My overriding question is "Why should he have to even bother making Windows modular?" What's the point? So you can use Opera instead of IE? I'm not a Gates fan, but it's his right to design Windows however the hell he wants. I'll even go to to the extreem and say that it's his right to design it to be hostile to other software if he wants. All this investigation into whether or not Windows can be parted is pointless crap. It's not designed to be, but it can happen. Big deal. He has the right to make Windows any damn way he chooses, just like it's your right whether or not to use it. You don't like the anti-competitive practices he's using on your software? Use something else.
The point is the anti-competitive practices he's using in business, not on the OS. My Toyota doesn't use Ford parts and why should it? Why aren't they being hammered for not being modular? All the Linux fans are going to hate me for this one to, but why do most people use Windows in the first place? Sure, MS has done a criminal job in establishing it's product, but to the average Joe, it does the job better than Linux can. It's friendlier. You don't have to write your own drivers. It's well supported. Little things like that. If you were to get a core nucleaus of developers that did nothing but work on Linux the same way MS plugs at Windows, I'm sure it'd give Gates a run for his money. But the problem is it's a hobby compared to Windows developemnt. Yes, I can see the flames coming now, but it's the truth. Back to the point, the argument of Windows being modular is a smokescreen to the real issue, MS's anti-competetive corporate practices.
How is it that being rich automatically places a person in the super-human catagory of having to be perfect? Why do people expect so much out of this man? Because he has money? "Gates had money, therefore he shouldn't lie." Heh, that's like saying "Lumpy has a car therefore he shouldn't lie." Huh?
Don't get me wrong, I do believe if you're going to wield that kind of power, you have responsibilities, but that's a moral diliemma, not human nature. Gates is human, and like 99% of the population on Earth, has lied at one time or another to protect his interests. Heh, he has more reason to lie than most of things we fib about... Am I a Gates fan? Do I have a shrine in my bedroom with candles and cut out pictures of him in it? No. That and I don't even see why the topic of Gates admitting Windows is modular is news...Duh.
If something like this is enforceable in a real court, then it's open season on your HD. You want to stunt the consumer sofware industry 20 years? Do something like these people are... On a large scale, you could seriously screw up an OS with all the different little programs trying to destroy one another. I can see it now... The second generation of employing countermeasures, sensing when a program that will attempt to destroy the installing program! *sigh*
Maybe it's just me, but I find the entire marketing scheme behind Starwars a bit disturbing anymore... Episodes 4-6 were fine. We had a Hero and his Alliance topple the Big Evil Dude and his Empire.
Now in 1-3, we see how the Big Evil Dude and his Empire got started. Fine. Except for one thing... They're marketing a mass murder to kids. Yeah! Get the Ep.1 Jar-Jar and Anakin coloring book! He's just like you, kids! Buy his toys, see the movie! Yes, watch Ep.2! Watch Anakin fall in love! He's a rebel with a cause! What? Yeah, sure, he enslaves most of the known Universe, becomes second in command to Umber-Hitler, hunts the Jedi to near extinction and kills billions with his Giant Planet Killing Weapon, but that's besides the point. Kids will eat this stuff up!
Personally, I think Eps 2-3 will be the best of the new trilogy and I'll enjoy them throughly, but the with the way they're marketing em, I NEVER want to hear a complaint about ANY videogame violence AGAIN.
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How can you not like a book about Golden Retrievers and Border Collies? Why kind of twisted, hate-filled bags of dirt haunt./?
...I would have gone to DogsRUs.com. Instead I get a nigh unreadable rant about the woes of the modern author advertising his advertisement on Slashdot to prove a point. I barely can qualify it as news. Golly gee, I think this topic has been ran over several thousand times by a Mac truck concerning Indie Music online vs. The Man.
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Actually, the story seems more like an advertisement for an advertisement, though I do understand what it tries to be-- "the trials and turbulations of the modern independent author"
Acually, the idea of using the lunar surface as some sort of power base is a wonderful idea. Just like harvesting the asteroid belts for resources and Jupiter for hydrogen is too. But what do all of these have in common? NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN DONE YET! And why do you think that is? The ideas have been around for a while now. Criswell isn't the first and he won't be the last to think of wonderful uses for all that empty space on the moon.
But let's deal with reality for just one minute. We won't get into the people paranoid (with possibily good reason) about beaming energy to the Earth. We won't talk about the people who want to conserve the lunar landscape. We won't even talk about complicated numbers indicating how much energy you could or couldn't beam to the earth in the first place.
Instead, lets talk about how difficult it has been for society as a whole to switch from oil to anything else. To support a mission of the magnitude discussed in this thread, we at least an alternate energy plan that worksAND a society (it's not just the government here) that is willing to support it. World wide, we have neither. Hell, we're having a hard enough time convincing people to use hybrid cars, let alone flip the bill to send multiple missions into space to build stuff on the moon. Oil, on the other hand, is cheap. It has an established infrastructure. It's plentiful for the time being. It's my unfortunately pessimistic opinion that we won't even see the makings of a mission like this for 50 years, if not even in my lifetime. Unless there is a major shortage and fast (such as the Middle East going up in a radioactive pyer), I just don't see it happening.
Besides, what ever happened to nuclear power? You can quote me all the possible disasterous consequences you want, but Japan has it down to a fine art. even if you don't want to go that route, I think you'll find more than enough adequate alternate power sources here on Earth if we'd just be willing to flip the bill for em. Lunar power bases isn't science fantasy, it's just social fantasy right now.
Face recognition already has. Anybody who thinks these systems are the end all be all answer to crime really has their head up their arse. The only way I could see it being used effectively is to "highlight" a "canidate" and have a human check the details before any arrest is made. You're right. Just blindly following this system is grounds for huge lawsuits. It's just not even close to being that good for what they want to use it for.
Or a handy can of spray paint. Replacing camera would get expensive after awhile and create the need for those police (to monitor the monitors) you weren't looking to replace. BB guns, paintball guns... Any of those would work...
Of course, all this technology assumes that humans don't have the ability to adapt their behavior patterns when performing a crime. The stupid ones will get caught while the smart ones learn what trips the system to "track" suspects and endevour to avoid those actions. True for nearly any aspect of life; from hacking to shooting rockets into space.
But the point with face recognition would truely be a kicker. Once that system acually becomes reliable, anybody with a record notorius enough to have their face mapped would be tracked the moment they entered a store. Assuming you can't obscure your likeness in someway, of course.
And that's the thing that scares me... Will kids be reading WWF as part of their history lessons in 2153? Say it ain't so.... "And today we will be studying the 'Smackdown period', 1995-2004" Uhhggg...
The 16th century had Shakespeare as their form of entertainment and we, sadly have WWF and the Rock here in the 21st. About the only incentive I have for seeing SK is Kelly Hu... Mmmmmm... Kelly... But it'll be a slighty frosty day in hell before I acually pay to see it.
I just want to see one blow up ^__^ Think the Gremlin of Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars. (yes, I know most don't work that way)
And my previous (deleted) topic about fuel cell technology (or any alternate energy for that matter) bankrupting Middle Eastern terrorist sponsers was a valid topic, not racist you sad little editor, whomever you are.
Ack, my bad. I was looking at this, availible from their site;
Pre-recordable and user-recordable -- the same media can be mastered like a CD or DVD for mass distribution of published content and it can be recorded by consumers like CD-R or DVD-R. In fact, pre-recorded media can still be recorded by the user allowing consumers to customize or interact with published content.
Fuel cells and alternate energies... The best way to deal with uppity Middle Eastern countries without resorting to military action. Make it all easily availible and watch the oil market tumble, and with it, these terrorist sympathizing weeniers influence.
Where was I when this happened? I miss all the cool stuff:(
Anyway, killthiskid is right. All the components nessisary to mix your own CDs are cheap and easy to come by. The labels are really going to have to sweeten the deal to cause a mass exodus away from the CD to occur. And seeing as how greedy they're being now, I don't see that happening.
Damn... I wanna be in a room full of Asian women, minus the spontaneous combustion part of course.
...If they survive that long. When MDs first appeared, they were similarly priced but have since come down. I'd suspect the same would happen with DP disks.
That's the biggest drawback. Yeah, it's small. Cool. I like small. I like protective shells. I like re-rightable. But who is going to buy entirely new albums on this thing? I sure won't. I'd buy the blank media and make my own mixes, but the Big Labels would be SOL. As cool as it is for music media, it just isn't the quantum leap Tape to CD was. I'll preach a portable Dataplay based handheld game system all day long, but like DVD Audio, it's just not enough.
Screw Beowolf clusters... Let's raid these bad boys;)
Ah, cheap, non-volatile RAM.... It'd be nice. Keep praying. But your still going to be assed out of a jewel case with that stuff. Acually, they are making headway with the non-rebootable PC bit...
Ok, I'm getting a bit tired of all the whining going on here. First, it's high time some of you come to realize that you're never going to see media without encryption and content controls EVER AGAIN. The way some of you carry on, it sounds like you refuse to step into the next generation until the record companies bend to your will. "I'm gonna keep the ol' CD around for the next 20 years if I have to!" Riiight. Personally, I'm getting sick of 4 1/2 inch CD media that scratches if you so much as breath on it wrong. You all say you'll crack the new encrption format the day it's released, right? So give it a rest already.
Second, why all the hate here concerning DataPlay media? Aside from copy protection, that is. It's the size of a quarter for cryin' out loud. I sure as hell won't be missing that massive 150mb size difference between it and a normal CD. It's re-writable. It's encased in a protective shell. So don't buy "The Man's" music. Get some blank media and record your MP3s to it. I'd love a media player as small as this is going to be with affordable mass storage. I absolutely loved my MD player and now I can get nearly the space of a CD with the durability of an MD. What's not to like? (copy protection; See first paragraph).
Finally; Music isn't going to be the only application for this stuff. 500mb "floppy disks"? I'll take it. Besides this, I've already drawn up a (very)basic design for a portable gaming system. Most PS1 games will fit on a Dataplay disk, people. A truly portable CD based gaming system? I'd snap one right up. But that's just me.
So please, if anybody complains anymore, I'll puke. Literally. I'm not joking. I swear. I'll come to YOUR HOUSE and puke. You won't like that. Really.
I still think the best idea is to make a 3rd party emulator on the X-Box. Heck, the thing is basically a PC, so anything around a Ps2 or lower shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility. A Saturn/PS1/PS2 player, and if you can secure rights to the archives of older games and make them into ROMs, (most already have been anyway) N64, SNES, Genesis, NES and MAME games.
Of course, Sony and Sega might have a fit, but hey....
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My overriding question is "Why should he have to even bother making Windows modular?" What's the point? So you can use Opera instead of IE? I'm not a Gates fan, but it's his right to design Windows however the hell he wants. I'll even go to to the extreem and say that it's his right to design it to be hostile to other software if he wants. All this investigation into whether or not Windows can be parted is pointless crap. It's not designed to be, but it can happen. Big deal. He has the right to make Windows any damn way he chooses, just like it's your right whether or not to use it. You don't like the anti-competitive practices he's using on your software? Use something else.
The point is the anti-competitive practices he's using in business, not on the OS. My Toyota doesn't use Ford parts and why should it? Why aren't they being hammered for not being modular? All the Linux fans are going to hate me for this one to, but why do most people use Windows in the first place? Sure, MS has done a criminal job in establishing it's product, but to the average Joe, it does the job better than Linux can. It's friendlier. You don't have to write your own drivers. It's well supported. Little things like that. If you were to get a core nucleaus of developers that did nothing but work on Linux the same way MS plugs at Windows, I'm sure it'd give Gates a run for his money. But the problem is it's a hobby compared to Windows developemnt. Yes, I can see the flames coming now, but it's the truth. Back to the point, the argument of Windows being modular is a smokescreen to the real issue, MS's anti-competetive corporate practices.
How is it that being rich automatically places a person in the super-human catagory of having to be perfect? Why do people expect so much out of this man? Because he has money? "Gates had money, therefore he shouldn't lie." Heh, that's like saying "Lumpy has a car therefore he shouldn't lie." Huh?
Don't get me wrong, I do believe if you're going to wield that kind of power, you have responsibilities, but that's a moral diliemma, not human nature. Gates is human, and like 99% of the population on Earth, has lied at one time or another to protect his interests. Heh, he has more reason to lie than most of things we fib about... Am I a Gates fan? Do I have a shrine in my bedroom with candles and cut out pictures of him in it? No. That and I don't even see why the topic of Gates admitting Windows is modular is news...Duh.
If something like this is enforceable in a real court, then it's open season on your HD. You want to stunt the consumer sofware industry 20 years? Do something like these people are... On a large scale, you could seriously screw up an OS with all the different little programs trying to destroy one another. I can see it now... The second generation of employing countermeasures, sensing when a program that will attempt to destroy the installing program! *sigh*
Maybe it's just me, but I find the entire marketing scheme behind Starwars a bit disturbing anymore... Episodes 4-6 were fine. We had a Hero and his Alliance topple the Big Evil Dude and his Empire.
Now in 1-3, we see how the Big Evil Dude and his Empire got started. Fine. Except for one thing... They're marketing a mass murder to kids. Yeah! Get the Ep.1 Jar-Jar and Anakin coloring book! He's just like you, kids! Buy his toys, see the movie! Yes, watch Ep.2! Watch Anakin fall in love! He's a rebel with a cause! What? Yeah, sure, he enslaves most of the known Universe, becomes second in command to Umber-Hitler, hunts the Jedi to near extinction and kills billions with his Giant Planet Killing Weapon, but that's besides the point. Kids will eat this stuff up!
Personally, I think Eps 2-3 will be the best of the new trilogy and I'll enjoy them throughly, but the with the way they're marketing em, I NEVER want to hear a complaint about ANY videogame violence AGAIN.
How can you not like a book about Golden Retrievers and Border Collies? Why kind of twisted, hate-filled bags of dirt haunt ./?
...I would have gone to DogsRUs.com. Instead I get a nigh unreadable rant about the woes of the modern author advertising his advertisement on Slashdot to prove a point. I barely can qualify it as news. Golly gee, I think this topic has been ran over several thousand times by a Mac truck concerning Indie Music online vs. The Man.
Actually, the story seems more like an advertisement for an advertisement, though I do understand what it tries to be-- "the trials and turbulations of the modern independent author"
Acually, the idea of using the lunar surface as some sort of power base is a wonderful idea. Just like harvesting the asteroid belts for resources and Jupiter for hydrogen is too. But what do all of these have in common? NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN DONE YET! And why do you think that is? The ideas have been around for a while now. Criswell isn't the first and he won't be the last to think of wonderful uses for all that empty space on the moon.
But let's deal with reality for just one minute. We won't get into the people paranoid (with possibily good reason) about beaming energy to the Earth. We won't talk about the people who want to conserve the lunar landscape. We won't even talk about complicated numbers indicating how much energy you could or couldn't beam to the earth in the first place.
Instead, lets talk about how difficult it has been for society as a whole to switch from oil to anything else. To support a mission of the magnitude discussed in this thread, we at least an alternate energy plan that works AND a society (it's not just the government here) that is willing to support it. World wide, we have neither. Hell, we're having a hard enough time convincing people to use hybrid cars, let alone flip the bill to send multiple missions into space to build stuff on the moon. Oil, on the other hand, is cheap. It has an established infrastructure. It's plentiful for the time being. It's my unfortunately pessimistic opinion that we won't even see the makings of a mission like this for 50 years, if not even in my lifetime. Unless there is a major shortage and fast (such as the Middle East going up in a radioactive pyer), I just don't see it happening.
Besides, what ever happened to nuclear power? You can quote me all the possible disasterous consequences you want, but Japan has it down to a fine art. even if you don't want to go that route, I think you'll find more than enough adequate alternate power sources here on Earth if we'd just be willing to flip the bill for em. Lunar power bases isn't science fantasy, it's just social fantasy right now.
Face recognition already has. Anybody who thinks these systems are the end all be all answer to crime really has their head up their arse. The only way I could see it being used effectively is to "highlight" a "canidate" and have a human check the details before any arrest is made. You're right. Just blindly following this system is grounds for huge lawsuits. It's just not even close to being that good for what they want to use it for.
Or a handy can of spray paint. Replacing camera would get expensive after awhile and create the need for those police (to monitor the monitors) you weren't looking to replace. BB guns, paintball guns... Any of those would work...
Of course, all this technology assumes that humans don't have the ability to adapt their behavior patterns when performing a crime. The stupid ones will get caught while the smart ones learn what trips the system to "track" suspects and endevour to avoid those actions. True for nearly any aspect of life; from hacking to shooting rockets into space.
But the point with face recognition would truely be a kicker. Once that system acually becomes reliable, anybody with a record notorius enough to have their face mapped would be tracked the moment they entered a store. Assuming you can't obscure your likeness in someway, of course.
And that's the thing that scares me... Will kids be reading WWF as part of their history lessons in 2153? Say it ain't so.... "And today we will be studying the 'Smackdown period', 1995-2004" Uhhggg...
The 16th century had Shakespeare as their form of entertainment and we, sadly have WWF and the Rock here in the 21st. About the only incentive I have for seeing SK is Kelly Hu... Mmmmmm... Kelly... But it'll be a slighty frosty day in hell before I acually pay to see it.
My apologies to the sad little editor in question who didn't delete my post, just reformated it and removed my name from the header. Wierd.
I just want to see one blow up ^__^ Think the Gremlin of Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars. (yes, I know most don't work that way)
And my previous (deleted) topic about fuel cell technology (or any alternate energy for that matter) bankrupting Middle Eastern terrorist sponsers was a valid topic, not racist you sad little editor, whomever you are.
Ack, my bad. I was looking at this, availible from their site;
Pre-recordable and user-recordable -- the same media can be mastered like a CD or DVD for mass distribution of published content and it can be recorded by consumers like CD-R or DVD-R. In fact, pre-recorded media can still be recorded by the user allowing consumers to customize or interact with published content.
I guess they just don't close them out?
Fuel cells and alternate energies... The best way to deal with uppity Middle Eastern countries without resorting to military action. Make it all easily availible and watch the oil market tumble, and with it, these terrorist sympathizing weeniers influence.
Where was I when this happened? I miss all the cool stuff :(
Anyway, killthiskid is right. All the components nessisary to mix your own CDs are cheap and easy to come by. The labels are really going to have to sweeten the deal to cause a mass exodus away from the CD to occur. And seeing as how greedy they're being now, I don't see that happening.
Damn... I wanna be in a room full of Asian women, minus the spontaneous combustion part of course.
...If they survive that long. When MDs first appeared, they were similarly priced but have since come down. I'd suspect the same would happen with DP disks.
That's the biggest drawback. Yeah, it's small. Cool. I like small. I like protective shells. I like re-rightable. But who is going to buy entirely new albums on this thing? I sure won't. I'd buy the blank media and make my own mixes, but the Big Labels would be SOL. As cool as it is for music media, it just isn't the quantum leap Tape to CD was. I'll preach a portable Dataplay based handheld game system all day long, but like DVD Audio, it's just not enough.
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Screw Beowolf clusters... Let's raid these bad boys
The little man speaks. Whoohoo.
Ah, cheap, non-volatile RAM.... It'd be nice. Keep praying. But your still going to be assed out of a jewel case with that stuff. Acually, they are making headway with the non-rebootable PC bit...
Ok, I'm getting a bit tired of all the whining going on here. First, it's high time some of you come to realize that you're never going to see media without encryption and content controls EVER AGAIN. The way some of you carry on, it sounds like you refuse to step into the next generation until the record companies bend to your will. "I'm gonna keep the ol' CD around for the next 20 years if I have to!" Riiight. Personally, I'm getting sick of 4 1/2 inch CD media that scratches if you so much as breath on it wrong. You all say you'll crack the new encrption format the day it's released, right? So give it a rest already.
Second, why all the hate here concerning DataPlay media? Aside from copy protection, that is. It's the size of a quarter for cryin' out loud. I sure as hell won't be missing that massive 150mb size difference between it and a normal CD. It's re-writable. It's encased in a protective shell. So don't buy "The Man's" music. Get some blank media and record your MP3s to it. I'd love a media player as small as this is going to be with affordable mass storage. I absolutely loved my MD player and now I can get nearly the space of a CD with the durability of an MD. What's not to like? (copy protection; See first paragraph).
Finally; Music isn't going to be the only application for this stuff. 500mb "floppy disks"? I'll take it. Besides this, I've already drawn up a (very)basic design for a portable gaming system. Most PS1 games will fit on a Dataplay disk, people. A truly portable CD based gaming system? I'd snap one right up. But that's just me.
So please, if anybody complains anymore, I'll puke. Literally. I'm not joking. I swear. I'll come to YOUR HOUSE and puke. You won't like that. Really.
I still think the best idea is to make a 3rd party emulator on the X-Box. Heck, the thing is basically a PC, so anything around a Ps2 or lower shouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility. A Saturn/PS1/PS2 player, and if you can secure rights to the archives of older games and make them into ROMs, (most already have been anyway) N64, SNES, Genesis, NES and MAME games.
Of course, Sony and Sega might have a fit, but hey....
"...and other non-weapons research."
Uh-huh. That's what insanely fast monster computers are always used for...
Heh. I can understand why. Mastercard is probably getting reamed with Paypal scams and the like. I've heard of too many as of late...