Would you say electricity and water are rights? Waste disposal? You pay for those.
Anyway, even if you don't consider access to good infrastructure a right, it's definitely still a Good Idea. Not having that access will hold a society back.
I think the Pixel Qi screen technology (LCD but you can turn off backlight for direct sunlight e-ink like display) will bring some excellent products this year.
The Notion Ink Adam (due in June) already looks great, but is a little too big for casual reading. Will be great for textbooks, manuals and notes though.
Good example, but I don't think the in-depth backstory of G-Man in Half Life belongs on Wikipedia. It would make much more sense to have that on a separate wiki dedicated to Half Life, as we're talking about a fictional world.
Have an article on Half Life, absolutely. But in the main space, stick to things that exist in reality.
Use thin clients that draw minimal power and host desktops on the server side, either using an OS instance on the server for each user, or a terminal server type setup. Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure initiatives are great for this. Virtual machines can be suspended when not in use and are trivial to bring back online.
Added bonus: Users can work from off-site with minimal effort.
Does Windows give people too much power? Are computers too flexible?
Security aside, what can Microsoft do to make Windows easier to use and harder to screw up?
Let's say most people just want do to the following:
1. Browse the internet
2. Play games
3. Listen to music
4. Scan images and retrieve them from a camera
5. Perform simple operations on said images
6. All the other office stuff
Face it, at this point, not even giving someone their own limited-rights profile is good enough - they'll still screw that up somehow. We need to go back to basics.
There's a sig on/. that says "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (or something like that). I think it ties in nicely here.
While I agree that we need some form of authentication, we shouldn't need to make it hard to spam.
What we need to do is take away the incentive to spam. ie. clear laws and punishment. Even a way for consumers to effortlessly charge spammers (and their beneficiaries!) for the spam they receive should do.
Because face it, once people know that they can report them and get money for it, they will.
this site says that later versions only track which ads you see and click on (some useful info on other spyware apps as well). Not all that diff from doubleclick, really.
Of course, I don't know whether kazaa actually has one of these later versions.
In any case, I don't think it tracks what you download, browse, etc.
And if you're still paranoid, get Morpheus instead. It installs a little thing called BDE Projector, but that's easily uninstalled doesn't cause any problems.
Oh, and I use Ad-Aware. It's awesome, and hasn't picked up anything related to Morpheus. Updated weekly, at the very least.
I know here in South Africa internet is expensive mostly because of our Telco monopoly. But where does the problem lie in various other parts of the world? Who's overcharging?
There are a ton of derivative names in the electronics industry, and I haven't heard of any lawsuits yet. Would this set a precedent and see the death of lots of little companies no one's heard of?
Also, what if the court simply tells them to change their name? Is this likely? That would be pretty good publicity IMHO.
a good point.. it could be like discovery channel, but about games. as on discovery, there are so many areas to cover. you've got history of games, the programming aspect, behind the scenes of the more expensive games (kinda like the "making of" of movies) and of course there are the professional tournaments to follow.
This definitely has potential, but it absolutely HAS to be done right. Especially since the market for it is so niche.
I just installed OpenOffice a few days ago, and frankly, it's Very Good. It even opened a graphically-rich Excel document with no obvious problems.
Add KDE and KDM (or even Gnome and GDM) to this mix and tell me again why Windows & Office are easier (Barring installation, of course, but the average office user can't install Windows either, anyway).
As I see it, the only way to/really/ solve the "usability" issue, is for the user to be able to talk to the computer, and for the computer to be able to understand exactly what the user wants, and for that we need Artificial Intelligence.
Just yesterday my cousin had to explain to someone about 10 times how to check their email, and they still didn't get it. For this person, it would be much easier to just be able to tell the computer to "Check my email" or even to ask it, "do I have new mail?"
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Would you say electricity and water are rights? Waste disposal? You pay for those. Anyway, even if you don't consider access to good infrastructure a right, it's definitely still a Good Idea. Not having that access will hold a society back.
I think the Pixel Qi screen technology (LCD but you can turn off backlight for direct sunlight e-ink like display) will bring some excellent products this year. The Notion Ink Adam (due in June) already looks great, but is a little too big for casual reading. Will be great for textbooks, manuals and notes though.
Good example, but I don't think the in-depth backstory of G-Man in Half Life belongs on Wikipedia. It would make much more sense to have that on a separate wiki dedicated to Half Life, as we're talking about a fictional world. Have an article on Half Life, absolutely. But in the main space, stick to things that exist in reality.
Use thin clients that draw minimal power and host desktops on the server side, either using an OS instance on the server for each user, or a terminal server type setup. Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure initiatives are great for this. Virtual machines can be suspended when not in use and are trivial to bring back online. Added bonus: Users can work from off-site with minimal effort.
or Truth Enhancement
What percentage of the light is scattered vs absorbed, and what wavelengths?
Does Windows give people too much power? Are computers too flexible?
Security aside, what can Microsoft do to make Windows easier to use and harder to screw up?
Let's say most people just want do to the following:
1. Browse the internet
2. Play games
3. Listen to music
4. Scan images and retrieve them from a camera
5. Perform simple operations on said images
6. All the other office stuff
Face it, at this point, not even giving someone their own limited-rights profile is good enough - they'll still screw that up somehow. We need to go back to basics.
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wouldn't that be fun. :)
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nuff said.
I tried explaining this to my brother a few days with limited success. :)
While I agree that we need some form of authentication, we shouldn't need to make it hard to spam.
What we need to do is take away the incentive to spam. ie. clear laws and punishment. Even a way for consumers to effortlessly charge spammers (and their beneficiaries!) for the spam they receive should do.
Because face it, once people know that they can report them and get money for it, they will.
Of course, I don't know whether kazaa actually has one of these later versions.
In any case, I don't think it tracks what you download, browse, etc.
And if you're still paranoid, get Morpheus instead. It installs a little thing called BDE Projector, but that's easily uninstalled doesn't cause any problems.
Oh, and I use Ad-Aware. It's awesome, and hasn't picked up anything related to Morpheus. Updated weekly, at the very least.
I know here in South Africa internet is expensive mostly because of our Telco monopoly. But where does the problem lie in various other parts of the world? Who's overcharging?
There are a ton of derivative names in the electronics industry, and I haven't heard of any lawsuits yet. Would this set a precedent and see the death of lots of little companies no one's heard of? Also, what if the court simply tells them to change their name? Is this likely? That would be pretty good publicity IMHO.
This definitely has potential, but it absolutely HAS to be done right. Especially since the market for it is so niche.
Add KDE and KDM (or even Gnome and GDM) to this mix and tell me again why Windows & Office are easier (Barring installation, of course, but the average office user can't install Windows either, anyway).
anyone want to take a guess as to how long it will take the studios to make this into another Arnie movie?
Do we have any kinds of laws that say they can't take away our right to make copies of a product that we paid for?
Just yesterday my cousin had to explain to someone about 10 times how to check their email, and they still didn't get it. For this person, it would be much easier to just be able to tell the computer to "Check my email" or even to ask it, "do I have new mail?"
They've always claimed that MP3's were hurting business. By running it into the ground they're proving that people aren't interested.
Unless, of course, they claim that it would have been successful if there weren't so many illegal alternatives.
Wouldn't it take even more power to compare the two results, thus giving you less than half the performance? I dunno, I was just wondering