If Chinese people used encrypted email, what would the government do? Come over and shoot them? Come over and demand the key and then shoot them? Or, possibly, nothing (like if they were using keyword searches)?
Yes, that's exactly what they would do, what they have done, and what they do now.
It's one thing to say you support freedom. It's another thing to say it when you're looking into the barrel of a gun.
And, as I note in the title, your family gets to pay for the bullet that shot you. Or they go to prison to make consumer goods for the US.
Apple has always made MSFT more money than any other platform. Less piracy (unless you count people like me ripping the French Microsoft Word because they wouldn't sell it to me when I had a Mac) for example.
But, the point is, they could port it. And, if they are broken up, they probably will once someone gags Bill G.
I actually think the best suggestion for a new top level domain in the document is a TLD devoted to material of an 'adult' nature.
I have to agree with you there. Now, mind you, I'm the webperson for a N.O.W. website and I just sold my old house to a feminist non-profit, but I really think that we need to face certain facts, like where half of the traffic is (before napster).
So, we could use a.xxx and/or.sex and also a.mp3 and a.exe
Of course, some carriers will block these, but it makes it easier to deal with schools and libraries and repressive countries while allowing the Net to continue to be open for most people. Note that sex education would be either.org or.edu anyway.
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From my viewpoint, the Inprise/Borland share prices have been slowly creeping up, faster than the rest of the tech sector has. One just has to be patient.
And they have some really cool IDE stuff for Linux which was posted on recently. I know no serious Linux Guru will use it, but those of us in the corporate mudpit are really looking forward to it.
It's either code in Windows or code in Linux - which would you prefer?
Good thing Borland/Inprise cast off the lead weight of that yoke before being dragged down by them - we corporate developers, we lucky few, shall shout and pray that we were here on Corel's Death Day, to sally forth with our new IDE and crank out those apps to fight back the Wintel who would take them from us.
What would happen if about 100 hackers all got some old cellphones, rigged them to some of the key frequency, and all powered up and used them at the same time?
Wouldn't that be cool?
Talk about surfing... your seat cushions could be used to keep the sharks happy!
Basically, Bill's just saying that MP3 means people will buy music where the artist gets the cut, or will be used by the artist to arrange a touring schedule. I would love to be able to indicate to the bands I like to send me email about when they'll be in town. And I'll put them up at my place if they're in need of help there, even take them out for meals.
But it will cut into the margins of the superbands, which is why many of them are fighting back.
For movies - a lot of movies don't need the big screen, especially once we get HDTV big screens with decent audio. But movies like Goya in Bordeaux, The Matrix, ST:TUG (The Usurious Generation) will be in prime demand for big screen, good sound quality experiences.
Basically, what Bill is saying is the middleman will be cut out of his 90% of the take, and we'll go back to a more reasonable 50% artist/creator, 40% middleman, 10% other mix.
The Palm OS works best for people who are just to busy to learn how to hack things. The largest increase in market is in the multi-function device such as the Web/Cellphone area.
This is based on the stuff they send me as a shareholder.
So, basically, a true geek is not in their market, but a trendy post-geek is right in the crosshairs.
The studio production standards we've cited are not to be confused with the broadcast standards listed below.
Actually, the 1920x1080 24 fps progressive format is exactly the same format that is being used for Star Wars Episode II. That's right, it's being shot in the exact same resultion that is supposedly going to become the broadcast standard for TV. Why would studios being doing that? If they use the same resolution for movies as is going to be used for TV, why would people go to theaters anymore? It doesn't make sense.
Because film is going digital. All the directors at the Seattle International Film Fest, which is much more of a director's fest than Cannes will ever be, have said they're going digital for at least half their upcoming films.
And the argument about theaters was used during the release of color TV. Theater attendance is way up since then. If I'm watching Gladiator, I want to see it at the Cinerama, not at home. Sure, there are a lot of made-for-TV movies that aren't any better on the big screen, but try telling me that The Matrix is the same on HDTV as the big screen and I'll ROFL immeadiately.
Unless of course, they have no intention of ever giving us the HD resolution at home. And since all the major TV networks are now owned by movie studios, they can do that.
Actually, they have no choice, the legislation requires them to broadcast in HDTV by 2003 (or was it 2004, can't recall).
So, here what's going to happen. HDTV resolution will be used for theaters, which will be a step down in picture quality, and then regular resolution digital TV will be used for the home, and the extra bandwidth from the digital broadcasting licenses that were given away by the U.S. Congress will be used for a bunch of stupid "interactive" content. Isn't that nice?
No, you'll see HDTV resolution at the mini-malls most likely, and have to go to the city to see higher res versions on a "true" big screen, where sound and experience will become more of the big picture.
Now if they could just issue candy in non-plastic wrappers to avoid the sound crinkle, I might start buying theatre candy again...
Digital video is where it's going, and bloody fast. Set the standard at 48 or 72fps, and use every second or third frame if cutting back to film (or double or triple the frames if going from film to television).
That's been one of the ongoing topics at the Seattle International Film Fest, which wraps up this weekend. Most of the directors have said they're going to digital, partially because you can film for under $10,000 instead of $250,000.
So expect this to be the "new story" next year, when all these films start coming out of the can (ok, I guess that's outmoded too).
And let's start seeing the wide format more in use. Most of our world is lived more horizontally spread-out than vertically spread-out, New York and Hong Kong being the notable exceptions.
Also a discernable trend, as more people start filming for their own countries, partially due to the drop in cost factor. So, we should expect to see way more films in wide format.
A humorous anecdote - at one point in the film fest a whole bunch of us had to tell the theatre manager (a nice woman who we like) that the aspect ratios were way off, when they persisted in showing a french film (Girl on the Bridge) at the Cinerama with the wrong settings. Of course, this was just after they had completed showing How The West Was Won using the Cinerama tri-screen, so they had to totally rework the whole theatre. It took us five minutes to explain why those of us in the audience knew how the film should be prepped.
Everyone's perspective is limited by what they know. TV will looks totally different in 20 years from the standards committees expect.
So why do we still have CR and LF - the carriage return on a typewriter and the line feed on a typewriter?
Personally, I think we should just announce the Open Source HDTV format is the European one, code it to run on Linux and BSD, and let the chips fall where they may.
Take some initiative people - choose the best format, not the ones the manufacturers want!
Would somebody PLEASE just drop a nuke on Seattle and get it over with..
Hey! I live in Seattle. Bill Gates lives in Medina, on the other side of Lake Washington, where Redmond is.
Now, you won't get any argument from me about dropping a nuke on Redmond, which would take out most of the bad places and give us new lakefront property - they already chopped down all the good forests that used to be there.
But just broadcast a message on PBS and NPR and the local college and high school stations about 5 minutes before impact so we can get down in the basements, ok?
About time someone proved me right and passed a Web Tax. And I seem to recall naysayers telling me there would be no web tax for at least a decade.
Look, it's going to happen here too. You can either help shape what form it will be, or wake up one morning and find that it's a form you don't like.
But the Net will be taxed. And purchases of goods and services over the Web in the US will be taxed. It will happen. You can either play ostrich and deny it, rant and rave about it, tell us how it will never happen here...
Or, you can help shape what final form it will be in.
mention of famous persons for the intent of improving author's notoriety...
No, I just wanted to point out I'm not flaming Jon just because I hate his guts, but because he's taking something that I know something about and distorting it into something that it isn't.
Don't get me wrong, I think Jon has a tendency to write as if it's the end of the world, and as if he actually knows something about the subject on which he's writing and has facts to back it up. Neither of those suppositions is true. And it would be nice if he'd learn how to write for the medium he's writing in, as opposed to magazine format. And, as an aside, I do hate Jon's guts, but it's not him as a person, rather his lack of writing ability.
I've been published (for pay) in about 20 magazines, a large quantity of 'zines, and have had enough egoboo to last me a lifetime. For example, this afternoon I'm on a cruise with the Mayor and Governor for something about the Seattle International Film Fest, boarding at the AGC docks on Lake Union, Friday I'm attending the SAM Premier Member's do at our local art museum, and Saturday night is the Gala Ball for SIFF. Fame is highly overrated and those high donor parties can be pretty boring, in my opinion.
Look, the world ain't ending today, even if it is the post-Microsoft decade...
and once more Jon tries to make a grand myth where little of substance exists.
By your terms, I would be a Shadowrun person - I work in Seattle, I do tech, I own parts of the megacorps that rule the world... stop!
Look, ever since the days that Bill Gibson cranked out his fine literary fiction on his typewriter, everyone's been all into this genre, but it's pretty much a work of fiction.
You might get some arguments from the situation in Mexico and a few other places, but this is 20th Century thinking applied to a vision of the 21st Century. The real 21st Century is neither a utopia or a distopia, which you might recognize more of if you took courses that friends of mine have taught at various universities on Utopian Societies from a Fantasy and SF perspective.
The future's much more low tech than we think, and yet radically different. There is a battle going on for information freedom, and one for a market-ruled cyber feudal system, but the geeks are winning and the corps are losing.
And if you wonder if I know anything about this, I was the one who brought Bill Gibson's first Hugo award home through Australian customs (heavy bugger) and is why he got invited to the Westercon in Vancouver in the first place.
If you want to write fiction, go ahead. But don't present it as News for Nerds, but as Speculation for Spooks.
Seriously, your tax dollars at work, improving competition.
The last few decades, business wise, have been about companies merging into redicuously large entities, and not just Microsoft, but AOL/Time Warner, ABC/Disney, and others.
I just got my AOL/TW merger docs in the mail last night - I agree, mergers are getting out of hand, as well as the fees for them, the surrender percent of shares of each one, and how much kickback the execs get for the deal. I'm voting against most of these, with few exceptions (e.g. Pfizer).
Secondly, is it true or not true that the appeal will or can be pushed directly to the Supreme Court?
Yes. The DoJ and the judge can both short circuit this to the Supremes once MSFT appeals. I sure hope they do.
[note, I own MSFT, RHAT, AOL, and a lot of other companies interested in this trial, so I'm biased. Not sure how I'm biased, but I'm sure I am. Probably not getting invited to Bill's house any time soon, though...]
1) Split up into two companies is based on what the two portions of the company were doing as of Apr 27, 2000
We all know they're going to sneak in some code and claim it was already in, due to some product release they had in Test Release, which they shipped to DevNet. Count on it.
3) The OS company cannot know OEMs for supporting other OS's, OEM's can change the boot up sequence.
The OS company will just happen to overhear them at a party. Surprise, surprise. Something like: "Ah do deeclare, them Compaq licenses sure do remind me of a hot summer day in the Redmond swamp. Who will rid me of this OEM? My, but it would be such a shame if they should happen to fall upon misfortune..."
Also, the boot sequences will just happen to stop working when they do change them. What a coincidence.
6) MS has to create an internal position to monitor antitrust compliance within the company (boy, there's a sucky job...)
I'll volunteer. I don't work for them, but I do own stock and live in Seattle. [yeah, I know, stop griping, so I save 20% of my salary - don't you?]
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If Chinese people used encrypted email, what would the government do? Come over and shoot them? Come over and demand the key and then shoot them? Or, possibly, nothing (like if they were using keyword searches)?
Yes, that's exactly what they would do, what they have done, and what they do now.
It's one thing to say you support freedom. It's another thing to say it when you're looking into the barrel of a gun.
And, as I note in the title, your family gets to pay for the bullet that shot you. Or they go to prison to make consumer goods for the US.
They put money into Apple because Apple sells.
Apple has always made MSFT more money than any other platform. Less piracy (unless you count people like me ripping the French Microsoft Word because they wouldn't sell it to me when I had a Mac) for example.
But, the point is, they could port it. And, if they are broken up, they probably will once someone gags Bill G.
[usual caveats about owning MSFT and RHAT]
Naming things .mp3 and .exe could quite possibly be a bad idea for people who use Internet Explorer (and let's face it, there are a lot of them).
But naming things so that IE breaks is a good thing!
I actually think the best suggestion for a new top level domain in the document is a TLD devoted to material of an 'adult' nature.
.xxx and/or .sex and also a .mp3 and a .exe
.org or .edu anyway.
I have to agree with you there. Now, mind you, I'm the webperson for a N.O.W. website and I just sold my old house to a feminist non-profit, but I really think that we need to face certain facts, like where half of the traffic is (before napster).
So, we could use a
Of course, some carriers will block these, but it makes it easier to deal with schools and libraries and repressive countries while allowing the Net to continue to be open for most people. Note that sex education would be either
From my viewpoint, the Inprise/Borland share prices have been slowly creeping up, faster than the rest of the tech sector has. One just has to be patient.
And they have some really cool IDE stuff for Linux which was posted on recently. I know no serious Linux Guru will use it, but those of us in the corporate mudpit are really looking forward to it.
It's either code in Windows or code in Linux - which would you prefer?
No, it's Performance Art Hacking. You take your life in your own hands when you do this ...
A hack is a hack. Whether it's by using a PC or electronic devices to control a plane, you're testing the limits of the system.
So hacking a plane via electronic devices of people flying it is the Ultimate Hack. You try, you die. Or you fly.
Best bet - do it over Nevada during Burning Man www.burningman.com so we can see the crash!
Let's start with Corel, R.I.P. 2000 AD.
Good thing Borland/Inprise cast off the lead weight of that yoke before being dragged down by them - we corporate developers, we lucky few, shall shout and pray that we were here on Corel's Death Day, to sally forth with our new IDE and crank out those apps to fight back the Wintel who would take them from us.
What would happen if about 100 hackers all got some old cellphones, rigged them to some of the key frequency, and all powered up and used them at the same time?
... your seat cushions could be used to keep the sharks happy!
Wouldn't that be cool?
Talk about surfing
Basically, Bill's just saying that MP3 means people will buy music where the artist gets the cut, or will be used by the artist to arrange a touring schedule. I would love to be able to indicate to the bands I like to send me email about when they'll be in town. And I'll put them up at my place if they're in need of help there, even take them out for meals.
But it will cut into the margins of the superbands, which is why many of them are fighting back.
For movies - a lot of movies don't need the big screen, especially once we get HDTV big screens with decent audio. But movies like Goya in Bordeaux, The Matrix, ST:TUG (The Usurious Generation) will be in prime demand for big screen, good sound quality experiences.
Basically, what Bill is saying is the middleman will be cut out of his 90% of the take, and we'll go back to a more reasonable 50% artist/creator, 40% middleman, 10% other mix.
Bring it on!
The Palm OS works best for people who are just to busy to learn how to hack things. The largest increase in market is in the multi-function device such as the Web/Cellphone area.
This is based on the stuff they send me as a shareholder.
So, basically, a true geek is not in their market, but a trendy post-geek is right in the crosshairs.
Wouldn't it be funny if MSFT had to run Windows on a Linux-optimized chip?
I can see Bill G saying "Our version is better because the OS is not optimized for this platform!"
The second incorrect statement is this one:
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The studio production standards we've cited are not to be confused with the broadcast standards listed below.
Actually, the 1920x1080 24 fps progressive format is exactly the same format that is being used for Star Wars Episode II. That's right, it's being shot in the exact same resultion that is supposedly going to become the broadcast standard for TV. Why would studios being doing that? If they use the same resolution for movies as is going to be used for TV, why would people go to theaters anymore? It doesn't make sense.
Because film is going digital. All the directors at the Seattle International Film Fest, which is much more of a director's fest than Cannes will ever be, have said they're going digital for at least half their upcoming films.
And the argument about theaters was used during the release of color TV. Theater attendance is way up since then. If I'm watching Gladiator, I want to see it at the Cinerama, not at home. Sure, there are a lot of made-for-TV movies that aren't any better on the big screen, but try telling me that The Matrix is the same on HDTV as the big screen and I'll ROFL immeadiately.
Unless of course, they have no intention of ever giving us the HD resolution at home. And since all the major TV networks are now owned by movie studios, they can do that.
Actually, they have no choice, the legislation requires them to broadcast in HDTV by 2003 (or was it 2004, can't recall).
So, here what's going to happen. HDTV resolution will be used for theaters, which will be a step down in picture quality, and then regular resolution digital TV will be used for the home, and the extra bandwidth from the digital broadcasting licenses that were given away by the U.S. Congress will be used for a bunch of stupid "interactive" content. Isn't that nice?
No, you'll see HDTV resolution at the mini-malls most likely, and have to go to the city to see higher res versions on a "true" big screen, where sound and experience will become more of the big picture.
Now if they could just issue candy in non-plastic wrappers to avoid the sound crinkle, I might start buying theatre candy again
Digital video is where it's going, and bloody fast. Set the standard at 48 or 72fps, and use every second or third frame if cutting back to film (or double or triple the frames if going from film to television).
That's been one of the ongoing topics at the Seattle International Film Fest, which wraps up this weekend. Most of the directors have said they're going to digital, partially because you can film for under $10,000 instead of $250,000.
So expect this to be the "new story" next year, when all these films start coming out of the can (ok, I guess that's outmoded too).
And let's start seeing the wide format more in use. Most of our world is lived more horizontally spread-out than vertically spread-out, New York and Hong Kong being the notable exceptions.
Also a discernable trend, as more people start filming for their own countries, partially due to the drop in cost factor. So, we should expect to see way more films in wide format.
A humorous anecdote - at one point in the film fest a whole bunch of us had to tell the theatre manager (a nice woman who we like) that the aspect ratios were way off, when they persisted in showing a french film (Girl on the Bridge) at the Cinerama with the wrong settings. Of course, this was just after they had completed showing How The West Was Won using the Cinerama tri-screen, so they had to totally rework the whole theatre. It took us five minutes to explain why those of us in the audience knew how the film should be prepped.
Everyone's perspective is limited by what they know. TV will looks totally different in 20 years from the standards committees expect.
So why do we still have CR and LF - the carriage return on a typewriter and the line feed on a typewriter?
Personally, I think we should just announce the Open Source HDTV format is the European one, code it to run on Linux and BSD, and let the chips fall where they may.
Take some initiative people - choose the best format, not the ones the manufacturers want!
Would somebody PLEASE just drop a nuke on Seattle and get it over with..
Hey! I live in Seattle. Bill Gates lives in Medina, on the other side of Lake Washington, where Redmond is.
Now, you won't get any argument from me about dropping a nuke on Redmond, which would take out most of the bad places and give us new lakefront property - they already chopped down all the good forests that used to be there.
But just broadcast a message on PBS and NPR and the local college and high school stations about 5 minutes before impact so we can get down in the basements, ok?
About time someone proved me right and passed a Web Tax. And I seem to recall naysayers telling me there would be no web tax for at least a decade.
...
Look, it's going to happen here too. You can either help shape what form it will be, or wake up one morning and find that it's a form you don't like.
But the Net will be taxed. And purchases of goods and services over the Web in the US will be taxed. It will happen. You can either play ostrich and deny it, rant and rave about it, tell us how it will never happen here
Or, you can help shape what final form it will be in.
There are no other options.
There's a whole bunch of really insightful posts at salon.com as follows:
Are two Microsofts better than one?
Court to Microsoft: This is for real!
Microsoft owes everything to Justice (how MSFT was lucky about IBM)
The main tech page, of course, is at http://www.salon.com/tech/
mention of famous persons for the intent of improving author's notoriety...
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No, I just wanted to point out I'm not flaming Jon just because I hate his guts, but because he's taking something that I know something about and distorting it into something that it isn't.
Don't get me wrong, I think Jon has a tendency to write as if it's the end of the world, and as if he actually knows something about the subject on which he's writing and has facts to back it up. Neither of those suppositions is true. And it would be nice if he'd learn how to write for the medium he's writing in, as opposed to magazine format. And, as an aside, I do hate Jon's guts, but it's not him as a person, rather his lack of writing ability.
I've been published (for pay) in about 20 magazines, a large quantity of 'zines, and have had enough egoboo to last me a lifetime. For example, this afternoon I'm on a cruise with the Mayor and Governor for something about the Seattle International Film Fest, boarding at the AGC docks on Lake Union, Friday I'm attending the SAM Premier Member's do at our local art museum, and Saturday night is the Gala Ball for SIFF. Fame is highly overrated and those high donor parties can be pretty boring, in my opinion.
Look, the world ain't ending today, even if it is the post-Microsoft decade
and once more Jon tries to make a grand myth where little of substance exists.
... stop!
By your terms, I would be a Shadowrun person - I work in Seattle, I do tech, I own parts of the megacorps that rule the world
Look, ever since the days that Bill Gibson cranked out his fine literary fiction on his typewriter, everyone's been all into this genre, but it's pretty much a work of fiction.
You might get some arguments from the situation in Mexico and a few other places, but this is 20th Century thinking applied to a vision of the 21st Century. The real 21st Century is neither a utopia or a distopia, which you might recognize more of if you took courses that friends of mine have taught at various universities on Utopian Societies from a Fantasy and SF perspective.
The future's much more low tech than we think, and yet radically different. There is a battle going on for information freedom, and one for a market-ruled cyber feudal system, but the geeks are winning and the corps are losing.
And if you wonder if I know anything about this, I was the one who brought Bill Gibson's first Hugo award home through Australian customs (heavy bugger) and is why he got invited to the Westercon in Vancouver in the first place.
If you want to write fiction, go ahead. But don't present it as News for Nerds, but as Speculation for Spooks.
Comprende?
Seriously, your tax dollars at work, improving competition.
...]
The last few decades, business wise, have been about companies merging into redicuously large entities, and not just Microsoft, but AOL/Time Warner, ABC/Disney, and others.
I just got my AOL/TW merger docs in the mail last night - I agree, mergers are getting out of hand, as well as the fees for them, the surrender percent of shares of each one, and how much kickback the execs get for the deal. I'm voting against most of these, with few exceptions (e.g. Pfizer).
Secondly, is it true or not true that the appeal will or can be pushed directly to the Supreme Court?
Yes. The DoJ and the judge can both short circuit this to the Supremes once MSFT appeals. I sure hope they do.
[note, I own MSFT, RHAT, AOL, and a lot of other companies interested in this trial, so I'm biased. Not sure how I'm biased, but I'm sure I am. Probably not getting invited to Bill's house any time soon, though
1) Split up into two companies is based on what the two portions of the company were doing as of Apr 27, 2000
..."
We all know they're going to sneak in some code and claim it was already in, due to some product release they had in Test Release, which they shipped to DevNet. Count on it.
3) The OS company cannot know OEMs for supporting other OS's, OEM's can change the boot up sequence.
The OS company will just happen to overhear them at a party. Surprise, surprise. Something like: "Ah do deeclare, them Compaq licenses sure do remind me of a hot summer day in the Redmond swamp. Who will rid me of this OEM? My, but it would be such a shame if they should happen to fall upon misfortune
Also, the boot sequences will just happen to stop working when they do change them. What a coincidence.
6) MS has to create an internal position to monitor antitrust compliance within the company (boy, there's a sucky job...)
I'll volunteer. I don't work for them, but I do own stock and live in Seattle. [yeah, I know, stop griping, so I save 20% of my salary - don't you?]
Seriously, RTFM. The decision states that certain shareholders can't hold stock in both. Which is pretty much Bill G, Paul A, and that cueball guy.
are you the only one? if not, that's a dumbass sig
Yup. It's patented too. And trademarked.
At least I have a sig.
I'll take liberty to use my bonus point (which I rarely do) to post a link to the article in an unrelated forum
So, in other words, you feel justified in spamming another forum, just because you can.
How does this make you any different from a spamster?
That'll teach them.
And then put them on probation, only able to read and surf, not to post or send, for 2 years.