In the late 80's I sold and supported AT&T PC graphics products, such as Topas. They all had dongles, the little hardware things screwed into the seriell or parallel ports(can't actually remember) , and without which the software would not run. Autocad also had one. In no time whatsoever, there were hacks floating around (and this was before the internet) that bypassed these things, thereby effectively making them expensive (in development terms) toys.
MS' Palladium will almost assuredly go the same way. Why? Because, given MS's track record in security I simply cannot believe that someone will not find a method to bypass this.
It seems as if security within MS has always been subservient to marketing and planned obsolesance, because I don't believe that MS' coders are that bad, but that they are forced into the regimine of making products that neeed upgrading for no real purpose except to ensure MS profitability.
Palladium is, IMO, nothing more than yet another MS ploy to 1.Turn it's negative image in security around. 2.Work with the RIAA and MPAA in order to control what you play on your computer. 3.Stymy OSS by locking them out of the hardware. (Yes I know that theoretically it's open architecture, but theoretically Hailstorm services could be provided by others as well) 4.Generate an endless stream of revenue by making built in subscription/obsolescence etc.
Like Hailstorm, I think a large part of the industry will be very very skeptical with a company that no one, and I mean no one, trusts. Unlike Hailstorm, hardware manufacturers stand to make money here, by forcing upgrades on customers (You need a new computer to run WindowsPalladium) and some of them will, in light of poor sales in recent times, almost certainly jump on the bandwagon.
Up until this release I was in the market for a new Powerbook. Now, I've mailed Apple and told them that they have just lost me as a customer. Make no mistake, I think OSX is by far the nicest OS around today, but I'm tired of a company that is so frightened of the very sites that drive it's sales presenting more RDF than Steve Job's himself.
Apples hardware is fine. In realworld day to day tasks, I don't need a 2GHz Laptop, but the price is always high and PC's are simply cheaper and Linux seems to run fairly well on a crop of PC laptops.
I'm tired of Apple and it's antics. It's OS, no matter how good, hasn't helped get me a job.
As someone who has had a long struggle against bad depression and various mental ailments and who has managed to right himself I can testify to wallace's struggle with jobs and his immense fear of the world, because his paranoia is more fear than anything else.
From my own perspective I would see Wallace's story somewhat differently. I see someone who missed out in childhood on the self confidence needed to make friends, cope with setbacks without taking it too seriouosly etc. His compulsion with Alice , and the obvious amount of time he must have spent in front of the computer in doing it, seems like a logical retreat from the real world, but still trying to gain the recognition he wanted at the same time. Anyone who doesn't get at least mildly depressed after spending 72 hour sessions in front of the computer is not human. I have an idea that he then made things worse by not taking care of himself (sleep, sport, seeing friends etc) and the use of dope. Very depressed people tend to lose their orientaion in both a physical as well as mental fashion and grass doesn't help here except to aleviate the anxiety felt by the person who obviously starts getting more and more frightened the more disorientated they are.
Left untreated (and I don't mean medication, just normal common sense taking care of oneself, speaking to friends etc) the depression eventually starts to take on other forms, one of which is Manic-Depression(or Bi-Polar syndrome), another is schizophrenia. It depends on the person. However, once the problems have gotten this far, it becomes very difficult or pratically impossible for the person to cope without fairly strong medication, and the last thing that they should be doing is exposing themsleves to the situation that creates their problem in the first place. Sadly, concentrating on the computer enables people like this to forget their suffering for a while at least, and often become obsessivley hooked to the screen.
Long walks, good sleep, decent food and one or two good friends would have done more for Richard Wallace, IMO, than anything else including ALICE.
here is an email address on that page where the public can send comments. I don't know whether it's the right one, but since that site is collecting comments and has no form you could just try mailing them, if only to ask where the form is.
Note before I start: This comment of mine says nothing about the quality of indian engineering or the state of life in that subcontinent. This because I see some over zealous Indians getting upset about perceived racism where there is actually valid questions. (I come from africa so fuck you anyway with your claims of racism)
I personally have my doubts with this device. I personally think that a standard PC with Windows or Linux Speech Input would do the job at the same price for a community of users. Even devices such as a modified iPaq or a Sharp Zaurus would do the trick. I don't know the conditions in India but I do know that induviduals in India and South Africa have started to set up Internet Cafe's etc in poorer areas and there was an artcle on the BBC on one of these places hooking up to a hospital so that the Doctor could do some diagnosis via a web cam.
The thing is that these people have access to electricity and unless you have a device that charges via solar cells, you're going to have problems in poor third world areas. Not only this but I cannot imagine a device that is loaned out to various people lasting very long anywhere (school library books anyone?) and therefore think it really is a better idea to have the device centrally located in a village where it will also fit in better with a villages social customs instead of enforcing firstworld social isolation on the people.
However this thing could go anyway. The level of corruption in industry could ensure that it get's implemented in India on a national level, but nowhere else, just as has happened in South Africa, my own homeland.
This is OffTopic perhaps, but what on earth are you Indian people so incredibly oversensitive about? The article is about a special kind of PDA that the designers envisage as being usable in the third world through sharing. Whether or not it is a good idea surely says nothing good or bad about india.
How would you like it if the "white people" started getting affronted off every time some ignorant from India started claiming that we're all missionaries?
You seem to have a real inferiority complex if you have to go and brag about your living standards like you do. Is it because 99,9% of your feelow countrymen couldn't afford one square foot of your house?
1.777's. It was two 767's not two 777's. 2.If you'ld have read the article you'ld have noticed that the guy put his fist through the door in a rage of whatever induced fury. It also says that the other baboon was even worse. I would have warned him once and stepped back. When he walked in through the door I would have shot him in the chest with the whole mag. Perhaps I would have asked him a question or two about peasants in far away countries or the value of steroids vs. 9mm ammo before he breathed his last.
And you Americans accuse OBL of being a sick fuck? I don't normally think or say things like this, but reading the replies here makes me think that every one of you who replied "who wouldn't?" deserved to be in that fucking tower when OBL's goons trashed it last year. The peasants on the other side of the world getting their revenge on psychopathic bastards like you.
I read things like this, and while a part of knows that it is part of life and you will always have some brutus type exploit others, another part of me reads this and thinks it's not very diffierent to the cold blooded murderous crap that OBL came up with. I would love to have one of the muscle bound baboons that ran this show in my sights when he walked up the driveway asking why I couldn't bother to turn up at his sleeze parlour. And I'd love to see his muscles stop my bullets when he tried to punch my door down.
1.Good strategy for Apple to ensure that it can't be killed no matter what. 2.A bit of Job's vengeance for Billg screwing him over all those years? 3.A bad idea to discontinue the Windows versions as this will surely encourage Billg to retaliate (no OfficeX updates?) 4.A good idea to get the market to sit up and notice those fancy Apple samba footwork moves? 5.An omen of more to come?
I submitted this two months ago on the 26th of April and it got rejected. I sometimes would like to know if it's only alcohol they use to select their stories or if other drugs are involved as well?
Reading Philip K Dick's letter to the FBI about Lem says legions about Philip K Dick, the FBI and the level of intelligence in the intelligence community.
I tend to agree with the poster that said that governments will only take notice when one of these actually does hit the earth. I imagine it will happen sooner or later, it being more a question of when than if? A 500 meter asteroid would make quite a mess if it impacted near to an inabited area. It would make GW's anti-terror plans to naught in seconds. Perhaps that would be a good thing.
I installed it and as soon as I took a look at it's MSN default, it went off the task bar. Moz 1.0 does just fine on my Mac and let's *me* control it, not the other way around.
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In the late 80's I sold and supported AT&T PC graphics products, such as Topas. They all had dongles, the little hardware things screwed into the seriell or parallel ports(can't actually remember) , and without which the software would not run. Autocad also had one. In no time whatsoever, there were hacks floating around (and this was before the internet) that bypassed these things, thereby effectively making them expensive (in development terms) toys.
MS' Palladium will almost assuredly go the same way. Why? Because, given MS's track record in security I simply cannot believe that someone will not find a method to bypass this.
It seems as if security within MS has always been subservient to marketing and planned obsolesance, because I don't believe that MS' coders are that bad, but that they are forced into the regimine of making products that neeed upgrading for no real purpose except to ensure MS profitability.
Palladium is, IMO, nothing more than yet another MS ploy to
1.Turn it's negative image in security around.
2.Work with the RIAA and MPAA in order to control what you play on your computer.
3.Stymy OSS by locking them out of the hardware. (Yes I know that theoretically it's open architecture, but theoretically Hailstorm services could be provided by others as well)
4.Generate an endless stream of revenue by making built in subscription/obsolescence etc.
Like Hailstorm, I think a large part of the industry will be very very skeptical with a company that no one, and I mean no one, trusts. Unlike Hailstorm, hardware manufacturers stand to make money here, by forcing upgrades on customers (You need a new computer to run WindowsPalladium) and some of them will, in light of poor sales in recent times, almost certainly jump on the bandwagon.
Up until this release I was in the market for a new Powerbook. Now, I've mailed Apple and told them that they have just lost me as a customer. Make no mistake, I think OSX is by far the nicest OS around today, but I'm tired of a company that is so frightened of the very sites that drive it's sales presenting more RDF than Steve Job's himself.
Apples hardware is fine. In realworld day to day tasks, I don't need a 2GHz Laptop, but the price is always high and PC's are simply cheaper and Linux seems to run fairly well on a crop of PC laptops.
I'm tired of Apple and it's antics. It's OS, no matter how good, hasn't helped get me a job.
It seems a high price to pay for a toy.
As someone who has had a long struggle against bad depression and various mental ailments and who has managed to right himself I can testify to wallace's struggle with jobs and his immense fear of the world, because his paranoia is more fear than anything else.
From my own perspective I would see Wallace's story somewhat differently. I see someone who missed out in childhood on the self confidence needed to make friends, cope with setbacks without taking it too seriouosly etc. His compulsion with Alice , and the obvious amount of time he must have spent in front of the computer in doing it, seems like a logical retreat from the real world, but still trying to gain the recognition he wanted at the same time. Anyone who doesn't get at least mildly depressed after spending 72 hour sessions in front of the computer is not human. I have an idea that he then made things worse by not taking care of himself (sleep, sport, seeing friends etc) and the use of dope. Very depressed people tend to lose their orientaion in both a physical as well as mental fashion and grass doesn't help here except to aleviate the anxiety felt by the person who obviously starts getting more and more frightened the more disorientated they are.
Left untreated (and I don't mean medication, just normal common sense taking care of oneself, speaking to friends etc) the depression eventually starts to take on other forms, one of which is Manic-Depression(or Bi-Polar syndrome), another is schizophrenia. It depends on the person. However, once the problems have gotten this far, it becomes very difficult or pratically impossible for the person to cope without fairly strong medication, and the last thing that they should be doing is exposing themsleves to the situation that creates their problem in the first place. Sadly, concentrating on the computer enables people like this to forget their suffering for a while at least, and often become obsessivley hooked to the screen.
Long walks, good sleep, decent food and one or two good friends would have done more for Richard Wallace, IMO, than anything else including ALICE.
Howzit fuckhead.
here is an email address on that page where the public can send comments. I don't know whether it's the right one, but since that site is collecting comments and has no form you could just try mailing them, if only to ask where the form is.
Yanks against the wall with a bullet between the eyes.
Plain and simple. Up against the wall, bullet between the eyes and all this stupid shit would be over.
Note before I start: This comment of mine says nothing about the quality of indian engineering or the state of life in that subcontinent. This because I see some over zealous Indians getting upset about perceived racism where there is actually valid questions. (I come from africa so fuck you anyway with your claims of racism)
I personally have my doubts with this device. I personally think that a standard PC with Windows or Linux Speech Input would do the job at the same price for a community of users. Even devices such as a modified iPaq or a Sharp Zaurus would do the trick. I don't know the conditions in India but I do know that induviduals in India and South Africa have started to set up Internet Cafe's etc in poorer areas and there was an artcle on the BBC on one of these places hooking up to a hospital so that the Doctor could do some diagnosis via a web cam.
The thing is that these people have access to electricity and unless you have a device that charges via solar cells, you're going to have problems in poor third world areas. Not only this but I cannot imagine a device that is loaned out to various people lasting very long anywhere (school library books anyone?) and therefore think it really is a better idea to have the device centrally located in a village where it will also fit in better with a villages social customs instead of enforcing firstworld social isolation on the people.
However this thing could go anyway. The level of corruption in industry could ensure that it get's implemented in India on a national level, but nowhere else, just as has happened in South Africa, my own homeland.
It's a valid question. "I smell curry burning". Now that's a valid troll.
This is OffTopic perhaps, but what on earth are you Indian people so incredibly oversensitive about? The article is about a special kind of PDA that the designers envisage as being usable in the third world through sharing. Whether or not it is a good idea surely says nothing good or bad about india.
How would you like it if the "white people" started getting affronted off every time some ignorant from India started claiming that we're all missionaries?
From their FAQ:
/.er; in which case you know the answer!
Q: Can I create a Beowulf cluster using many Simputers?
A: You must be a
You seem to have a real inferiority complex if you have to go and brag about your living standards like you do. Is it because 99,9% of your feelow countrymen couldn't afford one square foot of your house?
Good
It's that simple.
Cheap, no DRM, owned by all, rugged, low on batteries, portable, and it computes.
1.777's. It was two 767's not two 777's.
2.If you'ld have read the article you'ld have noticed that the guy put his fist through the door in a rage of whatever induced fury. It also says that the other baboon was even worse. I would have warned him once and stepped back. When he walked in through the door I would have shot him in the chest with the whole mag. Perhaps I would have asked him a question or two about peasants in far away countries or the value of steroids vs. 9mm ammo before he breathed his last.
And you Americans accuse OBL of being a sick fuck? I don't normally think or say things like this, but reading the replies here makes me think that every one of you who replied "who wouldn't?" deserved to be in that fucking tower when OBL's goons trashed it last year. The peasants on the other side of the world getting their revenge on psychopathic bastards like you.
I read things like this, and while a part of knows that it is part of life and you will always have some brutus type exploit others, another part of me reads this and thinks it's not very diffierent to the cold blooded murderous crap that OBL came up with. I would love to have one of the muscle bound baboons that ran this show in my sights when he walked up the driveway asking why I couldn't bother to turn up at his sleeze parlour. And I'd love to see his muscles stop my bullets when he tried to punch my door down.
1.Good strategy for Apple to ensure that it can't be killed no matter what.
2.A bit of Job's vengeance for Billg screwing him over all those years?
3.A bad idea to discontinue the Windows versions as this will surely encourage Billg to retaliate (no OfficeX updates?)
4.A good idea to get the market to sit up and notice those fancy Apple samba footwork moves?
5.An omen of more to come?
I submitted this two months ago on the 26th of April and it got rejected. I sometimes would like to know if it's only alcohol they use to select their stories or if other drugs are involved as well?
Reading Philip K Dick's letter to the FBI about Lem says legions about Philip K Dick, the FBI and the level of intelligence in the intelligence community.
I tend to agree with the poster that said that governments will only take notice when one of these actually does hit the earth. I imagine it will happen sooner or later, it being more a question of when than if? A 500 meter asteroid would make quite a mess if it impacted near to an inabited area. It would make GW's anti-terror plans to naught in seconds. Perhaps that would be a good thing.
Corel made a completely new interface with each version, which is why their product died out.
That will make some people sit back and take a second glance.
I wonder how MS will try to counter this? This is what MS did to Netscape and somehow it's fun to watch someone else do it to them.
I installed it and as soon as I took a look at it's MSN default, it went off the task bar. Moz 1.0 does just fine on my Mac and let's *me* control it, not the other way around.