i agree, i don't want to see 1 moving thing behind the screen when i write my code. distractions like "seeing the work flow" will only upset you. maybe some people like to see the secretary leaning over the table to get the pencil that she dropped, but this hardly makes your code better.
ps. lunch is always too soon, also the time to go home.
just as one example. read. think. you'd be better off with decaf coffee than with black tea.
i however ignore the fact and enjoy my coffe. what's the point of having a half value long life versus a shorter at full throttle ? sure you can still see girls on the streets when i'm in the grave but you'll be getting laid at 80 as much as i do 6 feet under.
having supreme intellectual powers doesn't mean that they will ever be anything else than an illegal immigrant for some people. sometimes it's the "other side" of the world that needs a bit changing and not the 3rd world itself.
if you have no way to use your intelligence makes it's pretty worthless. it's as good as owning a ferrari in the heart of sahara, you have no roads that you could drive on and no gas to tank it up.
in the case that the french analytics are correct and the western civilization, as we know it, gets a heavy beating in the following decade or two, i feel sorry for the poor souls that work their ass out to get into the "good western world" just to see it collapsing. all their effort going down the drain.
however, i hope that the french are incorrect (even for my own sake:p) and that some of them succeed. fresh ideas and new visions are now needed more than ever.
I think nowadays more than 50% of java coders dont know much about c++. althrough they would manage to write simpler stuff in c++ just by the guts.
And anyone who's a serious C++/Java programmer doesn't think that C# is for morons, it's just a bit different, but still the same thing. The overall technique to write in the language is still the same, there are just some lexical and some structural differences, but they are not as different as basic and lisp.
It's just the disgusting aftertaste of "pay microsoft a lot to run this faster than mono can do" that quite many people don't like. Mono is on the right path with it's evolution, but it's still not comparable in the terms of speed to microsoft's own platform or to java on any other system. C++ is not being interpreted and jitted so we can skip it in this section.
My vision is that they are all usable languages, you should just use them dependantly from the context, i prefer java because of the cost and portability for now. But if C# get's faster on *nix platforms and matures a bit, i'm sure a lot of people will use it and nobody will call them morons.
I hate the ignorant snobs who think that people who use more portable solutions automatically define C#'rs as morons.
i think that after posting this story on slashdot, there's really little chance to do anything on the machine for today, and if you know a way to hack a mac, you wouldn't really expose it just yet:p
however, from tfa you can read that the zdnet "test" gave the hackers local access to the machine meaning the hackers had regular user accounts on it to use.
ftfa "How might a Linux or BSD distribution, other commercial UNIXes, or Windows stand up to a similar challenge, where anyone who wishes is given local account access?"
I think *BSD will stand for a while, if the linux machine has a reasonable distro (meaning not everyone can do sudo let-the-hack-begin) it will again take quite a while to punch a hole.
as for windows, a regular user account on a regular windows installation - zap:)
i'm very disappointed in zdnet for this "masterpiece"...
ps. i will get a mac one day... if i can afford it... preferably a non-intel-mac
maybe they should write a book about avoiding security instead:p
seriously, if anyone trusts such information to the browser then their books are really good - for making fire into fireplaces and to cook marshmellows on them...
besides what's worth a book on a platform that was probably at first designed on a transactionless database and in a language which had nearly zero seriously takeable oop support features ?
it's year 2006, unless you can overhype your code with xml/oop/ajax/ it's hardly even worth to look at the backcover of the book to find a funny joke...
Sometimes when i open my older mailboxes (which sadly have no spamcheckers) and need a calculator to count the spam messages, i really feel like i'd rather disable the hacker himself, literally.
I really don't need V!@gr@ nor do i want to buy any other drugs really cheap. And i really don't need the emails that advertise them. Reading e-mail is as private for me as sex is for some other people, if i don't advertise my software products next to your bed while you're having sex, i'd also expect you not to climb into my mailbox to advertise yours.
Isn't it time to dump the current e-mail system as it is and move on to something else that's really private and personal ? Sure you can have zillion filters installed but sometimes the filters take out stuff that you need and sometimes they let in stuff that you don't need, they are not perfect. I do understand that by the time the e-mail protocol was invented, the inventors themselves couldn't imagine spamfarms all over the world sending fake emails but around 30-40 years have passed , maybe it's time to let it go ?
Sure we can't dump the current e-mail mess in one day, but an alternative solution that would slowly take stuff over and be non-anonymous would make very many of us really really happy. If sending out mail would only be authorized to organizations and identified persons, it would make the network a lot cleaner.
PS. I know it's just a dream and utterly non-realistic in the currect circumstances... but it would still be nice:)
1) choose a packaged software from a company, pay for it's licence and the support sums later 2) choose oss and hire a developer
i'm for option 2, because unlike the licence&support, it starts to change the software in the direction that you really need to, instead of what a salesman of ZYX-gamma company in mind when he first wrote the whitepaper.
there is no real black and white on this issue, sometimes you have to be compatible with others, then you go for 1, sometimes you want to get specific stuff, then better go for 2:)
i don't know about you, but that automatic search stuff with microsoft always bugs me. so i always turn it off in IE. if i mispell a host, then half of the computers will f-ing freeze for seconds behind the zillion flash banners that will start up. i could discover and fix my typo sooner than the webpage loads itself, but since the flash/banner army is obviously hits the cpu with full force, there's no hope for it.
and how can microsoft say that they will be better than google in 6 months ? google will evolve as it has done for years, so google today isn't google after 6 months. google will definitely counter this, which hopefully will result better search conditions for all of us (both the msn and google fans).
sure msn's database may be cleaner to start up with, but then again, it really won't make it very far, soon there will be tricks out there how to fool it so that it will full of falsified results and asuch. if a company can't really make their own browser secure own their own platform, how can you expect that their searchengine will resist to the agressive attempts of 6 billion people who are either trying to advert their own webpages or businesses ? it takes 100 steps to get over the bridge over the river and it takes only one slip to fall into it... and somebody in microsoft's office is obviously wearing very slippery shoes.
i like google's light weight and i'm not a privacy maniac so i really don't care much that they do with my search habit statistics or whatever. msn's sites tend te be bloated with each kind of crap that i don't want to see even behind a naked woman.
imho msn lost the 'www war' along time ago, they just push it because it's microsoft, not because it could be good or it could be profitable to anyone.
if you can afford a 100" flat panel tv, you should have no problems with BUYING the movie;)
i on the otherhand certainly won't buy anything alike this in the nearest years (reason 1: i have a real life, so i dont really have time to watch tv, reason 2: my budget wouldnt like it, reason 3: there's something emotional about cinema's that you never get at home, even if you upgrade to 500"..), and neither will i invest money into expensive bluray players that show me stuff that i can't really see that well;)
i have seen most of the great/classic movies until now on dvd quality or in the cinema and for the crap that they make nowadays, it's not really worth to buy a bluray device, ffs, i won't even turn on my old tv to watch them.
anyway, as for the quality, most of the pirated movies don't go into bluray devices with 100" screens, they go into 21" tv's with dvd/divx players. and if it's old tv (not a flat panel but a kinescoped(yes i know i probably mispelled it) one) there's no bloody difference.
if virus writers are 'kindof gods', then we should uninstall antivirus software from everywhere, perhaps the viruses really let windows machines evolve and we'll have soon gentoo all over the place:)
actually this is what i have been wondering for a while, if we create a simple program which can rewrite itself, and we let a 'virus' attack it, and modify it randomly, will we end up with anything reasonable after enough modifications ? rationality says no, but the theory of possibilites says hell yeah !
not very surprisingly there are tons of 'china products' on the market which definitely are not made in china:) you want to ban them too ?
and why exactly are you so eager to shut them out ? they are closing themselves into the box, you don't have to help them with it:) there's a billion people on it, they can do it.
as for isolating the china from the rest of the world, where the hell have you mate been for the last century ? they have done it themselves all the time. and the way it looks right now for the great western world, their choice was not as bad as you would think at first...
everybody knows that an economical bomb is about to fall on our 'western world', they are just not quite sure when. if the overhyped birdflu or any other easilly spreading virus should ever really punch in with a bang, then the direct loss of human lives is by far beaten by the amount of lives lost by the drop of the economy. china's economy will take by far less beating since they don't really depend on this international integration, but the rest of us do.
sure right now it's better to be outside the the "wall of china", but if an euro or dollar will cost less than a yen of japan, it won't be so funny anymore. they don't really need us, but we need them. quite a large percentage of electronics you see every day is at least in some part of it's creation way passing through china. if you shut that all out, we're back in the 70s. don't get me wrong here, beegees were just fine... but that was 30 years ago and none really misses them that much that they'd sacrifice their pc, the microwave, the tv and his stereo to it.
a quote from an anonymous hollywood movie '{censored}, we have been f{censored}ed', is more than accurate.
yep, this is it. pay us more $$$ feature is the only 'real' thing that most people will see.
i wear glasses, and as they don't make it with 0.0001 accuracy, they make it with 0.25 accuracy. therefor my picture is always a bit fuzzy. i can't see one damn thing wrong with any of the current dvd-s that i use, and i certainly wont see the extra pixels that bluray ads.
and every monkey in the sony office knows that bluray discs in some kind of ripped format will be out sooner than you can say "you can't pirate this".
if the movie can be seen and heard by the consumer, it can also be ripped. it doesn't solve the problem, it just adds one more way to do it. a new and incredibly expensive way.
ofcourse sony can say that the pirated versions that are some kind of cheap non-high-digital rips, are crap in quality compared to their supreme bluray picture, but they will still be good enough for most people to watch. and that's what they'll have on bittorrent and buy on cheap made-in-paiwan dvd's.
they should make producing movie dvd-s etc. so cheap for themselves that there would no need for piracy, but instead they drive the prices up with a new incompatible format and hope for profit:) high five sony, you're just on the roll right now:D
fyi: was just ironically picking on the codeword pony tailed, and too lazy to write tons since my left little finger was just near the z at the moment.
however your post doesn't really make that much sense:)
I'm hoping somebody comes up with a commercial swiss army tool type media player that handles an extremely wide range of multimedia types, to include the proprietary versions. ever heard of mplayer ? i use it to play anything from content restricted dvd-s up to realmedia/quicktime/windowsmedia stuff. never had a compatibility problem with that one:p (infact, my machine does play a lot more than an average windows machine can).
you agree that compatibility is an issue and want to enforce nonfree software on a free platform. great & not so great. if you get the a car for free, why would you want to pay for the reflection in it's mirrors ?
your sarcasm is thrilling by the amount of enthusiasm, too bad you forgot to add something meaningful into it. and just as a newsflash, some people really use computers just for working and not for playing mp3-s. and if-or-not-playing-mp3-s is really not an argument for buying office software. compatibility of WORK tools is what counts.
ps. buy a sense of humor, i'm sure these retailer right next to you.
oh for f's sake, run windowmaker on the poor things at's as fast as a blast. you don't have to run kde 24/7 to get a working desktop. and as far as it goes over here, even win2k is huge overkill on a p2, running xp on it is like having a truck on a string behind a bicycle. and if you run anything else than only the explorer or a notepad, you'll swap yourself to death with windows. windowmaker on a pretty clean linux install will start up without swapping. windows with antivirus and antispyware crap will start to swap before you'll get the login screen...
and you seem to forget that the costs of a window machine don't stop with the licence:)
however i agree on the tech issue. that's a lot of people to convert into a new faith, it's a big investment of time and probably also money. in the long term it could pay off, but on the 21st century nobody really believes in long terms anymore, everyone wants stuff done and they want it done yesterday (at least it quite often feels like the deadline is passed before you hear the request).
somehow i feel that linux has been drifting into the wrong direction lately... everything is getting even more complicated than it was 4-5 years ago. sure the ubuntu installer will work fine, but if you have to hack around your kernel for a whole day just to get a quirky wifi driver working, you'll be buggered a lot more by the very same 'automatic helpers' than they were helping you in the start. and to make it even worse, the automatic helpers still look cryptic to dumbusers whom they are meant for (if an installer has any other button than 'next', they are screwed).
linux has lots of nice stuff, but your average teacher wont './configure && make && make install' it with the root rights that he/she is missing and without any knowledge at all what these lines stand for.
imho the 'friendliness' limit in the 'helped' linux environments was drawn into a wrong place, should be either higher or lower, but certainly not where it's right now.
ubuntu doesn't ship with an mp3 mplayer because of software patents:)
but why are you blaming the free software that it doesn't have non-free software bundled with it ? and why not blame the "real problem" between the chair and keyboard who encoded the files into a propietary format in the first place ?:p
anyway, around where i move, nobody gives a lama's ass about who can play some damn mp3-s or not. if they want it, they install xmms and everyone is happy.
the real problem is not being 100% compatible with microsoft's version of office. sure openoffice can do some tricks, but as long as the people can't really use the documents and datatables that they get from their business partners, linus may as well be growing ducks or harvesting a field, wouldn't make any difference.
home user's life may be deeply in love with music, but in 'real life', people want the work to get done, and if linux doesn't in any combination ship reliable software to do it , they just don't care. yes they fear the viruses, yes they like opensource and free stuff. but they need to get the job done aswell and they need to make a living from it. sending bug reports to openoffice's list doesn't pay the bill.
find a normal (non crossover office hack) way to run microsoft's office on linux, and you'll see people coming over within seconds.
ps. if you get office running, people will come over and the driver manufacturers will make propietary drivers for them. they won't bother to do it for us, the pony tailed hackers, but they will do it if the demand is big enough. sure it won't be all open source, but neither is nvidia's driver, and tonz of people still use it (me included).
how exactly do you count the number of television watchers or radio listeners ? it's easy... you don't...
the tv companies have no ide how many people are watching them, they believe the poll results that are given to them by poll companies that are in close connection with them and therefor not objective... there are automatic machines that can be placed between the tv and the antenna, but that only measures the looking statistics of people that really have this item installed (in my country there is a polling company that installs them, but since only very few people have it installed, it's again very far from reflecting the whole nation)
one request to a server upon each 'start' of watching won't kill the servers if the content is coming from elsewhere. and is by far more accurate than any polling company can give you.
ps. (not to mention the fact that its relatively cheap to setup a radio station). <--- my dearest, you obviously have no idea how much the licence to broadcast costs, ofcourse depends on the country but still , there are pretty many zeroes at the end of the number...
companies that make the robots and companies that use the robots will get all the money and profit. you'll be unemployed and dream about a robot that would you earn enough money to buy a cup of coffee...
it will take ages before you get this 'common wealth', and i don't want to see zillion workless people around until the companies understand that the money really isn't worth a thing...
bill gates could probably buy a notebook for every damn developer in the world, but is he doing it ? nope... so there you go.
actually it's more the way that the robot de-deploys you... meaning you will be unemployeed if the robots take over everything...
having automatic stuff around is nice, but to be jobless because of this can't be fun. luckily robots can't make software nor administrate it properly for a while so we're all saved for now.
but you should worry about the future;) the robots won't kill you, the economy will.
#be afraid of the robots... very afraid... cause they're almost as tough as chuck norris...
windows in year 2006 is a lot different than just starting up win 3.1 ten years ago;)
a zero user may get notepad running, but he will hardly manage to configure his topnotch wifi card running on ad-hoc mode just to exchange the data with his neighbour...
if you got a windows installation that works, then you're all set as a dumb user. but when you want to do something nonstandard (run a simple bash script as service that puts up images from your "easy-to-use" webcam to your website via copy on ssh), you are so scr*w*d...
it's easy to buy a bus ticket and avoid driving yourself, it's also easy to be a dumb serial worker instead of being the boss who has to make decisions. but some people want something more and just hit the walls on windows. it has certain barriers that are really hard to beat down.
as for messing on the X opengl stuff - i don't know what you see here, but i see just a linux company running a campaign against another one. so while microsoft kicks opengl in the n*ts with vista (read on opengl from wikipedia), the linux people are just making things messier than they are right now.
i think that setting up a proper installation of xwindows and a desktop stuff on it (i use kubuntu with kde over here, on an nvidia graphilized notebook with xinerama (since twinview isn't what i want or need)) is already complicated right now. and another version of configuring it will just create more confusion on the already confused userbase.
they are dropping opengl direct support. meaning your opengl based stuff will drop framerates and features if you upgrade to vista. for gamers it means lower framerates and shitier graphics in opengl based games like doom3 and quake3, for the modellers it means hell aswell.
Mono indeed does work on platforms other than windows, but it doesn't run, it's barely walking in the terms of speed.
A well written java application will kick the **** out of anything that mono can do with c# apps.
And if you have a bunch of sun servers in the corner and the performance and compatibility is the only way to go, then.net is a certain.not for now. Perhaps it will have chance in the future, but not really right now.
I took a look at C# for one day, i don't know what you people see in there, but i saw a java clone with some differences. And using it on linux with a regular text editor and mono's compiler was very very far from impressing me much.
Even if mono gets C# finally really running, who's in charge of the language itself ? M$! So you really want to trust your future in the hands of Ballmer and Gates ? Maybe you do, but I don't.
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yeah the webcam thing is quite fine for the purpose. i have a logitech quickcam here (had to build the kernel module by hand from sources found by google) but it works with the webcam application.
webcam can be set to react on image changes and a simple shell 5liner can be written which checks if the file has been modified since last upload and uploads it into the server via curl&http.
that's as simple as it can be, 1 kernel module, 1 application, 1 shell script.
you could also use the builtin features of webcam to upload images but using ftp is a bit too insecure for my case:)
erm... c++/c dont run under mono too, now do they ?:p
c/c++ are still used to be compiled into machine code while the new platforms all move towards the platform independant btecode and just in time compilation where ever it is executed.
c/c++ can be integrated into java, go grab a jni book.
if c#/mono would execute c/c++ inside it's virtual machine, it'd be just as slow as in jvm. and if it just inlines it, it's the same as jni, just more comfortable syntax.
c# is nowhere near the point where i'd accept it as a replacement for java. everything else aside, the c# api is still controlled by microsoft and therefor right at the fingertips of the great evil himself. if microsoft decides that c# v 2.1 must contain direct approach to directx or any other windows only lib, which doesn't exist anywhere outside, the c# effort from mono will be worthless within a day.
look at what windows vista did with it's direct3d alternative opengl. opengl is F-d in windows vista and doom3/quake4 only run normally in your wet dreams. microsoft wont ever give a real chance to alternatives. it just crushes them when the time is right.
ps. as long as windows programmers hardcode c:\program files\yada\yada paths into their applications, it's as portable as anything else that was invented on windows.
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if someone is dumb enough to give his bank details out for 20$ which he wont get, he's worth to lose whatever they take.
stupidity is the most common element in universe, even more common than hydrogen.
i agree, i don't want to see 1 moving thing behind the screen when i write my code. distractions like "seeing the work flow" will only upset you. maybe some people like to see the secretary leaning over the table to get the pencil that she dropped, but this hardly makes your code better.
ps. lunch is always too soon, also the time to go home.
if you think that the caffeine contained in 3 black tea's is in anyway less harmful in your teacup then you should just check up your facts again.
http://wilstar.com/caffeine.htm
just as one example. read. think. you'd be better off with decaf coffee than with black tea.
i however ignore the fact and enjoy my coffe. what's the point of having a half value long life versus a shorter at full throttle ? sure you can still see girls on the streets when i'm in the grave but you'll be getting laid at 80 as much as i do 6 feet under.
having supreme intellectual powers doesn't mean that they will ever be anything else than an illegal immigrant for some people. sometimes it's the "other side" of the world that needs a bit changing and not the 3rd world itself.
:p) and that some of them succeed. fresh ideas and new visions are now needed more than ever.
if you have no way to use your intelligence makes it's pretty worthless. it's as good as owning a ferrari in the heart of sahara, you have no roads that you could drive on and no gas to tank it up.
in the case that the french analytics are correct and the western civilization, as we know it, gets a heavy beating in the following decade or two, i feel sorry for the poor souls that work their ass out to get into the "good western world" just to see it collapsing. all their effort going down the drain.
however, i hope that the french are incorrect (even for my own sake
I think nowadays more than 50% of java coders dont know much about c++. althrough they would manage to write simpler stuff in c++ just by the guts.
And anyone who's a serious C++/Java programmer doesn't think that C# is for morons, it's just a bit different, but still the same thing. The overall technique to write in the language is still the same, there are just some lexical and some structural differences, but they are not as different as basic and lisp.
It's just the disgusting aftertaste of "pay microsoft a lot to run this faster than mono can do" that quite many people don't like. Mono is on the right path with it's evolution, but it's still not comparable in the terms of speed to microsoft's own platform or to java on any other system. C++ is not being interpreted and jitted so we can skip it in this section.
My vision is that they are all usable languages, you should just use them dependantly from the context, i prefer java because of the cost and portability for now. But if C# get's faster on *nix platforms and matures a bit, i'm sure a lot of people will use it and nobody will call them morons.
I hate the ignorant snobs who think that people who use more portable solutions automatically define C#'rs as morons.
i think that after posting this story on slashdot, there's really little chance to do anything on the machine for today, and if you know a way to hack a mac, you wouldn't really expose it just yet :p
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... if i can afford it ... preferably a non-intel-mac
however, from tfa you can read that the zdnet "test" gave the hackers local access to the machine meaning the hackers had regular user accounts on it to use.
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"How might a Linux or BSD distribution, other commercial UNIXes, or Windows stand up to a similar challenge, where anyone who wishes is given local account access?"
I think *BSD will stand for a while, if the linux machine has a reasonable distro (meaning not everyone can do sudo let-the-hack-begin) it will again take quite a while to punch a hole.
as for windows, a regular user account on a regular windows installation - zap
i'm very disappointed in zdnet for this "masterpiece"
ps. i will get a mac one day
maybe they should write a book about avoiding security instead :p
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seriously, if anyone trusts such information to the browser then their books are really good - for making fire into fireplaces and to cook marshmellows on them
besides what's worth a book on a platform that was probably at first designed on a transactionless database and in a language which had nearly zero seriously takeable oop support features ?
it's year 2006, unless you can overhype your code with xml/oop/ajax/ it's hardly even worth to look at the backcover of the book to find a funny joke
Sometimes when i open my older mailboxes (which sadly have no spamcheckers) and need a calculator to count the spam messages, i really feel like i'd rather disable the hacker himself, literally.
... but it would still be nice :)
I really don't need V!@gr@ nor do i want to buy any other drugs really cheap. And i really don't need the emails that advertise them. Reading e-mail is as private for me as sex is for some other people, if i don't advertise my software products next to your bed while you're having sex, i'd also expect you not to climb into my mailbox to advertise yours.
Isn't it time to dump the current e-mail system as it is and move on to something else that's really private and personal ? Sure you can have zillion filters installed but sometimes the filters take out stuff that you need and sometimes they let in stuff that you don't need, they are not perfect. I do understand that by the time the e-mail protocol was invented, the inventors themselves couldn't imagine spamfarms all over the world sending fake emails but around 30-40 years have passed , maybe it's time to let it go ?
Sure we can't dump the current e-mail mess in one day, but an alternative solution that would slowly take stuff over and be non-anonymous would make very many of us really really happy. If sending out mail would only be authorized to organizations and identified persons, it would make the network a lot cleaner.
PS. I know it's just a dream and utterly non-realistic in the currect circumstances
Ofcourse there are no free lunches.
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imho they have 2 options
1) choose a packaged software from a company, pay for it's licence and the support sums later
2) choose oss and hire a developer
i'm for option 2, because unlike the licence&support, it starts to change the software in the direction that you really need to, instead of what a salesman of ZYX-gamma company in mind when he first wrote the whitepaper.
there is no real black and white on this issue, sometimes you have to be compatible with others, then you go for 1, sometimes you want to get specific stuff, then better go for 2
i don't know about you, but that automatic search stuff with microsoft always bugs me. so i always turn it off in IE. if i mispell a host, then half of the computers will f-ing freeze for seconds behind the zillion flash banners that will start up. i could discover and fix my typo sooner than the webpage loads itself, but since the flash/banner army is obviously hits the cpu with full force, there's no hope for it.
... and somebody in microsoft's office is obviously wearing very slippery shoes.
and how can microsoft say that they will be better than google in 6 months ? google will evolve as it has done for years, so google today isn't google after 6 months. google will definitely counter this, which hopefully will result better search conditions for all of us (both the msn and google fans).
sure msn's database may be cleaner to start up with, but then again, it really won't make it very far, soon there will be tricks out there how to fool it so that it will full of falsified results and asuch. if a company can't really make their own browser secure own their own platform, how can you expect that their searchengine will resist to the agressive attempts of 6 billion people who are either trying to advert their own webpages or businesses ? it takes 100 steps to get over the bridge over the river and it takes only one slip to fall into it
i like google's light weight and i'm not a privacy maniac so i really don't care much that they do with my search habit statistics or whatever. msn's sites tend te be bloated with each kind of crap that i don't want to see even behind a naked woman.
imho msn lost the 'www war' along time ago, they just push it because it's microsoft, not because it could be good or it could be profitable to anyone.
long live lightweight search engines - over'n'out
if you can afford a 100" flat panel tv, you should have no problems with BUYING the movie ;)
..), and neither will i invest money into expensive bluray players that show me stuff that i can't really see that well ;)
i on the otherhand certainly won't buy anything alike this in the nearest years (reason 1: i have a real life, so i dont really have time to watch tv, reason 2: my budget wouldnt like it, reason 3: there's something emotional about cinema's that you never get at home, even if you upgrade to 500"
i have seen most of the great/classic movies until now on dvd quality or in the cinema and for the crap that they make nowadays, it's not really worth to buy a bluray device, ffs, i won't even turn on my old tv to watch them.
anyway, as for the quality, most of the pirated movies don't go into bluray devices with 100" screens, they go into 21" tv's with dvd/divx players. and if it's old tv (not a flat panel but a kinescoped(yes i know i probably mispelled it) one) there's no bloody difference.
if virus writers are 'kindof gods', then we should uninstall antivirus software from everywhere, perhaps the viruses really let windows machines evolve and we'll have soon gentoo all over the place :)
actually this is what i have been wondering for a while, if we create a simple program which can rewrite itself, and we let a 'virus' attack it, and modify it randomly, will we end up with anything reasonable after enough modifications ? rationality says no, but the theory of possibilites says hell yeah !
not very surprisingly there are tons of 'china products' on the market which definitely are not made in china :) you want to ban them too ?
:) there's a billion people on it, they can do it.
... but that was 30 years ago and none really misses them that much that they'd sacrifice their pc, the microwave, the tv and his stereo to it.
and why exactly are you so eager to shut them out ? they are closing themselves into the box, you don't have to help them with it
as for isolating the china from the rest of the world, where the hell have you mate been for the last century ? they have done it themselves all the time. and the way it looks right now for the great western world, their choice was not as bad as you would think at first...
everybody knows that an economical bomb is about to fall on our 'western world', they are just not quite sure when. if the overhyped birdflu or any other easilly spreading virus should ever really punch in with a bang, then the direct loss of human lives is by far beaten by the amount of lives lost by the drop of the economy. china's economy will take by far less beating since they don't really depend on this international integration, but the rest of us do.
sure right now it's better to be outside the the "wall of china", but if an euro or dollar will cost less than a yen of japan, it won't be so funny anymore. they don't really need us, but we need them. quite a large percentage of electronics you see every day is at least in some part of it's creation way passing through china. if you shut that all out, we're back in the 70s. don't get me wrong here, beegees were just fine
a quote from an anonymous hollywood movie '{censored}, we have been f{censored}ed', is more than accurate.
yep, this is it. pay us more $$$ feature is the only 'real' thing that most people will see.
:) high five sony, you're just on the roll right now :D
i wear glasses, and as they don't make it with 0.0001 accuracy, they make it with 0.25 accuracy. therefor my picture is always a bit fuzzy. i can't see one damn thing wrong with any of the current dvd-s that i use, and i certainly wont see the extra pixels that bluray ads.
and every monkey in the sony office knows that bluray discs in some kind of ripped format will be out sooner than you can say "you can't pirate this".
if the movie can be seen and heard by the consumer, it can also be ripped. it doesn't solve the problem, it just adds one more way to do it. a new and incredibly expensive way.
ofcourse sony can say that the pirated versions that are some kind of cheap non-high-digital rips, are crap in quality compared to their supreme bluray picture, but they will still be good enough for most people to watch. and that's what they'll have on bittorrent and buy on cheap made-in-paiwan dvd's.
they should make producing movie dvd-s etc. so cheap for themselves that there would no need for piracy, but instead they drive the prices up with a new incompatible format and hope for profit
fyi: was just ironically picking on the codeword pony tailed, and too lazy to write tons since my left little finger was just near the z at the moment.
:p (infact, my machine does play a lot more than an average windows machine can).
however your post doesn't really make that much sense:)
I'm hoping somebody comes up with a commercial swiss army tool type media player that handles an extremely wide range of multimedia types, to include the proprietary versions. ever heard of mplayer ? i use it to play anything from content restricted dvd-s up to realmedia/quicktime/windowsmedia stuff. never had a compatibility problem with that one
you agree that compatibility is an issue and want to enforce nonfree software on a free platform. great & not so great. if you get the a car for free, why would you want to pay for the reflection in it's mirrors ?
your sarcasm is thrilling by the amount of enthusiasm, too bad you forgot to add something meaningful into it. and just as a newsflash, some people really use computers just for working and not for playing mp3-s. and if-or-not-playing-mp3-s is really not an argument for buying office software. compatibility of WORK tools is what counts.
ps. buy a sense of humor, i'm sure these retailer right next to you.
oh for f's sake, run windowmaker on the poor things at's as fast as a blast. you don't have to run kde 24/7 to get a working desktop. and as far as it goes over here, even win2k is huge overkill on a p2, running xp on it is like having a truck on a string behind a bicycle. and if you run anything else than only the explorer or a notepad, you'll swap yourself to death with windows. windowmaker on a pretty clean linux install will start up without swapping. windows with antivirus and antispyware crap will start to swap before you'll get the login screen ...
:)
... everything is getting even more complicated than it was 4-5 years ago. sure the ubuntu installer will work fine, but if you have to hack around your kernel for a whole day just to get a quirky wifi driver working, you'll be buggered a lot more by the very same 'automatic helpers' than they were helping you in the start. and to make it even worse, the automatic helpers still look cryptic to dumbusers whom they are meant for (if an installer has any other button than 'next', they are screwed).
and you seem to forget that the costs of a window machine don't stop with the licence
however i agree on the tech issue. that's a lot of people to convert into a new faith, it's a big investment of time and probably also money. in the long term it could pay off, but on the 21st century nobody really believes in long terms anymore, everyone wants stuff done and they want it done yesterday (at least it quite often feels like the deadline is passed before you hear the request).
somehow i feel that linux has been drifting into the wrong direction lately
linux has lots of nice stuff, but your average teacher wont './configure && make && make install' it with the root rights that he/she is missing and without any knowledge at all what these lines stand for.
imho the 'friendliness' limit in the 'helped' linux environments was drawn into a wrong place, should be either higher or lower, but certainly not where it's right now.
ubuntu doesn't ship with an mp3 mplayer because of software patents :)
:p
but why are you blaming the free software that it doesn't have non-free software bundled with it ? and why not blame the "real problem" between the chair and keyboard who encoded the files into a propietary format in the first place ?
anyway, around where i move, nobody gives a lama's ass about who can play some damn mp3-s or not. if they want it, they install xmms and everyone is happy.
the real problem is not being 100% compatible with microsoft's version of office. sure openoffice can do some tricks, but as long as the people can't really use the documents and datatables that they get from their business partners, linus may as well be growing ducks or harvesting a field, wouldn't make any difference.
home user's life may be deeply in love with music, but in 'real life', people want the work to get done, and if linux doesn't in any combination ship reliable software to do it , they just don't care. yes they fear the viruses, yes they like opensource and free stuff. but they need to get the job done aswell and they need to make a living from it. sending bug reports to openoffice's list doesn't pay the bill.
find a normal (non crossover office hack) way to run microsoft's office on linux, and you'll see people coming over within seconds.
ps. if you get office running, people will come over and the driver manufacturers will make propietary drivers for them. they won't bother to do it for us, the pony tailed hackers, but they will do it if the demand is big enough. sure it won't be all open source, but neither is nvidia's driver, and tonz of people still use it (me included).
over & out.
how exactly do you count the number of television watchers or radio listeners ? it's easy ... you don't ...
... there are automatic machines that can be placed between the tv and the antenna, but that only measures the looking statistics of people that really have this item installed (in my country there is a polling company that installs them, but since only very few people have it installed, it's again very far from reflecting the whole nation)
...
the tv companies have no ide how many people are watching them, they believe the poll results that are given to them by poll companies that are in close connection with them and therefor not objective
one request to a server upon each 'start' of watching won't kill the servers if the content is coming from elsewhere. and is by far more accurate than any polling company can give you.
ps.
(not to mention the fact that its relatively cheap to setup a radio station). <--- my dearest, you obviously have no idea how much the licence to broadcast costs, ofcourse depends on the country but still , there are pretty many zeroes at the end of the number
you're stuck in illusions.
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... so there you go.
companies that make the robots and companies that use the robots will get all the money and profit. you'll be unemployed and dream about a robot that would you earn enough money to buy a cup of coffee
it will take ages before you get this 'common wealth', and i don't want to see zillion workless people around until the companies understand that the money really isn't worth a thing
bill gates could probably buy a notebook for every damn developer in the world, but is he doing it ? nope
actually it's more the way that the robot de-deploys you ... meaning you will be unemployeed if the robots take over everything ...
;) the robots won't kill you, the economy will.
... very afraid ... cause they're almost as tough as chuck norris ...
having automatic stuff around is nice, but to be jobless because of this can't be fun. luckily robots can't make software nor administrate it properly for a while so we're all saved for now.
but you should worry about the future
#be afraid of the robots
i agree ...
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windows in year 2006 is a lot different than just starting up win 3.1 ten years ago
a zero user may get notepad running, but he will hardly manage to configure his topnotch wifi card running on ad-hoc mode just to exchange the data with his neighbour
if you got a windows installation that works, then you're all set as a dumb user. but when you want to do something nonstandard (run a simple bash script as service that puts up images from your "easy-to-use" webcam to your website via copy on ssh), you are so scr*w*d
it's easy to buy a bus ticket and avoid driving yourself, it's also easy to be a dumb serial worker instead of being the boss who has to make decisions. but some people want something more and just hit the walls on windows. it has certain barriers that are really hard to beat down.
as for messing on the X opengl stuff - i don't know what you see here, but i see just a linux company running a campaign against another one. so while microsoft kicks opengl in the n*ts with vista (read on opengl from wikipedia), the linux people are just making things messier than they are right now.
i think that setting up a proper installation of xwindows and a desktop stuff on it (i use kubuntu with kde over here, on an nvidia graphilized notebook with xinerama (since twinview isn't what i want or need)) is already complicated right now. and another version of configuring it will just create more confusion on the already confused userbase.
drm ? dnf ? who gives a df (da.. fu..)?
they are dropping opengl direct support. meaning your opengl based stuff will drop framerates and features if you upgrade to vista. for gamers it means lower framerates and shitier graphics in opengl based games like doom3 and quake3, for the modellers it means hell aswell.
choose vista or choose opengl. i chose life.
You were so close to a great post.
.net is a certain .not for now. Perhaps it will have
So were you.
Mono indeed does work on platforms other than windows,
but it doesn't run, it's barely walking in the
terms of speed.
A well written java application will kick the **** out
of anything that mono can do with c# apps.
And if you have a bunch of sun servers in the corner and
the performance and compatibility is the only way to go,
then
chance in the future, but not really right now.
I took a look at C# for one day, i don't know what you people
see in there, but i saw a java clone with some differences. And
using it on linux with a regular text editor and mono's compiler
was very very far from impressing me much.
Even if mono gets C# finally really running, who's in charge of
the language itself ? M$! So you really want to trust your future
in the hands of Ballmer and Gates ? Maybe you do, but I don't.
yeah the webcam thing is quite fine for the purpose. i have a logitech quickcam here (had to build the kernel module by hand from sources found by google) but it works with the webcam application.
:)
webcam can be set to react on image changes and a simple shell 5liner can be written which checks if the file has been modified since last upload and uploads it into the server via curl&http.
that's as simple as it can be, 1 kernel module, 1 application, 1 shell script.
you could also use the builtin features of webcam to upload images but using ftp is a bit too insecure for my case
erm ... c++/c dont run under mono too, now do they ? :p
c/c++ are still used to be compiled into machine code while the new platforms all move towards the platform independant btecode and just in time compilation where ever it is executed.
c/c++ can be integrated into java, go grab a jni book.
if c#/mono would execute c/c++ inside it's virtual machine, it'd be just as slow as in jvm. and if it just inlines it, it's the same as jni, just more comfortable syntax.
c# is nowhere near the point where i'd accept it as a replacement for java. everything else aside, the c# api is still controlled by microsoft and therefor right at the fingertips of the great evil himself. if microsoft decides that c# v 2.1 must contain direct approach to directx or any other windows only lib, which doesn't exist anywhere outside, the c# effort from mono will be worthless within a day.
look at what windows vista did with it's direct3d alternative opengl. opengl is F-d in windows vista and doom3/quake4 only run normally in your wet dreams. microsoft wont ever give a real chance to alternatives. it just crushes them when the time is right.
ps. as long as windows programmers hardcode c:\program files\yada\yada paths into their applications, it's as portable as anything else that was invented on windows.