The open standards would still be there. The question is would they be in widespread use or not?
Somehow i think the 'movement' towards open standards would still be there, and we may still be at the point we are today, or at least not far from it.
Not hard at all to do since there are so few ISP's left in the country, and they all feed back to the same backbone anyway.
Sure, hard core people can get around it, but not 99% of the citizens who can barely turn their PC on. And besides, if you don't know its out there, they wont even look for it. ( assuming that search engines will be soon forced to remove any search results or be faced with blockage themselves )
You also have to keep in mind that with stuff like this they ask for the entire universe so they have room for 'negotiation', and they only wanted the moon in the first place...
I know they are still trying to get funded for the 'open' project, but didn't some 3rd party already do this about a year ago? Or did that end up just being vapor?
Amiga never left the 68xxxx series. Atari tried once with the transputer.
And while with the 'port' of either OS to x68 ( or via emulation ) you can get the 'feel' of them, part of what made these machines what they were was the hardware. Sure it runs tons faster, but its still not the same, its still PC.
Paying my taxes, for example. If Windows crashing becomes a plausible excuse for not filing a return, the gov't is going to have a serious revenue problem on its hands.
Good luck with that, let me know how it works out for you. They will just take it from your paycheck and destroy your credit rating. Your PC being incompatible or crashing isn't their problem.
Then its the beginning of the end for most of us, and the computer world as we know it. I hope you like your 'appliances' ( like ipads and various locked down phones, and toasters ) as that is all we will have soon.
Hire an attorney, spend lots of money getting to court and then winning.
But by then you have been drained of your measly little life savings and have noting left to show for it except a hollow 'i won'.
The media giants have won this one They bought the legislation and are going to use it. The only way out is to repeal the DMCA and pave the way for winners in these situations ( and other frivolous suits ) to recoup ALL their losses and a *hefty* fine placed on the industry that goes to the winner.
Make them be damned sure they cant lose in court and be able to defend their actions of suing old ladies to the judge..
For those that wanted it, about the same. Tho i agree its faster to get it via a download than wait 2 weeks for a tape or CD arrive from Italy or something.
Aside from the disagreement that IP can be *stolen* by copying in the first place, since Xerox was in effect giving the ideas and technology away, how could it be stolen in the first place?
A true democracy where everyone gets a vote is a bad thing. Most people are not competent enough to understand what they are voting on ( sometimes that is by design, but the reality is not everyone understands everything, and some understand nothing ) so the theory is that you elect liked minded people that do understand a lot, and have the time and resources to work thru the details and learn what they do not.
If we went that route, it would be total chaos, and the country would be controlled by the people that had the better marketing team to manipulate the populace.
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From the people that created what you are using.. That is justification enough.
Having someone else to point fingers at when things fail should not be discounted.
We may not have had those exact systems, but we would have had equivalents.
There was more driving the ship than browsers.
The open standards would still be there. The question is would they be in widespread use or not?
Somehow i think the 'movement' towards open standards would still be there, and we may still be at the point we are today, or at least not far from it.
Bundled yes, integrated as part of the core system, no.
Umm linux doesn't have a browser. its a kernel.
Besides, you need to read up and see what the difference is between 'integrated' and 'installed'.
Not hard at all to do since there are so few ISP's left in the country, and they all feed back to the same backbone anyway.
Sure, hard core people can get around it, but not 99% of the citizens who can barely turn their PC on. And besides, if you don't know its out there, they wont even look for it. ( assuming that search engines will be soon forced to remove any search results or be faced with blockage themselves )
You also have to keep in mind that with stuff like this they ask for the entire universe so they have room for 'negotiation', and they only wanted the moon in the first place...
Still bad tho
The internet will go darknet so fast it will make their heads spin.
Do you think they'll sell your information to third parties
Umm they have been doing that for decades...
I know they are still trying to get funded for the 'open' project, but didn't some 3rd party already do this about a year ago? Or did that end up just being vapor?
Amiga never left the 68xxxx series. Atari tried once with the transputer.
And while with the 'port' of either OS to x68 ( or via emulation ) you can get the 'feel' of them, part of what made these machines what they were was the hardware. Sure it runs tons faster, but its still not the same, its still PC.
If not, its not really a "portable Amiga". Instead its yet another PC running a remake of a classic OS with a microscopic market.
( and of course it isn't... )
Paying my taxes, for example. If Windows crashing becomes a plausible excuse for not filing a return, the gov't is going to have a serious revenue problem on its hands.
Good luck with that, let me know how it works out for you. They will just take it from your paycheck and destroy your credit rating. Your PC being incompatible or crashing isn't their problem.
But, there is a small switch in the battery compartment to put it into developer mode where it'll boot any image.
And you expect that to be available ( or even legal ) once this stuff passes?
Short answer: You don't.
Then its the beginning of the end for most of us, and the computer world as we know it. I hope you like your 'appliances' ( like ipads and various locked down phones, and toasters ) as that is all we will have soon.
Yes its quite possible. However, the FPGA needed to do it at a ( subjective ) useful level is pretty expensive.
Emulating older 8 bit machines with a single FPGA is done all the time by hobbyists at a cost most people can afford.
Hire an attorney, spend lots of money getting to court and then winning.
But by then you have been drained of your measly little life savings and have noting left to show for it except a hollow 'i won'.
The media giants have won this one They bought the legislation and are going to use it. The only way out is to repeal the DMCA and pave the way for winners in these situations ( and other frivolous suits ) to recoup ALL their losses and a *hefty* fine placed on the industry that goes to the winner.
Make them be damned sure they cant lose in court and be able to defend their actions of suing old ladies to the judge..
"go home" was just a generalization, how about "get bored and wander off" instead?
And i needed a couple of new drives.. i guess i will just wait.
Hold out long enough and America will give up and go home.
For those that wanted it, about the same. Tho i agree its faster to get it via a download than wait 2 weeks for a tape or CD arrive from Italy or something.
Aside from the disagreement that IP can be *stolen* by copying in the first place, since Xerox was in effect giving the ideas and technology away, how could it be stolen in the first place?
Ok, so there is news here how? This is how business works.
A true democracy where everyone gets a vote is a bad thing. Most people are not competent enough to understand what they are voting on ( sometimes that is by design, but the reality is not everyone understands everything, and some understand nothing ) so the theory is that you elect liked minded people that do understand a lot, and have the time and resources to work thru the details and learn what they do not.
If we went that route, it would be total chaos, and the country would be controlled by the people that had the better marketing team to manipulate the populace.