First, we were worried about telephone lines for everyone, now its broadband. This is going to be the communications issue for the next fifty years. Why that long? Because thats how long it will take to reach every corner,(I'm talking to that desert home in Arizona to the Applachia) of the country with a DSL, Cable or Ethernet connection. Japan already has us beaten out on the widespread Ethernet idea..but how long will it last?
Phone Lines are dying out as a Internet Connection, They are in widespread use, that is true, but it is not feasible for the next generation of Web usage.
The nineties were kind to video games. In the last decade they blossomed into a full fledged industry, a far cry from the "trend" that they were supposed to be, now a multi-billion dollar industry, this article covers the last few years, but not the beginning of the decade it seems. What about the old 8 and 16 bit times? They were rarely covered, but they were still important, (Super Mario 3 came out in 1990, one of the greatest selling games of all time, Tecmo Super Bowl, a game which is still played to this day and coveted by anyone who owns it).
I suppose the hype of PS2 will be a footnote in 2011?
Well,
just the other day we had an article stating that Japan is getting a mass ethernet ISP for their nation. Now, we've got an article here merely planning it!
But, in America, we should plan something as expensive and as lucrative as ethernet because there are so many expenses and such. Japan with their density, there's cables already running around, but with us and our streched out country, we need to plan such things.
I hope that a commerical Ethernet service reaches Buffalo, Adelphia's Powerlink has to be the worst ISP i have ever been on, and DSL is a rare find around here. Although, we might be last, but we do have one of the largest Ethernet cable manufacturers nearby, (in Elmira).
Anyways, after ethernet, what do you have? Someone will just be frustrated that 100 m/sec is not fast enough. They won't be able to see that porn fast enough!
Tell me, who in their right mind is going to buy a completely new PC for an operating system. Unless MS comes up with some brillant marketing scheme to get people to buy computers as well, XP will be a mere speck on the OS world for the forseeable future. Maybe in two years, XP will be all the rage, but most people aren't going to upgrade their computer for XP.
My computer, which I bought almost a year ago, would meet these requirements, but barely!
I am going to upgrade my computer this winter anyway, but with XP coming out, I might as well anyway, (I don't pay for MS products, because our school gets free MS software for distro)
Another reason why to switch to Linux.
For many Linux users, a program that will let you use Windows games, you won't need Windows ever again. Only for the fact to play those games.
Simply put, playing Windows games on Linux is one of the greatest riddles of Linux. A great obstacle. But it will be overcome.
Wine..well, that's is a good program, but what if, (like me) you can't get it to open up, etc. Then you are in trouble.
Japan's Density allows for such things to occur. People there have probably taken advantage of the wireless networks there as well...if they have them there which I'm sure they have..This would be a HUGE American success if it was brought here, but then again, resources would quickly drain out and we'd be in trouble.
Japan though, it would be a huge drain on the network all those 100m/s connections....
What about that law the EU passed? Of course, that has to go through those countries' parliments to take effect, correct?
I figure, the DMCA will be rendered (drifting offtopic) unconsitutional in twenty years when liberal judges will be on the Supreme Court, why? Because now, its a conservative court and with Dubya in the White House, and the Court having numerous judges headed towards retirement....
Anyways, back ON topic. This is a noble cause, and it is an assurance that we do have control in the industry, but then again, there's Open Source
Its nice and all that they've signed this treaty, but it does have to be ratified in order to be in effect correct? Just like the Global Warming treaty, it'll fail.
I recall Microsoft saying Linux wasn't secure...I guess this is the argument that can be thrown back at them. The NSA, is very secret about what they do...and they would pick nit a Operating System on security. And then went making a secure Linux...
What does that tell you about Linux security, why would the NSA be working on Linux kernel? Most likely they're using Linux on their systems, (or most likely, a OS they made for their own purposes, who knows).
Don't like it sign it.
This seems to be a simple soltuion but a man has to eat. But it doesn't really seem fair someone is going to make you sign an agreement which will put you possibly unemployed for an long time.
What's the difference one year or one week? I'll transmit the secrets out on the web after I get fired and let anyone look at them...Doesn't really matter does it?
A distractions would play well in the game with a head mounted mouse
It'd be useful, but would there be any possible health implications? Doubtful, but you'll find someone who'll bitch about something being unhealthy with it
Btw, that fp, that person has too much time on their hands
Watch the lobbyists descend on Washington, or better yet, spam them!
Each congressman should be given an AOL account for a week and then we'd see a much more stricter law being passed!
Actually, calc is supposed to get us to think about our work...its like a course on logical thinking for the CS majors, (thats one of the many reasons)
But, seriously, its very frustrating, and in my school, you are only allowed to take courses twice! So, if you need that one calc course over again to get that degree and don't get it, but still you know whats going on though..hypothetical suitation, but it can happen
Ok, So Napster starts up a MP3 sharing service.
The RIAA gets pissed because it isn't getting paid
RiAA sues
Napster capulates and bends over
Now..
RiAA starts streaming MP3s
Artists are pissed because they aren't getting paid, Napster is pissed to because this is why they had to bend over, over money and copyright
Possible lawsuit?
And if the RiAA bends over?
That's much later, like the 3rd or 4th year here.
The first two years is coding oriented..later we learn the theory of computation, theories of OSes etc.
Well..first off, eliminate the need for calc courses!
At my school we have calc requirements for a CS degree. Now, from what I've heard from my friends, graduates of my college (Uni of Buffalo), and those that have been out in the CS field, calc is used rarely! If you're going to teach some sort of math, teach CS-related math and stop giving headaches!
Ok, now onto the topic at hand:
One can only learn coding from coding and not books. Thats the advice my CS professor gives out. But we have exams anyway. Coding strengthens your ideas of coding and we do have to take exams, and if you did the lab yourself, it shows in the exam grade.
How to make it better? Well first off, reduce those giant class sizes, (my intro course had 177 people in it! That was reduced 177-120-98-70) Seventy people left standing. Of course, thats what a intro course is supposed to do.
They should be teaching the ideas of what CS language is and not the language itself for the beginning and later on cement that with the very close details of the language.
Java? It seems everyone is being taught this language, although I haven't seen a good I can use being done with it, I don't know, that may be my own ignorance, and there's lots of grumbling about we should learn C++, but that's because everyone knows C++.
It is a vital. Its become, but not necessarily vital to everyone. Its vital for many people for their own reasons. I don't care what your friends do, or what you do, except I find it funny you hide behind the "Anonymous Coward" label and can't actually create your own account and account for your own idiot comment.
I have family members that don't have a phone line, and they're living too! But we consider phone lines vital don't we? Idiot I'm not, just insane!
That's Capitalism for ya...
Although Communism would never permit an Internet such as ours, poor China, they can't even control what's going on their phone lines.
There's nothing wrong with trying to make money...
like Slashdot...I mean, think if they were really money greedy! You'd see banners left and right, and even <gasp> MS ads, because of the traffic that comes here.
The Internet is truly a revolution...
Information, is accessed and passed independently and in a way that we never imagined.
Business, can be done from anywhere with this medium. Two centuries ago, we had people moving from farms to cities, now it will be the opposite.
Within 30 years or sooner, broadband access will be in all homes in America, so the Internet's full potential will reach everyone, directly.
The Internet will become what the phone line is..
It's become one of the vitals of a home, water, gas, phone line, internet access, (although there are billions without a single phone line! Even in countries like Poland, Russia, etc.)
Copy protection is something that will never be realized because as mentioned, the Internet will help facilitate a solution. How did Linux become so big? The Internet! How did Java become so important in three years that Ivy League schools (Brown University) are now teaching it as a first language, the Internet.
The Internet has dramatically changed not only the world of Computers but of that of the entire world.
The failed dot-coms are only because people were such in a investing frenzy, and now? Now the market is correcting itself.
Napster? Face it, if you're running an illegal business that attacts up to 30% of the nation to its servers, you are going to have the law knocking on your door! The RIAA isn't going after IRC bots.
It seems electronic products will have more and more 1. adveritsing built within 2. security features and 3. expense
Notice lately all the talk of privacy and piracy, now they're going to build products that they think will stop it.
You know, the government's blackmailing of states is already bad enough, (I am in the position that states have no rights, the individual does).
I believe that blackmailing states as like in the flitering of the Web is wrong, its a form of extortion. You don't enact our software, you don't get the money.
Schools don't need the government to prod them on such things, they would do it anyway to prevent future lawsuits, irate parents, etc.
Its just another thing the government is doing to bully the states. As noble as the cause it, the solution is wrong.
Husaria
"A sign that you've been coding too much: you dream in while loops"
Kevin Stevens
Well, I guess its now official: the RIAA is pulling shit out of their ass to stop the mass distrubiutions of music. Too bad whatever they pull will be shoved right back in!
Expect the crack within days of debut.
Slashdot Mirror
First, we were worried about telephone lines for everyone, now its broadband. This is going to be the communications issue for the next fifty years. Why that long? Because thats how long it will take to reach every corner,(I'm talking to that desert home in Arizona to the Applachia) of the country with a DSL, Cable or Ethernet connection. Japan already has us beaten out on the widespread Ethernet idea..but how long will it last?
Phone Lines are dying out as a Internet Connection, They are in widespread use, that is true, but it is not feasible for the next generation of Web usage.
The nineties were kind to video games. In the last decade they blossomed into a full fledged industry, a far cry from the "trend" that they were supposed to be, now a multi-billion dollar industry, this article covers the last few years, but not the beginning of the decade it seems. What about the old 8 and 16 bit times? They were rarely covered, but they were still important, (Super Mario 3 came out in 1990, one of the greatest selling games of all time, Tecmo Super Bowl, a game which is still played to this day and coveted by anyone who owns it).
I suppose the hype of PS2 will be a footnote in 2011?
Well,
just the other day we had an article stating that Japan is getting a mass ethernet ISP for their nation. Now, we've got an article here merely planning it!
But, in America, we should plan something as expensive and as lucrative as ethernet because there are so many expenses and such. Japan with their density, there's cables already running around, but with us and our streched out country, we need to plan such things.
I hope that a commerical Ethernet service reaches Buffalo, Adelphia's Powerlink has to be the worst ISP i have ever been on, and DSL is a rare find around here. Although, we might be last, but we do have one of the largest Ethernet cable manufacturers nearby, (in Elmira).
Anyways, after ethernet, what do you have? Someone will just be frustrated that 100 m/sec is not fast enough. They won't be able to see that porn fast enough!
Tell me, who in their right mind is going to buy a completely new PC for an operating system. Unless MS comes up with some brillant marketing scheme to get people to buy computers as well, XP will be a mere speck on the OS world for the forseeable future. Maybe in two years, XP will be all the rage, but most people aren't going to upgrade their computer for XP.
My computer, which I bought almost a year ago, would meet these requirements, but barely!
I am going to upgrade my computer this winter anyway, but with XP coming out, I might as well anyway, (I don't pay for MS products, because our school gets free MS software for distro)
Another reason why to switch to Linux.
For many Linux users, a program that will let you use Windows games, you won't need Windows ever again. Only for the fact to play those games.
Simply put, playing Windows games on Linux is one of the greatest riddles of Linux. A great obstacle. But it will be overcome.
Wine..well, that's is a good program, but what if, (like me) you can't get it to open up, etc. Then you are in trouble.
Japan's Density allows for such things to occur. People there have probably taken advantage of the wireless networks there as well...if they have them there which I'm sure they have..This would be a HUGE American success if it was brought here, but then again, resources would quickly drain out and we'd be in trouble.
Japan though, it would be a huge drain on the network all those 100m/s connections....
What about that law the EU passed? Of course, that has to go through those countries' parliments to take effect, correct?
I figure, the DMCA will be rendered (drifting offtopic) unconsitutional in twenty years when liberal judges will be on the Supreme Court, why? Because now, its a conservative court and with Dubya in the White House, and the Court having numerous judges headed towards retirement....
Anyways, back ON topic. This is a noble cause, and it is an assurance that we do have control in the industry, but then again, there's Open Source
Its nice and all that they've signed this treaty, but it does have to be ratified in order to be in effect correct? Just like the Global Warming treaty, it'll fail.
I recall Microsoft saying Linux wasn't secure...I guess this is the argument that can be thrown back at them. The NSA, is very secret about what they do...and they would pick nit a Operating System on security. And then went making a secure Linux...
What does that tell you about Linux security, why would the NSA be working on Linux kernel? Most likely they're using Linux on their systems, (or most likely, a OS they made for their own purposes, who knows).
Don't like it sign it.
This seems to be a simple soltuion but a man has to eat. But it doesn't really seem fair someone is going to make you sign an agreement which will put you possibly unemployed for an long time.
What's the difference one year or one week? I'll transmit the secrets out on the web after I get fired and let anyone look at them...Doesn't really matter does it?
A distractions would play well in the game with a head mounted mouse
It'd be useful, but would there be any possible health implications? Doubtful, but you'll find someone who'll bitch about something being unhealthy with it
Btw, that fp, that person has too much time on their hands
Watch the lobbyists descend on Washington, or better yet, spam them!
Each congressman should be given an AOL account for a week and then we'd see a much more stricter law being passed!
Actually, calc is supposed to get us to think about our work...its like a course on logical thinking for the CS majors, (thats one of the many reasons)
But, seriously, its very frustrating, and in my school, you are only allowed to take courses twice! So, if you need that one calc course over again to get that degree and don't get it, but still you know whats going on though..hypothetical suitation, but it can happen
Ok, So Napster starts up a MP3 sharing service.
The RIAA gets pissed because it isn't getting paid
RiAA sues
Napster capulates and bends over
Now..
RiAA starts streaming MP3s
Artists are pissed because they aren't getting paid, Napster is pissed to because this is why they had to bend over, over money and copyright
Possible lawsuit?
And if the RiAA bends over?
That's much later, like the 3rd or 4th year here. The first two years is coding oriented..later we learn the theory of computation, theories of OSes etc.
Well..first off, eliminate the need for calc courses!
At my school we have calc requirements for a CS degree. Now, from what I've heard from my friends, graduates of my college (Uni of Buffalo), and those that have been out in the CS field, calc is used rarely! If you're going to teach some sort of math, teach CS-related math and stop giving headaches!
Ok, now onto the topic at hand:
One can only learn coding from coding and not books. Thats the advice my CS professor gives out. But we have exams anyway. Coding strengthens your ideas of coding and we do have to take exams, and if you did the lab yourself, it shows in the exam grade.
How to make it better? Well first off, reduce those giant class sizes, (my intro course had 177 people in it! That was reduced 177-120-98-70) Seventy people left standing. Of course, thats what a intro course is supposed to do.
They should be teaching the ideas of what CS language is and not the language itself for the beginning and later on cement that with the very close details of the language.
Java? It seems everyone is being taught this language, although I haven't seen a good I can use being done with it, I don't know, that may be my own ignorance, and there's lots of grumbling about we should learn C++, but that's because everyone knows C++.
Ever hear of sarcasm? Its quite an old feature.. Btw, look at your karma, and you'll see the troll.
It is a vital. Its become, but not necessarily vital to everyone. Its vital for many people for their own reasons. I don't care what your friends do, or what you do, except I find it funny you hide behind the "Anonymous Coward" label and can't actually create your own account and account for your own idiot comment.
I have family members that don't have a phone line, and they're living too! But we consider phone lines vital don't we? Idiot I'm not, just insane!
That's Capitalism for ya...
Although Communism would never permit an Internet such as ours, poor China, they can't even control what's going on their phone lines.
There's nothing wrong with trying to make money...
like Slashdot...I mean, think if they were really money greedy! You'd see banners left and right, and even <gasp> MS ads, because of the traffic that comes here.
So just rename your technology something else and call it revolutionary...
Worked for MS
The Internet is truly a revolution...
Information, is accessed and passed independently and in a way that we never imagined.
Business, can be done from anywhere with this medium. Two centuries ago, we had people moving from farms to cities, now it will be the opposite.
Within 30 years or sooner, broadband access will be in all homes in America, so the Internet's full potential will reach everyone, directly.
The Internet will become what the phone line is..
It's become one of the vitals of a home, water, gas, phone line, internet access, (although there are billions without a single phone line! Even in countries like Poland, Russia, etc.)
Copy protection is something that will never be realized because as mentioned, the Internet will help facilitate a solution. How did Linux become so big? The Internet! How did Java become so important in three years that Ivy League schools (Brown University) are now teaching it as a first language, the Internet.
The Internet has dramatically changed not only the world of Computers but of that of the entire world.
The failed dot-coms are only because people were such in a investing frenzy, and now? Now the market is correcting itself.
Napster? Face it, if you're running an illegal business that attacts up to 30% of the nation to its servers, you are going to have the law knocking on your door! The RIAA isn't going after IRC bots.
It seems electronic products will have more and more 1. adveritsing built within 2. security features and 3. expense Notice lately all the talk of privacy and piracy, now they're going to build products that they think will stop it.
You know, the government's blackmailing of states is already bad enough, (I am in the position that states have no rights, the individual does).
I believe that blackmailing states as like in the flitering of the Web is wrong, its a form of extortion. You don't enact our software, you don't get the money.
Schools don't need the government to prod them on such things, they would do it anyway to prevent future lawsuits, irate parents, etc.
Its just another thing the government is doing to bully the states. As noble as the cause it, the solution is wrong.
Husaria
"A sign that you've been coding too much: you dream in while loops"
Kevin Stevens
Well, I guess its now official: the RIAA is pulling shit out of their ass to stop the mass distrubiutions of music. Too bad whatever they pull will be shoved right back in! Expect the crack within days of debut.
We all can't have spell check on our browsers :)