I hope not either, my insecure hardware is just fine with me, since it does what I say it should do (most of the time anyway)........ I don't need some "content" hawk company writing half-assed algorithms to determine what I'm doing with my computer and then delete half my harddrive on its "educated guesses."
If I steal content, prosecute me in a fair way with the full eye of the public upon the case so that they can determine whether what I'm doing is wrong or immoral. If this DRM crap passes, it becomes an arbitrary system of justice where one company/person/etc becomes judge/jury/executioner, the results might not be so dire (a swiped harddrive) but everyone's freedoms will be trampled on.
Computers aren't good at giving leeway for minor violations (and who here follows the speed limit all the time or even half?), so I prefer that actual law enforcement go after the major thugs (or better yet, those who steal from everyone, spammers)..........
I wonder how much of my bandwidth is stolen from shit that just "pings" the internet, like spy programs, windows itself, crappily written programs, "ad supported" web pages, etc. Why not add one more thing to the list, it's not like I'm paying for DSL to surf faster or anything.
Just what we need! To teach more people this valuable trade....
But really, it won't be worth it. In a few years, so many people will be into it that the companies will have the upper hand on who to hire to get the message out........ and unless you have lists of email addresses in the hundreds of millions it won't be worth it. Besides, your customers will be limited to porn or those sleazy as-seen-on-TV type products.
I suggest reading some advertising books, since that is the trade, and finding a more novel way to apply it to the net if you want to make real money.
These mental cases learned Klingon, they obviously knew another language before......... I say if they keep playing their games, give them a beating and put them in solitary confinement for a week.... then we'll hear them scream in goddamned English to get out^.^
I used to sell stuff on ebay and as such, always needed to reach customers pronto. And AOL email addresses as the unfortunate side effect of being the most unreachable.... either a high percentage never got the mail or it gets bounced.
My advice is to get a yahoo email address, not only does it not block mail, but you won't be inundated with junkmail because they filter most of it in another folder for you. So far, they never put in anything valuable or legitimate in there so it seems to work fine. The other reason is it is ISP agnostic.... that way if you cancel AOL, you don't have to give every a new email address.
Ah! The metric system is really superior. Do you know how many feet in a yard, how many feet in a mile, how many yards in a mile? 12 inches in a foot. Have you ever measured something in thought, is that 3/8 of an inch or 5/6. Which is smaller. 2 cups in a pint, 8 pints in a gallon, but how many teaspoons in a cup? How many ounces in a pound? 16. How many pounds in a ton? 2000. All seems arbitrary to me.
The US system is stupid and as an American I'd love to see that switch. Then I'd know the answer to mostly everything measurement wise is a factor of ten! 10 millimeters to a centimeter. 100 centimeters to a meter. How many millimeters to a meter? Easy! Is there an in between? I think it's a decameter but I could be wrong. Anyway divide by 10. How many meters in a kilometer? 1000! Easy. How many grams in a kilogram? Read the last question stupid! ^.^
The canadians way back when (I think 20's or 30's) switched driving from the left handed side (like the brits) over to the right handed side. How did they do it? Overnight they had their army switch the road signs while not allowing anyone to drive and voila, it was done.
How did the Europeans switch from their currencies to the Euro? Several years planning and public discussion, but when it came time, overnight (I think) they made it official and the actual conversion took place over the course of several months.
That is how metric conversion should be done. Everything from now on is labeled metrically. No ands, ifs, or buts. People will complain, but if forced to use it, they will, and this standard nonsense will be forgotten in less than a generation. Metric education as it is now is stupid, a waste of money, and worthless on my 'use it or lose it' principle on how human minds work.
for societies ills. Look, if the parents of that child can't teach him the difference of real life and fantasy play they are to blame. When that kid grows up and still can't distinguish the reality/fantasy he'll eventually get a real hard smack where he'll learn that he just can't hit the reset button. Blaming games is not the answer for everything. Blame the people who do stupid things.
Barriers of Entry. These days you definitely a larger development team and more cash..... not so much the programmers but artists, musicians, what not. Sure, programming need increased, but artists are much more needed now as well. As well as the things you didn't need before, motion capture for good movement, etc.
As for the games themselves. I never play hard to get into games, something that needs manuals to read before you can have fun, and these complex games are getting more common, imo. Many games start off assuming you have read the manual when I think it's better to have beginning levels which you can just skip if your experience. To me, Metal Gear Solid's practice missions are a perfect example.
Fun... I don't know how you can measure this... some games are and some aren't. I'd never thought I like a golfing game when I was in high school but now I'm addicted to playing rounds of Golden Tee Fore! golf at the local arcade. I used to like 3d shooters..... but I'll be damned if I had to sit through one of those ever again.
Amazon's one click nonsense, how was this even patentable? In essense that idea was click a virtual button, and it does something, does that sound innovative? No step in that process was innovative, Amazon, like a million other companies keeps a cookie in your browser, and you're shipping/billing info in their file/database, what was new with that? And yet here we are, patenting these simpleton ideas a retarded chimpanzee could have come up with.
Software techniques should not be patentable on the simple basis that the staff on the USPTO simply seem incompetent, due to no fault of their own, to designate what truly deserves a patent and what is merely an old idea in a new dress. The system is set up by lawyers for lawyers, in the end tilted toward corporations with cash and IP agreements with each other, so the small software development houses can't get in.
Really, Software should not be patentable, at the most, copyrightable in certain aspects, the name, logos, and protected in regards that nobody should be able to legally take the binary and resell it as their own.
But that is about it.... otherwise all you are asking in the future with this so-called 'ip property' is a constant headache with unscrupulous people who are smart enough to patent an idea that has been around for ages and ask enough so you pay them, but don't ask so much that you fight them in court.
I expect linux to have a great amount of advantages compared to Windows other than just amount of computer and Admin can handle.
1. For big worksites, unlike Windows, you won't have to upgrade if you don't want to... if it works, don't fix it. No upgrade treadmill is great, because I'd imagine upgrades cause many headaches and problems....
2. Less BSA audits threat at a strictly Linux place, if you control who installs what.
3. More options to use free software, gnu tools, and all that, much of windows tends to be shareware these days.
4. Less chance of backdoors, 'nuff said.
5. Complete Unix interopterability. Use Linux, BSD, or any other *nix with reasonably good chance of it playing nicely with others.
6. Your company is dependant on less proprietary formats. Independence good.
Downside and Goodside:
Well the CLI has a big learning curve, but I find people who know how to use it eventually more productive than 'hunt and peck' GUI users, simply because of the power and flexibility of the thing.
I have nothing against Windows per se, but I don't for a second believe that it's dominant for any other reason right now other than familiarity.
Most non tech people using linux probably won't know they are breaking the law. Do they read their Eulas, probably not. I suspect they don't even know what would be illegal about it, to them it's just grabbing some program off the internet letting them play dvds in their dvd drive.
I heard it's difficult to use and a piece of shit generally. Now, with experienced users, I see them only wanting the computer because it's cheap and w/o M$ license.
But for newbies to Linux, I see them being turned off by software that doesn't work well, Wine that crashes the X sessions, etc. And that they'll never turn to Linux again.
I see it also hurting Wal-mart, with all the returns from dissatisfied customers. They would have been better off getting a truly free linux distro with a KDE or gnome desktop, and some type of national modem ISP for internet hookups.
All they would have need to do was to load up the disks with easy to load up software, some automatic links to the cd drive on the desktop, and a few web links to Linux sites.
Lindows didn't seem like the right solution for an M$ world, and still doesn't. It rather looks like the fastest way to turn people off from using Linux ever again.
not an end to a means.
Don't buy educational software, much of it are games and crap that don't keep the focus on the subject. Kids need to learn to concentrate even when it's not the most fun subject.
Don't use edutainment. Use it like as a tool, nothing else. DONT HOOK IT UP TO THE INTERNET, that's inviting kids to slack off, (like what I'm doing now LOL.) The internet should stay home, it's just not that important, these days it'll probably be a relief to have an internet free zone, or if the school is in a poorer neighborhood, set it up so the computers can only connect to the net after school is finished.
Example: Teaching math. The computers should have graphical calculator program (like KCalc) to be useful.
In the library. Have a computerized card catalog search, along with periodicals, etc. Whatever.
The teachers should find relevant software to their subjects and use them.
Don't just put kids in front of computers and think that they'll be magically productive.
Lastly, don't let the boxes become an excuse to waste time, I'm paying way too much in school taxes every year to let these brats play video games all day:)
Whats novel about this? I had these small cars (micromachines? came from that commercial with that really fast talking guy) that changed color when you dipped them in water. Hot water got you one color, cold water, it changed to another color.
Mod parent up, but not funny, there is a serious point in it. This particular model in the article costs circa 140 bucks depending where you get it. You should be able to find a decent 14 inch monitor for less than that, and hook it up as a second monitor to your PC, and it'll do a much better job (plus take up more space LOL, but it can display at least a bunch of stuff.)
if the chip gets adopted because the chip will most likely have its own instruction set. And will Microsoft and commercial Windows apps run on non-x86 chips? No?
That means, if this chip is any sort of success, the community will most like port Linux and their apps over to it. Not too hard once the Gcc compiler is set up for it, and the linux kernel as well.
Refute stupid crackpot theories on the spot with persuasive arguments, assume your audience is smart enough to make their own decision.
For something that's small, let the theory die out naturally. For something that's big, make your case, and don't linger on it.
Most important, for those who want to wallow in ignorance, let them, their no helping some people no matter how much you try.
But I don't think it's NASA's job to do these things, there are certainly enough websites that are dedicated to this type of thing. This site for instance.
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the BSA will keep trying and trying...... that's what particularly bad about this situation.... it will keep on going and going and going - they just lost one round.
The EU recently welcomed in a bunch of nations from Eastern Europe, around 10, like Poland. Those countries don't make a lot of money on Software Sales yet, nor on giant media type stuff. What's the incentive to pass a law for the politicians whene it doesn't do anything for their nation. They wolud have to see a benefit (personal or national) or its going to be a backburner issue for them.
Um, what features is he talking about? Currently linux could take on windows regarding features and flexibility, for the most part except a few key programs, except for the ease of use segment.
Does anyone seriously believe that feature bloat is what we are missing? Do you want an animated paper clip? Features that users never use in 90% of the cases? Features that put you on the upgrad treadmill for years on end and cost money.
Second part - we need to be less like windows. Need an innovative metaphor instead of the desktop blah blah blah.
Um, no. There are enough metaphors, what we could use is some consistency among interfaces, but please keep the metaphors under lock. Unless a holograpchic 3d screen becomes standard, I like the desktop example just fine.
Be less like windows, well we have a CLI that actually use. And why be less like Windows? Familiarity breeds fondness, why make people relearn everything, lets adjust to them a little bit and make small logical fixes and steps to something better over time.
What's outstanding about this? People became aware of a cool product and wanted it, that how most toy marketing works. I'm sure more spam would be successful to parents, etc. if it wasn't blatant pornography already on the subject line since it would be novel.
I can't wait to see the common sense story here: SLASHDOT ARTICLES INCREASE HITS ON WEBPAGES
Yep, I agree with you there, but the nice thing with SCSI is that they can be daisychained, and when the time comes to upgrade the computer, you just simply pull out the plugs to your devices and plug them into the new one:) Works both ways, unless your the type to simply take out your motherboard and CPU and put in a new one.
I don't own a mac any more, but I'm not trying to flame anyone. I've never really seen that many Mac LAN parties, it's PC dominated area, since games are a PC dominated area.
dual 1GHz, internal dvd, internal zip, heavy on the ram, some Mac OsX, printer and scanner on the side. Oh, and a large tower to go with that! Thank you!
Seriously, is this going to save anybody money? No. If it's for internal component, I like external ones better. Why not just buy the external components, they're SCSI right. Portable computer to computer. The only benefit I see is the possibility of making one computer out of two broken ones or something similiar. Can you even by PPC chips seperately?
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I hope not either, my insecure hardware is just fine with me, since it does what I say it should do (most of the time anyway)........ I don't need some "content" hawk company writing half-assed algorithms to determine what I'm doing with my computer and then delete half my harddrive on its "educated guesses."
If I steal content, prosecute me in a fair way with the full eye of the public upon the case so that they can determine whether what I'm doing is wrong or immoral. If this DRM crap passes, it becomes an arbitrary system of justice where one company/person/etc becomes judge/jury/executioner, the results might not be so dire (a swiped harddrive) but everyone's freedoms will be trampled on.
Computers aren't good at giving leeway for minor violations (and who here follows the speed limit all the time or even half?), so I prefer that actual law enforcement go after the major thugs (or better yet, those who steal from everyone, spammers)..........
I wonder how much of my bandwidth is stolen from shit that just "pings" the internet, like spy programs, windows itself, crappily written programs, "ad supported" web pages, etc. Why not add one more thing to the list, it's not like I'm paying for DSL to surf faster or anything.
Just what we need! To teach more people this valuable trade.... But really, it won't be worth it. In a few years, so many people will be into it that the companies will have the upper hand on who to hire to get the message out........ and unless you have lists of email addresses in the hundreds of millions it won't be worth it. Besides, your customers will be limited to porn or those sleazy as-seen-on-TV type products. I suggest reading some advertising books, since that is the trade, and finding a more novel way to apply it to the net if you want to make real money.
These mental cases learned Klingon, they obviously knew another language before......... I say if they keep playing their games, give them a beating and put them in solitary confinement for a week.... then we'll hear them scream in goddamned English to get out^.^
I used to sell stuff on ebay and as such, always needed to reach customers pronto. And AOL email addresses as the unfortunate side effect of being the most unreachable.... either a high percentage never got the mail or it gets bounced.
My advice is to get a yahoo email address, not only does it not block mail, but you won't be inundated with junkmail because they filter most of it in another folder for you. So far, they never put in anything valuable or legitimate in there so it seems to work fine. The other reason is it is ISP agnostic.... that way if you cancel AOL, you don't have to give every a new email address.
My 2 cents^.^
Ah! The metric system is really superior. Do you know how many feet in a yard, how many feet in a mile, how many yards in a mile? 12 inches in a foot. Have you ever measured something in thought, is that 3/8 of an inch or 5/6. Which is smaller. 2 cups in a pint, 8 pints in a gallon, but how many teaspoons in a cup? How many ounces in a pound? 16. How many pounds in a ton? 2000. All seems arbitrary to me.
The US system is stupid and as an American I'd love to see that switch. Then I'd know the answer to mostly everything measurement wise is a factor of ten! 10 millimeters to a centimeter. 100 centimeters to a meter. How many millimeters to a meter? Easy! Is there an in between? I think it's a decameter but I could be wrong. Anyway divide by 10. How many meters in a kilometer? 1000! Easy. How many grams in a kilogram? Read the last question stupid! ^.^
The canadians way back when (I think 20's or 30's) switched driving from the left handed side (like the brits) over to the right handed side. How did they do it? Overnight they had their army switch the road signs while not allowing anyone to drive and voila, it was done.
How did the Europeans switch from their currencies to the Euro? Several years planning and public discussion, but when it came time, overnight (I think) they made it official and the actual conversion took place over the course of several months.
That is how metric conversion should be done. Everything from now on is labeled metrically. No ands, ifs, or buts. People will complain, but if forced to use it, they will, and this standard nonsense will be forgotten in less than a generation. Metric education as it is now is stupid, a waste of money, and worthless on my 'use it or lose it' principle on how human minds work.
for societies ills. Look, if the parents of that child can't teach him the difference of real life and fantasy play they are to blame. When that kid grows up and still can't distinguish the reality/fantasy he'll eventually get a real hard smack where he'll learn that he just can't hit the reset button. Blaming games is not the answer for everything. Blame the people who do stupid things.
ways.
Barriers of Entry. These days you definitely a larger development team and more cash..... not so much the programmers but artists, musicians, what not. Sure, programming need increased, but artists are much more needed now as well. As well as the things you didn't need before, motion capture for good movement, etc.
As for the games themselves. I never play hard to get into games, something that needs manuals to read before you can have fun, and these complex games are getting more common, imo. Many games start off assuming you have read the manual when I think it's better to have beginning levels which you can just skip if your experience. To me, Metal Gear Solid's practice missions are a perfect example.
Fun... I don't know how you can measure this... some games are and some aren't. I'd never thought I like a golfing game when I was in high school but now I'm addicted to playing rounds of Golden Tee Fore! golf at the local arcade. I used to like 3d shooters..... but I'll be damned if I had to sit through one of those ever again.
is where do we draw the line?
Amazon's one click nonsense, how was this even patentable? In essense that idea was click a virtual button, and it does something, does that sound innovative? No step in that process was innovative, Amazon, like a million other companies keeps a cookie in your browser, and you're shipping/billing info in their file/database, what was new with that? And yet here we are, patenting these simpleton ideas a retarded chimpanzee could have come up with.
Software techniques should not be patentable on the simple basis that the staff on the USPTO simply seem incompetent, due to no fault of their own, to designate what truly deserves a patent and what is merely an old idea in a new dress. The system is set up by lawyers for lawyers, in the end tilted toward corporations with cash and IP agreements with each other, so the small software development houses can't get in.
Really, Software should not be patentable, at the most, copyrightable in certain aspects, the name, logos, and protected in regards that nobody should be able to legally take the binary and resell it as their own.
But that is about it.... otherwise all you are asking in the future with this so-called 'ip property' is a constant headache with unscrupulous people who are smart enough to patent an idea that has been around for ages and ask enough so you pay them, but don't ask so much that you fight them in court.
I expect linux to have a great amount of advantages compared to Windows other than just amount of computer and Admin can handle.
1. For big worksites, unlike Windows, you won't have to upgrade if you don't want to... if it works, don't fix it. No upgrade treadmill is great, because I'd imagine upgrades cause many headaches and problems....
2. Less BSA audits threat at a strictly Linux place, if you control who installs what.
3. More options to use free software, gnu tools, and all that, much of windows tends to be shareware these days.
4. Less chance of backdoors, 'nuff said.
5. Complete Unix interopterability. Use Linux, BSD, or any other *nix with reasonably good chance of it playing nicely with others.
6. Your company is dependant on less proprietary formats. Independence good.
Downside and Goodside:
Well the CLI has a big learning curve, but I find people who know how to use it eventually more productive than 'hunt and peck' GUI users, simply because of the power and flexibility of the thing.
I have nothing against Windows per se, but I don't for a second believe that it's dominant for any other reason right now other than familiarity.
Most non tech people using linux probably won't know they are breaking the law. Do they read their Eulas, probably not. I suspect they don't even know what would be illegal about it, to them it's just grabbing some program off the internet letting them play dvds in their dvd drive.
Lindows has helped or hindered us?
I heard it's difficult to use and a piece of shit generally. Now, with experienced users, I see them only wanting the computer because it's cheap and w/o M$ license.
But for newbies to Linux, I see them being turned off by software that doesn't work well, Wine that crashes the X sessions, etc. And that they'll never turn to Linux again.
I see it also hurting Wal-mart, with all the returns from dissatisfied customers. They would have been better off getting a truly free linux distro with a KDE or gnome desktop, and some type of national modem ISP for internet hookups.
All they would have need to do was to load up the disks with easy to load up software, some automatic links to the cd drive on the desktop, and a few web links to Linux sites.
Lindows didn't seem like the right solution for an M$ world, and still doesn't. It rather looks like the fastest way to turn people off from using Linux ever again.
not an end to a means. Don't buy educational software, much of it are games and crap that don't keep the focus on the subject. Kids need to learn to concentrate even when it's not the most fun subject. Don't use edutainment. Use it like as a tool, nothing else. DONT HOOK IT UP TO THE INTERNET, that's inviting kids to slack off, (like what I'm doing now LOL.) The internet should stay home, it's just not that important, these days it'll probably be a relief to have an internet free zone, or if the school is in a poorer neighborhood, set it up so the computers can only connect to the net after school is finished. Example: Teaching math. The computers should have graphical calculator program (like KCalc) to be useful. In the library. Have a computerized card catalog search, along with periodicals, etc. Whatever. The teachers should find relevant software to their subjects and use them. Don't just put kids in front of computers and think that they'll be magically productive. Lastly, don't let the boxes become an excuse to waste time, I'm paying way too much in school taxes every year to let these brats play video games all day:)
Whats novel about this? I had these small cars (micromachines? came from that commercial with that really fast talking guy) that changed color when you dipped them in water. Hot water got you one color, cold water, it changed to another color.
Mod parent up, but not funny, there is a serious point in it. This particular model in the article costs circa 140 bucks depending where you get it. You should be able to find a decent 14 inch monitor for less than that, and hook it up as a second monitor to your PC, and it'll do a much better job (plus take up more space LOL, but it can display at least a bunch of stuff.)
if the chip gets adopted because the chip will most likely have its own instruction set. And will Microsoft and commercial Windows apps run on non-x86 chips? No?
That means, if this chip is any sort of success, the community will most like port Linux and their apps over to it. Not too hard once the Gcc compiler is set up for it, and the linux kernel as well.
For something that's small, let the theory die out naturally. For something that's big, make your case, and don't linger on it.
Most important, for those who want to wallow in ignorance, let them, their no helping some people no matter how much you try.
But I don't think it's NASA's job to do these things, there are certainly enough websites that are dedicated to this type of thing. This site for instance.
the BSA will keep trying and trying...... that's what particularly bad about this situation.... it will keep on going and going and going - they just lost one round.
The EU recently welcomed in a bunch of nations from Eastern Europe, around 10, like Poland. Those countries don't make a lot of money on Software Sales yet, nor on giant media type stuff. What's the incentive to pass a law for the politicians whene it doesn't do anything for their nation. They wolud have to see a benefit (personal or national) or its going to be a backburner issue for them.
First he says we need more features:
Um, what features is he talking about? Currently linux could take on windows regarding features and flexibility, for the most part except a few key programs, except for the ease of use segment.
Does anyone seriously believe that feature bloat is what we are missing? Do you want an animated paper clip? Features that users never use in 90% of the cases? Features that put you on the upgrad treadmill for years on end and cost money.
Second part - we need to be less like windows. Need an innovative metaphor instead of the desktop blah blah blah.
Um, no. There are enough metaphors, what we could use is some consistency among interfaces, but please keep the metaphors under lock. Unless a holograpchic 3d screen becomes standard, I like the desktop example just fine.
Be less like windows, well we have a CLI that actually use. And why be less like Windows? Familiarity breeds fondness, why make people relearn everything, lets adjust to them a little bit and make small logical fixes and steps to something better over time.
What's outstanding about this? People became aware of a cool product and wanted it, that how most toy marketing works. I'm sure more spam would be successful to parents, etc. if it wasn't blatant pornography already on the subject line since it would be novel.
I can't wait to see the common sense story here:
SLASHDOT ARTICLES INCREASE HITS ON WEBPAGES
BeOS unicode native. I'd expect that FreeBeOs (or whatever it's called) is the same, and I think it's also Unix compatible?
Yep, I agree with you there, but the nice thing with SCSI is that they can be daisychained, and when the time comes to upgrade the computer, you just simply pull out the plugs to your devices and plug them into the new one:) Works both ways, unless your the type to simply take out your motherboard and CPU and put in a new one.
I don't own a mac any more, but I'm not trying to flame anyone. I've never really seen that many Mac LAN parties, it's PC dominated area, since games are a PC dominated area.
dual 1GHz, internal dvd, internal zip, heavy on the ram, some Mac OsX, printer and scanner on the side. Oh, and a large tower to go with that! Thank you! Seriously, is this going to save anybody money? No. If it's for internal component, I like external ones better. Why not just buy the external components, they're SCSI right. Portable computer to computer. The only benefit I see is the possibility of making one computer out of two broken ones or something similiar. Can you even by PPC chips seperately?
In highschool, I stuck it to my principals, when it was convenient, wishing I hadn't any principals at all:)
since, according to this very informed article, Linux is the most insecure OS. Not a troll:)