Someone needs to start "For the People, Inc." and we all need to become paid staff, assign our lifetime outputs/copyright to The Company, and get our ID badges issued at the door.
The Company can then fulfill its charter, which is to protect all of us from other Corporations and Entities. All of our works will be protected, everything that we do together as a group will be company confidential, protected by all the right trade law, etc.
e-books - a file format this thing is designed to deal with - are a very compressed format, which don't in fact take up a lot of space. in this circumstance, it is definitely a case of '640k is enough for any good book'...
you wouldn't put your PC-megalith files on this thing. you'd put e-books, and like the article states: thats about 500 books.
yeah, my friends are 'allowed' to fuck off any time they want to, its generally not something i do or do not have any control over, but if they come to me one more time with pathetic windows virus-related problems they know 'i can fix faster than them, so should', i will enjoy encouraging them to fuck off yet one more time...
if a computer is a waste of time for you, don't make it so for another person!
ermm... all i have to say to this is that anyone who uses a debugger isn't programming.
i've seen this reliance on debuggers come into the industry, from education... and in my opinion, its an unhealthy habit for programmers to rely on debuggers. if it gets to that point, you've lost control of your code, and you're not programming.
i know that won't be a popular or 'interesting' view around here, necessarily, but i tend to avoid all possible contact with debuggers, personally...
If Open Source Software isn't worth 3,000 people voluntarily paying $1 for, simply to keep it safe... then... its not good enough.
In either case (a:Microsoft win/b:Microsoft win slightly less), it doesn't matter: They can -never- compete with Free Software.
If SMB protocols' can't be used, then good: that makes a market for interoperable filesystem protocols on the Windows platform which haven't been written by Microsoft/ingested by their patent dogs.
All this hooplah about an old-school software company with so much to lose, fails to recognize one thing: Linux is on a loooong, steady, and infinitely unbeatable march into *everything*...
Going at mach many costs mucho. Good luck on paying that every day.
sooo.... i guess you're kinda new to the whole 'economy' thing there, eh?
soon as the technology is -available- and -proven- there will be a massive scramble to implement it... after all, the atmosphere is abundant with fuel. think of -all- the petrochemical plants we would no longer need to really have in operation in order to maintain our existing jet economies?
technology, once its figured out and done and demonstrably repeatable under favourable circumstances, is ready to roll. it is only artificial (economy) limits, the sum total of men exchanging things, which prevents its 'cheapness'...
bah! whats wrong with adding security certs to DNS? its a working system, its there already, there doesn't need to be a brand new freakin' protocol all the time. if its a good one, anyway.
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You cannot defeat Death. You cannot defeat Information. Both are examples of Infinity.
As in, there is a lot of both around, it is a free substance.
People should be taught to -play- music, not buy it.
10 years ago, we could've built pocket portable computers that served PDA functionality in a similar fashion to the current market crop. No questions about it. I myself worked on prototypes for 2 different systems, using the hardware that was available at the time.
Today we have calculators with 75 MHz processors, powered off AAA batteries. Would that have been possible 10 years ago? perhaps, but the price would have been insane.
It is a sign of your ignorance that you consider that we would have needed such performance in a handheld computing device.
But then again, with Microsoft and its fleet of.DLL thugs around to prop up Intel, it surprises me not one iota that such ignorance is prevalent.
Computers do not need to be fast, have a lot of RAM, or extensive 'modern' peripherals in order to actually be useful for work. The PDA's designed in the 80's were functioning, working PDA's. They worked.
The point is, the original poster said "we already know they're criminals, we don't need to look at any more evidence".
Well, duh. A crime is a crime, whether its a stiff-in-the-ditch or a battle-order-from-the-boss. Just because one crime has been discovered, doesn't mean we should stop looking for more...
I've contended for years that computing in general has been held back by Microsoft, not pushed forward, and this is an example of just how that has been the case.
There are a lot of 'high order' dreams in the computing science. The CS holy grail of pocket, portable computing is only now coming to fruition (thank you Palm), but has been on the cards since at least the 60's as a design reference/specification. Go could've given us this in the late 1980's, early 90's. Microsofts' machinations, however, prevented that from happening.
I understand now, why the Palm founders adopted their 'found and leave' strategy for PalmOS. In the light of Go, Inc's demise it makes sense to light 4 or 5 small fires that the enemy can't put -all- out, rather than making a very large target, like Go and Motorola did...
I stopped using Microsoft products in 1998. They'll not get one penny of $ from this consumer, and not one item of code from this programmer. I tell all my Microsoft-using friends to fuck off with their self-made problems, too, and get real operating systems, from real software companies... and most of them do.
I'm extremely interested in computer science, and have been since I was 8 years old ('78) and first started hacking code.
I dropped out of high school to take my first paying job writing computer software, and never looked back. I did not go to school, but I have a CV and work experience like no other, and I'm happy to say that I've worked on some very big projects which have had an impact on the world. I'm definitely a self-made computer science professional.
In my opinion you don't -need- a CS degree to do computing work. The skills used in putting computers to work are intrinsic to the skills one uses to learn something. CS training does help you; it gives you time and space to learn things slowly, at your own pace, outside of the mad and hectic, chaotic nature of the commercial sector. But it's not a necessity. You can learn and deliver useful working code under pressure; being able to do so in commercial realms is what makes a successful computer person.
The only thing you need to do well in computers is the desire to make computers do something, and do it well. Everything else - applying new CS tech, keeping up on industry advances, etc. is secondary to that single, simple purpose of making a computer do some sort of work. Old tech doesn't stop working.
I've seen so many dilettante CS 'graduates' come into the commercial sector and go "uh oh, I hate this", u-turn, and go back to the lawyer/doctor/burgerflipper treadmill, and in my opinion its only because they forgot that at the end of the day, its the computer who has to be made to do the work by the human, not the other way around...
just to be pedantic, i take issue with this point. MIDI is actually more versatile than.WAV files. why do i say this? 'versatile' means "ability to do multiple different things"..WAV files can be slowed down, chopped up, sped up, or played normally. Or, you can apply some filter process to them, but if you want to automate that process, you're -adding- another data format to the mix.
MIDI is a control protocol. with MIDI, you can address very specific individual parameters of the sound you are hearing, if you're talking to a device that has a control protocol implementation...
its a pedantic point, but i think 'versatile' is more applicable to MIDI in terms of 'flexibility' than.WAV files...
I wanna be able to walk down the street, talk into my jacket pocket and say something like "google: nearest mongolian restaurant to my current GPS", and a few seconds later hear a short direction-plan for getting there.
With this feature of Opera, I can do that. And, even better, I can set it all up and run the server myself, with all the free software which is available to me and running under linux on my sl5500, in my jacket pocket...
Now all I need to do is get a bit beefier PDA than my current sl5500...
... a problem I have with giving all of my personal information to a single organization to put into a central respository...
All the problems which Passport tried to solve can be solved instead with proper use of GPG and public/private key exchanges... in a fashion that -is- secure, is easy to use, and is going to give people - vendors and consumers - exactly what they need/want in the process of the transaction.
If -only- someone would make it a lot easier for an average person to understand what it meant to generate a one-time-use private/public key, and provided key management as a fundamental task to the operating system, as... say... clipboard cut/copy/paste currently is...
Seems to me this is what an Operating System Company should be working on, instead of an Internet Applications Service Company...
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Mein Gott, what can we do?
Someone needs to start "For the People, Inc." and we all need to become paid staff, assign our lifetime outputs/copyright to The Company, and get our ID badges issued at the door.
The Company can then fulfill its charter, which is to protect all of us from other Corporations and Entities. All of our works will be protected, everything that we do together as a group will be company confidential, protected by all the right trade law, etc.
Seriously. I'm about to do this.
no, i knew that. its just that i also know the definition of the word 'fuel'.
e-books - a file format this thing is designed to deal with - are a very compressed format, which don't in fact take up a lot of space. in this circumstance, it is definitely a case of '640k is enough for any good book' ...
you wouldn't put your PC-megalith files on this thing. you'd put e-books, and like the article states: thats about 500 books.
hey, it fuels my scramjet, it doesn't oxydize it.
ummm ... hello ... the rest of the worlds economies are shit, because of American Debt.
...
you do know about your debt problem, or probably not
They need us more than we need them.
funny, that 'us' and 'them' thing is what nobody needs...
Atari Portfolio. 1989/90.
yeah, my friends are 'allowed' to fuck off any time they want to, its generally not something i do or do not have any control over, but if they come to me one more time with pathetic windows virus-related problems they know 'i can fix faster than them, so should', i will enjoy encouraging them to fuck off yet one more time ...
if a computer is a waste of time for you, don't make it so for another person!
ermm... all i have to say to this is that anyone who uses a debugger isn't programming.
i've seen this reliance on debuggers come into the industry, from education
i know that won't be a popular or 'interesting' view around here, necessarily, but i tend to avoid all possible contact with debuggers, personally...
Very Naughty Boy!
If Open Source Software isn't worth 3,000 people voluntarily paying $1 for, simply to keep it safe ... then ... its not good enough.
...
In either case (a:Microsoft win/b:Microsoft win slightly less), it doesn't matter: They can -never- compete with Free Software.
If SMB protocols' can't be used, then good: that makes a market for interoperable filesystem protocols on the Windows platform which haven't been written by Microsoft/ingested by their patent dogs.
All this hooplah about an old-school software company with so much to lose, fails to recognize one thing: Linux is on a loooong, steady, and infinitely unbeatable march into *everything*
Going at mach many costs mucho. Good luck on paying that every day.
.... i guess you're kinda new to the whole 'economy' thing there, eh?
... after all, the atmosphere is abundant with fuel. think of -all- the petrochemical plants we would no longer need to really have in operation in order to maintain our existing jet economies?
...
sooo
soon as the technology is -available- and -proven- there will be a massive scramble to implement it
technology, once its figured out and done and demonstrably repeatable under favourable circumstances, is ready to roll. it is only artificial (economy) limits, the sum total of men exchanging things, which prevents its 'cheapness'
But I'm not holding my breath.
good, coz thats my valuable rocket^H^H^H^H^H^Hscramjet fuel you're breathing there buddy!
bah! whats wrong with adding security certs to DNS? its a working system, its there already, there doesn't need to be a brand new freakin' protocol all the time. if its a good one, anyway.
You cannot defeat Death. You cannot defeat Information. Both are examples of Infinity.
As in, there is a lot of both around, it is a free substance.
People should be taught to -play- music, not buy it.
10 years ago, we could've built pocket portable computers that served PDA functionality in a similar fashion to the current market crop. No questions about it. I myself worked on prototypes for 2 different systems, using the hardware that was available at the time.
Today we have calculators with 75 MHz processors, powered off AAA batteries. Would that have been possible 10 years ago? perhaps, but the price would have been insane.
It is a sign of your ignorance that you consider that we would have needed such performance in a handheld computing device.
But then again, with Microsoft and its fleet of
Computers do not need to be fast, have a lot of RAM, or extensive 'modern' peripherals in order to actually be useful for work. The PDA's designed in the 80's were functioning, working PDA's. They worked.
You. Completely. Missed. The. Point.
The point is, the original poster said "we already know they're criminals, we don't need to look at any more evidence".
Well, duh. A crime is a crime, whether its a stiff-in-the-ditch or a battle-order-from-the-boss. Just because one crime has been discovered, doesn't mean we should stop looking for more...
We've found one dead body, the criminal is in jail.
... nah ... its 'not needed'.
... only ... possible in the alternative /. universe ... in my head.
We don't need to find any more. Even if they are out there, somewhere in the ditch, buried
You should be marked "-1 Ignorant Buffoon", but alas thats
I've contended for years that computing in general has been held back by Microsoft, not pushed forward, and this is an example of just how that has been the case.
...
... and most of them do.
There are a lot of 'high order' dreams in the computing science. The CS holy grail of pocket, portable computing is only now coming to fruition (thank you Palm), but has been on the cards since at least the 60's as a design reference/specification. Go could've given us this in the late 1980's, early 90's. Microsofts' machinations, however, prevented that from happening.
I understand now, why the Palm founders adopted their 'found and leave' strategy for PalmOS. In the light of Go, Inc's demise it makes sense to light 4 or 5 small fires that the enemy can't put -all- out, rather than making a very large target, like Go and Motorola did
I stopped using Microsoft products in 1998. They'll not get one penny of $ from this consumer, and not one item of code from this programmer. I tell all my Microsoft-using friends to fuck off with their self-made problems, too, and get real operating systems, from real software companies
I'm extremely interested in computer science, and have been since I was 8 years old ('78) and first started hacking code.
I dropped out of high school to take my first paying job writing computer software, and never looked back. I did not go to school, but I have a CV and work experience like no other, and I'm happy to say that I've worked on some very big projects which have had an impact on the world. I'm definitely a self-made computer science professional.
In my opinion you don't -need- a CS degree to do computing work. The skills used in putting computers to work are intrinsic to the skills one uses to learn something. CS training does help you; it gives you time and space to learn things slowly, at your own pace, outside of the mad and hectic, chaotic nature of the commercial sector. But it's not a necessity. You can learn and deliver useful working code under pressure; being able to do so in commercial realms is what makes a successful computer person.
The only thing you need to do well in computers is the desire to make computers do something, and do it well. Everything else - applying new CS tech, keeping up on industry advances, etc. is secondary to that single, simple purpose of making a computer do some sort of work. Old tech doesn't stop working.
I've seen so many dilettante CS 'graduates' come into the commercial sector and go "uh oh, I hate this", u-turn, and go back to the lawyer/doctor/burgerflipper treadmill, and in my opinion its only because they forgot that at the end of the day, its the computer who has to be made to do the work by the human, not the other way around
If someone says something is secret, then it is. That's the only thing that makes something secret.
a recording (WAV) is much more versatile
.WAV files. why do i say this? 'versatile' means "ability to do multiple different things". .WAV files can be slowed down, chopped up, sped up, or played normally. Or, you can apply some filter process to them, but if you want to automate that process, you're -adding- another data format to the mix.
.WAV files ...
just to be pedantic, i take issue with this point. MIDI is actually more versatile than
MIDI is a control protocol. with MIDI, you can address very specific individual parameters of the sound you are hearing, if you're talking to a device that has a control protocol implementation...
its a pedantic point, but i think 'versatile' is more applicable to MIDI in terms of 'flexibility' than
I wanna be able to walk down the street, talk into my jacket pocket and say something like "google: nearest mongolian restaurant to my current GPS", and a few seconds later hear a short direction-plan for getting there.
...
...
With this feature of Opera, I can do that. And, even better, I can set it all up and run the server myself, with all the free software which is available to me and running under linux on my sl5500, in my jacket pocket
Now all I need to do is get a bit beefier PDA than my current sl5500
... a problem I have with giving all of my personal information to a single organization to put into a central respository ...
... say ... clipboard cut/copy/paste currently is ...
...
All the problems which Passport tried to solve can be solved instead with proper use of GPG and public/private key exchanges... in a fashion that -is- secure, is easy to use, and is going to give people - vendors and consumers - exactly what they need/want in the process of the transaction.
If -only- someone would make it a lot easier for an average person to understand what it meant to generate a one-time-use private/public key, and provided key management as a fundamental task to the operating system, as
Seems to me this is what an Operating System Company should be working on, instead of an Internet Applications Service Company
I've lived in many TV-enslaved cultures, and avoided participating in the feast that its Television.
... Television is a cultural crime, in my opinion.
You are right, it is actually pretty surreal
I think the Russians are more likely to send anyone into space right now, than anyone else.
America has its faults. That so many think of it as a "Great Nation" without knowing any other is one of them.