. Because human error will be taken out of the picture, speed limits will increase to about double what they are now (can't get it too fast or the cars physically won't be able to handle turns, bumps, potholes, etc).
The world will standardize on GMT time and no more timezones/daylight savings time.
The phone company will disintegrate, each house will have fiber-optics going to and from at least 3 surrounding homes, this serves as an outlet so every home can connect, and redundancy just in case one of the lines goes down. There will thus be no internet backbone as the lines make up the web. Our phones will be internet appliances, when someone wants to call you, they need your phone's IP address and your public-key.
Criminal cases will no longer be subject to jury decision, a panel of judges will decide. These judge's actions will be as public as the voting record of congress and judges will be prosecuted when they make a bad decision (i.e. O.J. would finally get a fair trial, and if not, the judges would face the music)
The budget of the US government will become public record. Every citizen will have the right to see every 500$ toilet seat and can ask for justification. Also, even penny of income to a public offical will be public record. This single measure will nutralize so much of the corruption among public officals you can't imagine.
Women's rights will go either way... Either women will have to register for the draft, fight in wars, and share bathrooms and locker rooms with men, or the oh-so-unequal rights they have now will be stopped (i.e. either women are drafted like the men or no women will be in the military at all, minor fair things like that)
Abortion will be outlawed, I don'tt say this as a hopeful advocate, but as someone who sees it's blatant condradiction with the right of life (you an have an abortion but only after a it is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death).
We will have a single, digital, world wide radio system. Satelites won't be involved at all (kinda like iridium) but each radio will rebroadcast the digital signal it recieves, therefore the more popular it becomes, the further reaching the broadcast will be (the people listening to the radio broadcast at the mouth of the tunnel will rebroadcast it so that everyone in the tunnel will have at least one good signal to lock on to).
HDTV will follow the model set by the digial radios listed above making the broadcasts essentially world wide)
While some things I've said affect the USA alone, the future will see the world shrinking. People in china will get the broadcasts from the USA so information will be censor-less if the government likes it or not. The world is changing, but not as drastically as some would have you believe. We won't have flying cars as they are economically wasteful since we have no shortage of groundspace (once automated cars take over there will be no traffic in LA or new york) Technology will not advance at a great rate, it never has, what will continue is murphy's law, electronics will continue to get faster, smaller and cheaper, but these are manufacturing advancements, not technological. More of the same with a few very neat changes, that's the forecast of the future, have a good millennia.
You are an idiot if you buy offline anyhow. Several times I was the second highest bidder in an auction and got emails from the sellers asking me to buy a similar item. I forwarded these emails to ebay and they did nothing... Great staff on hand don't you think?
If you buy through ebay you are covered if the seller is trying to scam you. If you buy something NOT through ebay you don't have the wonderful little insurance policy to protect your investment.
If you are willing to buy offline, you are just asking to be scammed!
is such an idiotic idea. What he wants is a battery backed hard drive buffer. Does that take 20 pages to explain? I have the same thing right now, I call it an UPS. It does the same thing without the slowdown of a PCI slot throughput and it doesn't cost a lot. So if you're reading this, I ask the question... Why battery back a buffer module and not the whole system? And this is only for production system... Home users would still need a JFS because they sure as hell don't want to pay for this shit! How many home users backup their systems period?
To all JFS developers, 'Nothin to see here, move along' with development.
Umm, try again. There was a big story when sun finalized it's JRE for embedded devices (specifically for cell phones) why don't you try presenting facts next time.
First, yes, my example was meant as a joke anyhow... Secondly, a gui is really not as hard to write in assembly as you might thing. quite a large chunk of the code can be reused. Instead of using C++ libraries, I cut and paste from my toolbox with similiar results, but it's still assembly and it's still going to use a fraction the memory and (if you are a proper programmer) will be astonishingly more stable. If speed/memory/stability is an issue, assemby is the only way to go...
Okay, you said there are reason to go with linux, but other than the GPL you haven't given me one...
You really can't say FreeBSD isn't as featureful because it can run linux binaries unmodified, and can compile source written with linux in mind without problems (assuming the right libaries are in place) You also mention firewalls/proxies but the fact is, FreeBSD does do a better, fast job as a firewall/proxy (in fact, that's the main use of freebsd) eventhough there aren't any versions that fit on a floppy that I know about.
I was just pointing out where the BSDs beat linux. They do just as Damn well in a linux side by side comparison. The single thing linux has that OpenBSD comes up short on is SMP. But! SMP is rarely needed (only on extremely high end machines) and if you want SMP, swap the OpenBSD kernel with the FreeBSD kernel and you've got the best of both worlds (or ABCD XYZ if you prefer)
You've been spouting Rhetoric again buddy... The SINGLE OpenBSD exploit you mention is insanely rare. Besides, it's a root exploit only in the most perfect of conditions. You can't take the one OpenBSD exploit and compare that to the tons of Linux exploits comming out every day. Besides, FTPD is not enabled by default, you have to know what you are doing and go manually enable it. You say Linux smokes FreeBSD but it's simply not true. If you've got SEVERAL RECENT benchmarks to prove it you go right ahead and link them... As far a portablility, NetBSD is currently beign ported to the iPAQ handheld. Besides, what good is a huge, bloated linux OS on a handheld anyhow? Not that linux can't be small, just that it isn't and never has been thus far.
The only solid point you got was the GPL... BSDs run on S/390s as well, and FreeBSD has the SMP support anyone would want. You're perfectly welcome to use FreeBSDs kernel with SMP support and stick that kernel in an otherwise completely OpenBSD system without major hurdles. I admit a distro is easier, but hey, it wasn't long ago that there was no linux/GNU distros period.
You really didn't answer anything... What I asked is WHY linux got the limelight in the first place. I understand companies go more to the popular platform rather than the 'superior' one, but how and why did linux get to be the press darling it is? There's always some technology that's caused the adoptation in the first place (i.e. beta had better picture quality, it only supported 1 hour of video on a tape, this technology gap was how VHS got the edge).
I guess my words are wasted on you...
When was the last time you heard of someone sueing a corp. that didn't hire them due to being overweight?
While that's not exactly an identical case, it is what's known as precident and will be followed by any judge.
Obesity is one example, there are millions more where a person's disability is held against them. Everything from anemia to being an amputee has been the cause of discrimination, and rarely does the disabled loose (Afterall, there are occasionally cases where the discrimination is false).