with microsoft trying to push people to upgrade all the time with ever more advanced methods of crashing your computer (known as windows, forgive me, I just installed win98 on a computer for a friend (i am a mac user now) and it took 30 to 50 reboots before I was done with it).
Microsoft will not be able to sell these new things to consumers. However at the same time you will not be able to sell certain other things to consumers either. For example, SerialATA is coming out now. If we take it a few years from now when consumers have met this point, SerialATA will never come very popular because nobody (not very many - new being a niche market) is upgrading to the very new anymore. Or same with FireWire 2 (my laptop for instance, how would you put that on (its an ibook... no pcmcia)). Interfaces don't exactly make the things faster. So harddrives haven't really increased in speed in the last 5 years (usually they are running at 5 to 10 mb/s for most things or even lower). RAM has increased, but bus speeds haven't really increased that much.
So yes, the underlying things that the cpus rely on must increase a lot before people will use them. Maybe it will be too late for them, if people go portable then they probably won't care too much. Look at apple's ibooks, they are cheaper than their desktops and they are very competitive to other offerings. Apple is the way to go now guys...
I use stuffit expander to expand all of my archives, and use tar/gz to compress them.
Because I rarely actually compress things, and usually I want the entire contents of an archive StuffIt works great.
StuffIt will extract always to a directory even if the zip file has none. Do you hate it when you extracted a zip file of 50 files onto your desktop when you didn't mean to? But if it is only a single file, then i believe it will just extract.
What I can't figure out is why the Mac version is twice the price of the Windows version. It would cost me almost 120$cdn to buy the deluxe version or 75$cdn to buy the standard. Those prices are way out of wack. I will stick to gzip for that price.
microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.220 microsoft.com has address 207.46.249.27 microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.155 microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.190 microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.222 microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.218
so does... timewarner.com has address 64.12.146.40 timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.65 timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.66 timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.67 timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.68
On one of the home and garden type channels it was a house that was essentially a 'bird house', but was meant for humans. It was easily 5 to 10 feet off of the ground and it could actually rotate. It was an elevator to get up to the house.
This would definately help get rid of door to door sales people.
State Opposition Justice spokesman Lawrence Springborg said that despite the federal proposals, he would introduce a Private Member's Bill on defamation in Parliament today. It would call for defamation to be an indictable offence with up to five years' jail on conviction.
The case of defamation in the article might have certainly not been satire, but there is a wide blur line here.
How can somebody make an honest joke (about somebody) and not get penalized.
Their entire show is pretty much satire on people. Politicians mainly. Their imitation of Chretien has to be the best. This show might be cut and dry humour. But many satires are not quite as far on the humour spectrum.
I wouldn't want to even read what that html would look like after that. Can't they just write their documents in XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2? After they got the original document done, their style would (should) be the same for each presentation.
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Which is why we use Sherlock 3.
A list of languages that will surely blow away google and babelfish: (and it does use the systran engine too).
Dutch Chinese Traditional and Simplified French German Greek Italian Japanese Korean Portugese Russian Spanish
The only language that might be useful (to me, that is missing) is Latin.
I would not put it past Bush to become the next world dictator that must stop. After this Iraq thing is over (which he WILL screw up, just like his father did and he did in Afganistan) there will be the next threat he HAS to deal with. He will see the UN as an inconvenience a la Darth Vader/The Emperor and the Galactic Senate. The secret police of the secret government (the ones who really control things) will get rid of the obstacles. Bush must be stopped!
I run a 700mhz ibook with the radeon w/16mb vram. Jaguar is certainly not as fast as windows is on my desktop, but it is still a load faster than 10.1.5 . I do in fact have Quartz Extreme as well.
With the faster ATI chip, the iBook can now take advantage of the improved Quartz Extreme graphics engine built into the latest version of Mac OS X.
Really? I can do that now with my mobile radeon w/16mb vram on my 700mhz ibook.
They tried to pass off Yoda as a digitial character. He was obviously fake. In this case YODA != old yoda. The old Yoda was vastly superior to this Yoda.
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Dimension 3 (Woodland Hills, CA) Color-filtering glasses and glasses with one dark lens make moving objects stand out. Television, print media
Dynamic Digital Depth (Santa Monica, CA) Software recreates 3-D depth data from two-dimensional materials. Advertising, retail, television, computer gaming
X3D Technologies (New York, NY) LCD glasses work with an ordinary display to create a 3-D illusion. Television, personal computers
The most likely model I would go after for business is that somebody buys a product, they get continual upgades (ala getright, mirc, etc.). In this way the serial numbers would have to be perpetual. The cost of the software would not be very much, like 10$ to 15$.
If somebody wanted to return a product that was already evaluated (purpose of shareware), and was not disabled in any meaningful way (such as a reasonable time limit during use, limited number of times running, ultimate length of time of evaluation) (unreasonable disabling would definately include limiting features available) I would deny them the ability to return it.
This obviously won't apply to all products out there.
The overhead of serial numbers can't out way the actual overhead of actually developing software.
Your example of the 42" TV is actually perfect. If that TV is going to be used for that, and you don't like it for that purpose then by all means return it. You can't exactly make copies of that product (... yet...:p)
I am in general very 'supportive' of many of your ideas, but I must consider the little guy (which happens to be me, as I am looking at doing some shareware development).
Real Consumer Protection Laws. Just like buying any physical object, whether a vaccuum or car, my software better come with an enforcable warranty of fitness. And I should be able to return defective merchandise, no questions asked (even if I've opened the shrink-wrap).
In this method, how would I allow them to return their software? My method of allowing purchases would be by serial number. If I give out a serial number, how can I allow them to return the software? I can't block out every single serial number returned, or else the serial numbers couild outnumber the actual software code/data. Then they could of course use that code to activate the software they already have.
I know shareware is supposted to be try before you buy, but it is not always possible to try out every part of the software for suitability.
Product Liability for Bad Quality. Why the hell don't standard QA laws apply here?
How would my software come in here? I would of course strive for the best possible quality I can. But if there is all this liability for bad quality similar to consumer goods, that would mean external oversight. This would only help big companies, and squeeze out the little guys.
Similarly, Application of Traditional IP Standards This whole concept of "licensing" a copy of a problem is bullshit, the same way that "licensing" a copy of a book or music tape was 100 years ago. And we had several hundreds of years without patents on anything other than physical devices. WTF?
I agree with you on this bullshit, but how can sell a copy of something while preventing them from distributing it? Borland's No-Nonsense License of past had a good idea to it - treat it like a book, I could install it on my 100 computers, just as long as I couldn't use it on more than one computer at the same time. If I sell a copy of foobar 1.0, I certainly have no problem with them using the software on any computers they have for personal use. If it was a bigger customer like a school, I would definately make a distinction there. I would want to get more money from them because their number of copies would likely go way beyond what the personal amount would reasonably be. Again - how would I prevent his friend from using his copy of foobar 1.0 on another computer (that is not his).
These are the kind of issues that I feel must be addressed. Solutions are welcome, email or reply. Palladium is not the answer to this either. It might help solve the problems, but would create too much control from 3rd parties of your system.
I have to contest that - 500ish watts for a 'standard' desktop? I don't think so. My desktop (before I got my mac) uses a 350W power supply (enermax). Most computers ship with at most a 350W, most though are 300W. Considering most actual computers are older, they could be 145W to 250W easily. That is a big difference from 500ish.
"I think it's not uncommon to find Mac users running a desktop with hundreds of MB of RAM, whereas PC users often have less than a hundred MB. "
What world are you living in? My ibook has 384mb of ram, and my PC desktop has 512mb. Some companies still try to bum computers off with 128mb new, but you sohuld get at least 192 or 256.
Here you go { Goto the mac picture and the used button at the top }
PowerMac G4 533 Dual (CD-RW) selling for $2,199.99cdn. If I am not mistaken that is at least one or two years old. Tell me a single Windows PC that is even one year old that can sell for that.
We also can't forget the powerbook g4/500/ti that is up near 2800cdn$, that is older too.
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with microsoft trying to push people to upgrade all the time with ever more advanced methods of crashing your computer (known as windows, forgive me, I just installed win98 on a computer for a friend (i am a mac user now) and it took 30 to 50 reboots before I was done with it).
Microsoft will not be able to sell these new things to consumers. However at the same time you will not be able to sell certain other things to consumers either. For example, SerialATA is coming out now. If we take it a few years from now when consumers have met this point, SerialATA will never come very popular because nobody (not very many - new being a niche market) is upgrading to the very new anymore. Or same with FireWire 2 (my laptop for instance, how would you put that on (its an ibook... no pcmcia)). Interfaces don't exactly make the things faster. So harddrives haven't really increased in speed in the last 5 years (usually they are running at 5 to 10 mb/s for most things or even lower). RAM has increased, but bus speeds haven't really increased that much.
So yes, the underlying things that the cpus rely on must increase a lot before people will use them. Maybe it will be too late for them, if people go portable then they probably won't care too much. Look at apple's ibooks, they are cheaper than their desktops and they are very competitive to other offerings. Apple is the way to go now guys...
StuffIt Baby!
I use stuffit expander to expand all of my archives, and use tar/gz to compress them.
Because I rarely actually compress things, and usually I want the entire contents of an archive StuffIt works great.
StuffIt will extract always to a directory even if the zip file has none. Do you hate it when you extracted a zip file of 50 files onto your desktop when you didn't mean to? But if it is only a single file, then i believe it will just extract.
What I can't figure out is why the Mac version is twice the price of the Windows version. It would cost me almost 120$cdn to buy the deluxe version or 75$cdn to buy the standard. Those prices are way out of wack. I will stick to gzip for that price.
Half million mark you say? Never thought much of that....
Microsoft beats that...
microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.220
microsoft.com has address 207.46.249.27
microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.155
microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.190
microsoft.com has address 207.46.134.222
microsoft.com has address 207.46.230.218
so does...
timewarner.com has address 64.12.146.40
timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.65
timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.66
timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.67
timewarner.com has address 205.188.238.68
Be critical of these fellows:
FREEHOLD IA - - One Christian mother is in the hospital and 256 teenage boys have been baptized in turpentine
The mother, lets wait for that one.
The 256 boys: (some computer geek's joke?) this is just purely satan inspired
3-foot wrought-iron cage
This can surely help any poor bastard, along with:
five Sears Diehard car batteries they had used as part of her treatment.
Insane? Yes, the insane hospital is insane.
permanent paint that wouldn't come off when she licked it.
This is kind of evil isn't it? You DO NOT LICK YOUR SON'S TESTICLE!
Remember the woman who was put in the hospital...
I told her to stick her hand in the toaster until I got there
Some how I do not think that is the result of this movie.
Mrs. O'Christian then called the police immediately
Umm, for what... maybe you - because YOU WERE LICKING THE DAMN TESTICLE!
young Timmy was taken to Pastor's den
For what? Option 1 or Option 2
"You don't have to use your imagination to see what's going on here, folks,"
Yes, I can CLEARLY SEE YOU ARE A FCKED UP CHURCH!
True Christian® churches
What do they have that Trademarked?
On one of the home and garden type channels it was a house that was essentially a 'bird house', but was meant for humans. It was easily 5 to 10 feet off of the ground and it could actually rotate. It was an elevator to get up to the house.
This would definately help get rid of door to door sales people.
Q: Would you ever want a house like this?
State Opposition Justice spokesman Lawrence Springborg said that despite the federal proposals, he would introduce a Private Member's Bill on defamation in Parliament today. It would call for defamation to be an indictable offence with up to five years' jail on conviction.
The case of defamation in the article might have certainly not been satire, but there is a wide blur line here.
How can somebody make an honest joke (about somebody) and not get penalized.
Case in point: Royal Canadian Air Farce (note: you can download episodes off of their website)
Their entire show is pretty much satire on people. Politicians mainly. Their imitation of Chretien has to be the best. This show might be cut and dry humour. But many satires are not quite as far on the humour spectrum.
Please tell me how you can distinguish them.
I wouldn't want to even read what that html would look like after that. Can't they just write their documents in XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2? After they got the original document done, their style would (should) be the same for each presentation.
Which is why we use Sherlock 3.
A list of languages that will surely blow away google and babelfish: (and it does use the systran engine too).
Dutch
Chinese Traditional and Simplified
French
German
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portugese
Russian
Spanish
The only language that might be useful (to me, that is missing) is Latin.
I would not put it past Bush to become the next world dictator that must stop. After this Iraq thing is over (which he WILL screw up, just like his father did and he did in Afganistan) there will be the next threat he HAS to deal with. He will see the UN as an inconvenience a la Darth Vader/The Emperor and the Galactic Senate. The secret police of the secret government (the ones who really control things) will get rid of the obstacles. Bush must be stopped!
If all this happened as a kid, do you still speak with your parents (and/or family)?
it's free software with chains
:-) Trolling I am not, marketh not be troll.
Anybody can use, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public Virus (GPV).
Just a joke
I run a 700mhz ibook with the radeon w/16mb vram. Jaguar is certainly not as fast as windows is on my desktop, but it is still a load faster than 10.1.5 . I do in fact have Quartz Extreme as well.
With the faster ATI chip, the iBook can now take advantage of the improved Quartz Extreme graphics engine built into the latest version of Mac OS X. Really? I can do that now with my mobile radeon w/16mb vram on my 700mhz ibook.
Can I put your first sentance a different way, but a few years ago?
"AMD should have realized a long time ago that they couldn't break into the desktop market (which is where they seem to have been trying to go)."
We can say that probably around K5 or K6 era, maybe even K6-2. You must be open to possibilities.
They tried to pass off Yoda as a digitial character. He was obviously fake. In this case YODA != old yoda. The old Yoda was vastly superior to this Yoda.
I love that 'term' :p
Just incase you aren't just trying to be funny...
Holodeck is a a room that can project light and force fields to create the illusion of being some place.
Companies Working in Three Dimensions
COMPANY TECHNOLOGY POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS
Actuality Systems
(Burlington, MA) Spinning screen inside a clear sphere creates 3-D images that appear to float. Battlefield visualization, biomolecular research
Deep Video Imaging
(Hamilton, New Zealand) Two LCD screens, one in front of the other, provide a multi-dimensional effect. Finance, navigation, petrochemical exploration, medical R&D, graphic design
Dimension 3
(Woodland Hills, CA) Color-filtering glasses and glasses with one dark lens make moving objects stand out. Television, print media
Dynamic Digital Depth
(Santa Monica, CA) Software recreates 3-D depth data from two-dimensional materials. Advertising, retail, television, computer gaming
X3D Technologies
(New York, NY) LCD glasses work with an ordinary display to create a 3-D illusion. Television, personal computers
The most likely model I would go after for business is that somebody buys a product, they get continual upgades (ala getright, mirc, etc.). In this way the serial numbers would have to be perpetual. The cost of the software would not be very much, like 10$ to 15$.
... :p)
If somebody wanted to return a product that was already evaluated (purpose of shareware), and was not disabled in any meaningful way (such as a reasonable time limit during use, limited number of times running, ultimate length of time of evaluation) (unreasonable disabling would definately include limiting features available) I would deny them the ability to return it.
This obviously won't apply to all products out there.
The overhead of serial numbers can't out way the actual overhead of actually developing software.
Your example of the 42" TV is actually perfect. If that TV is going to be used for that, and you don't like it for that purpose then by all means return it. You can't exactly make copies of that product (... yet
I am in general very 'supportive' of many of your ideas, but I must consider the little guy (which happens to be me, as I am looking at doing some shareware development).
Real Consumer Protection Laws. Just like buying any physical object, whether a vaccuum or car, my software better come with an enforcable warranty of fitness. And I should be able to return defective merchandise, no questions asked (even if I've opened the shrink-wrap).
In this method, how would I allow them to return their software? My method of allowing purchases would be by serial number. If I give out a serial number, how can I allow them to return the software? I can't block out every single serial number returned, or else the serial numbers couild outnumber the actual software code/data. Then they could of course use that code to activate the software they already have.
I know shareware is supposted to be try before you buy, but it is not always possible to try out every part of the software for suitability.
Product Liability for Bad Quality. Why the hell don't standard QA laws apply here?
How would my software come in here? I would of course strive for the best possible quality I can. But if there is all this liability for bad quality similar to consumer goods, that would mean external oversight. This would only help big companies, and squeeze out the little guys.
Similarly, Application of Traditional IP Standards This whole concept of "licensing" a copy of a problem is bullshit, the same way that "licensing" a copy of a book or music tape was 100 years ago. And we had several hundreds of years without patents on anything other than physical devices. WTF?
I agree with you on this bullshit, but how can sell a copy of something while preventing them from distributing it? Borland's No-Nonsense License of past had a good idea to it - treat it like a book, I could install it on my 100 computers, just as long as I couldn't use it on more than one computer at the same time. If I sell a copy of foobar 1.0, I certainly have no problem with them using the software on any computers they have for personal use. If it was a bigger customer like a school, I would definately make a distinction there. I would want to get more money from them because their number of copies would likely go way beyond what the personal amount would reasonably be. Again - how would I prevent his friend from using his copy of foobar 1.0 on another computer (that is not his).
These are the kind of issues that I feel must be addressed. Solutions are welcome, email or reply. Palladium is not the answer to this either. It might help solve the problems, but would create too much control from 3rd parties of your system.
I think the persistent state for all copyrighted works made after Micky Mouse will continue to be copyrighted...
Disney: "You can have Micky Mouse, when you pry it from my cold dead fingers"
I have to contest that - 500ish watts for a 'standard' desktop? I don't think so. My desktop (before I got my mac) uses a 350W power supply (enermax). Most computers ship with at most a 350W, most though are 300W. Considering most actual computers are older, they could be 145W to 250W easily. That is a big difference from 500ish.
"I think it's not uncommon to find Mac users running a desktop with hundreds of MB of RAM, whereas PC users often have less than a hundred MB. "
What world are you living in? My ibook has 384mb of ram, and my PC desktop has 512mb. Some companies still try to bum computers off with 128mb new, but you sohuld get at least 192 or 256.
Here you go { Goto the mac picture and the used button at the top }
PowerMac G4 533 Dual (CD-RW) selling for $2,199.99cdn. If I am not mistaken that is at least one or two years old. Tell me a single Windows PC that is even one year old that can sell for that.
We also can't forget the powerbook g4/500/ti that is up near 2800cdn$, that is older too.