Money is power. Power corrupts. Ethical behavior is incompatible with the pursuit of profit. This is the essence of the old adage "Money is the root of all evil." Think about this very carefully while you consider what values of your own are compromised because you're a slave to your paycheck. Now multiply and amplify that ad infinitum.
Please read this twice if you feel the need to refute anything herein.
YES!! I AM AVERSE TO CHANGE! Wanna know why? Because computers and software are not shoes. They're tools. If I wanted my tools to change, then I would be very accepting of not being able to find the handle on my new crescent wrench or how to use my new swingless nail driver (hammer).
I want my hardware and software to work day in and day out in the familiar comfortable way I am used to with improvements to those specific patterns. I want it to be predictable and reliable. Gradual, well-planned and NEEDED change is good. Change for the sake of change is not, and I think that's what we have way too much of today.
I don't have a 'windows' key. I have a 101-key keyboard that I've been using for over 18 years. Except once. I received a 112 key keyboard at work. Now, you see, I don't 'touch type'. Started working with computers when I was about 12 (in 1980). I always hit the space bar with my right thumb.. on the end.. where the Alt key is on a 112 key keyboard. So I tried the new keyboard, and as a domain admin + software dev, I started typing something and hit space (oops! That was Alt). I just kept typing the next few keystrokes into the menu and nearly deleted a domain.
To end this story, that 112 key keyboard was promptly unplugged and discarded. I have a box of Compaq RT101 keyboards that should last me the rest of my life as long as I can connect them. My fingers also expect a physical gap between the Ctrl and Alt keys, so it is even more of a nuisance to use a keyboard with 'Billy Gates' keys, or what I call 'Billy Keys'.
Makes me a little concerned about what I might need to do if ever I have to use Win8. Hopefully, all this Win8 Metro stuff will have blown over before I have to be concerned about it. I haven't heard anybody raving about how cool Metro is or how much they like the new look of Visual Studio 2012, so I am thinking it isn't going to last.
The government must fear pissing off its citizens. Guns are power. Do you want only the military and the police to have power? Society works best when all types of power are distributed and not concentrated in just a few areas or restricted to just a few people or groups.
I sure wouldn't want the government or military to be able to turn off our weapons, and I sure don't support laws that say only the military and police can have the most powerful weapons. That puts the balance of power away from the people.
How much are the people whose salaries our tax dollars pay costing us to spend their resource going after this guy for a 40-yr old camera? This is important enough that it has gotten to the top of someone's list of things to do? And we have to pay for it?
... in a vacuum. they must have employees and there must be some folks around here that work for them and are (possibly) closer to the top of the food chain.
If you work for PayPal.. care to explain why I can't just call up a person on an 800 number like I can my regular bank and have that person take care of whatever?
Can someone who works there explain any of the info here?
Why? Why would it do anything more than incite a few unhappy folks to burn some bibles and/or some effigies of Mr. Jones?
Are these folks so incredibly insecure and violent that they will kill people over a simple book burning? To me, that in itself is the point of this: to emphasize how ridiculously out of proportion the reaction is and to make anyone who would even THINK of killing someone for burning a book look even more stupid than the book burner.
I seriously doubt that Mr. Jones will kill anyone he hears of burning effigies in his image or burning bibles as a rebuttal.
The original poster is entitled to their opinion, even though it is the wrong one. I create a lot of content, and I give it away too. These are HD videos that I shoot with a Sony HDR-AX2000 ($3500 camera) and stills that I shoot with a Canon EOS-7D (another pricey piece of photographic equipment). Because my material gets exposure from me giving it away, I have gotten more paid work offers than I can possibly manage. I've done magazine covers, full portfolios, and just fun (pro-bono) stuff. People who see my work often times ask to buy prints. I give them a CD with their prints. They can copy it all they want. If there is video of the event, I put that on the CD too.
Why? What advantage does Sony get from this action? It costs them money to do this and it alienates some (many? few?) of their customers. How can this increase their profit or give them a business advantage? I may just be not seeing the forest here... so, please enlighten.
If someone is using a comma as a decimal point, what is used for a comma? Does such a person simply eschew the use of commas to separate thousands?
I'm not nearly as concerned WHAT the standard is, just that there would be a single standard and everyone would follow it for stuff like this, and for the exact reason we see here. Sometimes a single standard is a good idea. In this case, I believe it would be an especially good idea.
Thanks everyone. I did know that it wasn't straight interpreted but rather JIT compiled. Mentally I still just separate static/native compiled versus not.
The shocker for me (thanks for the wiki, abigor) is that a really good JIT compiler can often outrun a good static-compiled program. I'd never have thought that possible.
Please explain why 'Java services' are a good idea? I don't mean to disrespect Java.. but my understanding is that it is not compiled to native code. If I really want something like a service, don't I want it to be as efficient and spanky fast as it can be? Don't I want it running in native machine language? I see so much being done these days with 'interpreters' (.Net CLR, Java, Flash, Python, Perl) and I wonder how good the interpreters REALLY are and how they would fair against native code? I come from an assembler background so it's difficult for me to appreciate how giving up the efficiency of native code is a good idea for something like a service, especially in a small portable platform where resources may not be abundant? Do people ever compile Java to native code?
Sounds to me like Palm is way out of touch with their market. How do you get a company like this to pay more attention to their users?
I have 3 Palm Tungsten|C devices (2 in storage for when this one breaks). I had always hoped that Palm would come out with a device that included:
Graffiti (able to use Graffiti I) Wifi with ability to change software/drivers Cellular voice/data with SIM card GPS receiver that can be readily used by any app Bluetooth IR I/O with stronger output and no cpu-specific hooks Stereo sound Built-in mic
Here's to wishful thinking. Cheers. If anyone knows of such a device that would run my (about 160) Palm OS 5x programs, please let me know.
I _already_ had to disclose ALL this stuff in order to get individual (not group) health insurance - so they ALREADY know all of it.
Group health insurance is not allowed to bar entry for any pre-existing condition.
Are you (or anyone else) trying to tell me that they aren't denying me group health insurance because they don't know my medical history when I sign up for benefits with an employer? My guess is they already know whatever they want to. Since they can't deny me, the just don't bother to run it all through underwriting.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not _for_ this.. I'm just not nearly as pissed about this as I am about (many) other things.
Power to anyone that can push a 1080p monitor to it's 1080p limit with a $300 htpc.
The struggle is now that we have the massive HD screen, we yearn for 100% 1080p content or as close to it as we can get. Hence an htpc that has 3 HD tuners, BluRay drives and a BlackMagic Intensity Pro with some (other hardware) which itself costs about $300 and knocks hdpc on it's stupid little ass.
I have bad feet, bad eyes, bad ears, a bad liver, and a bad kidney. Why does that need to be a secret? What are the disadvantages to me of the whole world knowing that (why it would want to is beyond me)?
Maybe if the government knew more accurately the degree to which different types of ailments afflict folks, they would spur more R&D (homeopathic therapy, stem cell and gene therapy.. etc).
Uh... I thought Google just launched one or more of their own satellites? Am I mistaken?
If I am remembering this right and they have their own new satellites, when are we (ever) going to see new/recent imagery? I've been waiting ever since I read (hallucinated?) about Google launching their own satellites. What's up with that, anyway?
Seriously, if they do anything near what they say, the world is about to be changed. Couple the vaporware of eeStor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor) with the existing products of www.nanosolar.com, and bye-bye base load and bye-bye distributed power grids.
Since Zenn (www.zenncars.com) auto has the exclusive license on the eeStor technology for automobiles, look to them to obsolete fossil-based portable fuels as well.
Good entertainment has always been about the story, but I believe Star Trek also has to be futuristic in a high-minded sort of way.
As a lifetime fan (been watching since NBC carried ToS), I am interested in seeing some of the intrigue pan out.
Specifically:
What about the Crystalline Entity? Other members of this species. Where is it now?
Speaking of species, how about Species 8472?
What ever happened to Wesley and the traveller? Where are they now?
Data/Lore? Dare I mention the Borg?
Q? I sure have missed John de Lancie.
What about Warp 10 and Tom Paris' ground-breaking work there?
What about the time-traveling Federation that gave 'The Doctor' his portable holo-emitter? I sure would like to see THAT Federation!!
The point is that there is so much fodder for a good story - something that could easily by filled in for newcomers, that I don't understand why all this is being ignored (example: Nemesis and this new one which I don't think I even want to see).
What I've seen since 'First Contact' has been just plain depressing.
Because my 2 CPU quad core 3 GHz machine with 8 GB of DDR and dual SLI GeForce BGX 1024 MB 8800GTX is pretty screamin' fast. I can pretty much play anything I want on it and I can emulate consoles.
When the console can emulate other consoles, let me know. I can also burn DVD while compiling code while recording TV and play Half Life 2 at the SAME TIME - and what's more, I can play at 2560 x 1600 on my $1,000 monitor without spending $$$ for an HDTV plasma (much less Mitsubishi LaserVue) screen that can't do even half that resolution.
I hope not being a lawyer doesn't somehow cloud my ability to reason this one out. I just can't see how/why unilaterally blocking traffic is in Sprint's best interest?
Thanks in advance to any replies from folks whose minds aren't all cramped up today like mine.
No. A thousand zillion times no. If you make the Internet a place where people can isolate themselves, then it's no longer an Internet. That's what private networks are for.
The Internet works because it is all based on standards. Standard naming, standard language (English like it or not), standard protocols.
Once you make concessions for non-standard this and that, you encourage segmentation and segregation.
Am I the only person left who thinks that.com,.org,.net,.gov,.mil, and.edu are the only TLDs we should have along with country TLDs like.uk.com etc?
How could an IP address be laying? How does an IP address lay anything? Do they lay bricks? Are they hoping to GET layed? Did one of these lying addresses lay you upside the head?
If you're going to wax pedantic, first try being right.
Excellent insight, but I think the medium is too expensive and 'klunky' for software delivery. I'm afraid the hard disk drive that consumes electricity and has a motor is the 8" floppy disk of the 21st century.
With 2-sided, dual layey DVDs and ever increasing capacity/density in that type of media, I think the mechanical hard disk will just fizzle out. If a need to send 60GB (or more) of code for a software deliverry, sending a few high-density DVDs will be more cost effective.
I do think that you will see the HDD as an archiving medium. I'm already doing that because it seems a good way to store a few terabytes of video and image data offline. My only concern is shelf-life. I'd hate to go plug in my 320GB external drive to look at video and pictures from my trip to Yosemite 5 years from now and get "Read failure: sector not found"
I already have experienced media degradation (read: unreadable CD-ROM) from blue-dye CD-ROMs I burned in 1997/98 and stored correcty never scratched, etc.
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Money is power. Power corrupts. Ethical behavior is incompatible with the pursuit of profit. This is the essence of the old adage "Money is the root of all evil." Think about this very carefully while you consider what values of your own are compromised because you're a slave to your paycheck. Now multiply and amplify that ad infinitum.
Please read this twice if you feel the need to refute anything herein.
YES!! I AM AVERSE TO CHANGE! Wanna know why? Because computers and software are not shoes. They're tools. If I wanted my tools to change, then I would be very accepting of not being able to find the handle on my new crescent wrench or how to use my new swingless nail driver (hammer).
I want my hardware and software to work day in and day out in the familiar comfortable way I am used to with improvements to those specific patterns. I want it to be predictable and reliable. Gradual, well-planned and NEEDED change is good. Change for the sake of change is not, and I think that's what we have way too much of today.
Save the change for hairdos and wardrobes.
I don't have a 'windows' key. I have a 101-key keyboard that I've been using for over 18 years. Except once. I received a 112 key keyboard at work. Now, you see, I don't 'touch type'. Started working with computers when I was about 12 (in 1980). I always hit the space bar with my right thumb.. on the end.. where the Alt key is on a 112 key keyboard. So I tried the new keyboard, and as a domain admin + software dev, I started typing something and hit space (oops! That was Alt). I just kept typing the next few keystrokes into the menu and nearly deleted a domain.
To end this story, that 112 key keyboard was promptly unplugged and discarded. I have a box of Compaq RT101 keyboards that should last me the rest of my life as long as I can connect them. My fingers also expect a physical gap between the Ctrl and Alt keys, so it is even more of a nuisance to use a keyboard with 'Billy Gates' keys, or what I call 'Billy Keys'.
Makes me a little concerned about what I might need to do if ever I have to use Win8. Hopefully, all this Win8 Metro stuff will have blown over before I have to be concerned about it. I haven't heard anybody raving about how cool Metro is or how much they like the new look of Visual Studio 2012, so I am thinking it isn't going to last.
Nope. I don't think they fear us at all. But if we could legally own the same kind of weapons and 'destructive' devices, they might.
The government must fear pissing off its citizens. Guns are power. Do you want only the military and the police to have power? Society works best when all types of power are distributed and not concentrated in just a few areas or restricted to just a few people or groups.
I sure wouldn't want the government or military to be able to turn off our weapons, and I sure don't support laws that say only the military and police can have the most powerful weapons. That puts the balance of power away from the people.
How much are the people whose salaries our tax dollars pay costing us to spend their resource going after this guy for a 40-yr old camera? This is important enough that it has gotten to the top of someone's list of things to do? And we have to pay for it?
Exactly who does this help and how?
... in a vacuum. they must have employees and there must be some folks around here that work for them and are (possibly) closer to the top of the food chain.
If you work for PayPal.. care to explain why I can't just call up a person on an 800 number like I can my regular bank and have that person take care of whatever?
Can someone who works there explain any of the info here?
Why? Why would it do anything more than incite a few unhappy folks to burn some bibles and/or some effigies of Mr. Jones?
Are these folks so incredibly insecure and violent that they will kill people over a simple book burning? To me, that in itself is the point of this: to emphasize how ridiculously out of proportion the reaction is and to make anyone who would even THINK of killing someone for burning a book look even more stupid than the book burner.
I seriously doubt that Mr. Jones will kill anyone he hears of burning effigies in his image or burning bibles as a rebuttal.
The original poster is entitled to their opinion, even though it is the wrong one. I create a lot of content, and I give it away too. These are HD videos that I shoot with a Sony HDR-AX2000 ($3500 camera) and stills that I shoot with a Canon EOS-7D (another pricey piece of photographic equipment). Because my material gets exposure from me giving it away, I have gotten more paid work offers than I can possibly manage. I've done magazine covers, full portfolios, and just fun (pro-bono) stuff. People who see my work often times ask to buy prints. I give them a CD with their prints. They can copy it all they want. If there is video of the event, I put that on the CD too.
Why? What advantage does Sony get from this action? It costs them money to do this and it alienates some (many? few?) of their customers. How can this increase their profit or give them a business advantage? I may just be not seeing the forest here... so, please enlighten.
If someone is using a comma as a decimal point, what is used for a comma? Does such a person simply eschew the use of commas to separate thousands?
I'm not nearly as concerned WHAT the standard is, just that there would be a single standard and everyone would follow it for stuff like this, and for the exact reason we see here. Sometimes a single standard is a good idea. In this case, I believe it would be an especially good idea.
Thanks everyone. I did know that it wasn't straight interpreted but rather JIT compiled. Mentally I still just separate static/native compiled versus not.
The shocker for me (thanks for the wiki, abigor) is that a really good JIT compiler can often outrun a good static-compiled program. I'd never have thought that possible.
Please explain why 'Java services' are a good idea? I don't mean to disrespect Java.. but my understanding is that it is not compiled to native code. If I really want something like a service, don't I want it to be as efficient and spanky fast as it can be? Don't I want it running in native machine language? I see so much being done these days with 'interpreters' (.Net CLR, Java, Flash, Python, Perl) and I wonder how good the interpreters REALLY are and how they would fair against native code? I come from an assembler background so it's difficult for me to appreciate how giving up the efficiency of native code is a good idea for something like a service, especially in a small portable platform where resources may not be abundant? Do people ever compile Java to native code?
Sounds to me like Palm is way out of touch with their market. How do you get a company like this to pay more attention to their users?
I have 3 Palm Tungsten|C devices (2 in storage for when this one breaks). I had always hoped that Palm would come out with a device that included:
Graffiti (able to use Graffiti I)
Wifi with ability to change software/drivers
Cellular voice/data with SIM card
GPS receiver that can be readily used by any app
Bluetooth
IR I/O with stronger output and no cpu-specific hooks
Stereo sound
Built-in mic
Here's to wishful thinking. Cheers. If anyone knows of such a device that would run my (about 160) Palm OS 5x programs, please let me know.
I _already_ had to disclose ALL this stuff in order to get individual (not group) health insurance - so they ALREADY know all of it.
Group health insurance is not allowed to bar entry for any pre-existing condition.
Are you (or anyone else) trying to tell me that they aren't denying me group health insurance because they don't know my medical history when I sign up for benefits with an employer? My guess is they already know whatever they want to. Since they can't deny me, the just don't bother to run it all through underwriting.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not _for_ this.. I'm just not nearly as pissed about this as I am about (many) other things.
Vortran out
High Definition
Power to anyone that can push a 1080p monitor to it's 1080p limit with a $300 htpc.
The struggle is now that we have the massive HD screen, we yearn for 100% 1080p content or as close to it as we can get. Hence an htpc that has 3 HD tuners, BluRay drives and a BlackMagic Intensity Pro with some (other hardware) which itself costs about $300 and knocks hdpc on it's stupid little ass.
Vortran out
Because I don't know why it needs to be a secret.
I have bad feet, bad eyes, bad ears, a bad liver, and a bad kidney. Why does that need to be a secret? What are the disadvantages to me of the whole world knowing that (why it would want to is beyond me)?
Maybe if the government knew more accurately the degree to which different types of ailments afflict folks, they would spur more R&D (homeopathic therapy, stem cell and gene therapy.. etc).
Vortran out
Uh... I thought Google just launched one or more of their own satellites? Am I mistaken?
If I am remembering this right and they have their own new satellites, when are we (ever) going to see new/recent imagery? I've been waiting ever since I read (hallucinated?) about Google launching their own satellites. What's up with that, anyway?
Vortran out
to put up or shut up already?
Seriously, if they do anything near what they say, the world is about to be changed. Couple the vaporware of eeStor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor) with the existing products of www.nanosolar.com, and bye-bye base load and bye-bye distributed power grids.
Since Zenn (www.zenncars.com) auto has the exclusive license on the eeStor technology for automobiles, look to them to obsolete fossil-based portable fuels as well.
Am I dreaming? Please tell me no.
Vortran out
Good entertainment has always been about the story, but I believe Star Trek also has to be futuristic in a high-minded sort of way.
As a lifetime fan (been watching since NBC carried ToS), I am interested in seeing some of the intrigue pan out.
Specifically:
What about the Crystalline Entity? Other members of this species. Where is it now?
Speaking of species, how about Species 8472?
What ever happened to Wesley and the traveller? Where are they now?
Data/Lore? Dare I mention the Borg?
Q? I sure have missed John de Lancie.
What about Warp 10 and Tom Paris' ground-breaking work there?
What about the time-traveling Federation that gave 'The Doctor' his portable holo-emitter? I sure would like to see THAT Federation!!
The point is that there is so much fodder for a good story - something that could easily by filled in for newcomers, that I don't understand why all this is being ignored (example: Nemesis and this new one which I don't think I even want to see).
What I've seen since 'First Contact' has been just plain depressing.
Vortran out
Because my 2 CPU quad core 3 GHz machine with 8 GB of DDR and dual SLI GeForce BGX 1024 MB 8800GTX is pretty screamin' fast. I can pretty much play anything I want on it and I can emulate consoles.
When the console can emulate other consoles, let me know. I can also burn DVD while compiling code while recording TV and play Half Life 2 at the SAME TIME - and what's more, I can play at 2560 x 1600 on my $1,000 monitor without spending $$$ for an HDTV plasma (much less Mitsubishi LaserVue) screen that can't do even half that resolution.
Vortran Out
Sprint? Much less any of their customers?
I hope not being a lawyer doesn't somehow cloud my ability to reason this one out. I just can't see how/why unilaterally blocking traffic is in Sprint's best interest?
Thanks in advance to any replies from folks whose minds aren't all cramped up today like mine.
Vortran out
No. A thousand zillion times no. If you make the Internet a place where people can isolate themselves, then it's no longer an Internet. That's what private networks are for.
The Internet works because it is all based on standards. Standard naming, standard language (English like it or not), standard protocols.
Once you make concessions for non-standard this and that, you encourage segmentation and segregation.
Am I the only person left who thinks that .com, .org, .net, .gov, .mil, and .edu are the only TLDs we should have along with country TLDs like .uk.com etc?
Please someone make the insanity stop!
Vortran out
How could an IP address be laying? How does an IP address lay anything? Do they lay bricks? Are they hoping to GET layed? Did one of these lying addresses lay you upside the head?
If you're going to wax pedantic, first try being right.
Excellent insight, but I think the medium is too expensive and 'klunky' for software delivery. I'm afraid the hard disk drive that consumes electricity and has a motor is the 8" floppy disk of the 21st century.
With 2-sided, dual layey DVDs and ever increasing capacity/density in that type of media, I think the mechanical hard disk will just fizzle out. If a need to send 60GB (or more) of code for a software deliverry, sending a few high-density DVDs will be more cost effective.
I do think that you will see the HDD as an archiving medium. I'm already doing that because it seems a good way to store a few terabytes of video and image data offline. My only concern is shelf-life. I'd hate to go plug in my 320GB external drive to look at video and pictures from my trip to Yosemite 5 years from now and get "Read failure: sector not found"
I already have experienced media degradation (read: unreadable CD-ROM) from blue-dye CD-ROMs I burned in 1997/98 and stored correcty never scratched, etc.