yeah, sure you could buy limewirepro (and i know they've opensourced at least some of their stuff, only joe average user doesn't want to hack away all the ads which are there in their opensource version, too) but then again there's gnucleus (GPL), which i have found to be the best windows gnutella client, which doesn't have any corporate shit in it, and there's other opensource gnutella clients for windows and some for linux, and possibly other OSs, too. i mean there really is enough free-as-in-speech filesharing software out there, quite a buch of the programs are easy to use, gnutella with supernodes rocks, there's the openFT effort (though not finished yet), there's freenet... what i just hate are users bitching about companies which they really don't need to have any business with, there are enough alternatives, if nobody uses ad- and spyware-enabled apps these companies just die, exactly what they deserve. you can make the difference, and it won't even hurt (quite the opposite in fact)
i'm not so sure microsoft would be very happy with that kind of solution... i'm sure they got the money to pay, but having it used to fund an alternative that might eventually become a better and even more widely used alterantive to windows is most certainly NOT something they would like to see.
now what you're trying to do here is to competely emulate reality - but then it would seem to me that the advantages of having a computer system (instead of a real desk, etc) would be rather small.
i think that maybe we shouldn't keep trying to make our computers behave like the old paper-and-pencil way of working we're stuck with right now but to go even further and change the way we work to something more optimized for the inclusion of computers in our everyday tasks... i don't really know what this would look like, or how to implement it, but to me it would be the logical extension to inventing new interfaces: invent new methods of working with data.
btw, having the computer read my thoughs insted of having to type or talk with it would be a really interesting input method...
I think the thing to remember here is that germany has always (since the end of WWII that is) been censoring any kind of (neo)nazi-propaganda... you may not even display swastikas in public (unless it's for "educational" purposes). The reasoning behind this is that naziism is trying to destroy the current democratic system. You also cannot form a political party with a stated goal of turning germany into anything else but a democracy. Considering this I think it is undertandable that the government would like to outlaw nazi-propaganda on the net, too. Many people in germany say that this is because the "Weimar" constitution, which was very liberal, helped Hitler to come to power, and obviously nobody wants to see this happen again. The problem here is that there has never (again since the end of WWII) been an absolute freedom of speech (like the US like to believe they have) in Germany. (Personally I think they shouldn't be censoring at all, but if they have to maybe they should consider blocking those sites from being viewed from germany instead of DOSing them so they don't conflict with other countries' legal systems)
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yeah, sure you could buy limewirepro (and i know they've opensourced at least some of their stuff, only joe average user doesn't want to hack away all the ads which are there in their opensource version, too)
but then again there's gnucleus (GPL), which i have found to be the best windows gnutella client, which doesn't have any corporate shit in it, and there's other opensource gnutella clients for windows and some for linux, and possibly other OSs, too.
i mean there really is enough free-as-in-speech filesharing software out there, quite a buch of the programs are easy to use, gnutella with supernodes rocks, there's the openFT effort (though not finished yet), there's freenet...
what i just hate are users bitching about companies which they really don't need to have any business with, there are enough alternatives, if nobody uses ad- and spyware-enabled apps these companies just die, exactly what they deserve. you can make the difference, and it won't even hurt (quite the opposite in fact)
i'm not so sure microsoft would be very happy with that kind of solution... i'm sure they got the money to pay, but having it used to fund an alternative that might eventually become a better and even more widely used alterantive to windows is most certainly NOT something they would like to see.
now what you're trying to do here is to competely emulate reality - but then it would seem to me that the advantages of having a computer system (instead of a real desk, etc) would be rather small.
i think that maybe we shouldn't keep trying to make our computers behave like the old paper-and-pencil way of working we're stuck with right now but to go even further and change the way we work to something more optimized for the inclusion of computers in our everyday tasks... i don't really know what this would look like, or how to implement it, but to me it would be the logical extension to inventing new interfaces: invent new methods of working with data.
btw, having the computer read my thoughs insted of having to type or talk with it would be a really interesting input method...
I think the thing to remember here is that germany has always (since the end of WWII that is) been censoring any kind of (neo)nazi-propaganda... you may not even display swastikas in public (unless it's for "educational" purposes). The reasoning behind this is that naziism is trying to destroy the current democratic system. You also cannot form a political party with a stated goal of turning germany into anything else but a democracy. Considering this I think it is undertandable that the government would like to outlaw nazi-propaganda on the net, too. Many people in germany say that this is because the "Weimar" constitution, which was very liberal, helped Hitler to come to power, and obviously nobody wants to see this happen again. The problem here is that there has never (again since the end of WWII) been an absolute freedom of speech (like the US like to believe they have) in Germany.
(Personally I think they shouldn't be censoring at all, but if they have to maybe they should consider blocking those sites from being viewed from germany instead of DOSing them so they don't conflict with other countries' legal systems)