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I think your point is valid. And as you can see, the problem is not Unix itself but something really deeper.
Companies, in general, want NOT to release their source code.
Companies do like people that are willing to PAY for software (as in advanced cash).
Desktop users want computers where programs INSTALL easily.
Desktop users want computers where hardware configuration is TRIVIAL
And that's why OSX is perfect for you. It addresses your needs. Of course, it doesn't address the need of people that need freedom and flexibility for EVERYTHING that runs under their computers. I don't use Linux because GIMP is better than Photoshop, i use it because GIMP has what i need and i know that GIMP will eventually beat Photoshop.
In some way, i think i use Linux because i feel i'm on the right side. Microsoft used my money to lock me into their OS and after doing that, all my money started funding them so they could lock me into more of their stuff (like Office). I don't like that and many companies are starting to feel this way too.
Note: this is only my opinion. Please disregard it completelly if you don't agree. It's ok and i understand it.
IMHO, the important feature here is having targeted destination of the sound, and not having a forged origin (a pair of cheapo headphones + computer can do that perfectly).
This technology will be a mess. Image a world as one where EVERYONE uses headphones: you'll never know for sure what other people are listening to, nor if what you are listening is audible by others.
Word format is not a page design language either. It's a word processor. Printable friendly HTML would be nice for basic stuff (although a temporary solution only).
If you go to an alien planet, you'd be glad if you could have a home with walls and a nice roof. Probably, you'd like to mostly eat familiar meals, and meet the aliens that have ears at the sides and not the ones that have fingers for hairs.
Give you some time...you'll sonner or later discover what's better than home and what is not, and probably how could you live in Earth without all those needed and good stuff or friends from your NEW HOME.
All this nonsense comes from my personal experience with Linux. Hope someone can grasp what i mean.
Works for me. I resize car press photos on the fly for various sizes depending on position and cobranded site. Of course, the originals live in MySQL and the resizes are all catched.
MIPS based hardware was expensive, so they sold limited quantities (relative to other CPUs). Or they other way arround which is the same (ie: they couldn't mass market it like and intel or AMD chip, so they had to charge accordingly).
But now, they will be in embedded devices. So the chip is the same but mostly everyone will be able to take advantage of it's power for a few bucks. I don't know exactly what devices, but they can be cameras, video recorders, pims, portable mp3 player, miniPCs, smart reconfigurable routers, etc.
Onliner: same design, but affordable for the masses (this is my guess)
But that's not the important part. The important stuff is that the cost of production is the same for a 64 or 32 bits processor (research costs sunk, like in this case). So, argument is why use a larger, less powerfull chip if they can use a better, smaller chip.
Also, legacy compatibility is less important in embedded devices than any other market i can think of (and specially consumer PCs).
I noticed my watch (TAG Heuer) has an interesting inscription at the back:
Swiss Made - Saphire Crystal - Water Resitant - 200M - Stailess Steel (which a recent post in slashdot stated stains by the way).
I thought this crystal was was cool when i received this gift watch. But i never thought it was THAT hard or that was used for military applications. And that it is related to Aluminuim is a big suprise to me also (and the fact that you can manufacture saphire is also surprising!).
Description: It's perfectly transparent (100%, like glass) and doesn't get scratches. This watch is 10 years old, yet the crystal is intact and looks "new", no matter how close you look at it.
Anyone can spam: from "a 6 year old guy", to "dr.evil" to "mr. good guy that is trying to solve world hunger". So you want different penalties: kill evil guy, warn good guy, educate kid.
Some of them, unknowing how bad spam is
People complain about spam. Yet, if they find it usefull, they use the service (contradiction)
Spam doesn't kill people or ruins lifes or fortunes
Spam is relative: what defines spam? a) everything unsolicited? (leads to: nobody can even contact you to ask you if they can contact you.). b) something that is sent to more than me and that is unsolicited? (leads to: how do you enforce/know that? Spammer could just program variations of the smap message).
There IS usefull spam and useless spam as well (99% useless ratio today). If we enforce "good smapping practices..." (ie: receive unsolicited email from good employers offering good salaries)
Spam is global (different legislations) and can move fast (from server to server).
Detecting spammer (physically) is: a) expensive, b) they usually don't have much money (what will you do to him? arrest him like Mitnik?).
Thouthan other reasons
So the bottom line is (my opinion):
Spam doesn't know black and white. There're shades of gray only, and difficult/expensive to block. At some point we should draw a line, beyond that line, prosecute spammers (law). Everything else would be client-side (ie: tools to block spam, blacklists, filters, etc.).
software to determine best buys, or even to automatically buy or sell on certain clues, we will see some very negative behaviours. Firstly, traffic will be highly correlated if personal computers can all act on the same information at the same time. We will see information waves, and also enormous swings in share prices. Most private individuals will suffer because of this, while institutions and individuals with better software will benefit. This is because prices will rise and fall simply because of the correlated activity of the automated software and not because of any real effects related to the shares themselves. Institutions may have to limit private share transactions to control this problem, but can also make a lot of money from modelling the private software and thus determining in advance what the recommendations and actions will be, capitalising enormously on the resultant share movements, and indeed even stimulating them. Of course, if this problem is generally perceived by the share dealing public , the AI software will not take off so the problem will not arise. What is more likely is that such software will sell in limited quantities, causing the effects to be significant, but not destroying the markets.
It goes on to explain how to make money or create a monopoly (Remember this guy works at BT)
Maybe he saw "A New Hope" and got the idea from there. Maybe he read some of Asimov's books. It can't believe someone will take this guy seriously. This must be some kind of "conspirancy joke" to laught at us slashdotters!
Thank you for this opportunity to submit a submission into The Senate inquiry into the Nursing Profession.
I am aware that the inquiry is focusing mainly on Nursing Education and Nursing Retention and Recruitment issues, however I believe that before these issues can be addressed successfully there are 3 essential elements that any Nursing study needs to take into consideration if there is to be a successful outcome .
These elements if incorporated will bring Nurses back into the profession and certainly will retain a highly skilled professional Nursing workforce.
These elements are as follows:
* Caring Profession
* Holistic Nursing
* Valuing and Respecting Nurses and the Nursing Profession
Unless the above are considered and integrated into a plan Nurses will continue to leave the Profession as they are doing now and will not be incited back into a workforce which does not respect or value them. Nurses need to be able to deliver holistic care in a caring and nurturing environment.
I am of the belief that if the above can be integrated into a total holistic approach to the Health Industry then there may be a chance for the future to be improved.
Please consider the attached submission as part of a solution to the issues confronting the Government and the Health Industry in relation to the Nursing Profession.
I would like to have the opportunity to appear before the Senate Select Committee if the Senate Committee travels to remote Western Australia for public hearings .
Yours sincerely
Peta Nottle (Mrs)
New Vision - New Direction
I have been thinking about the Nursing profession for many years now and wondering about solutions. I would like to take this opportunity to outline what I believe could be solutions to the current situation that nursing finds its profession in today.
Return to caring, Nursing is a heart centred profession.
To allow nurses to nurse holistically.
Respect and value nurses.
1. Return to Caring
To nurse means to care for or to nurture with compassion.
Mr Ian Pearson a renowned information technology futurist and a British telecommunications analyst published his predictions for technology over the next 2 decades, combine his predictions with what we know about nursing today, and it is not hard to see what the nursing profession might look like in 2020.
What happens when computers are smarter than us? For Nursing...
Here's some part of the text...
Pearson believes that this will cause a shift to a "care economy" computers can never learn to care. People will concentrate on the human interpersonal side of work.
Nurses will need to get back to their original and best strength caring. Although computers cannot care, they can help nurses define, quantify and measure the effects of caring of patients outcomes. Making sure that they do just that is crucial to nursing's survival.
"People have some virtual friends, but don't know which ones (2007)" Like Anonymous IRC or BBS in the early 90s? What did he mean?
"... leisure activities for intelligent software entities released (2015)"
Like the SETI screensaver or the such? Or like the idle loop in the x86s? What's "inteligent software"? Every company calls their software inteligent.
"...Electronic lifeform given basic rights (2020)."
I'll enjoy all the +5 (Funny) post that are going to pop-up from this prediction. Of course, this one will fell in the 15% of failed predictions. The other 85% are obvious things or things that already happened.
And even *if* MS had a ton of shares, and sold them all off so Apple's stock price tanked, the Fed would be on MS's ass before you could blink.
I wasn't thinking of MS selling them but from profiting from them. And they don't need to have MS buying the stop. Balmer, Bill and their rich comrades could invest in Apple directly or indirectly (prefered method).
That's why i think there are too many thing that could or could no be good for MS shareholders (that can make decision).
Apple shipping MacOS on x86 systems means having to deal with thousands upon thousands of combinations of hardware
Explain why? It's not like they will be selling a "Windows XP to OSX Upgrade Kit". They can start bundling OSX with some OEM giants that want to offer an alternative for Windows. That is a very limited quantity of hardware combinations.
If given the choice, i'd chose an IBM laptop with OSX, not Windows. After all, i could afterwards purchase Windows if i ever felt like. But not OSX. Only big OEM player could resist microsoft pressure to desist the uncompettitive practices of offering something non-MS blessed.
the biggest company of the USA (and the world). After all, MS literally makes software to sell OTHERS hardware, and they don't sell hardware anymore then because of the price gap. x86 hardware is too competitive. Software is not (it's the exactly the opposite!)
What will MS's response will be - will it withdraw its Office and IE products for OS X? etc.
I think we'll never know the answers, because there are too make things to take into accout. For example, regarding Microsoft attitude:
Pros:
They'll stop calling us (MS) a Monopoly OS, yet we'll be able to sell the same amount of Office + keep IE pushed everywhere.
We have shares of Apple. And could have even more if we wanted (like 30 or 40%).
Cons:
They could earn a lot of the OEM market, and jeopardize our sales and our monopoly.
We may lose some critical mass to drive the market right where was it to go (less revenues in the long run)
There are just to many thing to consider from the Microsoft perspective to say they'll go in this or that direction...
From Apple's point of view, i don't know if it would make sense. Haven't checked the figures, but it seem to me that Apple could keep the hardware selling with higher profits in the moved to x86. What they don't WANT for sure are clones. I guess they think they sell hardware, and not a user experience.
Some day they will realize that mac is about the experience, not the underlying hardware =)
Isn't OSX based on *BSD? I think there are and will (near future) be more OSX machines than linux ones. In the long run, Linux will catch up (unless Windows ZP is *BSD based:-)
And win. So that's why they need low latency. It doesn't need to be deterministic, it just needs to give you overall more responsiveness to mouse events and video events so your frags go up.
They can always roll these back (preempt, scheduler, break-lock). The VM is more diffucult to roll back.
Is it any good? Of course it's biased towards web development, but i keep reading how simple python is compared to C or C++. PHP resembles C/C++ yet it's very easy to use and understand.
The question is, what do people think of PHP? Is there any good in it? I'd been able to use MySQL and many other tools from it (like IMAP, etc.). Also, has anyone tried the apha gtk bindings?
I'd like to try and see if i can code anything non-web-based but are afraid of doing things the wrong way.
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Companies, in general, want NOT to release their source code.
Companies do like people that are willing to PAY for software (as in advanced cash).
Desktop users want computers where programs INSTALL easily.
Desktop users want computers where hardware configuration is TRIVIAL
And that's why OSX is perfect for you. It addresses your needs. Of course, it doesn't address the need of people that need freedom and flexibility for EVERYTHING that runs under their computers. I don't use Linux because GIMP is better than Photoshop, i use it because GIMP has what i need and i know that GIMP will eventually beat Photoshop.
In some way, i think i use Linux because i feel i'm on the right side. Microsoft used my money to lock me into their OS and after doing that, all my money started funding them so they could lock me into more of their stuff (like Office). I don't like that and many companies are starting to feel this way too.
Note: this is only my opinion. Please disregard it completelly if you don't agree. It's ok and i understand it.
IMHO, the important feature here is having targeted destination of the sound, and not having a forged origin (a pair of cheapo headphones + computer can do that perfectly).
This technology will be a mess. Image a world as one where EVERYONE uses headphones: you'll never know for sure what other people are listening to, nor if what you are listening is audible by others.
HTML is not a "page-design" language."
Word format is not a page design language either. It's a word processor. Printable friendly HTML would be nice for basic stuff (although a temporary solution only).
If you go to an alien planet, you'd be glad if you could have a home with walls and a nice roof. Probably, you'd like to mostly eat familiar meals, and meet the aliens that have ears at the sides and not the ones that have fingers for hairs.
Give you some time...you'll sonner or later discover what's better than home and what is not, and probably how could you live in Earth without all those needed and good stuff or friends from your NEW HOME.
All this nonsense comes from my personal experience with Linux. Hope someone can grasp what i mean.
Works for me. I resize car press photos on the fly for various sizes depending on position and cobranded site. Of course, the originals live in MySQL and the resizes are all catched.
I know i should know it, but IANAEE....what is "SoT"?
MIPS based hardware was expensive, so they sold limited quantities (relative to other CPUs). Or they other way arround which is the same (ie: they couldn't mass market it like and intel or AMD chip, so they had to charge accordingly).
But now, they will be in embedded devices. So the chip is the same but mostly everyone will be able to take advantage of it's power for a few bucks. I don't know exactly what devices, but they can be cameras, video recorders, pims, portable mp3 player, miniPCs, smart reconfigurable routers, etc.
Onliner: same design, but affordable for the masses (this is my guess)
But that's not the important part. The important stuff is that the cost of production is the same for a 64 or 32 bits processor (research costs sunk, like in this case). So, argument is why use a larger, less powerfull chip if they can use a better, smaller chip.
Also, legacy compatibility is less important in embedded devices than any other market i can think of (and specially consumer PCs).
Here's the link that worked for me (same, but without the inner space):
h tech/watchcrystals.html
http://www.europastar.com/ESWatch/index.html?watc
I noticed my watch (TAG Heuer) has an interesting inscription at the back:
Swiss Made - Saphire Crystal - Water Resitant - 200M - Stailess Steel (which a recent post in slashdot stated stains by the way).
I thought this crystal was was cool when i received this gift watch. But i never thought it was THAT hard or that was used for military applications. And that it is related to Aluminuim is a big suprise to me also (and the fact that you can manufacture saphire is also surprising!).
Description: It's perfectly transparent (100%, like glass) and doesn't get scratches. This watch is 10 years old, yet the crystal is intact and looks "new", no matter how close you look at it.
Anyone can spam: from "a 6 year old guy", to "dr.evil" to "mr. good guy that is trying to solve world hunger". So you want different penalties: kill evil guy, warn good guy, educate kid.
Some of them, unknowing how bad spam is
People complain about spam. Yet, if they find it usefull, they use the service (contradiction)
Spam doesn't kill people or ruins lifes or fortunes
Spam is relative: what defines spam? a) everything unsolicited? (leads to: nobody can even contact you to ask you if they can contact you.). b) something that is sent to more than me and that is unsolicited? (leads to: how do you enforce/know that? Spammer could just program variations of the smap message).
There IS usefull spam and useless spam as well (99% useless ratio today). If we enforce "good smapping practices..." (ie: receive unsolicited email from good employers offering good salaries)
Spam is global (different legislations) and can move fast (from server to server).
Detecting spammer (physically) is: a) expensive, b) they usually don't have much money (what will you do to him? arrest him like Mitnik?).
Thouthan other reasons
So the bottom line is (my opinion):
Spam doesn't know black and white. There're shades of gray only, and difficult/expensive to block. At some point we should draw a line, beyond that line, prosecute spammers (law). Everything else would be client-side (ie: tools to block spam, blacklists, filters, etc.).
For example you mother in law email or your "bad boss" email.
His homepage:t m
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http://innovate.bt.com/people/pearsonid/fullbio.h
Hundreds of prediction for BT: http://www.bt.com/sphere/insights/pearson/index.h
Movie of the 2020 predictions timeline: http://www.bt.com/bttj/tomorrow/index.htm
His content homepage: "Just occasionally, everyone else IS wrong" http://www.labs.bt.com/people/pearsonid/
Here's a brief:
software to determine best buys, or even to automatically buy or sell on certain clues, we will see some very negative behaviours. Firstly, traffic will be highly correlated if personal computers can all act on the same information at the same time. We will see information waves, and also enormous swings in share prices. Most private individuals will suffer because of this, while institutions and individuals with better software will benefit. This is because prices will rise and fall simply because of the correlated activity of the automated software and not because of any real effects related to the shares themselves. Institutions may have to limit private share transactions to control this problem, but can also make a lot of money from modelling the private software and thus determining in advance what the recommendations and actions will be, capitalising enormously on the resultant share movements, and indeed even stimulating them. Of course, if this problem is generally perceived by the share dealing public , the AI software will not take off so the problem will not arise. What is more likely is that such software will sell in limited quantities, causing the effects to be significant, but not destroying the markets.
It goes on to explain how to make money or create a monopoly (Remember this guy works at BT)
Heres the link: Money Making and software
Maybe he saw "A New Hope" and got the idea from there. Maybe he read some of Asimov's books. It can't believe someone will take this guy seriously. This must be some kind of "conspirancy joke" to laught at us slashdotters!
Senate Community Affairs Reference Committee
Suite S1 59
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600.
Dear Mr Humphrey
Thank you for this opportunity to submit a submission into The Senate inquiry into the Nursing Profession.
I am aware that the inquiry is focusing mainly on Nursing Education and Nursing Retention and Recruitment issues, however I believe that before these issues can be addressed successfully there are 3 essential elements that any Nursing study needs to take into consideration if there is to be a successful outcome .
These elements if incorporated will bring Nurses back into the profession and certainly will retain a highly skilled professional Nursing workforce.
These elements are as follows:
* Caring Profession
* Holistic Nursing
* Valuing and Respecting Nurses and the Nursing Profession
Unless the above are considered and integrated into a plan Nurses will continue to leave the Profession as they are doing now and will not be incited back into a workforce which does not respect or value them. Nurses need to be able to deliver holistic care in a caring and nurturing environment.
I am of the belief that if the above can be integrated into a total holistic approach to the Health Industry then there may be a chance for the future to be improved.
Please consider the attached submission as part of a solution to the issues confronting the Government and the Health Industry in relation to the Nursing Profession.
I would like to have the opportunity to appear before the Senate Select Committee if the Senate Committee travels to remote Western Australia for public hearings .
Yours sincerely
Peta Nottle (Mrs)
New Vision - New Direction
I have been thinking about the Nursing profession for many years now and wondering about solutions. I would like to take this opportunity to outline what I believe could be solutions to the current situation that nursing finds its profession in today.
Return to caring, Nursing is a heart centred profession.
To allow nurses to nurse holistically.
Respect and value nurses.
1. Return to Caring
To nurse means to care for or to nurture with compassion.
Mr Ian Pearson a renowned information technology futurist and a British telecommunications analyst published his predictions for technology over the next 2 decades, combine his predictions with what we know about nursing today, and it is not hard to see what the nursing profession might look like in 2020.
What happens when computers are smarter than us? For Nursing...
Here's some part of the text...
Pearson believes that this will cause a shift to a "care economy" computers can never learn to care. People will concentrate on the human interpersonal side of work.
Nurses will need to get back to their original and best strength caring. Although computers cannot care, they can help nurses define, quantify and measure the effects of caring of patients outcomes. Making sure that they do just that is crucial to nursing's survival.
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Here's the full lenght report in HTML format.
There's some patents he owns and a vitae, as well as other info. He didn't yet learn to put links, so basically it's just a large text homepage...
He didn't yet learn to use hyperlinks, so basically it's just a large text homepage...
Ian's Homepage
"People have some virtual friends, but don't know which ones (2007)"
Like Anonymous IRC or BBS in the early 90s? What did he mean?
"... leisure activities for intelligent software entities released (2015)"
Like the SETI screensaver or the such? Or like the idle loop in the x86s? What's "inteligent software"? Every company calls their software inteligent.
"...Electronic lifeform given basic rights (2020)."
I'll enjoy all the +5 (Funny) post that are going to pop-up from this prediction. Of course, this one will fell in the 15% of failed predictions. The other 85% are obvious things or things that already happened.
And even *if* MS had a ton of shares, and sold them all off so Apple's stock price tanked, the Fed would be on MS's ass before you could blink.
I wasn't thinking of MS selling them but from profiting from them. And they don't need to have MS buying the stop. Balmer, Bill and their rich comrades could invest in Apple directly or indirectly (prefered method).
That's why i think there are too many thing that could or could no be good for MS shareholders (that can make decision).
Apple shipping MacOS on x86 systems means having to deal with thousands upon thousands of combinations of hardware
Explain why? It's not like they will be selling a "Windows XP to OSX Upgrade Kit". They can start bundling OSX with some OEM giants that want to offer an alternative for Windows. That is a very limited quantity of hardware combinations.
If given the choice, i'd chose an IBM laptop with OSX, not Windows. After all, i could afterwards purchase Windows if i ever felt like. But not OSX. Only big OEM player could resist microsoft pressure to desist the uncompettitive practices of offering something non-MS blessed.
the biggest company of the USA (and the world). After all, MS literally makes software to sell OTHERS hardware, and they don't sell hardware anymore then because of the price gap. x86 hardware is too competitive. Software is not (it's the exactly the opposite!)
I think we'll never know the answers, because there are too make things to take into accout. For example, regarding Microsoft attitude:
Pros:
They'll stop calling us (MS) a Monopoly OS, yet we'll be able to sell the same amount of Office + keep IE pushed everywhere.
We have shares of Apple. And could have even more if we wanted (like 30 or 40%).
Cons:
They could earn a lot of the OEM market, and jeopardize our sales and our monopoly.
We may lose some critical mass to drive the market right where was it to go (less revenues in the long run)
There are just to many thing to consider from the Microsoft perspective to say they'll go in this or that direction...
From Apple's point of view, i don't know if it would make sense. Haven't checked the figures, but it seem to me that Apple could keep the hardware selling with higher profits in the moved to x86. What they don't WANT for sure are clones. I guess they think they sell hardware, and not a user experience.
Some day they will realize that mac is about the experience, not the underlying hardware =)
Isn't OSX based on *BSD? I think there are and will (near future) be more OSX machines than linux ones. In the long run, Linux will catch up (unless Windows ZP is *BSD based :-)
And win. So that's why they need low latency. It doesn't need to be deterministic, it just needs to give you overall more responsiveness to mouse events and video events so your frags go up.
They can always roll these back (preempt, scheduler, break-lock). The VM is more diffucult to roll back.
Is it any good? Of course it's biased towards web development, but i keep reading how simple python is compared to C or C++. PHP resembles C/C++ yet it's very easy to use and understand.
The question is, what do people think of PHP? Is there any good in it? I'd been able to use MySQL and many other tools from it (like IMAP, etc.). Also, has anyone tried the apha gtk bindings?
I'd like to try and see if i can code anything non-web-based but are afraid of doing things the wrong way.