Me too... The tax would accelerate the development of a mail transfer protocol that does not lend itself to spamming. There are many solutions out there... none of them will ever be used because everyone is so lazy.
Why don't they just ban SMTP? It would probably be cheaper.
Does this mean that I can get a package delivered to my house without taking a week off from work?
We'll be there between 8:30AM and Thursday
The other day, they stopped delivering packages without signature (they'd never had me sign anything before... just left it on the back porch). Then all of a sudden, then started playing by the rules and I realized how inconvenient it is to try to get a shipment.
Now, I have to call and tell my credit card company that I am shipping to my work address every time that I need something delivered.
I mean, sure, open-source has got a million different projects going. Microsoft has their version. And all the little private companies out their are developing their own.
If we could all just get along...
What ever happened to the Sony/Matsushita deal for an open-source solution to all this? Backed by these behemoths, I think that this would finally bring some consolidation and organization to this crap.
I've always thought that places like McDonalds and Taco Bell would be great record labels - sign a band and give the music away for free with purchase of goods. But DRM would be necessary in order to keep people coming in the door.
I, for one, would love this. Maybe that is why McDonalds is rolling out WiFi?
Or you could use them to play a prank on a corrupt college professor - use the laser to fill his house with popcorn!
Oh.. wait...
As I've said before...
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We need an open laptop form factor...
Three requirements: - Chassis spec - DC power supply spec - LCD spec
It sparked in my mind when I broke the LCD on my thinkpad... IBM wanted $900 to fix it but I was able to disassemble one of their desktop models and get the component that I required for less than $300...
Sheesh...
But can you imagine an open laptop? Neon and clear shit for days... Case modding to the extreme!
The days are getting longer? Cool, I could use an extra five minutes each day to read Slashdot...
What I want to know - if the day was to jump up to, say, 36 hours... how would this affect the aging process? Like, is aging tied to the sleep cycle or just fixed duration?
The answer is that there is nothing in it for them.
Then why is the desktop still open? Desktop parts are dirt cheap compared to laptops. WTF? I nearly paid $900 in order to have my Thinkpad LCD replaced before I realized that I could just go out and buy an IBM desktop LCD and disassemble it and use the SAME PART to fix my laptop.
If there is a need, then some enterprising company will make money from that. If a fledgling desktop LCD maker comes along and realizes that they could partner with some mobo-maker and create the open-laptop form factor in order to boost their sales 20 fold, then they will do it.
And their margins won't change, since they'll essentially be selling their desktop panels into the laptop market at desktop prices. They win and the consumers win.
It'd be nice if the component makers would establish an "open laptop" form factor. We've alreadt got mini-ITX. We just need a chassis/monitor and DC power specification.
I thought about this a while back and the main problem is the "reboot" portion.
Yeah.. I hear ya'.... But it is possible to boot an OS from inside Windows ala BeOS.
I think that the moral of the story is:
Even if you don't play games anymore (like Quake or Doom... whatever... once you get to be a certain age, games don't appeal to you anymore...), go ahead and buy a copy because the future of driver support rests on Carmack's decisions. If he moves to D3D, then we are DOOM'ed. If Carmack moves to D3D, then every hardware manufacturer can't support OSS profitably... Microsoft picked a very convenient time, economically... They should be punished by the DOJ based on this decision (since they have been ruled a monopoly).
If only he could come up with an OpenSL environment (open-Sound-Layer).
Why should they want to be involved in openGL anyway?
They actually had quite the predicament - "Back in the day", they needed to support OpenGL in order to gain access to some nice CAD applications but then that fucking Carmack went off and leveraged it for the Best Damn Gaming Engine ever... If it weren't for Carmack, then we'd all be stuck in D3D hell - no cross-platform gaming for YOU!
But this is an interesting twist that I think the OSS community could use for leverage. Perhaps Carmack could work with Redhat or some other large OSS corporation in order to develop an entire fucking gaming environment - put the CD in the damn PC and boot directly to your game. They could create a specification to which PC manufacturers could adhere - obviously driver suport would be a nightmare but if it was created extensibly enough, this wouldn't be a problem (i.e. - "compile" an updated/custom CD and burn it).
Provided you could boot Linux on Xbox and PS2, you'd have one environment for development - just make the game and release for multiple platforms. Get the BIOS makers involved and this sounds like a big party on the grave of Bill Gates.
Bah... Slashdot needs an edit feature to bog it down some more. I caught that as I hit the submit button... That should read, "proprietary solutions".
In any event, but if you stare at it long enough, they really are proprietary standards... Windows, Word, etc... These have all become industry "standards", for the most part.
But thanks again for pointing out the mistakes that I often make in the haste required to get the "FIT" (First Intelligent Post).
Microsoft will continue to implement proprietary standards. The problem is that many of them don't suck anymore. Since they have so much cash, they are quick to introduce technology first (yeah.... I know there are several examples that point to the opposite...).
Soon, when your car needs an oil change, it'll tell your DirectCar equipped device which will cross-reference your location with the nearest providers. You'll click on the low bidder and the on-board DirectNavigation device will tell you how to get there.
It'll be cheap, convenient... and Microsoft will have a piece of the transaction...
Create a P2P *wireless* sharing device. Just load it up with stuff and go cruise around at your favorite public sharing area... I'm sure that we'll see this in campus yards as soon as students lose the right to steal their music and other stuff. They'll just create their own network to share stuff on...
Face it - the desktop needs to get rid of all that cruft and get some standards before it can become mainstream. Although it is a nice thing to have, this variety hinders standards, therby keeping both users and developers away.
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I think this is a good idea.
Me too... The tax would accelerate the development of a mail transfer protocol that does not lend itself to spamming. There are many solutions out there... none of them will ever be used because everyone is so lazy.
Why don't they just ban SMTP? It would probably be cheaper.
Why don't they just buy a record label and be done with it?
The reason it has been able to work well is [...]
Here's the other reason.
There is no such thing as free speech or democracy in a capitalistic society.
The US gave OpenBSD a grant. OpenBSD made anti-US comments. US pulled OpenBSD funding.
Seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
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Pronunciation: ri-'k&r-siv
Function: adjective
Date: 1934
1: See recursive.
Does this mean that I can get a package delivered to my house without taking a week off from work?
We'll be there between 8:30AM and Thursday
The other day, they stopped delivering packages without signature (they'd never had me sign anything before... just left it on the back porch). Then all of a sudden, then started playing by the rules and I realized how inconvenient it is to try to get a shipment.
Now, I have to call and tell my credit card company that I am shipping to my work address every time that I need something delivered.
Sigh...
Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
What ever happened to industry standards?
I mean, sure, open-source has got a million different projects going. Microsoft has their version. And all the little private companies out their are developing their own.
If we could all just get along...
What ever happened to the Sony/Matsushita deal for an open-source solution to all this? Backed by these behemoths, I think that this would finally bring some consolidation and organization to this crap.
nVidia should write a proprietary API for their video chips. And then they could pay EA to release hardware specific products...
I think that "Glide" would be a good name for this API.
If there can be no friction, then there can be no output. What usefulness does a spinning object with no output provide, anyway?
I've always thought that places like McDonalds and Taco Bell would be great record labels - sign a band and give the music away for free with purchase of goods. But DRM would be necessary in order to keep people coming in the door.
I, for one, would love this. Maybe that is why McDonalds is rolling out WiFi?
Is this going to be their open source box?
Or you could use them to play a prank on a corrupt college professor - use the laser to fill his house with popcorn!
Oh.. wait...
We need an open laptop form factor...
Three requirements:
- Chassis spec
- DC power supply spec
- LCD spec
It sparked in my mind when I broke the LCD on my thinkpad... IBM wanted $900 to fix it but I was able to disassemble one of their desktop models and get the component that I required for less than $300...
Sheesh...
But can you imagine an open laptop? Neon and clear shit for days... Case modding to the extreme!
The days are getting longer? Cool, I could use an extra five minutes each day to read Slashdot...
What I want to know - if the day was to jump up to, say, 36 hours... how would this affect the aging process? Like, is aging tied to the sleep cycle or just fixed duration?
Woah...
or switch to a text-only site in anticipation of the real flood
Or just forward new slashdot referrals to goatse-esque sites. Or maybe put them into pop-up hell...
The answer is that there is nothing in it for them.
Then why is the desktop still open? Desktop parts are dirt cheap compared to laptops. WTF? I nearly paid $900 in order to have my Thinkpad LCD replaced before I realized that I could just go out and buy an IBM desktop LCD and disassemble it and use the SAME PART to fix my laptop.
If there is a need, then some enterprising company will make money from that. If a fledgling desktop LCD maker comes along and realizes that they could partner with some mobo-maker and create the open-laptop form factor in order to boost their sales 20 fold, then they will do it.
And their margins won't change, since they'll essentially be selling their desktop panels into the laptop market at desktop prices. They win and the consumers win.
It'd be nice if the component makers would establish an "open laptop" form factor. We've alreadt got mini-ITX. We just need a chassis/monitor and DC power specification.
I thought about this a while back and the main problem is the "reboot" portion.
Yeah.. I hear ya'.... But it is possible to boot an OS from inside Windows ala BeOS.
I think that the moral of the story is:
Even if you don't play games anymore (like Quake or Doom... whatever... once you get to be a certain age, games don't appeal to you anymore...), go ahead and buy a copy because the future of driver support rests on Carmack's decisions. If he moves to D3D, then we are DOOM'ed. If Carmack moves to D3D, then every hardware manufacturer can't support OSS profitably... Microsoft picked a very convenient time, economically... They should be punished by the DOJ based on this decision (since they have been ruled a monopoly).
If only he could come up with an OpenSL environment (open-Sound-Layer).
Why should they want to be involved in openGL anyway?
They actually had quite the predicament - "Back in the day", they needed to support OpenGL in order to gain access to some nice CAD applications but then that fucking Carmack went off and leveraged it for the Best Damn Gaming Engine ever... If it weren't for Carmack, then we'd all be stuck in D3D hell - no cross-platform gaming for YOU!
But this is an interesting twist that I think the OSS community could use for leverage. Perhaps Carmack could work with Redhat or some other large OSS corporation in order to develop an entire fucking gaming environment - put the CD in the damn PC and boot directly to your game. They could create a specification to which PC manufacturers could adhere - obviously driver suport would be a nightmare but if it was created extensibly enough, this wouldn't be a problem (i.e. - "compile" an updated/custom CD and burn it).
Provided you could boot Linux on Xbox and PS2, you'd have one environment for development - just make the game and release for multiple platforms. Get the BIOS makers involved and this sounds like a big party on the grave of Bill Gates.
...proprietary standards? :)
Bah... Slashdot needs an edit feature to bog it down some more. I caught that as I hit the submit button... That should read, "proprietary solutions".
In any event, but if you stare at it long enough, they really are proprietary standards... Windows, Word, etc... These have all become industry "standards", for the most part.
But thanks again for pointing out the mistakes that I often make in the haste required to get the "FIT" (First Intelligent Post).
DirectLife
Microsoft will continue to implement proprietary standards. The problem is that many of them don't suck anymore. Since they have so much cash, they are quick to introduce technology first (yeah.... I know there are several examples that point to the opposite...).
Soon, when your car needs an oil change, it'll tell your DirectCar equipped device which will cross-reference your location with the nearest providers. You'll click on the low bidder and the on-board DirectNavigation device will tell you how to get there.
It'll be cheap, convenient... and Microsoft will have a piece of the transaction...
The hands tighten!
Create a P2P *wireless* sharing device. Just load it up with stuff and go cruise around at your favorite public sharing area... I'm sure that we'll see this in campus yards as soon as students lose the right to steal their music and other stuff. They'll just create their own network to share stuff on...
A GUI in the Linux kernel tree? That would be like..windows
We could only hope...
Face it - the desktop needs to get rid of all that cruft and get some standards before it can become mainstream. Although it is a nice thing to have, this variety hinders standards, therby keeping both users and developers away.