That's too general of a statement. Its like saying "Our roadways would function just fine, even if all the cars were gone." - they're intimately bound together. The "whole" of the internet does NOT function fine when DNS goes away. Im pretty sure about 95% of the worlds email and web browsing not being able to work does not constitute "the internet working fine". To your standards, as long as 2 people with registered legitamate IPs' computers are still up and connected in some closet somewhere "the internet is working fine". And again, "well no...".
Most importantly the difference between Palladium vs PayPal, Credit Cards, etc, etc, are that Palladium will be the "only" way to use your PC. PayPal, the dozens and dozens of credit cards, all the "secure" transaction websites, they're all optional and competing. If one becomes unstable or insecure, you can use some other means. But Palladium? It's all or nothing. All or nothing tends to suck.
Yea! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! Slashdot humor is really tired^H^H^H^H funny! OpenSource rulez0rs!
Re:Standards change too fast imho
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Every couple years?
The first I remember seeing PCI was in a Pentium 60. That's been, what, 7-8 years ago off the top of my head? AGP's been at least 4. No offense but I dont think the computer industry should hold up for your ISA sound card. ISA seriously sucks, you might just have to break down and buy a new $9 PCI sound card.
The CEO interviewed says a 10x12 room takes 1/2 an hour to vaccuum. I can vaccuum my entire 1000 square foot apartment in about 3 minutes. It's just not that difficult. Id rather do it myself and be done in less than 5 minutes, than hear that thing's motor whirring and whining for 3 hours while it cleans every room in my house.
I would have thought the same Slashdot crowd that is all for removing tabs and extra spaces from HTML to save "network bandwidth" would be the mortal enemy of something like this. Talk about a waste of bandwidth!
Are you trying to be insigtful? You just read off the definition of today's subnotebooks, like the Sony Picturebook? Most any subnotebook now a days use external CD/Floppys, integrated video with no/little 3D hardware, and small screens. You won't have any problems finding all of your specs above in a single notebook.
There are also notebooks that have 3D hardware, a gig of ram, 15" screens, and last 10 minutes on a battery, because some people want fairly portable "workstations" and never intend to run them for long times on battery.
What difference does it make if they're real or not? So Apple found a dozen people willing to get their 15 seconds of fame gushing over how much they love their Mac. I bet I can find 15 people who love XP, OS/2, AmigaDOS, ColecoVision, Mincemeat pie, sweaty gym shorts, beastiality, etc, etc. Testimonials are meaningless.
Now what they REALLY need to do is make a computer that's entire guts are inside the keyboard, and.... and make it use your TV as a monitor! YEAH! Through a little tinfoil pronged RF convertor box! That would rule!
What we don't accept is that there are things that someone *could* do, but isn't able to gain access to because the service is provided in a way that hampers on their disability.
Yea, but this kind of crap gets us into all kinds of trouble. It's like when your clients says "can you do this?" on a piece of software. "anything" is possible. But many things consume inordinate amounts of resources for very little gain. This bleeding heart, everyone should be made equal stuff is a pipedream. If a corporation wants to make accomodations for various physical (or mental) handicaps, then they should. If they decide not to, let the public boycot them, not the government mandate it. Because just about anything IS possible. But we live in a world of "majorities". As you can see, once we start thinking every little so-called handicap should be accomodated for it spirals into people filing lawsuits because company X doesnt make a version of their bow & arrow for people with no arms. Get over it. It sucks to have a handicap, practically everyone I know has one (most of them mental), but vote for what you want with your voice and your money, not your lawyer.
The president is [more or less] elected by the "people" of America. Have you taken a look at the "average" American lately? You know, the one that can't get your McDonalds order right to save their lives. The one that deletes their \Windows folder and wonders why their computer doesn't work. The one that when you read your account number over the phone, after the first three digits they go "Hooollld on now, you're going too fast. Start over." *sigh* I think we are electing who we "feel comfortable with", and that isn't going to be Mr. Wizard.
I just dont see how that is going to be a very good experience. I tried OSXVNC server, and connected to it via a Windows box, and it was horrible. Remember, VNC is all about sending bitmaps on the changed area of the screen. This rocks for stuff like Windows3.1 which looks like a GIF that would compress to 3 bytes. But for XP, and far worse, OSX, it gets worse and worse. OSX and all its animations, and scaling, and that dock, are just hell for VNC.
Not to mention IMAP Videomail will be fun. Storing gigs of videomail per user on a central server, then having to re-download every video when you're looking through them, over your dialup connection in a hotel room or at home. No thanks, text will be fine.
Would this be the same case for ASP.NET since it's managed code?
Here's why TCPA/Palladium will never work
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DRM: How To Boil A Frog
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Ive read, and pondered quite some time. And though Im hardly a psychic or market analyst, I honestly think all this crap is as good as taco'd. Let me explain a few points as to why.
DiVX. Same idea. They made it as conveinent as possible. You had to dialin once in awhile to verify/bill or your crap stopped working. They wanted a pay per play. And what did people do?/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
Bible Beaters. The "666, mark of the beast" crowd, and the "this is the beginning of concentration camps and serial numbers on the forehead" crowd that showed up at the Pentium serial debacle have yet to make their appearance. They will, and it will be felt./me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
No Working Examples. I can think of no other real examples of a vendor selling a product successfully to the masses for years, then turning around one day and completely handtieing the enduser, stalking the enduser, monitoring the enduser, etc, that continued to make the same, or more money./me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
The Lawndart Example. Lawndarts were extremely popular at one time. They were dangerous, but everyone had some. They sold quite well Im sure. For outside reasons of safety, the manufacturor of lawn darts was forced to change their product to a more hand-tying, watered down version. They made Nerf and plastic lawn darts as replacements. Same product sort of, but less effective as the original. Now how many people own the Nerf lawndarts? No one?/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
Hacker Challenge. All of this, if enabled somehow will amount to the biggest hacker/cracker challenge on the face of the earth. And I have faith in them. I expect a WindowsXP.2004.FritzChipEMU-hacked.RiSE to be quite popular./me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
All this boils down to a picture where this crap is halfass tried, and for every $1 they extort from a naieve person who forks over another $600 for a copy of Photoshop to work from home, they'll lose $2 to crackers, disenfrancheised customers, people who've lost interest in having to work to listen to the latest N*Sync DRM CD, and privacy fanatics who won't go near it. And what happens when things lose money in America?/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
Okay, I have nothing against Linux, even though I don't run it. But will someone explain to me why all the Slashdot geeks think Linux + MySQL is "the shit". Yet in the past year, I coudlnt count how many times Ive seen crap like
Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '216.54.182.62' (64) in/home/admin/common/functions.php3 on line 10
when a site is under heavy load, yet I never see anything like that from Win2K + SQL Server : /
Just console me here, tell me that its something all the site admins are doing wrong, and that mySql doesnt suck or maybe its PHP, its always on these PHP + MySQL sites
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lol... yea, an e-business making money! Hahahah!
That's too general of a statement. Its like saying "Our roadways would function just fine, even if all the cars were gone." - they're intimately bound together. The "whole" of the internet does NOT function fine when DNS goes away. Im pretty sure about 95% of the worlds email and web browsing not being able to work does not constitute "the internet working fine". To your standards, as long as 2 people with registered legitamate IPs' computers are still up and connected in some closet somewhere "the internet is working fine". And again, "well no...".
Most importantly the difference between Palladium vs PayPal, Credit Cards, etc, etc, are that Palladium will be the "only" way to use your PC. PayPal, the dozens and dozens of credit cards, all the "secure" transaction websites, they're all optional and competing. If one becomes unstable or insecure, you can use some other means. But Palladium? It's all or nothing. All or nothing tends to suck.
Yea! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! Slashdot humor is really tired^H^H^H^H funny! OpenSource rulez0rs!
The first I remember seeing PCI was in a Pentium 60. That's been, what, 7-8 years ago off the top of my head? AGP's been at least 4. No offense but I dont think the computer industry should hold up for your ISA sound card. ISA seriously sucks, you might just have to break down and buy a new $9 PCI sound card.
Yea, that's what I want, to leave that thing alone with all my Cat5 strewn across the floor.
The CEO interviewed says a 10x12 room takes 1/2 an hour to vaccuum. I can vaccuum my entire 1000 square foot apartment in about 3 minutes. It's just not that difficult. Id rather do it myself and be done in less than 5 minutes, than hear that thing's motor whirring and whining for 3 hours while it cleans every room in my house.
I would have thought the same Slashdot crowd that is all for removing tabs and extra spaces from HTML to save "network bandwidth" would be the mortal enemy of something like this. Talk about a waste of bandwidth!
There are also notebooks that have 3D hardware, a gig of ram, 15" screens, and last 10 minutes on a battery, because some people want fairly portable "workstations" and never intend to run them for long times on battery.
What difference does it make if they're real or not? So Apple found a dozen people willing to get their 15 seconds of fame gushing over how much they love their Mac. I bet I can find 15 people who love XP, OS/2, AmigaDOS, ColecoVision, Mincemeat pie, sweaty gym shorts, beastiality, etc, etc. Testimonials are meaningless.
Why is that impressive? "Yes, Id like the totally insecure, full of exploits, Please-Hack-Me, version of Linux please. Thanks!"
Now what they REALLY need to do is make a computer that's entire guts are inside the keyboard, and.... and make it use your TV as a monitor! YEAH! Through a little tinfoil pronged RF convertor box! That would rule!
Name someone on this earth who isn't a parent or someone's child.
Doesn't quite fit I guess.
Yea, but this kind of crap gets us into all kinds of trouble. It's like when your clients says "can you do this?" on a piece of software. "anything" is possible. But many things consume inordinate amounts of resources for very little gain. This bleeding heart, everyone should be made equal stuff is a pipedream. If a corporation wants to make accomodations for various physical (or mental) handicaps, then they should. If they decide not to, let the public boycot them, not the government mandate it. Because just about anything IS possible. But we live in a world of "majorities". As you can see, once we start thinking every little so-called handicap should be accomodated for it spirals into people filing lawsuits because company X doesnt make a version of their bow & arrow for people with no arms. Get over it. It sucks to have a handicap, practically everyone I know has one (most of them mental), but vote for what you want with your voice and your money, not your lawyer.
I'd play it backwards, record it backwards, then reverse the digital file. Voila! :P
The president is [more or less] elected by the "people" of America. Have you taken a look at the "average" American lately? You know, the one that can't get your McDonalds order right to save their lives. The one that deletes their \Windows folder and wonders why their computer doesn't work. The one that when you read your account number over the phone, after the first three digits they go "Hooollld on now, you're going too fast. Start over." *sigh* I think we are electing who we "feel comfortable with", and that isn't going to be Mr. Wizard.
I just dont see how that is going to be a very good experience. I tried OSXVNC server, and connected to it via a Windows box, and it was horrible. Remember, VNC is all about sending bitmaps on the changed area of the screen. This rocks for stuff like Windows3.1 which looks like a GIF that would compress to 3 bytes. But for XP, and far worse, OSX, it gets worse and worse. OSX and all its animations, and scaling, and that dock, are just hell for VNC.
Not to mention IMAP Videomail will be fun. Storing gigs of videomail per user on a central server, then having to re-download every video when you're looking through them, over your dialup connection in a hotel room or at home. No thanks, text will be fine.
Oh I totally agree... OpenOrifice.com... oh wait, you said for the family. NEVERMIND.
Would this be the same case for ASP.NET since it's managed code?
- DiVX. Same idea. They made it as conveinent as possible. You had to dialin once in awhile to verify/bill or your crap stopped working. They wanted a pay per play. And what did people do?
/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
- Bible Beaters. The "666, mark of the beast" crowd, and the "this is the beginning of concentration camps and serial numbers on the forehead" crowd that showed up at the Pentium serial debacle have yet to make their appearance. They will, and it will be felt.
/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
- No Working Examples. I can think of no other real examples of a vendor selling a product successfully to the masses for years, then turning around one day and completely handtieing the enduser, stalking the enduser, monitoring the enduser, etc, that continued to make the same, or more money.
/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
- The Lawndart Example. Lawndarts were extremely popular at one time. They were dangerous, but everyone had some. They sold quite well Im sure. For outside reasons of safety, the manufacturor of lawn darts was forced to change their product to a more hand-tying, watered down version. They made Nerf and plastic lawn darts as replacements. Same product sort of, but less effective as the original. Now how many people own the Nerf lawndarts? No one?
/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
- Hacker Challenge. All of this, if enabled somehow will amount to the biggest hacker/cracker challenge on the face of the earth. And I have faith in them. I expect a WindowsXP.2004.FritzChipEMU-hacked.RiSE to be quite popular.
/me plays the AOL "Goodbye" sound.
All this boils down to a picture where this crap is halfass tried, and for every $1 they extort from a naieve person who forks over another $600 for a copy of Photoshop to work from home, they'll lose $2 to crackers, disenfrancheised customers, people who've lost interest in having to work to listen to the latest N*Sync DRM CD, and privacy fanatics who won't go near it. And what happens when things lose money in America?Warning: Can't connect to MySQL server on '216.54.182.62' (64) in /home/admin/common/functions.php3 on line 10
when a site is under heavy load, yet I never see anything like that from Win2K + SQL Server : /
Just console me here, tell me that its something all the site admins are doing wrong, and that mySql doesnt suck or maybe its PHP, its always on these PHP + MySQL sites
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Damn, if you're anywhere NEAR that, you're a movie watching MACHINE. that's what, 3 a day, every day for 12 years? Do you work at all?