now as both a pianist and a flautist, I have some experiance both playing and repairing musical instruments. When I get inside a piano to adjust things, I am used to a certain amount of resistance when I pluck the strings. How will you privide the resistance in a harp? Also, many people use the strings to "feel" their way to the next chord. Lasers make for invisible strings.....I am curious how this will be done.
when I saw the word culture and read the question, I immediatly applied it to socio-economic and and philisophical cultures. Just as mac users proportedly have their own culture, so do BSD and Solairis users. Perhaps the rich dude with the ferrari want a slick interface and platinum browser motifs. The unemployed programmer wants black and white borders that load fast.
Culture then should apply to a number of differebt groups. This is what the whole concept of usebility is about. http://www.upassoc.org/ So perhaps the programmer should look at his prospective market and try and match his design to it. Perhaps doing several different interface versions is a good idea, albiet more expensive. I would look at the socio-economic/ country/age group/skill set/ etc/etc of my market and base my work off of that information
Well, it could, but what exatly is "harmful to the public"?
Can we, as programmers see things as clear-cut as doctors? Even doctors see large amounts of gray all the time.
Perhaps what we need, as stated many times is simply a general movement to open-souce. People can get rid of the code they dislike. Also, some people, like some doctors, will always want to harm the "common good".
What would be neat though is a code of standards for software: 1-The user has contol over all communications to and from the program 2-The program shall be stable enough for everyday use (whatever that might come to mean) 3-The user will know of all processes run by the program and al, parts of the computer system it affects or alters. etc etc etc
This might go a long way towards keeping software, thus programmers, doing good instead of 'evil'. It would also mean that software with a 'stamp of approval' ie (no pun intended) it meets the standards could be marked as such, and treated as such. This is a broad conceptual idea, so don't bash me to hard on the details. Perhaps I shall write a journal about it....
THis is obviously EXTREMELY important to the well-being of the consumer internet. Why isn't it on the front page where the Hundreds of Thousands of daily/. readers can see it?
Now while this might be good for search and rescue, I have to point out that it will be a shame when they are used for rescuing people in ALF bombed buildings. The Animal Liberation Front wont like this at all. It is a very ingenious idea, I wonder about its portability to humans. This is dangerous if used to harm people of course. But, the perhaps we could use this to benefit people. Perhaps a programmer's significant other can get them away from the computer....
Quantam computers are the only ones which have the processing power to break what is in essance, the one time pad used by light (quantam cryptography). When computers came along at the end of WWII, we could start stabbing at one time pads and Zeta functions, which are almost as difficult to crack. Now, we are back at that pre WWII stage where Pads are near impossible. Now, quantam cryptography on its own is vulnerable to brute force cracking, as all encyption is. What makes it secure is the fact that you can't intercept it. And already some universities have been plying with induction-based pickups for fiber optics.
Anyone remember a flat earth that was the center of the universe and the planets went in circles? what a wonderfully far way science has come. Kepler.....then Einstein. Good for the progress of science.
Even though the 500mil plus price tag is large, this is a small project. 7miles first phase. To be of any use, it has to stretch south just a little farther to the airport. IT also needs expansion into the HUGE suburbs of vegas. Have you ever flown over Los Vegas? THe suburbs are huge, how do the support them? Anyways, Mass transit can't be something a municipality carefully wades into. They have to go and jump in with lead weights. Thats the only way for this to besome well used. And why is it so expensive? DisneyWorld has a cheaper monorail that carries less people, but proportionally, the costs of the Vegas system seem very high.
Well, phones were standard enough that one could circumvent or "hack", if you will, the phone system. This is not really possible unfortunately given the personal serial numbers, etc built into the phones. So, now wireless networks can boot unliscenced phones. Someone merely needs to make the phone they want look like a legitimate phone. Problem: have to buy 2 phones. I agree, separate the carriers from the phones. What if I don't want nokia crap?
now, If insurance companies want to monitor these boxes before and after crashes to adjust rates, what is to stop them from checking up on you every couple of months? I wouldn't want an insurance company seeing that I drive my Honda Civic at 90 mph at 2AM on saturday mornings. That type of tracking would be a bad idea. If memory is only limited to what is needed to store crash and pre-crash info, then yes, let us have these boxes. We can also use them as a post consumer market method of quality control.
Can my Tivo serve as a server? can I connect it to my computer and let everyone download all my stored SouthPark and Lone Gunmen episodes? It would be neat if I could use this for information as well, if I need harddrive space temporairly. Can't wit for people to hack it, I want to know what can be done with the thing.
Are the problems with MS and the fast approching 1.0 release of Mozilla signs that IE is fading? Let us postulate yes for a second. IF we do, then might we consider that the decline of IE is a sign that MS and most of its applications are going to slowly wither as faster better and cheaper alternatives become availible? (despite the fact that engineers say faster better cheaper pick any two). Assuming that IE is foreshadowing the decline of many MS apps and OSs in the future, what will replace them? MS makes some usefull, albiet very buggy software (Office). It is a shame there is no better standard for computer users. Can MS shift its buisness focus to software exclusivly? or perhaps to the OS market exclusivly and dump Office and the rest under Open-Source. I think these are interesting possibilities to explore.
Apple should begin a general phase-out of Microsoft apps...... It would be very nice to see a continually more progressive anti MS Apple in the future, but that is not possible. When will Apple just win the PC war? I mean, they DO have the superior computer....at least among BSD gurus, and Graphics people.
Wireless access, attributed to the nerds. I would like to know more of the details about the final product, but this is neat. It would be really nice if I could use this with a mac......But Linux is good enough. I would like to know what they embedded. The kernal? or other stuff too?
DVDs lend so many possibilities for extra content. As a person with close connections to the documentry film world, I know that there is a conflict between people wanting 2 hour specials, and people wanting FOX like 15 minute ADHD adapted summaries. The ability to include both is a real opportunity. Since so many people watch DVDs, they can watch what they want. Unfortunatly, people will start coming out with crap made just to fill up the 4.7 gigs of space. So film has found a new media, perhaps we should concentrate on making good use of it, instead of filling it with crap. How long until everyone will get Holiday DVDs with 4 hours a family footage? Sounds like the 7th level to me.
Like, WHERE ARE ALL THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE FROM MONTANA? THEY should be out there right now, TAKING OVER AOLand THE GOVERNMENT for messing with OUR 1st amendment rights. ::goes to get gun:: ::loads gun:: ::promptly shoots self in foot:: ::gets angry and shoots the registar, since I was gullible enough to fall for it:: ::shoots AOL, then MS just for the hell of it::
Like, WHERE ARE ALL THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE FROM MONTANA? THEY should be out there right now, TAKING OVER AOLand THE GOVERNMENT for messing with OUR 1st amendment rights. > > > > >
Its an odd article for/. but its neat. I think that computer geeks (myself included) need to get out and exercise, its good for the mind, the most used geek muscle (we know its not a muscle though). I rock climb a lot, and it has helped me. Boot camp in this style is not as hard as the "real thing". At least they can't pull you out of bed at 1, after you just went to sleep.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!! from the delta to the DMZ............
I agree. Perhaps there is some way for Google to have a restraining order in place, after all, tehy don't control what is in there database on a human leval, its all done by search bots. Damn the DMCA for beinga bad piece of legislation. Mass Protests?
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now as both a pianist and a flautist, I have some experiance both playing and repairing musical instruments. When I get inside a piano to adjust things, I am used to a certain amount of resistance when I pluck the strings. How will you privide the resistance in a harp? Also, many people use the strings to "feel" their way to the next chord. Lasers make for invisible strings.....I am curious how this will be done.
Just games?
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Has Microsoft, to some extent, limited competition in the entire software industry by buying rights so programs cannot be released to other platforms?
Well, I can tell now:
-1 Troll, -1 Offtopic, -1 redundant, -1 overrated.
Perhaps there is an M$ conspiracy surrounding
when I saw the word culture and read the question, I immediatly applied it to socio-economic and and philisophical cultures. Just as mac users proportedly have their own culture, so do BSD and Solairis users. Perhaps the rich dude with the ferrari want a slick interface and platinum browser motifs. The unemployed programmer wants black and white borders that load fast.
Culture then should apply to a number of differebt groups. This is what the whole concept of usebility is about. http://www.upassoc.org/ So perhaps the programmer should look at his prospective market and try and match his design to it. Perhaps doing several different interface versions is a good idea, albiet more expensive. I would look at the socio-economic/ country/age group/skill set/ etc/etc of my market and base my work off of that information
true dat
Well.......its been known to happen
As stated above: never happen though
Well, it could, but what exatly is "harmful to the public"?
Can we, as programmers see things as clear-cut as doctors? Even doctors see large amounts of gray all the time.
Perhaps what we need, as stated many times is simply a general movement to open-souce. People can get rid of the code they dislike. Also, some people, like some doctors, will always want to harm the "common good".
What would be neat though is a code of standards for software:
1-The user has contol over all communications to and from the program
2-The program shall be stable enough for everyday use (whatever that might come to mean)
3-The user will know of all processes run by the program and al, parts of the computer system it affects or alters.
etc
etc
etc
This might go a long way towards keeping software, thus programmers, doing good instead of 'evil'. It would also mean that software with a 'stamp of approval' ie (no pun intended) it meets the standards could be marked as such, and treated as such. This is a broad conceptual idea, so don't bash me to hard on the details. Perhaps I shall write a journal about it....
THis is obviously EXTREMELY important to the well-being of the consumer internet. Why isn't it on the front page where the Hundreds of Thousands of daily /. readers can see it?
Now while this might be good for search and rescue, I have to point out that it will be a shame when they are used for rescuing people in ALF bombed buildings. The Animal Liberation Front wont like this at all. It is a very ingenious idea, I wonder about its portability to humans. This is dangerous if used to harm people of course. But, the perhaps we could use this to benefit people. Perhaps a programmer's significant other can get them away from the computer....
Sorry to dissapoint you, but I am merely a highschool student. I am not even a poet. But thanks for the ego-boost.
So big and empty
Nothing inside but hot air
When it connected with the float
of some solid metal
It POPPED
And smothered
The Float
That had substance.
Quantam computers are the only ones which have the processing power to break what is in essance, the one time pad used by light (quantam cryptography). When computers came along at the end of WWII, we could start stabbing at one time pads and Zeta functions, which are almost as difficult to crack. Now, we are back at that pre WWII stage where Pads are near impossible. Now, quantam cryptography on its own is vulnerable to brute force cracking, as all encyption is. What makes it secure is the fact that you can't intercept it. And already some universities have been plying with induction-based pickups for fiber optics.
Anyone remember a flat earth that was the center of the universe and the planets went in circles? what a wonderfully far way science has come. Kepler.....then Einstein. Good for the progress of science.
Even though the 500mil plus price tag is large, this is a small project. 7miles first phase. To be of any use, it has to stretch south just a little farther to the airport. IT also needs expansion into the HUGE suburbs of vegas. Have you ever flown over Los Vegas? THe suburbs are huge, how do the support them? Anyways, Mass transit can't be something a municipality carefully wades into. They have to go and jump in with lead weights. Thats the only way for this to besome well used. And why is it so expensive? DisneyWorld has a cheaper monorail that carries less people, but proportionally, the costs of the Vegas system seem very high.
Well, phones were standard enough that one could circumvent or "hack", if you will, the phone system. This is not really possible unfortunately given the personal serial numbers, etc built into the phones. So, now wireless networks can boot unliscenced phones. Someone merely needs to make the phone they want look like a legitimate phone. Problem: have to buy 2 phones. I agree, separate the carriers from the phones. What if I don't want nokia crap?
1 Its cool
2 Its slanted towards nerds: we actually GET the cool interfaces and technology
3 It is, of course, in direct disagreement with the EVIL EMPIRE, Microsoft
now, If insurance companies want to monitor these boxes before and after crashes to adjust rates, what is to stop them from checking up on you every couple of months? I wouldn't want an insurance company seeing that I drive my Honda Civic at 90 mph at 2AM on saturday mornings. That type of tracking would be a bad idea. If memory is only limited to what is needed to store crash and pre-crash info, then yes, let us have these boxes. We can also use them as a post consumer market method of quality control.
Can my Tivo serve as a server? can I connect it to my computer and let everyone download all my stored SouthPark and Lone Gunmen episodes? It would be neat if I could use this for information as well, if I need harddrive space temporairly. Can't wit for people to hack it, I want to know what can be done with the thing.
Are the problems with MS and the fast approching 1.0 release of Mozilla signs that IE is fading? Let us postulate yes for a second. IF we do, then might we consider that the decline of IE is a sign that MS and most of its applications are going to slowly wither as faster better and cheaper alternatives become availible? (despite the fact that engineers say faster better cheaper pick any two). Assuming that IE is foreshadowing the decline of many MS apps and OSs in the future, what will replace them? MS makes some usefull, albiet very buggy software (Office). It is a shame there is no better standard for computer users. Can MS shift its buisness focus to software exclusivly? or perhaps to the OS market exclusivly and dump Office and the rest under Open-Source. I think these are interesting possibilities to explore.
Apple should begin a general phase-out of Microsoft apps......
It would be very nice to see a continually more progressive anti MS Apple in the future, but that is not possible. When will Apple just win the PC war? I mean, they DO have the superior computer....at least among BSD gurus, and Graphics people.
Please, this isn't a flame
Wireless access, attributed to the nerds. I would like to know more of the details about the final product, but this is neat. It would be really nice if I could use this with a mac......But Linux is good enough. I would like to know what they embedded. The kernal? or other stuff too?
DVDs lend so many possibilities for extra content. As a person with close connections to the documentry film world, I know that there is a conflict between people wanting 2 hour specials, and people wanting FOX like 15 minute ADHD adapted summaries. The ability to include both is a real opportunity. Since so many people watch DVDs, they can watch what they want. Unfortunatly, people will start coming out with crap made just to fill up the 4.7 gigs of space. So film has found a new media, perhaps we should concentrate on making good use of it, instead of filling it with crap. How long until everyone will get Holiday DVDs with 4 hours a family footage? Sounds like the 7th level to me.
Like, WHERE ARE ALL THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE FROM MONTANA? THEY should be out there right now, TAKING OVER AOLand THE GOVERNMENT for messing with OUR 1st amendment rights.
::goes to get gun::
::loads gun::
::promptly shoots self in foot::
::gets angry and shoots the registar, since I was gullible enough to fall for it::
::shoots AOL, then MS just for the hell of it::
Thats how it should have appeared...
Like, WHERE ARE ALL THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE FROM MONTANA? THEY should be out there right now, TAKING OVER AOLand THE GOVERNMENT for messing with OUR 1st amendment rights.
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Its an odd article for /. but its neat. I think that computer geeks (myself included) need to get out and exercise, its good for the mind, the most used geek muscle (we know its not a muscle though). I rock climb a lot, and it has helped me. Boot camp in this style is not as hard as the "real thing". At least they can't pull you out of bed at 1, after you just went to sleep.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!! from the delta to the DMZ............
I agree. Perhaps there is some way for Google to have a restraining order in place, after all, tehy don't control what is in there database on a human leval, its all done by search bots. Damn the DMCA for beinga bad piece of legislation. Mass Protests?