...fucking mouth breathers are going to complain about this "infringement" on their so-called freedom to not concentrate on driving? Humans don't multitask well no matter what you believe. I know, I'm a great multitasker myself. But then again, I'm no longer human.
Thanks for that link and +1 Insightful to you. Not sure why I was modded a troll above because I was being serious even though I sounded like I was telling some kids to get off my lawn.
No. I think he was saying we should wear condoms on our heads to prevent rain from interfering with our satellite receivers. Probably over the tin foil hats though.
Exactly my thinking. The problem is that the FCC is making decisions without proper and careful scientific measurement of the data. This is just plain crooked. I blame the fact that consumers have been duped into accepting poor quality is the norm. Look at how much cell phones and smart phones suck ass. NO ONE would have accepted these products in the mid 20th century. Can you imagine what would have happened to Bell telephone in the 1960s and 1970s if customers had conversations dropping in the middle with no explanation? No one seems to expect companies to strive for perfection these days. "So what if it interferes a little with a few people here or there. That's 'highly unlikely' and where it happens it's only one or two people"! No more quality I tell you. I'm starting to sound like my inlaws...
A burst of truth from the 20th century mind of eno2001:
Times have changed. The myth of the "badass job" and the "bigass house" weren't a complete myth in the mid 20th century. I know people who graduated in the 1950s who just walked out and got a job day one that gave them a very comfortable middle class lifestyle in the suburbs with a nice car or two. A lot of them, later invested when the market was a bit down and then lived off the peaks of the 80s and 90s which raised them up to a higher level of middle class.
In the early 21st century we have these issues creating much larger barriers to "success" (as defined by the typical capitalist/consumer):
1. Much larger population and only slightly more wealth, much of it artificial and very unstable. When the "wealth" disappears due to a bubble bursting, only things of real tangible value count. There's not enough to go around to keep everyone in beer, chips, and game consoles 2. The disease of the middle man. While a middle man can have an actually valuable place in society, there is a limit to the amount of them needed. At the moment, we have too many people trying to siphon money into their pockets between a good or service producer on the way to you, the consumer. As a result, the costs for items are overinflated beyond their actual value, and yet, consumers continue to be convinced by advertising to buy the products. This has a double effect: as a society we spend too much on unnecessary items instead of putting good money where it belongs (in our pockets). And, the workforce is now populated by idiots (the unneeded and value subtracting middle men). Think about all the "developers" that barely know VisualBasic and work for companies that put out niche products that are poorly written and designed... 3. Companies want to run "lean and mean". So where they would have hired you on as a software developer had the field been as widespread in the 1950s (remember the smaller population), they are now keeping their handful of really good developers and spreading them thin. They overwork their existing staff, and underemploy anyone who isn't that hot (shorter hours or just don't hire anyone). This means that it's a LOT harder to get a job in software development if you've never had experience.
There are the VERY VERY ultra-rare people who can leave college, form a start-up based on an idea that just catches on, and market the bejezzus out of their wares until they get someone interested. If they get acquired, they take on some impressive sounding title like CEO, CIO, CTO, or "Chief Imagination Officer" (Yes I've seen that in real life). With any one of those titles, you can pretty much write your own ticket. If you don't get bought up but still run a good business and then leave it behind, you have your "two to five years of experience" and something to show for it. But this is extremely rare. Probably less than 5% of the population can do this and that is likely a gross overestimate. Sadly, there are far too many people in the computer related businesses who believe they are this kind of person. They fall flat on their faces every time. If you have a hard nose, you pick yourself up and try again. Like the fat loser at the bar that asks every woman to come home with him for a screw until one of them, just before 2:00AM and drunk as hell says, "snergf. home. ack. wi. yew. hick"! People like that make up for their lack of talent with their tenacity. Hats off to them. Again... a small segment of the population. The rest of us just do what we can to get by as well as possible with no illusion of ever doing exactly what we want since we don't want to sacrifice a real life to a career. That's why I'm not a faded techno-pop star from the late 80s/early 90s and instead work as a jack of all trades Unix admin who has to touch Cisco routers, Oracle server, a variety of Windows systems, and field specific software of really poor quality.
They are thinking old fashioned media distribution channels. Get it through your thick skulls idiots in the music and movie industries. We want media free content. Just the data. The container doesn't matter anymore. All we want is to be able to access the content we like, anytime we want to, anywhere we have a device that can play it. If there's internal storage in that device I should be able to copy it as many times as I want across as many devices that I want. If some people use that freedom to steal, LET THEM. There are plenty of people who will still pay for it (I know I would simply to stay legit) and you'd still make more money. Oh... and lower the goddamned prices while you're at it!!!
...from 1984 that are still readable today. They hold 360k and are single sided. It's not like you can't buy 3.5" diskette drives now either. So I'd say find a decade old form of storage that has been around long enough to have at least a proven track record (CD-R is decent, but so is HD) and go with that. I'm sure you'll still be able to find CD-ROM compatible readers in 25 years. If not, wait about another 500 years or so and human machine hybrid descendants will be able to read them without any external devices.:)
...what the web should be, we'd be back in web 0.25 days in about five year. If you let private industry decide, the entire web will be one big bill board (which it very nearly is). Find the middle ground folks...
The time is long past folks. X86 is hampering progress and all because of some stupid corporate protection racket. I don't care how well it's selling or that even Apple moved to it, it's still a bloated piece of shit. We need processors that are optimized for compute speed AND low power consumption. We need Cpus that don't use any power at all unless there is an active operation being performed. We need cpus that basically mimic water systems. If there is no activity, the water doesn't flow at all. Zero power use. The tubes are still. If we can just make sure that the cpus are basically a series of tubes to carry data, we'd have superfast computers with very very low power utilization. Kill off Intel and amd NOW!
Uh oh. Looks like someone let the monkeys escape the zoo again and they didn't write Shakespeare.
For one thing, the Linux kernel has more drivers BUILT IN than Windows includes with their OS distribution. To say that Linux has no drivers illustrates just how limited your experience with the Linux kernel is. Not only that, but the most popular and best Linux distributions actually compile nearly every driver as a module by default so most of your hardware with the exception of the very newest hardware, should work. Printers and scanners, are supported by "drivers" that are NOT part of the kernel at all. Your glib reference to CUPS (printer drivers) and SANE (scanner drivers) doesn't even make this suggestion at all. You sir, are a moron.
"Develop" a database in Adobe Flash? That's so idiotic I don't even know where to start. You're not a developer, you're a monstrous joke. It goes without saying that you are not a Fortune 500 executive. If anything you're running some kind of sham business if even that. I suspect you're some kind of troll. And... You sir, are a moron.
Sound and databases? While they could be an option in an application, they're NOT required. When David down the hall wants TPS reports on his desk by the end of the day, it doesn't matter if there's sound or not. And "bullet-time"? WHY? What purpose would something like that serve? Frankly, the BIGGEST database platforms for high reliability are on some form of Linux. They're not on Windows and they're not MS SQL. MySQL and PostgreSQL rule the open source world. Oracle is the top of the commercial world. But it goes without saying that... You sir, are an idiot.
Vista Aero Glass!? You have GOT to be kidding. It's so lame compared to Compiz-Fusion. But beyond that, what would any of this have to do with DBs? I'll tell you what: NOTHING! Once again... You sir, are an idiot.
Since most of the humor impaired anti-Linux crowd have moved over to Digg, I'll play devil's idio... err... advocate.
Yeah. Like that's a good idea... When you put Lunix on a computer, guess what? It doesn't come with drivers. The Fortune 500 businesses that make drivers for their equipment only do so for Windows and you can't use those drivers on Lunix. So what happens when you buy a brand new scanner or printer, or video card? You have to rebuild the kernel, pray to the gods CUPS and SANE, throw holy water over your shoulder and hope like hell that you don't have a $200+ brick sitting on your desk. Think that's going to make things easier for Microsoft because I don't.
It's like Ballmer said, "Applications! Applications! Applications"! Personally, as an important executive in a Fortune 500 company, I don't have time to waste recompiling kernel after kernel and then installing software from raw source. I want things to work and I want them to work RIGHT NOW! My time is worth a lot of money and I need programs like Photoshop and Flash so I can write betas of databases my company creates so I can get the imagination-free coders under my charge to build things like normal people want. (Never let a database developer start coding until you have the prototype fully functional in Flash!)
On top of that, Linux has ZERO support for system and application sounds. If there is one thing that will kill a database application making it in the rough and tumble market, it's a lack of action sounds. Our database sports 1400 sounds for every activity imaginable in the database. My personal favorite is the heartbeat sound when you go into bullet-time mode while scrolling through the database itself. I had to fight a few non-visionaries about putting the sound (fired them actually) into the database! I'll never understand why developers are so bad at grasping the importance of flashiness in a database application. Can you do that in Linux? HELL no! Linux just sucks for databases.
I wouldn't touch Linux with a ten foot barge pole otherwise it might infect my beautiful and innovative mind. It seems like people who use and like Linux, lack vision and lack creativity. Instead they're perfectly happy with their grey screens from 1984 and all text data. Ugh! NO ONE in their right mind likes that kind of thing. We need the kind of flashiness you see in Vista's Aero Glass interface. That is the pinnacle of innovation in the computer world. NO ONE has ever done anything like that on any other OS.
So as funny as you think your stupid comment is, I can tell you're just an idiot.
...in their right mind uses a "smart phone" for actual work related stuff outside of say, calendars and contacts? And if those calendars and contacts are lost without encryption, what kind of damage could it possibly do? Competitor: "Aha! I see they're having a bake sale next week! Maybe we should slip in and undercut their prices so that they will fail! Rar!!"
I'm sorry, but since I've gotten my BlackBerry, here's what I do with it: listen to music while I excercise, take pictures of things that interest me, add the occasional personal contact, read my favorite blogs and news sites, and write book reviews to post in my blog. If I lose any of that stuff, it will merely be annoying. When it comes to the critical stuff I work with on a daily basis (network security, network administration, Unix administration), I don't keep ANY of that stuff on there. The only possible security hole is the SSH client that allows me to connect to home. But I still need to know the password to log in and it's a PITA to use for most "normal" people.
Everyone is always out to make a buck. That's exactly the reason WHY open source and free software exists, provide balance to the profit mongers. It is the analog of the public library contrasted to the book store. They both have their place. I use the public library frequently because it is stupid to pay for all the books you want to read, the music you want to hear and the movies you want to watch. Free software extends that same principle to computers. Which is why I personally believe that libraries and FOSS are a perfect match.
Do I actually buy books, music and movies? Yes. Usually I buy used. I also tend to be into rare items, so I'll spend far more money on rare things than I would on some mainstream crap. That's why I'm glad Amazon exists. Recently I was borrowing a book from the library and found it so interesting I had to own a copy for future reference. Of course I bought it used. But still I actually bought it. This is the way most people should live (not that I advocate forcing people to do that). I'm just saying it's the best approach. By using the public library, I'm supporting a very important institution. By buying second hand, I'm reusing items that might otherwise be wasted. Far better than buying everything I want and not even appreciating half of it (which is what the spend thrifts do). Screw that guy and his ideas. He's a jackass.
This wouldn't happen on their home world where the gravity isn't quite as strong. When I last visited, I found that my diving skills were tremendously better than they are here on Earth. So, you may be wondering, why do the elephants stay? It is a labour of love. But at the end of the day, they stay because they can.
...that which you cannot touch? THIS year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
OK, I'm kidding. I've had Linux on the desktop since 1997 and it's been a far better experience than any Microsoft offering. There is nothing I can't do on Linux that I am interested in. However, Windows prevents me from doing a lot that I wish to do. Having said that, my point is that I'm the kind of person that Microsoft doesn't cater to and Linux distros do. I'm also not Joe Average. My needs are a bit out of the mainstream.
It is kind of odd that a major motion picture would even comment on open source. However, as I've not read the article (nor will I since I could give a rat's ass about comic book characters) I suspect that this is more the interpretation of the person writing the piece than the intention of the film's creators.
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Where does Jonathan Archer fall in here?
...fucking mouth breathers are going to complain about this "infringement" on their so-called freedom to not concentrate on driving? Humans don't multitask well no matter what you believe. I know, I'm a great multitasker myself. But then again, I'm no longer human.
Thanks for that link and +1 Insightful to you. Not sure why I was modded a troll above because I was being serious even though I sounded like I was telling some kids to get off my lawn.
No. I think he was saying we should wear condoms on our heads to prevent rain from interfering with our satellite receivers. Probably over the tin foil hats though.
Exactly my thinking. The problem is that the FCC is making decisions without proper and careful scientific measurement of the data. This is just plain crooked. I blame the fact that consumers have been duped into accepting poor quality is the norm. Look at how much cell phones and smart phones suck ass. NO ONE would have accepted these products in the mid 20th century. Can you imagine what would have happened to Bell telephone in the 1960s and 1970s if customers had conversations dropping in the middle with no explanation? No one seems to expect companies to strive for perfection these days. "So what if it interferes a little with a few people here or there. That's 'highly unlikely' and where it happens it's only one or two people"! No more quality I tell you. I'm starting to sound like my inlaws...
A burst of truth from the 20th century mind of eno2001:
Times have changed. The myth of the "badass job" and the "bigass house" weren't a complete myth in the mid 20th century. I know people who graduated in the 1950s who just walked out and got a job day one that gave them a very comfortable middle class lifestyle in the suburbs with a nice car or two. A lot of them, later invested when the market was a bit down and then lived off the peaks of the 80s and 90s which raised them up to a higher level of middle class.
In the early 21st century we have these issues creating much larger barriers to "success" (as defined by the typical capitalist/consumer):
1. Much larger population and only slightly more wealth, much of it artificial and very unstable. When the "wealth" disappears due to a bubble bursting, only things of real tangible value count. There's not enough to go around to keep everyone in beer, chips, and game consoles
2. The disease of the middle man. While a middle man can have an actually valuable place in society, there is a limit to the amount of them needed. At the moment, we have too many people trying to siphon money into their pockets between a good or service producer on the way to you, the consumer. As a result, the costs for items are overinflated beyond their actual value, and yet, consumers continue to be convinced by advertising to buy the products. This has a double effect: as a society we spend too much on unnecessary items instead of putting good money where it belongs (in our pockets). And, the workforce is now populated by idiots (the unneeded and value subtracting middle men). Think about all the "developers" that barely know VisualBasic and work for companies that put out niche products that are poorly written and designed...
3. Companies want to run "lean and mean". So where they would have hired you on as a software developer had the field been as widespread in the 1950s (remember the smaller population), they are now keeping their handful of really good developers and spreading them thin. They overwork their existing staff, and underemploy anyone who isn't that hot (shorter hours or just don't hire anyone). This means that it's a LOT harder to get a job in software development if you've never had experience.
There are the VERY VERY ultra-rare people who can leave college, form a start-up based on an idea that just catches on, and market the bejezzus out of their wares until they get someone interested. If they get acquired, they take on some impressive sounding title like CEO, CIO, CTO, or "Chief Imagination Officer" (Yes I've seen that in real life). With any one of those titles, you can pretty much write your own ticket. If you don't get bought up but still run a good business and then leave it behind, you have your "two to five years of experience" and something to show for it. But this is extremely rare. Probably less than 5% of the population can do this and that is likely a gross overestimate. Sadly, there are far too many people in the computer related businesses who believe they are this kind of person. They fall flat on their faces every time. If you have a hard nose, you pick yourself up and try again. Like the fat loser at the bar that asks every woman to come home with him for a screw until one of them, just before 2:00AM and drunk as hell says, "snergf. home. ack. wi. yew. hick"! People like that make up for their lack of talent with their tenacity. Hats off to them. Again... a small segment of the population. The rest of us just do what we can to get by as well as possible with no illusion of ever doing exactly what we want since we don't want to sacrifice a real life to a career. That's why I'm not a faded techno-pop star from the late 80s/early 90s and instead work as a jack of all trades Unix admin who has to touch Cisco routers, Oracle server, a variety of Windows systems, and field specific software of really poor quality.
Oh come now. Surely you are exaggerating a tad. You're barely sane at all from the looks of it! Cheers!
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They are thinking old fashioned media distribution channels. Get it through your thick skulls idiots in the music and movie industries. We want media free content. Just the data. The container doesn't matter anymore. All we want is to be able to access the content we like, anytime we want to, anywhere we have a device that can play it. If there's internal storage in that device I should be able to copy it as many times as I want across as many devices that I want. If some people use that freedom to steal, LET THEM. There are plenty of people who will still pay for it (I know I would simply to stay legit) and you'd still make more money. Oh... and lower the goddamned prices while you're at it!!!
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Bai
...from 1984 that are still readable today. They hold 360k and are single sided. It's not like you can't buy 3.5" diskette drives now either. So I'd say find a decade old form of storage that has been around long enough to have at least a proven track record (CD-R is decent, but so is HD) and go with that. I'm sure you'll still be able to find CD-ROM compatible readers in 25 years. If not, wait about another 500 years or so and human machine hybrid descendants will be able to read them without any external devices. :)
...what the web should be, we'd be back in web 0.25 days in about five year. If you let private industry decide, the entire web will be one big bill board (which it very nearly is). Find the middle ground folks...
... DB design and old data that should be purged. Color me unimpressed.
Good points. However, I refer you to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Tubes
I'm a joker. Slashdot is not something to take seriously most of the time.
Cheers!
;) Why yes. Yes it is.
The time is long past folks. X86 is hampering progress and all because of some stupid corporate protection racket. I don't care how well it's selling or that even Apple moved to it, it's still a bloated piece of shit. We need processors that are optimized for compute speed AND low power consumption. We need Cpus that don't use any power at all unless there is an active operation being performed. We need cpus that basically mimic water systems. If there is no activity, the water doesn't flow at all. Zero power use. The tubes are still. If we can just make sure that the cpus are basically a series of tubes to carry data, we'd have superfast computers with very very low power utilization. Kill off Intel and amd NOW!
Goddamn sodomite!
I think on the meta level. It's all the same to me. And me as well. ;P
Uh oh. Looks like someone let the monkeys escape the zoo again and they didn't write Shakespeare.
For one thing, the Linux kernel has more drivers BUILT IN than Windows includes with their OS distribution. To say that Linux has no drivers illustrates just how limited your experience with the Linux kernel is. Not only that, but the most popular and best Linux distributions actually compile nearly every driver as a module by default so most of your hardware with the exception of the very newest hardware, should work. Printers and scanners, are supported by "drivers" that are NOT part of the kernel at all. Your glib reference to CUPS (printer drivers) and SANE (scanner drivers) doesn't even make this suggestion at all. You sir, are a moron.
"Develop" a database in Adobe Flash? That's so idiotic I don't even know where to start. You're not a developer, you're a monstrous joke. It goes without saying that you are not a Fortune 500 executive. If anything you're running some kind of sham business if even that. I suspect you're some kind of troll. And... You sir, are a moron.
Sound and databases? While they could be an option in an application, they're NOT required. When David down the hall wants TPS reports on his desk by the end of the day, it doesn't matter if there's sound or not. And "bullet-time"? WHY? What purpose would something like that serve? Frankly, the BIGGEST database platforms for high reliability are on some form of Linux. They're not on Windows and they're not MS SQL. MySQL and PostgreSQL rule the open source world. Oracle is the top of the commercial world. But it goes without saying that... You sir, are an idiot.
Vista Aero Glass!? You have GOT to be kidding. It's so lame compared to Compiz-Fusion. But beyond that, what would any of this have to do with DBs? I'll tell you what: NOTHING! Once again... You sir, are an idiot.
Since most of the humor impaired anti-Linux crowd have moved over to Digg, I'll play devil's idio... err... advocate.
Yeah. Like that's a good idea... When you put Lunix on a computer, guess what? It doesn't come with drivers. The Fortune 500 businesses that make drivers for their equipment only do so for Windows and you can't use those drivers on Lunix. So what happens when you buy a brand new scanner or printer, or video card? You have to rebuild the kernel, pray to the gods CUPS and SANE, throw holy water over your shoulder and hope like hell that you don't have a $200+ brick sitting on your desk. Think that's going to make things easier for Microsoft because I don't.
It's like Ballmer said, "Applications! Applications! Applications"! Personally, as an important executive in a Fortune 500 company, I don't have time to waste recompiling kernel after kernel and then installing software from raw source. I want things to work and I want them to work RIGHT NOW! My time is worth a lot of money and I need programs like Photoshop and Flash so I can write betas of databases my company creates so I can get the imagination-free coders under my charge to build things like normal people want. (Never let a database developer start coding until you have the prototype fully functional in Flash!)
On top of that, Linux has ZERO support for system and application sounds. If there is one thing that will kill a database application making it in the rough and tumble market, it's a lack of action sounds. Our database sports 1400 sounds for every activity imaginable in the database. My personal favorite is the heartbeat sound when you go into bullet-time mode while scrolling through the database itself. I had to fight a few non-visionaries about putting the sound (fired them actually) into the database! I'll never understand why developers are so bad at grasping the importance of flashiness in a database application. Can you do that in Linux? HELL no! Linux just sucks for databases.
I wouldn't touch Linux with a ten foot barge pole otherwise it might infect my beautiful and innovative mind. It seems like people who use and like Linux, lack vision and lack creativity. Instead they're perfectly happy with their grey screens from 1984 and all text data. Ugh! NO ONE in their right mind likes that kind of thing. We need the kind of flashiness you see in Vista's Aero Glass interface. That is the pinnacle of innovation in the computer world. NO ONE has ever done anything like that on any other OS.
So as funny as you think your stupid comment is, I can tell you're just an idiot.
...in their right mind uses a "smart phone" for actual work related stuff outside of say, calendars and contacts? And if those calendars and contacts are lost without encryption, what kind of damage could it possibly do? Competitor: "Aha! I see they're having a bake sale next week! Maybe we should slip in and undercut their prices so that they will fail! Rar!!"
I'm sorry, but since I've gotten my BlackBerry, here's what I do with it: listen to music while I excercise, take pictures of things that interest me, add the occasional personal contact, read my favorite blogs and news sites, and write book reviews to post in my blog. If I lose any of that stuff, it will merely be annoying. When it comes to the critical stuff I work with on a daily basis (network security, network administration, Unix administration), I don't keep ANY of that stuff on there. The only possible security hole is the SSH client that allows me to connect to home. But I still need to know the password to log in and it's a PITA to use for most "normal" people.
Bunch of paranoid idiots if you ask me.
Everyone is always out to make a buck. That's exactly the reason WHY open source and free software exists, provide balance to the profit mongers. It is the analog of the public library contrasted to the book store. They both have their place. I use the public library frequently because it is stupid to pay for all the books you want to read, the music you want to hear and the movies you want to watch. Free software extends that same principle to computers. Which is why I personally believe that libraries and FOSS are a perfect match.
Do I actually buy books, music and movies? Yes. Usually I buy used. I also tend to be into rare items, so I'll spend far more money on rare things than I would on some mainstream crap. That's why I'm glad Amazon exists. Recently I was borrowing a book from the library and found it so interesting I had to own a copy for future reference. Of course I bought it used. But still I actually bought it. This is the way most people should live (not that I advocate forcing people to do that). I'm just saying it's the best approach. By using the public library, I'm supporting a very important institution. By buying second hand, I'm reusing items that might otherwise be wasted. Far better than buying everything I want and not even appreciating half of it (which is what the spend thrifts do). Screw that guy and his ideas. He's a jackass.
Doh! Mixed up my freaks.
...who's a cocksmoking teabagger now Darl?
When is Ortega gonna show up?
This wouldn't happen on their home world where the gravity isn't quite as strong. When I last visited, I found that my diving skills were tremendously better than they are here on Earth. So, you may be wondering, why do the elephants stay? It is a labour of love. But at the end of the day, they stay because they can.
...that which you cannot touch? THIS year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
OK, I'm kidding. I've had Linux on the desktop since 1997 and it's been a far better experience than any Microsoft offering. There is nothing I can't do on Linux that I am interested in. However, Windows prevents me from doing a lot that I wish to do. Having said that, my point is that I'm the kind of person that Microsoft doesn't cater to and Linux distros do. I'm also not Joe Average. My needs are a bit out of the mainstream.
It is kind of odd that a major motion picture would even comment on open source. However, as I've not read the article (nor will I since I could give a rat's ass about comic book characters) I suspect that this is more the interpretation of the person writing the piece than the intention of the film's creators.