If Disney and Fox made cars, I wouldn't be permitted to open the hood and see how it works. I fear that if the DeCSS rulings end up in favor of media corporations, it'll set a precendent for future court cases on issues like this one posted here.
According to AI (the movie, not the technology), the machines that look good and are good in bed are saved. The old servants and cleaning machines will get melted by acid. Anything that satisfies our sexual needs come first. The rest are scrap metal. Personally, I just need one good-lookin' machine to cook, clean, and give good head. And I wonder why I'm not married...
Yes, the Sun guy did write on exactly this subject. He wrote a long and elaborate article, but people listened to it largely because it got published in a well-circulated magazine. If no one published it, no one would have gone searching for it and not many would have listened.
But psychosis and intelligence have no correlation. You can be stupid and psychotic (Son of Sam) or intelligent and psychotic (Hitler). Alan Turing, in his days, was considered crazy - homosexual and forcefully injected with hormones - and yet we still regard him as a genius.
Crushing Java may be partly their aim, but I don't think they see Java as a threat since it's been around for 5+ years and hasn't already become a huge pay-for-sevices platform. After all, the end goal of.net is for MS to have a steady stream of income from rented software and storage of personal information (hailstorm). It doesn't really matter what platforms.net runs on - to them the more the merrier - but that it takes off and allows them to charge for renting software over the internet, as well as charge people to access their personal info from any kind of net-aware device. MS could be satisfied running.net just on Windows, but having it run on Linux potentially means having it work on virtually all embedded systems (cell phone, PDAs, etc.). That just helps opens up the market their creating.
Along with the other comment about Win32 APIs versus kernel APIs, there's a very simple way to see there's hidden code. MSDN supposedly has all Win32 API calls documented. However, if you use a simple DLL viewer, including those supplied by MS to developers, you will find functions that are otherwise undocumented. Using non-MS tools, you can investigate DLLs for classes that are undocumented as well.
The functions and classes are there. But unless you look, you won't find them because MS, for whatever reason, won't document them.
The article clearly states that the I2 was (is being?) built from the start to be simpler than the current internet. It's a rebuild, not an upgrade. A replacement more than an enhancement. Cisco had to create new routers for it. The backbone uses completely new high-bandwidth wiring, which I suppose could be used on the current internet, but would be overkill. Most machines on the I2 have a direct connection to the backbone or a special high speed intermediary connection. These are different than the current direct connections to the internet. Please read the article before trolling.
There's a potentially simple solution to your very good point: page expiration. In a book store, you can browse around and you may spend a minute or two on a book here or there. There's no time limit (and now they invite you to sit down and read for free! Seems an insane business practice, but we pay for many books anyway).
What if you were browsing around the web, click on pages of crap, but are off within a minute each? You're not going to spend 10 minutes reading a page you think is crap (unless you're an idiot, but I don't know you that well yet...;) ). So what if pay-per-view pages "expired" after a minute, time depending on length? You go to it, it's crap, you go elsewhere. You stay long enough, the site flashes to another page that says you gotta cough up the dough. You pay, the page comes back with no expiration. You don't pay, the page keeps expiring for you immediately after you load it. Seems possible with today's technology.
I hereby own all patent rights to this idea (patent pending), assuming of course it works and is profitable.
the DVD application of the console's chip could be used for military purposes
Must be the extremely complex encryption code used in DVD players that the government's so worried about. What's the worst the Chinese military could use the DVD app for, showing training videos?
Your company's methods of licensing software seems very sound. Core components are open source while the end apps are closed for profit. That gives back to the community and allows outside developers to potentially create other apps with the same foundation as your own. My question is simple:
How do you plan on continually increasing your user base? Obviously there are many GNU/Linux users thirsty for solid end-user applications such as Kapital. But how do you plan on getting to current Windows users? Do you plan future ports of your apps? Or do you have an idea of how to get more Microsoft customers to move to Linux and use your apps (possibly a model others can follow)?
And Microsoft has little presence there, because most software runs on the antiquated mainframes with which the software came bundled.
Let's not forget there's a huge presence of mainframes in the US as well. A couple of years ago the mainframe market in the US started to pick up again. They're still the foundation of technology in our financial institutions. You use one every time you use a credit card. Not that I'm all for mainframes, but they have a history and they still have many uses.
Target those who this is aimed at, not the people who are actually trying to work at making the streets a little safer.
That's the most unbelievably shortsighted response I could imagine. Yes, let's put more people in jail for holding a chemical in their pocket. The majority of prisoners are now non-violent drug offenders. I don't believe posessing any substance should be illegal in the first place. So why would I want people constantly comparing my face with pictures of people known for posessing drugs? I don't carry them. But I don't want to be badgered by police for looking like someone they know carries around drugs.
And what you're missing is that this is only the beginning. Did you read or watch 1984? Yes, it's an extreme example. But it's a vision of what can happen after government starts watching everything you do. As another example, what if someone took pictures of all balding men walking down the street. Those pictures are compared to a database and a marketing department targets those people to be bombarded with advertising because they're balding.
How do you think opressive governments obtain and retain their power? Only through control of the population. Hitler used mass propaganda, Castro uses military force and propaganda. Big Brother will use technology to control thoughts on a personal level.
I have a constitutional right to be "secure in my persons." Well excuse this law-abiding and moral citizen for feeling insecure with 37 cameras facing him as we walks down the street.
My way is less secure, but far easier to remember. I randomly pick a decent length word from the dictionary. Some word that relates to nothing you would normally think of. Then I use synonyms or similar sounding words for other passwords. It's very easy to remember...
...and now that I think about it, it's educational as well! Damn, I should be really smart and use lots of complicated words in my posts, but I forget my old passwords, which probably makes for even better security.
From my experiences in the IT departments of non-computer-related companies in NYC, I typically see allocations of a few weeks of training per year, as long as it relates directly to an upcoming project. The companies I've worked for realize that it's cheaper and better for everyone if a few weeks of full-time training are allotted, rather than hiring new people with different skills as needed. It also keeps the employees far more loyal. I know more than just a few developers who chose jobs particularly because they would be sent to continual training as needed. I've only worked for financial institutions, however, so I can't speculate how a software company might react towards training requests.
Microsoft's strength is largely in its public relations machine. When they talk, the media listens. Craig Mundie's (and therefore Microsoft's) opinion of open source and their own related plans made industry journal headlines. I'd bet many business managers have learned about MS's "shared source" plans. But there's no consistantly loud (or heard) front made against MS statements. Execs hear "open source: bad, shared source: good" from MS, but don't hear other opinions.
Does IBM plan on investing more in the image of Linux and open source? Will there be strong defensive marketing against MS statements? Do you think a closer balance can be made between pro-Microsoft and pro-Linux marketing?
From my humble corporate experiences, I can definitely imagine Dell surpassing HP and Compaq in the services business. HP and Compaq seem to operate only for the quickest buck. Watch them quickly make changes to past decisions and also lack in customer support. Dell has always seemed to have a strong determination to keep its customers happy. Positive customer image and loyalty have been a large part of their success. It's much more important in the services business than the hardware business, so I think Dell has the right attitude to surpass HP and Compaq in this area.
Think about it: the
[dot]Net as world-wide resource.... Of course this would produce a network of homogenized, inoffensive, blase information, but probably lots of people already don't realize it's more than that.
Oh, you got me nervous... for a second I thought.NET was already in use around the globe... I broke out in a sweat for a second.
I'm not sure just how sarcastic that comment is to be taken, but partisanship is not the answer. Contact representatives - Republican, Democract, Republicrat, whatever - and voice your opinion. If one of your representatives is a democract and you disagree with him/her, contact him/her. I don't need to hear any new anti-democrat rhetoric spewing from republicans or vice-versa. Just voice your opinion... that's what counts.
"How does a hand-grenade explosion a few feet away from you motivate you if you've just been marching 16 hours in tremendous heat?" asked Dr. Barry G. Silverman, an engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
I'm not sure about the good doctor here, but I'm pretty damn sure how I'd be motivated. 16 or 36 hours of marching and I'd be motivated to run! I don't need to play Quake to help imagine how I'd feel.
Statements by MS should be qualified by stating that the open source model does not allow for commercial profitablity for software companies. I disagree with that statement, but that's a more accurate statement of what MS is trying to say.
Software companies are created specifically to make software for private and corporate customers. But most software developers (myself included) do not work for a software company. I write software for an investment firm. If creating and/or using open source software is not profitable for a software company, well I really don't care. The company which pays me will make exactly the same amount of money whether or not I create and/or use open source software. In fact, it would be FAR cheaper for them to use open source... but I digress.
My fear is that corporate execs hear what MS is saying as "Open source bad for profit" and think it applies to them. Well it may only apply to them if they are exclusively a software shop. Companies not specifically in the software industry, but who hire the most software developers and purchase the most software, should take MS' comments with a big grain of salt and really pay attention. I think MS is using the term company when they mean software company so they can spread more rhetoric and fear without directly lying.
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If Disney and Fox made cars, I wouldn't be permitted to open the hood and see how it works. I fear that if the DeCSS rulings end up in favor of media corporations, it'll set a precendent for future court cases on issues like this one posted here.
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This is why I won't go see any Disney movies... this and the baby deer and sailors they like to show dying in their movies.
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According to AI (the movie, not the technology), the machines that look good and are good in bed are saved. The old servants and cleaning machines will get melted by acid. Anything that satisfies our sexual needs come first. The rest are scrap metal. Personally, I just need one good-lookin' machine to cook, clean, and give good head. And I wonder why I'm not married...
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Yes, the Sun guy did write on exactly this subject. He wrote a long and elaborate article, but people listened to it largely because it got published in a well-circulated magazine. If no one published it, no one would have gone searching for it and not many would have listened.
But psychosis and intelligence have no correlation. You can be stupid and psychotic (Son of Sam) or intelligent and psychotic (Hitler). Alan Turing, in his days, was considered crazy - homosexual and forcefully injected with hormones - and yet we still regard him as a genius.
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Crushing Java may be partly their aim, but I don't think they see Java as a threat since it's been around for 5+ years and hasn't already become a huge pay-for-sevices platform. After all, the end goal of .net is for MS to have a steady stream of income from rented software and storage of personal information (hailstorm). It doesn't really matter what platforms .net runs on - to them the more the merrier - but that it takes off and allows them to charge for renting software over the internet, as well as charge people to access their personal info from any kind of net-aware device. MS could be satisfied running .net just on Windows, but having it run on Linux potentially means having it work on virtually all embedded systems (cell phone, PDAs, etc.). That just helps opens up the market their creating.
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Along with the other comment about Win32 APIs versus kernel APIs, there's a very simple way to see there's hidden code. MSDN supposedly has all Win32 API calls documented. However, if you use a simple DLL viewer, including those supplied by MS to developers, you will find functions that are otherwise undocumented. Using non-MS tools, you can investigate DLLs for classes that are undocumented as well.
The functions and classes are there. But unless you look, you won't find them because MS, for whatever reason, won't document them.
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The article clearly states that the I2 was (is being?) built from the start to be simpler than the current internet. It's a rebuild, not an upgrade. A replacement more than an enhancement. Cisco had to create new routers for it. The backbone uses completely new high-bandwidth wiring, which I suppose could be used on the current internet, but would be overkill. Most machines on the I2 have a direct connection to the backbone or a special high speed intermediary connection. These are different than the current direct connections to the internet. Please read the article before trolling.
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Ok, not directly, but some of the ads from doubleclick are activex objects, not animated gifs.
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There's a potentially simple solution to your very good point: page expiration. In a book store, you can browse around and you may spend a minute or two on a book here or there. There's no time limit (and now they invite you to sit down and read for free! Seems an insane business practice, but we pay for many books anyway).
;) ). So what if pay-per-view pages "expired" after a minute, time depending on length? You go to it, it's crap, you go elsewhere. You stay long enough, the site flashes to another page that says you gotta cough up the dough. You pay, the page comes back with no expiration. You don't pay, the page keeps expiring for you immediately after you load it. Seems possible with today's technology.
What if you were browsing around the web, click on pages of crap, but are off within a minute each? You're not going to spend 10 minutes reading a page you think is crap (unless you're an idiot, but I don't know you that well yet...
I hereby own all patent rights to this idea (patent pending), assuming of course it works and is profitable.
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Sorry, you can't use your one-click idea. That's already patented.
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the DVD application of the console's chip could be used for military purposes
Must be the extremely complex encryption code used in DVD players that the government's so worried about. What's the worst the Chinese military could use the DVD app for, showing training videos?
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Your company's methods of licensing software seems very sound. Core components are open source while the end apps are closed for profit. That gives back to the community and allows outside developers to potentially create other apps with the same foundation as your own. My question is simple:
How do you plan on continually increasing your user base? Obviously there are many GNU/Linux users thirsty for solid end-user applications such as Kapital. But how do you plan on getting to current Windows users? Do you plan future ports of your apps? Or do you have an idea of how to get more Microsoft customers to move to Linux and use your apps (possibly a model others can follow)?
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I would pay to see Barney take the stand in a court of law claiming defamation of character. "I love you, You love me... wait, why can't you love me?"
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Let's not forget there's a huge presence of mainframes in the US as well. A couple of years ago the mainframe market in the US started to pick up again. They're still the foundation of technology in our financial institutions. You use one every time you use a credit card. Not that I'm all for mainframes, but they have a history and they still have many uses.
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Target those who this is aimed at, not the people who are actually trying to work at making the streets a little safer.
That's the most unbelievably shortsighted response I could imagine. Yes, let's put more people in jail for holding a chemical in their pocket. The majority of prisoners are now non-violent drug offenders. I don't believe posessing any substance should be illegal in the first place. So why would I want people constantly comparing my face with pictures of people known for posessing drugs? I don't carry them. But I don't want to be badgered by police for looking like someone they know carries around drugs.
And what you're missing is that this is only the beginning. Did you read or watch 1984? Yes, it's an extreme example. But it's a vision of what can happen after government starts watching everything you do. As another example, what if someone took pictures of all balding men walking down the street. Those pictures are compared to a database and a marketing department targets those people to be bombarded with advertising because they're balding.
How do you think opressive governments obtain and retain their power? Only through control of the population. Hitler used mass propaganda, Castro uses military force and propaganda. Big Brother will use technology to control thoughts on a personal level.
I have a constitutional right to be "secure in my persons." Well excuse this law-abiding and moral citizen for feeling insecure with 37 cameras facing him as we walks down the street.
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My way is less secure, but far easier to remember. I randomly pick a decent length word from the dictionary. Some word that relates to nothing you would normally think of. Then I use synonyms or similar sounding words for other passwords. It's very easy to remember...
...and now that I think about it, it's educational as well! Damn, I should be really smart and use lots of complicated words in my posts, but I forget my old passwords, which probably makes for even better security.
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From my experiences in the IT departments of non-computer-related companies in NYC, I typically see allocations of a few weeks of training per year, as long as it relates directly to an upcoming project. The companies I've worked for realize that it's cheaper and better for everyone if a few weeks of full-time training are allotted, rather than hiring new people with different skills as needed. It also keeps the employees far more loyal. I know more than just a few developers who chose jobs particularly because they would be sent to continual training as needed. I've only worked for financial institutions, however, so I can't speculate how a software company might react towards training requests.
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Microsoft's strength is largely in its public relations machine. When they talk, the media listens. Craig Mundie's (and therefore Microsoft's) opinion of open source and their own related plans made industry journal headlines. I'd bet many business managers have learned about MS's "shared source" plans. But there's no consistantly loud (or heard) front made against MS statements. Execs hear "open source: bad, shared source: good" from MS, but don't hear other opinions.
Does IBM plan on investing more in the image of Linux and open source? Will there be strong defensive marketing against MS statements? Do you think a closer balance can be made between pro-Microsoft and pro-Linux marketing?
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From my humble corporate experiences, I can definitely imagine Dell surpassing HP and Compaq in the services business. HP and Compaq seem to operate only for the quickest buck. Watch them quickly make changes to past decisions and also lack in customer support. Dell has always seemed to have a strong determination to keep its customers happy. Positive customer image and loyalty have been a large part of their success. It's much more important in the services business than the hardware business, so I think Dell has the right attitude to surpass HP and Compaq in this area.
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Couldn't the same have been said about IBM 15-or-so years ago?
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I'm not sure just how sarcastic that comment is to be taken, but partisanship is not the answer. Contact representatives - Republican, Democract, Republicrat, whatever - and voice your opinion. If one of your representatives is a democract and you disagree with him/her, contact him/her. I don't need to hear any new anti-democrat rhetoric spewing from republicans or vice-versa. Just voice your opinion... that's what counts.
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"How does a hand-grenade explosion a few feet away from you motivate you if you've just been marching 16 hours in tremendous heat?" asked Dr. Barry G. Silverman, an engineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
I'm not sure about the good doctor here, but I'm pretty damn sure how I'd be motivated. 16 or 36 hours of marching and I'd be motivated to run! I don't need to play Quake to help imagine how I'd feel.
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Statements by MS should be qualified by stating that the open source model does not allow for commercial profitablity for software companies. I disagree with that statement, but that's a more accurate statement of what MS is trying to say.
Software companies are created specifically to make software for private and corporate customers. But most software developers (myself included) do not work for a software company. I write software for an investment firm. If creating and/or using open source software is not profitable for a software company, well I really don't care. The company which pays me will make exactly the same amount of money whether or not I create and/or use open source software. In fact, it would be FAR cheaper for them to use open source... but I digress.
My fear is that corporate execs hear what MS is saying as "Open source bad for profit" and think it applies to them. Well it may only apply to them if they are exclusively a software shop. Companies not specifically in the software industry, but who hire the most software developers and purchase the most software, should take MS' comments with a big grain of salt and really pay attention. I think MS is using the term company when they mean software company so they can spread more rhetoric and fear without directly lying.
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