You think this is just when you rent a car? This is just a trial. It won't be long before car manufacturers start placing these 'GPS' devices in every car that is bought, and government-infiltrated garages start adding them to all cars brought in for repair.
Consider this: currently 78% of the households of America own at least one car. If these tracking devices were to become widespread, just think of the opportunities for spying on our activities.
Groupthink? Double plus ungood? You're sounding ridiculously like one of the government-following corporation-loving 'sheep' that grazes on the lies of the media each and every day.
Get a clue and realise that we 'slashbots' think like this because we've uncovered the real Truth about how the System works.
I pity you, I really do. I hope that one day you come to realise that you've been underhandedly exploited all your controlled, restricted life - and do something about it.
That is an excellent point, I hope someone mods you up for it.
Another thing you probably noticed is that however unfortunate this licensing model is, it is better than the alternative. Take Linux and Windows - to extend your analogy further, Linux is the car equivalent of smashing in your neighbour's car windows with a brick, hotwiring it and using it to clock up many miles. And then not paying him a cent, even when he complains. This is despite the fact that the car would frequently break down.
Whereas when you license the Windows car, it comfortably works just how you'd expect, only with a few minor limitations, like not driving to neighbouring states. And you can drive secure in the knowledge that you fully reimbursed the company for their service.
They will be sneaky though. I bet they have a pretend one for you to happily cover up with tinfoil while the craftily hidden one continues to violate your rights to privacy.
This is yet another travesty for our rights. If the government continues to help large corporations like this to spy on us, well.. George Orwell might just have been correct.
With this and all the other tracking, we are no more than agents on a giant grid of numbers, slowly being calculated away to oblivion.
For a couple of decades during the 'space race', things were really hotting up for space travel. Man in space, man on the moon.. it was exciting stuff!
But in the past few decades the enthusiasm has died down considerably. I guess the competitive spirit just isn't there any more.
This is good though. If Russia wants to send a man to Mars, you can be damn sure other countries like the US and England will want to as well. Competition is back, and the space race is on again!
You reckon you'd be able to send and receive email for free with these things?
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She was probably looking for something starting with "I" rather than "S". It's a well known fact observed from psychological studies of list searching that people do it left to right, indexing the leftmost letter and moving right to the next ones.
I agree with you. Computers are a luxury item, and there are far more important problems to have monetary resources concentrated on over there, like famines and floods and stuff.
It's a bit scant on the details of how exactly this will 'help the common man' over there.
I mean, people in third world countries will be more bothered about where their next meal is coming from than browsing their email or reading Slashdot.
That's a really good reason to use it, IMO. Simple enough to start off with that you can find your way around easily (unlike Unix), but complicated enough underneath so that you can do useful stuff (like Unix.)
I think the main problem is that it is difficult to come up with a logically sound interface from scratch. The examples you cited have evolved from form to form rather than been logically structured from the start.
It seems to me it would be very difficult to design a complicated system in such a logically sound way as you describe for this reason. Certainly, it would add a lot to the overall development time.
As an aside, I thought they changed the name to folders as it had a more obvious analogy with the folders you see in a filing cabinet?
If only there were a flash card to mobile phone interface that allowed you to plug your mobile into a decent camera, and transmit the pics to your server, or whereever. Now that would be neat, and cheaper than a $1000 laptop to do the same thing.
Sorry about the offtopicness of this reply, but I have one question: does the bug actually work on other Slashcode sites, or was this just a Slashdot-only bug?
The problem is that the screen is too small to get a reasonably detailed look at the picture. Mobile phones aren't really the best medium to be viewing photos on.
If you look at the size of the average developed photo, you could fit about ten mobile phones screens in there. So you are losing definition by a factor of ten.
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That's not the point. The point is control. Information is the key to gaining control. And control means power.
You think this is just when you rent a car? This is just a trial. It won't be long before car manufacturers start placing these 'GPS' devices in every car that is bought, and government-infiltrated garages start adding them to all cars brought in for repair.
Consider this: currently 78% of the households of America own at least one car. If these tracking devices were to become widespread, just think of the opportunities for spying on our activities.
Groupthink? Double plus ungood? You're sounding ridiculously like one of the government-following corporation-loving 'sheep' that grazes on the lies of the media each and every day.
Get a clue and realise that we 'slashbots' think like this because we've uncovered the real Truth about how the System works.
I pity you, I really do. I hope that one day you come to realise that you've been underhandedly exploited all your controlled, restricted life - and do something about it.
That is an excellent point, I hope someone mods you up for it.
Another thing you probably noticed is that however unfortunate this licensing model is, it is better than the alternative. Take Linux and Windows - to extend your analogy further, Linux is the car equivalent of smashing in your neighbour's car windows with a brick, hotwiring it and using it to clock up many miles. And then not paying him a cent, even when he complains. This is despite the fact that the car would frequently break down.
Whereas when you license the Windows car, it comfortably works just how you'd expect, only with a few minor limitations, like not driving to neighbouring states. And you can drive secure in the knowledge that you fully reimbursed the company for their service.
They will be sneaky though. I bet they have a pretend one for you to happily cover up with tinfoil while the craftily hidden one continues to violate your rights to privacy.
This is yet another travesty for our rights. If the government continues to help large corporations like this to spy on us, well .. George Orwell might just have been correct.
With this and all the other tracking, we are no more than agents on a giant grid of numbers, slowly being calculated away to oblivion.
Ok, done. Now run dir *.dll in %systemroot%\system32 on an NT machine. You will get a similar result.
It's about time someone did this.
.. it was exciting stuff!
For a couple of decades during the 'space race', things were really hotting up for space travel. Man in space, man on the moon
But in the past few decades the enthusiasm has died down considerably. I guess the competitive spirit just isn't there any more.
This is good though. If Russia wants to send a man to Mars, you can be damn sure other countries like the US and England will want to as well. Competition is back, and the space race is on again!
You reckon you'd be able to send and receive email for free with these things?
She was probably looking for something starting with "I" rather than "S". It's a well known fact observed from psychological studies of list searching that people do it left to right, indexing the leftmost letter and moving right to the next ones.
Then you have the ongoing costs of AA batteries, smart cards and repairs. Which brings us back to the point the guy you replied to made.
In that case, it seems to me it would be better in the long run to invest resources into teaching people how to teach.
I agree with you. Computers are a luxury item, and there are far more important problems to have monetary resources concentrated on over there, like famines and floods and stuff.
It's a bit scant on the details of how exactly this will 'help the common man' over there.
I mean, people in third world countries will be more bothered about where their next meal is coming from than browsing their email or reading Slashdot.
What is the P800?
My mother would beat the shit out of me if I was that sarcastic and patronising to her.
Not really. But she wouldn't like it.
You should have more respect for your mother!
That's a really good reason to use it, IMO. Simple enough to start off with that you can find your way around easily (unlike Unix), but complicated enough underneath so that you can do useful stuff (like Unix.)
I think the main problem is that it is difficult to come up with a logically sound interface from scratch. The examples you cited have evolved from form to form rather than been logically structured from the start.
It seems to me it would be very difficult to design a complicated system in such a logically sound way as you describe for this reason. Certainly, it would add a lot to the overall development time.
As an aside, I thought they changed the name to folders as it had a more obvious analogy with the folders you see in a filing cabinet?
If only there were a flash card to mobile phone interface that allowed you to plug your mobile into a decent camera, and transmit the pics to your server, or whereever. Now that would be neat, and cheaper than a $1000 laptop to do the same thing.
Sorry about the offtopicness of this reply, but I have one question: does the bug actually work on other Slashcode sites, or was this just a Slashdot-only bug?
Thanks, that was much better than boring digital cameras.
The problem is that the screen is too small to get a reasonably detailed look at the picture. Mobile phones aren't really the best medium to be viewing photos on.
If you look at the size of the average developed photo, you could fit about ten mobile phones screens in there. So you are losing definition by a factor of ten.
Yes. I agree with you.
You have some very good points there, but just to pick up on the simple/advanced thing - the niavety is in there being only two different states.
It's like splitting the learning curve up into two steps, when lots of smaller steps would perhaps be easier.
Basically what I'm saying is that when the gap between 'simple' and 'advanced' is too wide, you need something else to bridge it.