I sleep better at night knowing that through the tireless
diligence of webmasters all over the world, running
millions of reverse IP lookups every day,
there is probably not a single copy of ssh available in any
of those countries. Kudos to all those who participate
in this grand, impenetrable virtual fortress.
This achievement is a real testament to the vision and wisdom
of our leaders.
It could get tough. We already have a "War on Drugs" and a "War on Terrorism". Soon,
our law enforcement officials will be waging a "War on Turing-Complete Computing Apparatus".
Columbian drug lords will set up chip fabs in the jungle.
Chip runners will swallow condoms full of CPUs and crap
them out once they get inside the USA. You'll see people
selling unregulated CPUs on the street for $100/MHz.
Farmers are so grossly underpaid that many of them have no choice but to sell out to a corporation farm.
Maybe that's just the natural economic result of modern technology. Ever since Henry Ford came along, very few cars have been handcrafted by individual proprietors. If such a crafstman tried to compete on price with major manufacturers, they would be grossly underpaid. Why would food be any different?
As others have pointed out, some trucks do
weight more than three tons. Check your math next time.
As far as the gun license thing, at least if I haven't
shot anyone recently, I can still buy a gun. I won't
be able to buy a non FU-d computer even if I pass a
background check that shows I haven't been convicted
of illegaly copying movies. I'm presumed guilty of piracy with no reprieve.
Maybe you could just build a hermetic bubble and have your own little economy of one inside, completely isolated from any other annoying people. You could print your own personal money and pay yourself 100% tax free. Without taxes to put a friction on your economy, you could be a billionaire!
Schools should be teaching many languages to each student.
That way, they will be prepared to learn any language they
need on the job in short order.
In the early 80's, I used many languages in my CS courses:
Pascal, Basic, Forth, PDP-11 assembler, 6502 assembler,
PL-1, FORTRAN, custom Microcode and Lisp. My classes also focused on fundamental algorithms, so I got exposed to 'pointers' via array inices even in languages that didn't use actual pointers.
When I got to my first job, I had actually never seen a single
line of C code. However, using the wide background I had been
taught, I was able to get up to speed on C in no time. Within a week,
coding in C like a pro.
Hopefully they aren't teaching Java
to the exclusion of any other language these days.
It was supposed to open up Long distance to the Baby Bells IF they opened up local access.
But why would they want to give up a monopoly on selling 30-mile connections at 20 cents/minute for an opportunity to sell 2000-mile connections at 6 cents/minute? It's no wonder they never bothered to act.
Maybe with speeds like this, they could bring back
a concept from the 1950's: the 1-bit serial computer.
IIRC, these were popular for scientific computing because the
there was no native word size, and the numbers could be
as large or small as needed.
It seems like you could put together a CPU with
performance rivaling current high-end chips using a tiny
fraction of today's transistor count if all data paths are
only 1 bit wide. The die size could be miniscule.
The movie industry needs to just let it go, man.
If they would just stop this anal-retentive obsession
over total control and focus on selling movies, they'd
be making more money than ever.
If they would just sell DVDs for $11.99 and and provide movie
downloads for $5.99, only a very few would bother pirating
their stuff. Forget the encryption mumbo-jumbo. Make
it easy for your customers to have a good experience.
Every time somebody sneaks snacks into a movie
in their purse, the movie industry loses a few dollars
of revenue that should have been spent on outrageously priced candy. However, if people were strip-searched entering the
theaters so that the few 'snack-pirates' would be caught,
there would be a huge backlash, so they live with the illicit food munchers.
As it happens, 99% of the people buy the food in the theaters anyway.
No need for high-tech countermeasures or a Concessional Millenium Snackfood Act
to protect the theater owners..
It's too bad that the
media corporations can't seem to apply real-world
customer relations common sense to the digital realm.
As soon as Mac users can figure out how to make money playing Quake III as opposed to using Photoshop, I'm sure they'll be willing to switch their performance metrics.
That's easy. There is no shortage of positions where you can make money playing Quake III. Just find a company with a project that has no clear direction and poor management.There are countless thousands of these situations available at any given time.
I've seen highly paid engineers go for months at a time doing nothing but playing Quake and surfing the web.
These positions don't tend to last that long, though, so you'd have to be prepared to move arouind a bit.
It also helps to find a group with a good technician/sysadmin who orders workstations outfitted with the right "goodies".
That would be a second amendment issue, since these SUVs can in a pinch be used as tanks (weapons) by the militia.
Actually, from what I see on the news, most ragtag militias seem to prefer compact pickup trucks. These have a convenient platform to mount a large machine gun on. SUVs just don't look that practical for post-apocalyptic conflict.
Here we go again. With this new release the Mac people are going to be once again
touting the same old obscure algorithm in Photoshop
that is custom tuned for the bizzare custom coprocessing
unit in their 12MHz processors. They will try to
extrapolate that to the general case to prove that
Macs are always faster than PCs.
PC users know better though. The truth is that the only
valid metric of computer performance is
Quake III frames per second.:-)
/me would consider this guy scammed even if he *had* gotten his
porcelain mice.
I can attest to that. Porcelain mice
are heavy slippery and easy to break. They tend to aggrivate RSI problems.
One of the worst things about them is that if you don't have
a mouse pad, they make a screeching sound like fingernails on
a chalkboard when you move them. I would never bid on one.
Nobody ever claimed that a fetus wasn't alive; that's not
the debate. The debate is over whether the fetus has
all of the rights of a person. We have no problem
killing bacteria, plants, insects and cows every day even though they are all 'living'. If we discover some form
of life on Mars, one of the first things we will do is kill
a few of them so we can study them.
Gnome probably isn't mentioned in this context because it wont't
be the driving force behind "taking over the desktop". That's because
Gnome "just doesn't get it" with regards to catering to converted Windows users.
For example, God intended that Alt+F4 should close a window. Last I tried Gnome,
it switches me to desktop 4. I can't think of any argument why
some arbitrary key mappings would be any better or worse than those in Windows.
Given that 95% of today's GUI users are used to one system,
why not ship it the Windows way by default.
Trying to understand climates with our level of technology is like a caveman trying to understand nuclear physics.
So you conclude that if we don't understand the climate, that there's nothing to worry about.
Hey, why not put your caveman at the controls of a nuclear power plant and let him play with all of the buttons and knobs?
He certainly doesn't understand nuclear physics, and the noises and lights make him happy, so everything will be fine!
Upload this OS onto every warez site and file sharing network on the Internet. Put it on disks and sell it for $1 at flea markets. Let's see how they like their stuff copied!
(oh wait...)
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consistent keystrokes that can copy and paste between apps -- is that so much to ask?
Dude, that would be, like, taking freedom of choice away from the people. Every application needs to be free to negotiate data transfer with other apps as it sees fit.
What if an application knows that it handles data better than anyone else? Why should it give up its data to some inferior process? Why should it accept data from some flawed source? Remember, it's Garbage In, Garbage Out. Apps need to be able to protect themselves from other people's garbage.
As someone already pointed out, they make money from commercials... when someone downloads a show and watches it without commercials (as I've done with enterprise many times) it degrades the amount they can charge for commercials...so, you're the dumb motherfucker, not the guy you responded to...
What you describe is called copyright infringement. You describe the basis behind why copyright infringement is not legal. Your particular example may or may not fall under fair use. Either way, it still isn't theft. Now, reread this paragraph again and again until you understand.
How about not r(e)broadcasting anything that you don't own or is from someone that's doesn't want you to rebroadcast it? You don't own it, it wasn't given to you, don't touch it. How hard is that? Terms of contract unacceptable? Go somewhere else, or nowhere else. It's your descision, make it a responsible one.
RTFHeader. It's a compulsory license. You have a right to rebroadcast the music regardless of the owners' wishes.
The issue isn't dealing with the owners. It's dealing with the government who sets the compulsory rebroadcast licensing fees.
Remember, Microsoft does *NOT* have a monopoly on the console market, and has to claw it's way into contention.
However, they are using a version of its monopoly OS
inside this console. I would argue that the XBox
therefore should be placed under the same anti-trust
restrictions as anything else having to do with their
monopoly. They are levereging their monopoly to
extend into a new market. If this controller
story is true, they are using the controllers
to protect their attempt to extend their monopoly.
Putting Windows in the XBox gives them a huge
licensing cost advantage, lowers the bar for porting
PC games, and raises the bar for competitors in
the console market.
If they want the XBox to be free of anti-trust restrictions,
that would be fine, and they could do whatever they
want to annoy their customers. However, to do this
they would have to develop a new OS for the
console that has nothing to do with Windows,
or buy an OS from another vendor.
Some major FCC rules about media ownership were ruled as "arbitrary"
This is great news. There are thousands of arbitrary laws on the books that must now be repealed. Let's start with this one: in my state, you can't buy beer on Sundays before noon. What's up with that? Why not Tuesdays 2-6 p.m.?
No, it would be silly to put CTRL, ALT or DEL keys
on a phone, because it's not a PC. What Microsoft
actually plans to do is to wedge a tiny Windows
button and Context Menu button between the '*'
and '#' buttons.
Over time, all phones will have 14 buttons standard
rather than 12. There will be a thriving secondary
market for little penguin stickers that people can
paste over their Windows button after they load
Linux into their phones.
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This achievement is a real testament to the vision and wisdom of our leaders.
It could get tough. We already have a "War on Drugs" and a "War on Terrorism". Soon, our law enforcement officials will be waging a "War on Turing-Complete Computing Apparatus".
Columbian drug lords will set up chip fabs in the jungle. Chip runners will swallow condoms full of CPUs and crap them out once they get inside the USA. You'll see people selling unregulated CPUs on the street for $100/MHz.
Maybe that's just the natural economic result of modern technology. Ever since Henry Ford came along, very few cars have been handcrafted by individual proprietors. If such a crafstman tried to compete on price with major manufacturers, they would be grossly underpaid. Why would food be any different?
As far as the gun license thing, at least if I haven't shot anyone recently, I can still buy a gun. I won't be able to buy a non FU-d computer even if I pass a background check that shows I haven't been convicted of illegaly copying movies. I'm presumed guilty of piracy with no reprieve.
We trust the people enough to sell lethal firearms to anybody who walks in off of the street.
We trust the people enough to let a soccer mom drive a 3-ton truck with no special training.
But we don't trust the people enough to let them have a general-purpose computer.
It's insane.
Maybe you could just build a hermetic bubble and have your own little economy of one inside, completely isolated from any other annoying people. You could print your own personal money and pay yourself 100% tax free. Without taxes to put a friction on your economy, you could be a billionaire!
In the early 80's, I used many languages in my CS courses: Pascal, Basic, Forth, PDP-11 assembler, 6502 assembler, PL-1, FORTRAN, custom Microcode and Lisp. My classes also focused on fundamental algorithms, so I got exposed to 'pointers' via array inices even in languages that didn't use actual pointers.
When I got to my first job, I had actually never seen a single line of C code. However, using the wide background I had been taught, I was able to get up to speed on C in no time. Within a week, coding in C like a pro.
Hopefully they aren't teaching Java to the exclusion of any other language these days.
But why would they want to give up a monopoly on selling 30-mile connections at 20 cents/minute for an opportunity to sell 2000-mile connections at 6 cents/minute? It's no wonder they never bothered to act.
It seems like you could put together a CPU with performance rivaling current high-end chips using a tiny fraction of today's transistor count if all data paths are only 1 bit wide. The die size could be miniscule.
If they would just sell DVDs for $11.99 and and provide movie downloads for $5.99, only a very few would bother pirating their stuff. Forget the encryption mumbo-jumbo. Make it easy for your customers to have a good experience.
Every time somebody sneaks snacks into a movie in their purse, the movie industry loses a few dollars of revenue that should have been spent on outrageously priced candy. However, if people were strip-searched entering the theaters so that the few 'snack-pirates' would be caught, there would be a huge backlash, so they live with the illicit food munchers. As it happens, 99% of the people buy the food in the theaters anyway. No need for high-tech countermeasures or a Concessional Millenium Snackfood Act to protect the theater owners..
It's too bad that the media corporations can't seem to apply real-world customer relations common sense to the digital realm.
That's easy. There is no shortage of positions where you can make money playing Quake III. Just find a company with a project that has no clear direction and poor management.There are countless thousands of these situations available at any given time.
I've seen highly paid engineers go for months at a time doing nothing but playing Quake and surfing the web. These positions don't tend to last that long, though, so you'd have to be prepared to move arouind a bit.
It also helps to find a group with a good technician/sysadmin who orders workstations outfitted with the right "goodies".
Actually, from what I see on the news, most ragtag militias seem to prefer compact pickup trucks. These have a convenient platform to mount a large machine gun on. SUVs just don't look that practical for post-apocalyptic conflict.
PC users know better though. The truth is that the only valid metric of computer performance is Quake III frames per second. :-)
I can attest to that. Porcelain mice are heavy slippery and easy to break. They tend to aggrivate RSI problems. One of the worst things about them is that if you don't have a mouse pad, they make a screeching sound like fingernails on a chalkboard when you move them. I would never bid on one.
Nobody ever claimed that a fetus wasn't alive; that's not the debate. The debate is over whether the fetus has all of the rights of a person. We have no problem killing bacteria, plants, insects and cows every day even though they are all 'living'. If we discover some form of life on Mars, one of the first things we will do is kill a few of them so we can study them.
Gnome probably isn't mentioned in this context because it wont't be the driving force behind "taking over the desktop". That's because Gnome "just doesn't get it" with regards to catering to converted Windows users.
For example, God intended that Alt+F4 should close a window. Last I tried Gnome, it switches me to desktop 4. I can't think of any argument why some arbitrary key mappings would be any better or worse than those in Windows. Given that 95% of today's GUI users are used to one system, why not ship it the Windows way by default.
So you conclude that if we don't understand the climate, that there's nothing to worry about. Hey, why not put your caveman at the controls of a nuclear power plant and let him play with all of the buttons and knobs? He certainly doesn't understand nuclear physics, and the noises and lights make him happy, so everything will be fine!
(oh wait...)
Dude, that would be, like, taking freedom of choice away from the people. Every application needs to be free to negotiate data transfer with other apps as it sees fit.
What if an application knows that it handles data better than anyone else? Why should it give up its data to some inferior process? Why should it accept data from some flawed source? Remember, it's Garbage In, Garbage Out. Apps need to be able to protect themselves from other people's garbage.
What you describe is called copyright infringement. You describe the basis behind why copyright infringement is not legal. Your particular example may or may not fall under fair use. Either way, it still isn't theft. Now, reread this paragraph again and again until you understand.
Bzzzt. It's not like stealing your wallet. It's like making an unauthorized copy of your wallet.
IP 'Piracy' is not theft. It is copyright infringement.
RTFHeader. It's a compulsory license. You have a right to rebroadcast the music regardless of the owners' wishes.
The issue isn't dealing with the owners. It's dealing with the government who sets the compulsory rebroadcast licensing fees.
However, they are using a version of its monopoly OS inside this console. I would argue that the XBox therefore should be placed under the same anti-trust restrictions as anything else having to do with their monopoly. They are levereging their monopoly to extend into a new market. If this controller story is true, they are using the controllers to protect their attempt to extend their monopoly.
Putting Windows in the XBox gives them a huge licensing cost advantage, lowers the bar for porting PC games, and raises the bar for competitors in the console market.
If they want the XBox to be free of anti-trust restrictions, that would be fine, and they could do whatever they want to annoy their customers. However, to do this they would have to develop a new OS for the console that has nothing to do with Windows, or buy an OS from another vendor.
This is great news. There are thousands of arbitrary laws on the books that must now be repealed. Let's start with this one: in my state, you can't buy beer on Sundays before noon. What's up with that? Why not Tuesdays 2-6 p.m.?
Over time, all phones will have 14 buttons standard rather than 12. There will be a thriving secondary market for little penguin stickers that people can paste over their Windows button after they load Linux into their phones.