Well, I've been wandering around with a handful of mod points looking for some posts about the actual new Office UI/features to mod up, but there aren't any because everyone was trolled by the cloning bit in the original item!
the whole pc architecture should ideally be replaced. we're still using something designed in the 80's, with lil hacks here and there to make it work in this current day. unfortunatly, it would be incredibly difficult to do, as all software and hardware would have to be remade. backward compatibilty slows us down from moving forward. even if everything was replaced, how long till it would be obsolete and need a further replacement?
The whole Linux architecture should ideally be replaced. We're still using something designed in the 70s, with lil hacks here and there to make it halfway usable in the current day. Unfortunately, it would be incredibly difficult to do, as the macrokernel system and crusty old ASCII-pipe-based GNU tools would have to be remade. Unix compatibility slows us down from moving forward. Even if everything was replaced, how long till RMS decided it was the work of Satan and began on a further replacement?
The words 'militia', 'British' and 'savages' were used a lot around the time the American 'militia' tended to fight the 'British' and what they called the 'savages'.
The word 'depression' was used a lot during the 'depression'.
The word 'atomic' was used a lot during the cold war, and 'Vietnam' was used a lot during the Vietnam war.
I am utterly at a loss as to how such a seemingly interesting field as tracking word usage (well, it interests me) could possibly yield such stupefyingly, numbingly, almost frighteningly obvious and dull results.
I can only assume the true significance of Dr. Kleinberg's results was simply too terrifying to be revealed...
Why can't software be more like [real engineering field]? Nobody messes around with [extreme programming|OOP|empiricism] in [real engineering field]! I mean, how would it be if [bridges|planes|hospital equipment] were designed like software is? Books like this just make me realize that [software engineering is not real engineering|my branch of engineering is harder and therefore better|OOP is all a myth and everything should be in FORTRAN].
Yours truly,
[crusty old engineer|enthusiastic young engineering student|idiot]
optional: P.S. the term software 'engineering' is a misnomer
...see, previously, P2P was controlled by those meddling kids. But if MS can become the maker of the biggest, coolest, easiest to use P2P sharing system... and wait, aren't they also trying to become the makers of the biggest DRM system? Could there be some synergy between those two things??
Ohhhhhh, so it's impossible for a sane human being to run it. They should have said higher up the page.
Jeez, talk about bad documentation.
Pleease do not confuse technical and legal issues!
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Palladium's Power To Deny
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Palladium is a technology. It's designed to restrict what can be done with information, in useful ways. Maybe it's really clever, maybe it's clunky and unworkable, I don't know, but either way, it's a bit of technology that someone developed and therefore I'm inclined to like it.
Now, if people *had* to use it, that'd be a bad thing. If people were *punished* for certain actions, using Palladium as a tool, and those actions weren't really evil, that'd be a bad thing. Those are legal issues, and I'd be inclined to resist them.
IMHO it is never a good thing to try and suppress, a technology just because you are afraid of what someone might decide to use it for. This is exactly the kind of thinking behind the DMCA, which tries to suppress a vast class of technologies because they could theoretically be used to break other laws.
You can hate the control freak attitude of many IP holders, you can hate the ubiquity of MS, you can hate the increasingly wacky commercial laws of our nations. Heck, I know I do. But I don't start trying to suppress particular innovations just because they can be used for purposes I don't agree with. I'm generally against nuclear war but I'm sure glad they developed the internet.
This has been kind of a long, structureless post, but I'm going to post it anyway cause I really believe I have a message buried in there:)
For some reason, I found that reading this article gave me a warm, safe feeling as if it's all being taken care of by wise, kindly people. Sure, they may have their arguments but ultimately they're all working together for my benefit.
Looking closer, I found that the main debate is between 1) Keep the DMCA and enforce it better, and 2) Completely wacky measures like banning unprotected digital media.
But since that's kind of worrying, I think I'll just sink back into that warm, safe feeling now... mmm...
I am happy to hear there is now a cybercafe in the central himalayas. I certainly hope that soon there will be a mcdonalds at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a Starbucks in the middle of St. Pauls' Cathedral, and a frozen yogurt bar on fucking Mars.
In fact, why not just tarmac over the entire planet all in one go? It's kinder than doing it bit by bit like this.
If voice over IP is regulated like analog phone, it should also have similar privacy provisions to analog phone. And if those provisions were to spread to other IP traffic (on which your right to keep secrets and not be spammed is minimal), that would be a very good thing indeed.
Of course, it might not pan out that way; I wouldn't be surprised if in fact the protection of phone calls wound up being eroded to the point emails are at now (i.e. anyone with a security interest can read you, anyone with a commercial interest can spam you).
One day the current regulatory glitch will end, and when this happens I'd much rather have everything be run like phone calls are run now than like emails are run now.
Having tried a few times to establish the full power of the DMCA by prosecuting people almost at random, they have now realised that they will have to start with a few obvious wrongdoers in order to establish credibility and precedent.
I expect after a few of these they'll try another Sklyarov type case and win.
It's a stack of visited pages... but instead of being wiped when the process ends, it's persistant, like a history list! Incredible! I'm amazed they haven't patented it yet!
I'm sorry. I don't normally post 'this article sucks' posts, but in this case, it's just so incredibly pathetically tragic, that I just had to. Once again, I'm sorry, and so I'm sure is the guy who posted this wholly and unforgivably lame article.
If he isn't sorry, that is a problem and should be fixed
People tend to forget that most of the ability to scale Linux up to mainframes etc or down to mobile devices and wristwatches is undertaken by corporates who intend to profit from doing so. (IBM, Motorola etc)
When you say 'people' you mean specifically the slashdot/open source community, right?:)
I thought they intended to reduce the entire game market to Sims and Sports. But I forgot that there is one other category just as boring as Sims and Sports -- the C&C Clone category!
This increases the diversity of EA's offerings by 50%!
Ah, well, you see FDR had a war, like Churchill and Lincoln. If you want to be considered great you need a war. Problematically, Bush doesn't have a wa -- oh, wait...
Remember what Sen. Feingold said about a *return* to an era of invasion of privacy and harrassment.
In 20's and 30's america labor leaders and other troublemakers could expect to be spied on, harrassed, framed for this and that (John Steinbeck never went to a hotel alone for fear of being framed for rape).
In the post-war era it wasn't so bad, but even then there was McCarthyism and spying was done on suspected communists that'd raise quite a few eyebrows now. It's really only since the civil rights era that Americans have come to expect the very high level of privacy and fairness that our generation has enjoyed.
Rather than sinking into a new and unexpected bad patch, it's more that along good patch may be ending.
Hmm, maybe this will work out as well as their last brilliant idea, which was to massively subsidize NEC et al to produce huge chunks of massively parallel gunk that nobody ever used. There have been so many great ideas in Japanese computing -- I remember when Hitachi came out with the first CORBA-like system, now long forgotten -- and they have all been lost due to ridiculous large-scale 'initiatives' and the fact that a very high proportion of Japanese programmers favor the 'it works for me, so I'm going home now, what's a user?' methodology.
See Ruby for classic examples of all these phenomena:)
I do distinguish between being used to something and finding it intuitive. As I mentioned, I find vim intuitive.
An example of an interface I am used to would be developer studio (up to version 6, the keybindings in studio.net are insane). An example of an interface that I find counter-intuitive and cannot get used to no matter how long I spend on it would be emacs or procmail.
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>I'm a big user of emulation - some MAME, a fair amount of C64 and also Amiga stuff
dude do u konw where I can get kof2001 romz or just email them 2 me thx otherwise u sux lol!!!
I'm not completely sure what you're talking about, but it's *definitely* time for a nice cup of tea and a lie down.
Well, I've been wandering around with a handful of mod points looking for some posts about the actual new Office UI/features to mod up, but there aren't any because everyone was trolled by the cloning bit in the original item!
Ah well, it wouldn't be slashdot otherwise
The whole Linux architecture should ideally be replaced. We're still using something designed in the 70s, with lil hacks here and there to make it halfway usable in the current day. Unfortunately, it would be incredibly difficult to do, as the macrokernel system and crusty old ASCII-pipe-based GNU tools would have to be remade. Unix compatibility slows us down from moving forward. Even if everything was replaced, how long till RMS decided it was the work of Satan and began on a further replacement?
You mean there are people who write 'alot' as all one word? If so, they're twits. You shouldn't join an article to a noun. Er, except for 'another'.
I've always wanted to say that. But he's right and it's an important point.
So, in this article, the examples are:
The words 'militia', 'British' and 'savages' were used a lot around the time the American 'militia' tended to fight the 'British' and what they called the 'savages'.
The word 'depression' was used a lot during the 'depression'.
The word 'atomic' was used a lot during the cold war, and 'Vietnam' was used a lot during the Vietnam war.
I am utterly at a loss as to how such a seemingly interesting field as tracking word usage (well, it interests me) could possibly yield such stupefyingly, numbingly, almost frighteningly obvious and dull results.
I can only assume the true significance of Dr. Kleinberg's results was simply too terrifying to be revealed...
Hi,
Why can't software be more like [real engineering field]? Nobody messes around with [extreme programming|OOP|empiricism] in [real engineering field]! I mean, how would it be if [bridges|planes|hospital equipment] were designed like software is? Books like this just make me realize that [software engineering is not real engineering|my branch of engineering is harder and therefore better|OOP is all a myth and everything should be in FORTRAN].
Yours truly,
[crusty old engineer|enthusiastic young engineering student|idiot]
optional: P.S. the term software 'engineering' is a misnomer
...see, previously, P2P was controlled by those meddling kids. But if MS can become the maker of the biggest, coolest, easiest to use P2P sharing system... and wait, aren't they also trying to become the makers of the biggest DRM system? Could there be some synergy between those two things??
It... it's too horrible to think about... yet...
Ohhhhhh, so it's impossible for a sane human being to run it. They should have said higher up the page.
Jeez, talk about bad documentation.
Palladium is a technology. It's designed to restrict what can be done with information, in useful ways. Maybe it's really clever, maybe it's clunky and unworkable, I don't know, but either way, it's a bit of technology that someone developed and therefore I'm inclined to like it.
Now, if people *had* to use it, that'd be a bad thing. If people were *punished* for certain actions, using Palladium as a tool, and those actions weren't really evil, that'd be a bad thing. Those are legal issues, and I'd be inclined to resist them.
IMHO it is never a good thing to try and suppress, a technology just because you are afraid of what someone might decide to use it for. This is exactly the kind of thinking behind the DMCA, which tries to suppress a vast class of technologies because they could theoretically be used to break other laws.
You can hate the control freak attitude of many IP holders, you can hate the ubiquity of MS, you can hate the increasingly wacky commercial laws of our nations. Heck, I know I do. But I don't start trying to suppress particular innovations just because they can be used for purposes I don't agree with. I'm generally against nuclear war but I'm sure glad they developed the internet.
This has been kind of a long, structureless post, but I'm going to post it anyway cause I really believe I have a message buried in there
For some reason, I found that reading this article gave me a warm, safe feeling as if it's all being taken care of by wise, kindly people. Sure, they may have their arguments but ultimately they're all working together for my benefit.
Looking closer, I found that the main debate is between 1) Keep the DMCA and enforce it better, and 2) Completely wacky measures like banning unprotected digital media.
But since that's kind of worrying, I think I'll just sink back into that warm, safe feeling now... mmm...
I am happy to hear there is now a cybercafe in the central himalayas. I certainly hope that soon there will be a mcdonalds at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a Starbucks in the middle of St. Pauls' Cathedral, and a frozen yogurt bar on fucking Mars.
In fact, why not just tarmac over the entire planet all in one go? It's kinder than doing it bit by bit like this.
If voice over IP is regulated like analog phone, it should also have similar privacy provisions to analog phone. And if those provisions were to spread to other IP traffic (on which your right to keep secrets and not be spammed is minimal), that would be a very good thing indeed.
Of course, it might not pan out that way; I wouldn't be surprised if in fact the protection of phone calls wound up being eroded to the point emails are at now (i.e. anyone with a security interest can read you, anyone with a commercial interest can spam you).
One day the current regulatory glitch will end, and when this happens I'd much rather have everything be run like phone calls are run now than like emails are run now.
Having tried a few times to establish the full power of the DMCA by prosecuting people almost at random, they have now realised that they will have to start with a few obvious wrongdoers in order to establish credibility and precedent.
I expect after a few of these they'll try another Sklyarov type case and win.
It's a stack of visited pages... but instead of being wiped when the process ends, it's persistant, like a history list! Incredible! I'm amazed they haven't patented it yet!
I'm sorry. I don't normally post 'this article sucks' posts, but in this case, it's just so incredibly pathetically tragic, that I just had to. Once again, I'm sorry, and so I'm sure is the guy who posted this wholly and unforgivably lame article.
If he isn't sorry, that is a problem and should be fixed
.
When you say 'people' you mean specifically the slashdot/open source community, right?
I thought they intended to reduce the entire game market to Sims and Sports. But I forgot that there is one other category just as boring as Sims and Sports -- the C&C Clone category!
This increases the diversity of EA's offerings by 50%!
You consider KOF a 'pretty weak 2d fighter'? Are you from the Universe Of Really Great 2D Fighters That Are Even Better Than KOF?
If you're hoping to be rewarded, you'll need to come up with some significantly more amusing antics.
Ah, well, you see FDR had a war, like Churchill and Lincoln. If you want to be considered great you need a war. Problematically, Bush doesn't have a wa -- oh, wait...
Remember what Sen. Feingold said about a *return* to an era of invasion of privacy and harrassment.
In 20's and 30's america labor leaders and other troublemakers could expect to be spied on, harrassed, framed for this and that (John Steinbeck never went to a hotel alone for fear of
being framed for rape).
In the post-war era it wasn't so bad, but even then there was McCarthyism and spying was done on suspected communists that'd raise quite a few eyebrows now. It's really only since the civil rights era that Americans have come to expect the very high level of privacy and fairness that our generation has enjoyed.
Rather than sinking into a new and unexpected bad patch, it's more that along good patch may be ending.
Hmm, maybe this will work out as well as their last brilliant idea, which was to massively subsidize NEC et al to produce huge chunks of massively parallel gunk that nobody ever used. There have been so many great ideas in Japanese computing -- I remember when Hitachi came out with the first CORBA-like system, now long forgotten -- and they have all been lost due to ridiculous large-scale 'initiatives' and the fact that a very high proportion of Japanese programmers favor the 'it works for me, so I'm going home now, what's a user?' methodology.
:)
See Ruby for classic examples of all these phenomena
I do distinguish between being used to something and finding it intuitive. As I mentioned, I find vim intuitive.
An example of an interface I am used to would be developer studio (up to version 6, the keybindings in studio.net are insane). An example of an interface that I find counter-intuitive and cannot get used to no matter how long I spend on it would be emacs or procmail.
Whereas Righteous Free Software programs like crontab and gnu make and grep always have intuitive, orthogonal systems that make sense at once!
Mind you, oddly enough I do find vi[m] extremely intuitive.