I would have nominated Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri but that one broke many a kernal ago on a glibc update. Too bad Loki is dead or they could have updated it.
I can see the FCC wanting to censor material because some people are way too sensitive about their repressed desires but that only makes sense in a broadcast model where everyone receives the same material. Internet by its very nature is fractured and each individual makes their own choices in what content they would like to receive. I don't care if my neighbor is pulling down midget latex whipping gross porn next door - thats an adult in their private home and I shouldn't have a say in what happens behind their closed door.
I'm not religious at all but still I see some mysticism in the Universe. To quote the Matrix: "Everything that has a beginning has an end.". Or to put it in human terms, we cannot comprehend something that did not have a beginning. And Turtles all the way down just doesn't cut it.
If the RIAA members weren't such scummy pricks ripping off what they hold up as protecting then I would actually be on their side. Infringement is infringement. But when an artist gets pennies on the dollar people hate the RIAA members and the artists are unfortunately not going digital fast enough to escape collateral damage. For now. Someday the RIAA (and hopefully their members) will be dead and artists will sell direct and that is exactly the day I uninstall Limewire.
They might as well mandate collection of DNA from everyone at birth. With the web of connections between people chances are at least one of your relatives will have their DNA on file which under this program will lead to you. This is the "slippery slope" part of it, if they went full bore and demanded DNA from everyone there would be figurative riots in the streets but a little step at a time...
When I was in school we had two computer labs, an IBM one which ran DOS and WordPerfect (the DOS version where you couldn't see your text styles and had to hide/unhide control codes to let you imagine how they would print) and a Macintosh lab - the original Macs. The Macs bitmapped display in glorious black and white was King compared to DOS and I spent many hours after school playing Netrek on them (a NETWORK, AMAZING!!!) against similar souls. This was circa 1989. Of course my Amiga 500 at home kicked butt on both of them but alas no network for multiplayer.
Shortly thereafter, the use of the expression "black hole" was coined by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. Prior to that time, the term black star was used occasionally. The latter term appears in an early episode of Star Trek, and was still used occasionally after 1967. This is because some people found the term "black hole" obscene when translated into French or Russian, for example.
Including the Bill of Rights as part of the Constitution was controversial at the time as some feared that it may come to be interpreted that the list would come to be seen as the only rights a Citizen possesed. The exact opposite is what was originally intended, the Federal government only has a small set of rights while Citizens are assumed to have unnumerated rights with the Bill of Rights as only listing a few. Under the Constitution it is not only their responsibility but even more importantly their duty to provide a conclusive and pressing need to curtail the Rights of the People of the United States of America when it comes to renegotiating the Rights and Freedoms of said Citizens. The anonymity of the original Federalist Papers strikes a chord here - this government sees people who are working for change as "homegrown terrorists". How ironic is the historical comparison to British rule over the Americas and those who oppose the status-quo with the Federal government today.
If I was a foreign businessman entering the US I definately would not want proprietary business documents on my laptop just in case they kept a copy. Industrial espionage and such. So I guess what I would do is keep my documents on a server in my country and VPN into them from the most convienient connection.
We didn't know it at the time but XP pre-SP2 sucked. When Vista reaches SP2 it'll probably be decent (from an average persons point of view - for me it already works absolutely fine). By then Windows 7 will be out and I'll be one of the people sticking with Vista for SP3 and go to 7 when it's SP1 comes out.
Linux and Windows both suffer from the same issue: theres so much variety of hardware out there that you just can't write it perfect for everything right off-the-bat so you need to release and incrementally improve. Mac's suffer less from this situation as Apple rules their hardware configuration with an iron fist - which is the source of their mythical "it just works®".
Remember when search engines used to rely on Meta tags? Yeah this is a brilliant plan. There should be a new rule: if you don't know what your talking about when you make a *law* then you get five lashes.
Seriously, what would you rather have: A highly (they're getting degrees here) skilled worker contributing to the American economy by working here or that same worker going back to their country of origin and using their skills not only to make a foreign company richer but that same foreign nation as well. It's just easier to compete and reap the rewards if skilled people are kept here.
I don't know, I'm hoping you do. Is there any way that Windows and Linux are able to provide mutual benefits to each other? Or are they exclusive? Because the only thing that will make Microsoft truly support open-source is the very real fact that they need to make money off of it. Anything less would open them up to liability when the shareholders sue. Pesky shareholders.
The general situation is that you're plugging new removable media into your system. Getting into specifics it applies less but the general rule remains.
Although still in a woeful overall state, Vista has one critical security difference from XP that helps here. By default in XP the device will autorun. By default in Vista it will ask you if you would like to autorun. So in Vista you can plug a new device when it asks you to autorun say No and then format the sucker. This default is something Microsoft should seriously back-port to XP.
The amount of regulation should be proportianal to the barrier of entry in a market. $1 trillion to enter? Regulate the fsck out of the one or maybe two entities that can afford that. Capitalism only works when healthy competition exists, otherwise the market must be regulated simply because the feedback mechanisms that make capitalism so wonderful just break down with monopolies. Also, monopolies are natural features: they emerge every once in a while and need to be broken up when they do - they are a symptom of our incomplete understanding of capitalism. If we fully understood capitalism we would not let monopolies emerge in the first place.
Having hackers for offence is all and good but when it comes to defense they need to train the programmers of the "critical infrastructure" in security techniques. And also perform regular penetration testing on the infrastructure correcting any problems they find as they go. So basically the hackers would not only be hacking other nations but they would continually have to try to hack their own as well to defend it.
Backwards compatibility is a trap. There have been countless better ways to approach OS challenges but they all end up sacrificed on that backwards altar. You just can't break applications or your users will leave. Linux is more immune to this that Windows simply because you have access to the source - you can just recompile when the architecture breaks things and you're fine. On a binary only system however this simply doesn't work so you end up with the infamous "thunk" layers. Emulation/Virtualization is a good way out. You encapsulate all the old crap into one big ugly ball and prop that ball of emulated crap on top of a clean-break of an operating system which works the way you wish you could have made it work five years ago but couldn't because of compatibility. You're still in a trap however. The new trap is that the new operating system must offer tangible improvements and abilities or developers will not transition to it in effect keeping the emulation the defacto standard and wasting the effort of developing the new. Back in the 80's I experienced this situation first hand: I owned a Commodore 128 which had built into it a Commodore 64 mode (which was the previous generation of computer) and what actually happened was that even though the C128 was superior from a programmers perspective, the C64 software base was large and good enough that end-users had no reason to buy C128 software. Without end-users buying C128 software none was written for it and myself and everyone else with a C128 ended up running the machine exclusively in C64 mode. There was no compelling reason to move to C128 mode and this is the same challenge that faces Win 7: without something that really makes it worthwhile to write programs for Win 7 - that end-users can see and touch - then people will stick with the emulated mode and developers will ignore the fancy new capabilities.
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I would have nominated Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri but that one broke many a kernal ago on a glibc update. Too bad Loki is dead or they could have updated it.
My ISP (Newfoundland, Canada) Rogers Cable just started metering this month too. I now pay $55.95CDN for 95GB of transfer (up and down) per month.
I can see the FCC wanting to censor material because some people are way too sensitive about their repressed desires but that only makes sense in a broadcast model where everyone receives the same material. Internet by its very nature is fractured and each individual makes their own choices in what content they would like to receive. I don't care if my neighbor is pulling down midget latex whipping gross porn next door - thats an adult in their private home and I shouldn't have a say in what happens behind their closed door.
I'm not religious at all but still I see some mysticism in the Universe. To quote the Matrix: "Everything that has a beginning has an end.". Or to put it in human terms, we cannot comprehend something that did not have a beginning. And Turtles all the way down just doesn't cut it.
If the RIAA members weren't such scummy pricks ripping off what they hold up as protecting then I would actually be on their side. Infringement is infringement. But when an artist gets pennies on the dollar people hate the RIAA members and the artists are unfortunately not going digital fast enough to escape collateral damage. For now. Someday the RIAA (and hopefully their members) will be dead and artists will sell direct and that is exactly the day I uninstall Limewire.
I never knew that RMS was able to stop a service pack! :) I've been waiting all day to make that one. Epic fail.
They might as well mandate collection of DNA from everyone at birth. With the web of connections between people chances are at least one of your relatives will have their DNA on file which under this program will lead to you. This is the "slippery slope" part of it, if they went full bore and demanded DNA from everyone there would be figurative riots in the streets but a little step at a time...
Of course the answer could lead to further locking up knowledge... You can't read my theorem until you pay the license type deal.
When I was in school we had two computer labs, an IBM one which ran DOS and WordPerfect (the DOS version where you couldn't see your text styles and had to hide/unhide control codes to let you imagine how they would print) and a Macintosh lab - the original Macs. The Macs bitmapped display in glorious black and white was King compared to DOS and I spent many hours after school playing Netrek on them (a NETWORK, AMAZING!!!) against similar souls. This was circa 1989. Of course my Amiga 500 at home kicked butt on both of them but alas no network for multiplayer.
Shortly thereafter, the use of the expression "black hole" was coined by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. Prior to that time, the term black star was used occasionally. The latter term appears in an early episode of Star Trek, and was still used occasionally after 1967. This is because some people found the term "black hole" obscene when translated into French or Russian, for example.
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French speaking nations tend to dislike the literal translation of "black hole" into their language... It doesn't translate well.
Including the Bill of Rights as part of the Constitution was controversial at the time as some feared that it may come to be interpreted that the list would come to be seen as the only rights a Citizen possesed. The exact opposite is what was originally intended, the Federal government only has a small set of rights while Citizens are assumed to have unnumerated rights with the Bill of Rights as only listing a few. Under the Constitution it is not only their responsibility but even more importantly their duty to provide a conclusive and pressing need to curtail the Rights of the People of the United States of America when it comes to renegotiating the Rights and Freedoms of said Citizens. The anonymity of the original Federalist Papers strikes a chord here - this government sees people who are working for change as "homegrown terrorists". How ironic is the historical comparison to British rule over the Americas and those who oppose the status-quo with the Federal government today.
If I was a foreign businessman entering the US I definately would not want proprietary business documents on my laptop just in case they kept a copy. Industrial espionage and such. So I guess what I would do is keep my documents on a server in my country and VPN into them from the most convienient connection.
We didn't know it at the time but XP pre-SP2 sucked. When Vista reaches SP2 it'll probably be decent (from an average persons point of view - for me it already works absolutely fine). By then Windows 7 will be out and I'll be one of the people sticking with Vista for SP3 and go to 7 when it's SP1 comes out.
Linux and Windows both suffer from the same issue: theres so much variety of hardware out there that you just can't write it perfect for everything right off-the-bat so you need to release and incrementally improve. Mac's suffer less from this situation as Apple rules their hardware configuration with an iron fist - which is the source of their mythical "it just works®".
Remember when search engines used to rely on Meta tags? Yeah this is a brilliant plan. There should be a new rule: if you don't know what your talking about when you make a *law* then you get five lashes.
Seriously, what would you rather have: A highly (they're getting degrees here) skilled worker contributing to the American economy by working here or that same worker going back to their country of origin and using their skills not only to make a foreign company richer but that same foreign nation as well. It's just easier to compete and reap the rewards if skilled people are kept here.
As the "Dead Kennedys" so aptly put it: Give me convenience or give me death!
I don't know, I'm hoping you do. Is there any way that Windows and Linux are able to provide mutual benefits to each other? Or are they exclusive? Because the only thing that will make Microsoft truly support open-source is the very real fact that they need to make money off of it. Anything less would open them up to liability when the shareholders sue. Pesky shareholders.
The general situation is that you're plugging new removable media into your system. Getting into specifics it applies less but the general rule remains.
Although still in a woeful overall state, Vista has one critical security difference from XP that helps here. By default in XP the device will autorun. By default in Vista it will ask you if you would like to autorun. So in Vista you can plug a new device when it asks you to autorun say No and then format the sucker. This default is something Microsoft should seriously back-port to XP.
This thread just will not be complete without Stallman's Right to Read.
The amount of regulation should be proportianal to the barrier of entry in a market. $1 trillion to enter? Regulate the fsck out of the one or maybe two entities that can afford that. Capitalism only works when healthy competition exists, otherwise the market must be regulated simply because the feedback mechanisms that make capitalism so wonderful just break down with monopolies. Also, monopolies are natural features: they emerge every once in a while and need to be broken up when they do - they are a symptom of our incomplete understanding of capitalism. If we fully understood capitalism we would not let monopolies emerge in the first place.
Having hackers for offence is all and good but when it comes to defense they need to train the programmers of the "critical infrastructure" in security techniques. And also perform regular penetration testing on the infrastructure correcting any problems they find as they go. So basically the hackers would not only be hacking other nations but they would continually have to try to hack their own as well to defend it.
Backwards compatibility is a trap. There have been countless better ways to approach OS challenges but they all end up sacrificed on that backwards altar. You just can't break applications or your users will leave. Linux is more immune to this that Windows simply because you have access to the source - you can just recompile when the architecture breaks things and you're fine. On a binary only system however this simply doesn't work so you end up with the infamous "thunk" layers. Emulation/Virtualization is a good way out. You encapsulate all the old crap into one big ugly ball and prop that ball of emulated crap on top of a clean-break of an operating system which works the way you wish you could have made it work five years ago but couldn't because of compatibility. You're still in a trap however. The new trap is that the new operating system must offer tangible improvements and abilities or developers will not transition to it in effect keeping the emulation the defacto standard and wasting the effort of developing the new. Back in the 80's I experienced this situation first hand: I owned a Commodore 128 which had built into it a Commodore 64 mode (which was the previous generation of computer) and what actually happened was that even though the C128 was superior from a programmers perspective, the C64 software base was large and good enough that end-users had no reason to buy C128 software. Without end-users buying C128 software none was written for it and myself and everyone else with a C128 ended up running the machine exclusively in C64 mode. There was no compelling reason to move to C128 mode and this is the same challenge that faces Win 7: without something that really makes it worthwhile to write programs for Win 7 - that end-users can see and touch - then people will stick with the emulated mode and developers will ignore the fancy new capabilities.
As hardware progresses does this mean in a way that Windows XP could become the new Windows CE??