Microsoft seems blinded by greed, as so many that have gone before. They don't NEED to tighten the thumbscrews on corporate america. Corporate America has their checkbooks open and their pens dripping with ink for Microsoft.
All Microsoft has to do is provide excellent quality, stable products and top-notch service and support. There is NO better way to maintain the undying loyalty and servitude of your customers. Big businesses that use M$ products are ALREADY addicted - lock, stock, and barrel.
Like so many conquerors throughout history, whose downfall was brought about as they were blinded by greed, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot. They are defeating the very hegemony they hope to sustain by intensifying the force their will upon the masses in a blind panic to ever increase profit.
I say to you, Alexander The Great, Caesar, Napolean, Hitler, and ye, Bill Gates: You could have won! You could have had it all! You blathering, greedy fools! You shall never know true wealth.
Has anyone considered simply NOT speeding and actually stopping at red lights?
Seems to me this whole thing would be quite less an issue if everyone just drove safely with the same regard for my life and theirs that I have for my own.
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In my opinion, the GPL is intended to build a strong software community at the expense of a strong commercial software business model. That's why Linus Torvalds said last week that "Linux is never really going to be a rich sell." - Craig Mundie
It's boring. Seriously tho, do you really dislike eye candy? If so, why? or are you just lamenting the thoughtlessness of web publishers who deny you the choice to get just text when you want it?
Personally, I LOVE eye candy.. the more the merrier!
I wonder if Ken has a legitimate license to legally use every piece of intellectual property he has access to? Ken? Hello? Wanna explain this? (points to unlicensed copy of something on Ken's computer)
No? Then STFU and go home. I'm really tired of all the would-be piracy Czars crying in the name of the law and integrity. Let he who hath no sin cast the first stone.
We have a LONG way to go in terms of grappling with ownership and usage of intellectual property. The mere concept of IP is at the heart of some of these debates. As the Internet turns IP into a commodity, it is fascinating to watch the issues unfold.
I look forward with great curiosity and anticipation to where humanity ends up with this.
Am I the only person here who doesn't have multiple sclerosis and ALSO does not 'touch-type'?
The split keyboards only work if you "touch-type" like they teach you in typing class. I've been using a QWERTY keyboard since I was 12 (I am now 33) and I have no CTS that I know of and I don't think I could ever stand the loss in productivity that it would cost for me to re-learn to touch type, using the "correct" fingers for the correct keys and correct and position.
I often times wonder if it is my wild hand movement and ingrained inability to touch type that has kept me free of RSI all these years of programming?
Of course you experience less movement with Dvorak. QWERTY was designed to foil the typists who "fig jammed" the old mechanical typewriters by typing to fast. The Dvorak was the original design.
I am a HAM radio operator, and as such we enjoy the free usage of a portion of the spectrum do to our self-policing and stewardship of the airwaves we use.
Yes, the FCC sold out some time ago, but what did they sell? How can anyone "own" the electro-magnetic spectrum? What's next, taxing gravity?
Every time the FCC threatens to encroach on our air space, we flood them with mail and protests. Rest assured that there will always be people who can operate radio transmitters for personal purposes or the common good. They'll have to confiscate all the equipment from every HAM shack on the planet and lobotomize each and every one of us and keep us from getting our hands on any source of wire and electricity (with which can be made crude radio transmitters).
As for digital.. heck ya, I love digital technology, but in an emergency when the computers and satellites are all down, I want a trusty CW rig so I can still communicate.
I'm not sure banning technology or the pursuit of knowledge is the answer. I also don't think technology is inherently good or evil. People can do good or evil and use technology to achieve their imperatives. The point you make about identical twins is moot as it holds for clones as well. As soon as the clone begins to develop, it does so independent of its host. Clones and identical twins are, genetically speaking, exactly the same thing.
Do humans really suck that much (KKK vs. the Greens - let the clone wars begin!)?
Remember that if you make something illegal, only the lawless will pursue it. In this case, that means you put technology right into the wrong hands from the getgo - where it arguably already is. You then however, remove it from the "right" hands by making it illegal.
As a society we are NOT ethically mature enough to deal with the moral ramifications of human cloning. However, the ancillary technology could be enormously valuable. I would like to someday have 2 eyes that work so that I can see in stereo (all those 3D movies and sims!) and have depth perception. I only have one eye that works due to my biological mother having ruebella (German measles) during pregnancy. I would sure like it if someone could grow me a new eye and optic nerve. I'd also like to be able to hear normally. I'm half deaf for the same reason.
If a normal body could be grown for me and I could somehow retain my mind in it, I think I would welcome that. We'll never get there tho if technology is stifled.
The problem is money. This is pie-in-the-sky I know, but we really need to do away with currency-based economy. It's holding us back, and I think that is becoming more apparent. Money always stands between what is and what could be. We need to get on to what could be and stop wallowing in what is because we, as a race, lack the imagination to come up with a viable alternative to money.
There are enough resources, for instance, for everyone on the planet to have a Ferrari. What's keeping that from happening is money. That's just an example, but it exemplifies the fact that we (the human race) are not doing things that are possible for us to do because of our insistance and dependence on the concept of money.
The point (relative to our topic here) is that the whole issue of "this is mine and that's yours" would be moot if it weren't for money. The free software movement is a step toward freeing humanity from the stranglehold of the contrivance we call currency.
Lithium ion batteries are nothing new.. as many of the more informed posts have already stated.
However, here is something real.
This is not lithium, but rather quinoxaline in sulfuric acid. This proton polymer technology promises quite a bit higher energy density than conventional Also, before people start worrying about heat, remember that for such high charge and discharge rates, the internal resistance (what produces heat in Ni-Cd and NiMH cells) is exceptionally low.
Boy, if this really works it will be very nice.. but I suspect mostly for those who have been blind from birth and have a heightened sense of touch.
I guess that if I lost my eyesight I would not expect to be able to use a computer any more than I would expect to be able to fly an airplane or drive a car again. I don't expect that my sense of touch, and the cognitive processes that go with it, would ever develop to the level of a person who has been sightless since birth. I've read that the cognitive processes that handle sensory perception are developed in the first few years of life. After that, they're pretty much "hard-wired."
As long as we are using keyboards and graphic displays as the physical elements of human-computer interfaces, I believe that there is a point, beyond which, adapting these elements for the blind becomes futile. At that point it's like trying to make a platypus fly.
The next step, of course, is for all computer systems to use natural language interfaces, a la "Star Trek". That's what I'm waiting for!
Is money the only reason anyone ever does anything in this world? (e.g. create, work, etc.) Money always stands between the ideal "what could be" and the shit of "what is". When are we as a race going to get to "what could be" and stop wallowing in "what is" because we have to make arbitrary notes and assign monetary value to everything? Are humans so totally bereft of imagination and creativity that our best minds can't come up with an alternative (that works) to a currency based economy? An alternative that would allow us ALL to create and to have the ultimate of everything?
There is enough raw resource on this planet for everyone to have wonderful, fully developed (as opposed to cheap, half-assed, that's-all-we-could-afford) technology and material items.
I don't pretend to have the answers. Economics and world relations are not my field. I am just wondering why someone hasn't ever solved this? Why are we, as a race, in this seeming rut? Why does communism look truly wonderful on paper but totally suck ass whenever anyone implements it?
I wonder what this guy at SGI who e-mailed Cliff tells his wife when he comes home at the end of the day? How can anyone live with themselves when they do such assanine things, presumably in the name their employers? This is just sad. I never thought it would come to this.
Yeah.. I'm surprised we don't have to pay licensing fees to Mirriam-Webster for using the English language. (oops! Now watch... it'll happen!) One thing is for sure.. we (as a race) have to resolve the issues around IP now that we don't need even a piece of paper to copy it.
How do you deal with the classical concept of "theft" when copying someone's IP does not deprive them the ability to still use it?
Wherever humanity finally ends up with this issue, it's going to be darned interesting!
Well, they could have just done 'suzukioficeland' or something and dropped the 'bílar'. I suspect that they are proud of their name and rather unwilling to drop it. Putting aside differences is key to interacting globally. I ask, why can't they standardize on something? This brings up a number of questions.. Is the 'web' global, or is there a separate "sub-web" for Iceland (or wherever?). If a communications medium is to be truly global, we all need to speak the same language - whether that's Swahili, Thai, or English. So... is the web universal or isn't it? The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), with the notable exception of Quebec, has figured this out and it keeps planes from crashing. Do we want our 'CyberPlanes' to be able to land anywhere or do we want to keep them all in their respective 'CyberSpaces'?
Certainly one option would be to develop the community so that most folks know most languages (or all supported languages) - which could be interesting and certainly challenging. Could that be done? I'm not sure it's practical.
Whatever language is being used, the people who do not know that language will not be able to use the medium. If you and I both know Esperanto but you speak Italian and I speak Russian most of the time we will never be able to connect unless we speak Esperanto. Therefore if the Internet consisted of just you and I would we need to support Russian, Italian, Esperanto or some combination? In this case I would vote just Esperanto.
You can plainly see that this is an issue that strikes a chord with me. If I had to learn a different language to use the Internet I believe I would do it.
Can you comment on the legal issues surrounding the following...?
There was a band called "Too Much Joy" and they made an album called "Green Eggs and Crack". The album is out of print. The band no longer exists. Who could possibly be in a position to give permission for songs from this album to be traded? What does the law say about trading these songs since it's not even possible to pay for them?
Art is an inextricable part of life. In Japanese the word for 'art' and 'life' are the same. What right should anyone have to control its availability to society?
Universal??? What's universal about having multiple languages supported? In case someone wants to accuse me of being english-centricic, it's not which language, but rather that there be one standard language of the Internet.
I guess I just advocate standardization. And while we're at it.. why do we need more TLDs before we have a directory service replacing DNS? Here's a challenge: find the URL for National Semiconductor, Inc. Now, with DNS how easy would that be if you had twice as many TLDs? Adding TLDs without first replacing DNS is putting the cart before the horse, making the Internet more difficult to use and LESS universal.. just like having international URLs.
..and no, I don't like the idea of patenting software anymore than you do, I just don't think 'universal' and multi-lingual (international) correlate. Rather internationalization is antithetical to universal standardization.
The only useful technical data available on the website is in the PowerPoint presentation (~2.6 MB). You have to download it.
What I want to know is, how does the Crusoe CPU run x86 code (e.g. OS binaries for Intel processors)? Does this require a special build or is the Transmeta chip able to just run Intel x86 native code with its VLIW instruction set?
Ugh. ICQ is horrid HORRID software!! It's at least as bad as M$'s MSN messenger. It's bloated and hogs resources and bandwidth. I'd say stick with IRC or open source IM software if you can. Personally, I prefer IRC. IMO, the idea of IM systems is a good one, but the technology is not matured. Of course this all goes away when everyone (finally) gets a STATIC ip address.
What media format does Linux use and why can't it play all media formats? I'm a Windows user (yes, I admit it) and I've been considering running linux, but I have no compelling reason yet. I wouldn't want to be able to do _fewer_ things tho, so I hope this is either a non-issue or gets resolved in Linux before I take the dive.
I have never once seen a person in IRC saying they are in China or having a host name that looks to be from China. Singapore, yes. "Red" China, no.
My wife's cousin, who toured China extensively, says that the average Chinese citizen is much worse off than the average U.S. citizen. I'm thinking that per capita computer ownership amongst the Chinese might be rather low.
Good grief. These people need to use their energy to PRODUCE something useful instead of just taking advantage of who and what they can find. What a bunch of low-life losers.
Speaking of losers.. maybe we should round up all the script kiddies and lock them in a room together with the patent chasers. With a bit of luck, they'd kill eachother off.
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All Microsoft has to do is provide excellent quality, stable products and top-notch service and support. There is NO better way to maintain the undying loyalty and servitude of your customers. Big businesses that use M$ products are ALREADY addicted - lock, stock, and barrel.
Like so many conquerors throughout history, whose downfall was brought about as they were blinded by greed, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot. They are defeating the very hegemony they hope to sustain by intensifying the force their will upon the masses in a blind panic to ever increase profit.
I say to you, Alexander The Great, Caesar, Napolean, Hitler, and ye, Bill Gates: You could have won! You could have had it all! You blathering, greedy fools! You shall never know true wealth.
Has anyone considered simply NOT speeding and actually stopping at red lights?
Seems to me this whole thing would be quite less an issue if everyone just drove safely with the same regard for my life and theirs that I have for my own.
Amen, brother!
Thanks! Sorry for being MIS-informative. What kind of keyboard layout was used prior to QWERTY?
Personally, I LOVE eye candy.. the more the merrier!
No? Then STFU and go home. I'm really tired of all the would-be piracy Czars crying in the name of the law and integrity. Let he who hath no sin cast the first stone.
We have a LONG way to go in terms of grappling with ownership and usage of intellectual property. The mere concept of IP is at the heart of some of these debates. As the Internet turns IP into a commodity, it is fascinating to watch the issues unfold.
I look forward with great curiosity and anticipation to where humanity ends up with this.
The split keyboards only work if you "touch-type" like they teach you in typing class. I've been using a QWERTY keyboard since I was 12 (I am now 33) and I have no CTS that I know of and I don't think I could ever stand the loss in productivity that it would cost for me to re-learn to touch type, using the "correct" fingers for the correct keys and correct and position.
I often times wonder if it is my wild hand movement and ingrained inability to touch type that has kept me free of RSI all these years of programming?
Of course you experience less movement with Dvorak. QWERTY was designed to foil the typists who "fig jammed" the old mechanical typewriters by typing to fast. The Dvorak was the original design.
Yes, the FCC sold out some time ago, but what did they sell? How can anyone "own" the electro-magnetic spectrum? What's next, taxing gravity?
Every time the FCC threatens to encroach on our air space, we flood them with mail and protests. Rest assured that there will always be people who can operate radio transmitters for personal purposes or the common good. They'll have to confiscate all the equipment from every HAM shack on the planet and lobotomize each and every one of us and keep us from getting our hands on any source of wire and electricity (with which can be made crude radio transmitters).
As for digital.. heck ya, I love digital technology, but in an emergency when the computers and satellites are all down, I want a trusty CW rig so I can still communicate.
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Do humans really suck that much (KKK vs. the Greens - let the clone wars begin!)?
Remember that if you make something illegal, only the lawless will pursue it. In this case, that means you put technology right into the wrong hands from the getgo - where it arguably already is. You then however, remove it from the "right" hands by making it illegal.
As a society we are NOT ethically mature enough to deal with the moral ramifications of human cloning. However, the ancillary technology could be enormously valuable. I would like to someday have 2 eyes that work so that I can see in stereo (all those 3D movies and sims!) and have depth perception. I only have one eye that works due to my biological mother having ruebella (German measles) during pregnancy. I would sure like it if someone could grow me a new eye and optic nerve. I'd also like to be able to hear normally. I'm half deaf for the same reason.
If a normal body could be grown for me and I could somehow retain my mind in it, I think I would welcome that. We'll never get there tho if technology is stifled.
There are enough resources, for instance, for everyone on the planet to have a Ferrari. What's keeping that from happening is money. That's just an example, but it exemplifies the fact that we (the human race) are not doing things that are possible for us to do because of our insistance and dependence on the concept of money.
The point (relative to our topic here) is that the whole issue of "this is mine and that's yours" would be moot if it weren't for money. The free software movement is a step toward freeing humanity from the stranglehold of the contrivance we call currency.
Eve and Tracy Adams? Didn't they star together in a full length XXX featurette back in the 80's?
This is not lithium, but rather quinoxaline in sulfuric acid. This proton polymer technology promises quite a bit higher energy density than conventional Also, before people start worrying about heat, remember that for such high charge and discharge rates, the internal resistance (what produces heat in Ni-Cd and NiMH cells) is exceptionally low.
I guess that if I lost my eyesight I would not expect to be able to use a computer any more than I would expect to be able to fly an airplane or drive a car again. I don't expect that my sense of touch, and the cognitive processes that go with it, would ever develop to the level of a person who has been sightless since birth. I've read that the cognitive processes that handle sensory perception are developed in the first few years of life. After that, they're pretty much "hard-wired."
As long as we are using keyboards and graphic displays as the physical elements of human-computer interfaces, I believe that there is a point, beyond which, adapting these elements for the blind becomes futile. At that point it's like trying to make a platypus fly.
The next step, of course, is for all computer systems to use natural language interfaces, a la "Star Trek". That's what I'm waiting for!
There is enough raw resource on this planet for everyone to have wonderful, fully developed (as opposed to cheap, half-assed, that's-all-we-could-afford) technology and material items.
I don't pretend to have the answers. Economics and world relations are not my field. I am just wondering why someone hasn't ever solved this? Why are we, as a race, in this seeming rut? Why does communism look truly wonderful on paper but totally suck ass whenever anyone implements it?
Greed sucks.
Yeah.. I'm surprised we don't have to pay licensing fees to Mirriam-Webster for using the English language. (oops! Now watch... it'll happen!) One thing is for sure.. we (as a race) have to resolve the issues around IP now that we don't need even a piece of paper to copy it.
How do you deal with the classical concept of "theft" when copying someone's IP does not deprive them the ability to still use it?
Wherever humanity finally ends up with this issue, it's going to be darned interesting!
Certainly one option would be to develop the community so that most folks know most languages (or all supported languages) - which could be interesting and certainly challenging. Could that be done? I'm not sure it's practical.
Whatever language is being used, the people who do not know that language will not be able to use the medium. If you and I both know Esperanto but you speak Italian and I speak Russian most of the time we will never be able to connect unless we speak Esperanto. Therefore if the Internet consisted of just you and I would we need to support Russian, Italian, Esperanto or some combination? In this case I would vote just Esperanto.
You can plainly see that this is an issue that strikes a chord with me. If I had to learn a different language to use the Internet I believe I would do it.
There was a band called "Too Much Joy" and they made an album called "Green Eggs and Crack". The album is out of print. The band no longer exists. Who could possibly be in a position to give permission for songs from this album to be traded? What does the law say about trading these songs since it's not even possible to pay for them?
Art is an inextricable part of life. In Japanese the word for 'art' and 'life' are the same. What right should anyone have to control its availability to society?
I guess I just advocate standardization. And while we're at it.. why do we need more TLDs before we have a directory service replacing DNS? Here's a challenge: find the URL for National Semiconductor, Inc. Now, with DNS how easy would that be if you had twice as many TLDs? Adding TLDs without first replacing DNS is putting the cart before the horse, making the Internet more difficult to use and LESS universal.. just like having international URLs.
What I want to know is, how does the Crusoe CPU run x86 code (e.g. OS binaries for Intel processors)? Does this require a special build or is the Transmeta chip able to just run Intel x86 native code with its VLIW instruction set?
Ugh. ICQ is horrid HORRID software!! It's at least as bad as M$'s MSN messenger. It's bloated and hogs resources and bandwidth. I'd say stick with IRC or open source IM software if you can. Personally, I prefer IRC. IMO, the idea of IM systems is a good one, but the technology is not matured. Of course this all goes away when everyone (finally) gets a STATIC ip address.
You must not have any SCSI drives!
What media format does Linux use and why can't it play all media formats? I'm a Windows user (yes, I admit it) and I've been considering running linux, but I have no compelling reason yet. I wouldn't want to be able to do _fewer_ things tho, so I hope this is either a non-issue or gets resolved in Linux before I take the dive.
My wife's cousin, who toured China extensively, says that the average Chinese citizen is much worse off than the average U.S. citizen. I'm thinking that per capita computer ownership amongst the Chinese might be rather low.
Speaking of losers.. maybe we should round up all the script kiddies and lock them in a room together with the patent chasers. With a bit of luck, they'd kill eachother off.