This tastes like tinfoil to me. Paul Allen may be the second largest shareholder at Microsoft, but he's long since moved on from the Redmond giant.
I don't think it's a great idea for people like this to be enjoying the luxuries of other rich influential people at all, but I doubt this is a Microsoft specific thing.
Well....I wonder who will go up to get the award...seeing as Firewire was developed before Jobs came back from exile. Maybe it will be Steve Wozniak...maybe...
Now I'm all for video games and such. But this is terrible. I mean, video games aren't supposed to require all this kind of physical input. What about all the geeky kids who aren't coordinated? I think there's going to be a decline in things like Tekken if you actually have to fight...I mean, I'm no "Hworang" and certainly no "Eddy."
I'm just saying that I'll be too lazy to use this. Maybe I can build a bot or somethign taht I can control with a keyboard who can do the virtual fighting input for me. Yes, that's what I'll do....
More importantly, is making a tape from a CD a violation of the DCMA?
Great. I'm sure this will be covered everywhere...
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What really irks me about this whole Adobe v. Dimitry scandal is the pathetic amount of media attention it's been getting. (not to say getting Slashdotters all in a frenzy is pathetic.)
When the protestors marched on the World Trade Organization or the recent Leaders Summit, the NY times had a big article in it's main headlines section about what they were marching about and fighting for. Now that nearly every EFF person and other techno person gets into a frenzy over this dimitry fiasco, the NY times puts a small article bereft of much information in it's technology section. That's all. It's nothing big; the DCMA is just a small story
It really makes me angry that the media isn't more concerned with the DCMA and the freedoms it takes away.
Space has gone from being the place for people with the right stuff, to the final frontier, to the star wars defense system, to the defunct starwars, but now...yes, now it is disneyland.
Actually, that's what disappoints me about the United States. One of the major blunders, at least IMHO, is how they cancelled the supercollider project in 1993.
The physics community in America is becoming a joke. After the years of importance, obviously caused by the cold war, physics has fallen by the wayside of American politics, similar to the decline of NASA. Without the prospects of making a new superbomb, the American public could care less about physics. It's the bane of every kid in highschool; it's the news articles that grownups fail to comprehend, or simply shrug off to the intellectual ivory tower.
I personally wish that we in the US would get a reputable collider. Why is it that everything has to be built in Geneva? Does anyone have any idea how many people have "exported" themselves to other countries to where physics is more respected? I would certainly like to know, because it seems that at least in America, physicists are ranked maybe slightly above McDonald's employees, both in respect and pay.
About a year ago I thought of making a small company/organization with my friend. Strictly online stuff, so I registered a domain name. I went off to college, never had enough time to finish, and eventually the idea died. NOW, about a year later, I can't get away from all the emails and physical mail that VeriSign is sending me. I hate it. They won't leave me alone. I want my domain to die. Seriously. Go away.
Hehe, if anyone wants www.informed-voter.com...I'd love to piss off VeriSign with a transfer.
I was actually talking to my friend a few minutes ago about this very idea.
For people coming from a life of windows, linux can be a very scary world. I had problems from day one, (day one being not so long ago), just getting around to things. I wanted to set up my NIC and I was trying to figure out where i could go to Network Neighborhood, finally realizing there is no network neighborhood. Then there was changing the resolution...I rightclicked expecting to see Properties and go through that easy Windows process. NOTHING! That took some time too.
Granted I am not the smartest person in the world, but I am a CS major and computers are my life! I was so used to the Windows way of doing things that shifting over for just the easiest things took some time.
The worst part is that apparently unclean stoppage of Linux is a much worse prospect than Windows...I suppose it really isn't an issue because of Linux's supposed reliability...but if anyone hasn't yet simply turned their computer off accidently while running Linux....I dare you..
Alright, not to be slightly off topic, but I think that this.NET thing has gone on for long enough. Now who is really anticipating Microsoft going to subscriber based services? Certainly not me. For that matter, I can't really remember the last time that I honestly paid for software. In fact, getting by with "bootlegging" has become the college tradition, if not the de facto standard for a lot of people.
Now where is this going? Simple, if Microsoft starts making these things like.NET where one has to sign up for an account to use their software on a monthly basis or some such nonsense, then getting free software becomes a moot point if you have to sign up for the account.
I think that this is a bad move for Microsoft; one, not collaborating with open source people, and two, making sure that their products become service based. No one is going to pay for this, or at least I'm not, not that that will really matter.
- a disheartened H. Simpson
From my understanding, the courts are angry for microsoft intertwining IE and Windows, which is understandable because it does seem to allow microsoft to easily push away Netscape. (Not that I liked Netscape anyway.)
But what I'd rather see in my computer is more commingling, because frankly, that seems to be the best thing for getting things to work. When you buy a car, do you buy a car with a steering wheel from a Mercedes, an engine from a Ford, brakes from a Toyota? No, your car was an integrated object designed by one company. However, it seems like computers are just the opposite. Everyone has a piece of the action and often times these things don't interlock too well. I would be all for commingling if it actually fostered a more integrated product, so I dont have things conflicting with each other.
It's ashame that this enforces Microsoft's monopoly, but I think it's truly better for the consumer.
Fusion coming to a reality near you? That sounds good, at least I think it does. But is it really? I mean, will this fusion give us the power we really need, and what is the waste? Is it radioactive?
It just bothers me how tough it is to make a really good form of efficient environmentally friendly energy. Fusion is better than fission, which is better than gas, which is better than coal, which is better than...but really how good can it be?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I remember talking to my high school physics teacher about solar power, and saying "why don't we just pave over new mexico with solar cells." Seems like a good idea, except for the new mexicans, but it isn't. Doing that would create a big gap of heat over the desert since it can't be radiated back, which would tear apart the climate there. So even solar power seems to be a bad source of energy.
Sometimes I just wonder whether we will be able to find something really perfect as an energy source...or even if we are supposed to.
Can I not use MAPS for free? Can I not get music for free? Are my parents going to kick me out or force me to pay rent? Will I have to pay for what I eat now?
Damn turning 18 sucks. I think I am responsible for everything becoming commercialized as to teach me to stop being a free loader and get a job. My bad.
H. Simpson apologizes for the end of the Free Internet Revolution.
I'm intrigued by open source, but I really doubt that "beating" microsoft is necessary.
I wonder if people would still be angry if Linux was on every computer making it a 'free monopoly'? Or what if linux wasn't free but still the same quality (i.e. better than Windows). Would people get angry then?
I really dont think beating a company is necessary. Maybe limiting it to legal actions, but not an all out crusade to ruin it.
Though the New Mexican [or is that New Mexico's, anyway] Attorney General is settling the case, she did leave the door open for more litigation from other states. New Mexico will also take in the benefits of any court decisions that the rest of the still pursuing states get.
And to those who say that Microsoft is crumbling; it's image is ruined. Bull. That's not even close to true. Their stock is making an amazing come back after losing nearly two thirds of their stock value. Sales are better than ever; the advertising over their.NET and XP software is everywhere and they haven't even started their campaigns yet. Crumbling ususally isn't associated with a soaring profit line and stock price...
Not saying that this is good [lest I get the hurt of the -1 mod] but I'm just saying that as the lame Backstreet boys say Microsoft "is stronger than yesterday...."
-H. Simpson.
(I really think I just ruined my post by using a quote from a pop boy band)
I suggest anyone who hasnt already read, and even if you have, to read Space by Michener. In it he foretells the decline of the NASA in public view and the shift back to religion. It's really a quote provoking article
I personally find the public's disconcern of NASA and astronauts to be disappointing. Space is not the candyland that the public thinks it is; the dangers are still very real. It will probably take another disaster such as the challenger accident or Apollo 13 to bring the public's attention back to NASA. Unfortunately this only brings some people to attack the organization taht has brung so much technology into our lifes.
Originally NASA was the figurehead of the cold war, the race America won. It was about overthrowing the communists, the hated enemy, and not about the growth of human kind that it should have been about. One could only hope that people would concentrate on the unity that the International Space Station brings. Cosmonauts and Astronauts, once enemies, now flying together, building the biggest spacestation since the MIR.
But the worst part is that without the support of the public NASA's budget suffers, leading to shoddy programs and programs that aren't as ambitious as before.
Those who say that going to the moon was big, it wasn't: a mere 200,000 mile romp into space for a short amount of time. An accomplishment in itself, but an accomplishment that could be become moot if NASA were given a real chance to make true space travel. I view this only as a first stepping stone of a great journey, one that the public may have become disinterested in.
What gives? I've seen the Australians do some dumb things, but this has to be absolutely ridiculous. Don't they have a constitution? a bill of rights? or can their government just step all over them?
This is quite possibly the dumbest thing to happen in Australia since the American's losing the America's Cup in 86.
I can remember the premier of the X-Files and for once I thought that this was going to be a really great show. It was, but since has fallen by the wayside as its main characters all start to leave. Nevertheless, when I saw the first episode, I liked the plot, but I didn't think that Mulder and Scully were main characters. Odd as this may seem, I thought the premise was to go through different FBI cases with different agents, and it surprised me to see that it was all the same two agents for all hte cases. From the second episode on I got the drift, but I think that since both main characters are or have left, this could be an interesting idea for the X-Files to try..... or they could just cancel the show and get it over with.
I dont think I need anyone running around the halls at 35 k/h, especially a heavy robot. But I guess that's ok. I've been more afraid of other unwieldy college floormates that could fall and by their sheer weight hurt people. I supposed something designed to do just that deserves a slashdot post.
Maybe I missed the point of the article, but I think that this robot needs something important to do besides roam the halls. Get a hall pass.
Sure it was justice in this case, but what of those who sign contracts with ISPs only to have their rates changed later down the line. Personally I think that affects more people, and I wish some lawyer would seriously go after AOL or Earthlink for unnecessarily raising prices.
I would think this situation more hilarious if it were some kind of sitcom; instead it is reality, and it just becomes sad.
Who's with me: Let's patent the patent. Then we can eliminate the influx of needless patents by denying the use of patents....
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This tastes like tinfoil to me. Paul Allen may be the second largest shareholder at Microsoft, but he's long since moved on from the Redmond giant.
I don't think it's a great idea for people like this to be enjoying the luxuries of other rich influential people at all, but I doubt this is a Microsoft specific thing.
This looks more improper than it truly is.
Well....I wonder who will go up to get the award...seeing as Firewire was developed before Jobs came back from exile. Maybe it will be Steve Wozniak...maybe...
I'm just saying that I'll be too lazy to use this. Maybe I can build a bot or somethign taht I can control with a keyboard who can do the virtual fighting input for me. Yes, that's what I'll do....
Even more importantly, is making a CD of a tape of a CD a violation of the DCMA [ok, I'm done now]
More importantly, is making a tape from a CD a violation of the DCMA?
When the protestors marched on the World Trade Organization or the recent Leaders Summit, the NY times had a big article in it's main headlines section about what they were marching about and fighting for. Now that nearly every EFF person and other techno person gets into a frenzy over this dimitry fiasco, the NY times puts a small article bereft of much information in it's technology section. That's all. It's nothing big; the DCMA is just a small story
It really makes me angry that the media isn't more concerned with the DCMA and the freedoms it takes away.
Space has gone from being the place for people with the right stuff, to the final frontier, to the star wars defense system, to the defunct starwars, but now...yes, now it is disneyland.
The physics community in America is becoming a joke. After the years of importance, obviously caused by the cold war, physics has fallen by the wayside of American politics, similar to the decline of NASA. Without the prospects of making a new superbomb, the American public could care less about physics. It's the bane of every kid in highschool; it's the news articles that grownups fail to comprehend, or simply shrug off to the intellectual ivory tower.
I personally wish that we in the US would get a reputable collider. Why is it that everything has to be built in Geneva? Does anyone have any idea how many people have "exported" themselves to other countries to where physics is more respected? I would certainly like to know, because it seems that at least in America, physicists are ranked maybe slightly above McDonald's employees, both in respect and pay.
Glad that I'm a CS major...
Hehe, if anyone wants www.informed-voter.com...I'd love to piss off VeriSign with a transfer.
TAKE THAT VERISIGN!
For people coming from a life of windows, linux can be a very scary world. I had problems from day one, (day one being not so long ago), just getting around to things. I wanted to set up my NIC and I was trying to figure out where i could go to Network Neighborhood, finally realizing there is no network neighborhood. Then there was changing the resolution...I rightclicked expecting to see Properties and go through that easy Windows process. NOTHING! That took some time too.
Granted I am not the smartest person in the world, but I am a CS major and computers are my life! I was so used to the Windows way of doing things that shifting over for just the easiest things took some time.
The worst part is that apparently unclean stoppage of Linux is a much worse prospect than Windows...I suppose it really isn't an issue because of Linux's supposed reliability...but if anyone hasn't yet simply turned their computer off accidently while running Linux....I dare you..
Now where is this going? Simple, if Microsoft starts making these things like .NET where one has to sign up for an account to use their software on a monthly basis or some such nonsense, then getting free software becomes a moot point if you have to sign up for the account.
I think that this is a bad move for Microsoft; one, not collaborating with open source people, and two, making sure that their products become service based. No one is going to pay for this, or at least I'm not, not that that will really matter. - a disheartened H. Simpson
I mean, who honestly thinks that Microsoft is on the way out?
But what I'd rather see in my computer is more commingling, because frankly, that seems to be the best thing for getting things to work. When you buy a car, do you buy a car with a steering wheel from a Mercedes, an engine from a Ford, brakes from a Toyota? No, your car was an integrated object designed by one company. However, it seems like computers are just the opposite. Everyone has a piece of the action and often times these things don't interlock too well. I would be all for commingling if it actually fostered a more integrated product, so I dont have things conflicting with each other.
It's ashame that this enforces Microsoft's monopoly, but I think it's truly better for the consumer.
It just bothers me how tough it is to make a really good form of efficient environmentally friendly energy. Fusion is better than fission, which is better than gas, which is better than coal, which is better than...but really how good can it be?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I remember talking to my high school physics teacher about solar power, and saying "why don't we just pave over new mexico with solar cells." Seems like a good idea, except for the new mexicans, but it isn't. Doing that would create a big gap of heat over the desert since it can't be radiated back, which would tear apart the climate there. So even solar power seems to be a bad source of energy.
Sometimes I just wonder whether we will be able to find something really perfect as an energy source...or even if we are supposed to.
Can I not use MAPS for free?
Can I not get music for free?
Are my parents going to kick me out or force me to pay rent?
Will I have to pay for what I eat now?
Damn turning 18 sucks. I think I am responsible for everything becoming commercialized as to teach me to stop being a free loader and get a job. My bad.
H. Simpson apologizes for the end of the Free Internet Revolution.
I wonder if people would still be angry if Linux was on every computer making it a 'free monopoly'? Or what if linux wasn't free but still the same quality (i.e. better than Windows). Would people get angry then?
I really dont think beating a company is necessary. Maybe limiting it to legal actions, but not an all out crusade to ruin it.
And to those who say that Microsoft is crumbling; it's image is ruined. Bull. That's not even close to true. Their stock is making an amazing come back after losing nearly two thirds of their stock value. Sales are better than ever; the advertising over their .NET and XP software is everywhere and they haven't even started their campaigns yet. Crumbling ususally isn't associated with a soaring profit line and stock price...
Not saying that this is good [lest I get the hurt of the -1 mod] but I'm just saying that as the lame Backstreet boys say Microsoft "is stronger than yesterday...."
-H. Simpson.
(I really think I just ruined my post by using a quote from a pop boy band)
Kudos, Scientists, for doubling your workload.
(I personally would say more but I didn't take Genetics due to the 8am lab.)
I suggest anyone who hasnt already read, and even if you have, to read Space by Michener. In it he foretells the decline of the NASA in public view and the shift back to religion. It's really a quote provoking article
I personally find the public's disconcern of NASA and astronauts to be disappointing. Space is not the candyland that the public thinks it is; the dangers are still very real. It will probably take another disaster such as the challenger accident or Apollo 13 to bring the public's attention back to NASA. Unfortunately this only brings some people to attack the organization taht has brung so much technology into our lifes.
Originally NASA was the figurehead of the cold war, the race America won. It was about overthrowing the communists, the hated enemy, and not about the growth of human kind that it should have been about. One could only hope that people would concentrate on the unity that the International Space Station brings. Cosmonauts and Astronauts, once enemies, now flying together, building the biggest spacestation since the MIR.
But the worst part is that without the support of the public NASA's budget suffers, leading to shoddy programs and programs that aren't as ambitious as before.
Those who say that going to the moon was big, it wasn't: a mere 200,000 mile romp into space for a short amount of time. An accomplishment in itself, but an accomplishment that could be become moot if NASA were given a real chance to make true space travel. I view this only as a first stepping stone of a great journey, one that the public may have become disinterested in.
What gives? I've seen the Australians do some dumb things, but this has to be absolutely ridiculous. Don't they have a constitution? a bill of rights? or can their government just step all over them? This is quite possibly the dumbest thing to happen in Australia since the American's losing the America's Cup in 86.
I can remember the premier of the X-Files and for once I thought that this was going to be a really great show. It was, but since has fallen by the wayside as its main characters all start to leave. Nevertheless, when I saw the first episode, I liked the plot, but I didn't think that Mulder and Scully were main characters. Odd as this may seem, I thought the premise was to go through different FBI cases with different agents, and it surprised me to see that it was all the same two agents for all hte cases. From the second episode on I got the drift, but I think that since both main characters are or have left, this could be an interesting idea for the X-Files to try. .... or they could just cancel the show and get it over with.
I dont think I need anyone running around the halls at 35 k/h, especially a heavy robot. But I guess that's ok. I've been more afraid of other unwieldy college floormates that could fall and by their sheer weight hurt people. I supposed something designed to do just that deserves a slashdot post. Maybe I missed the point of the article, but I think that this robot needs something important to do besides roam the halls. Get a hall pass.
Sure it was justice in this case, but what of those who sign contracts with ISPs only to have their rates changed later down the line. Personally I think that affects more people, and I wish some lawyer would seriously go after AOL or Earthlink for unnecessarily raising prices.
I would think this situation more hilarious if it were some kind of sitcom; instead it is reality, and it just becomes sad. Who's with me: Let's patent the patent. Then we can eliminate the influx of needless patents by denying the use of patents....