With all these sins committed at the founding of Cisco, they will not fare well in the long term.
They'll be smitten and crushed for were lies the root of evil there will be destruction and chaos.
Perhaps the downfall of the internet is the beginning of the doom of Cisco. Perhaps in the future will nobody need any routers from Cisco anymore because everyone will use XIP and.NET2010.
And someday the sinners will find themselves in the gutter together with some old Cisco routers.
When a company switches to 100 percent MS free they might have very much problems to exchange data with their customers.
This will give their competitors very much advantage and they'll finally die in the end.
Also there are very much legal problems with the GNU license and people are not sure if they must distribute their own work for free. This might be ok with open source but you must keep in might that a company cannot distribute their confidential data all over the world because their competitors would use their customer lists and have very much advantage.
And there is the problem with reliability on open source systems because a single command: umount can wipe out the whole harddisk.
A linux guy told me lately that you must do always umount to halt your computer, so a operation system which can't be switched off is not good for a company especially the running computers use much power all over the night and this is very expensive and bad for the environment, too.
So you should stay with Windows which has not these problems. And the service is very much better from microsoft because of the programs which are installed on your computer and send every you do to microsoft so that they can help you all the time.
No.
The domesticated sheep, ovis aries, is in fact a non flying bird like an ostrich. And bird as you might know lay eggs and have therefore and vagina.
Fast CPUs might be bad.
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People always get exited at faster and faster CPUs.
But what is the use ?
Ok, it's a good marketing argument to make people buy new computers every 2 years.
But is there any significant advancement in computer programs ?
You would now say Quake and CS but these are only a few games. And most their functions could be spend up by dedicated co processors (this arguments is around for years but always stompe up by Intel and AMD to make people buy their expensive new processors).
And graphical user interfaces ?
These were running on old macs which had only 5 percent of the processing speed of modern cpus.
Are programs becoming more useful ?
Most software is today just silly bloatware, you need several 100 MB of storage for a program which fullfill just the functions a 2 1.44 MB floppys program did in 1990.
There is also an unholy connection to OO.
Programmers take often OO as an excuse for bloated (which is not the same a reusable) and uneffective code. When their program is too slow the don't fix this, they just claim that the computer is too slow.
And perhaps AI ?
This is nonsense, too. Most AI problems are in the core at least NP complete, sometimes even PSPACE.
So just speeding up the CPU doesn't help anyway, we need totally different computer models for such problems, e.g. read the recent slashdot article about ants (hello hex).
So the CPU capacity increase is just a scam from the computer manufacturers. We should boycott this and it can be done: we just make our open source software compatible to old system and let AMD and Intel to starve in the desert.
...about working in the IT industry and making a decent money. You can always DONATE money to any volunteer organisation. And they can do something with it. When you are volunteering you are pretty useless for decent 3. world development projects. However, your money can make much use from such projects.
Think about it: 100 $ make may supply several people with food/medication for some days. These are 1-3 hours of work for IT people.
What useful could you do in 1-3 hours in a 3 world country ?
Volunteering might make you feel good, but DONATIONS do something good.
Decide for yourself what you really want.
Such war movies always propagate violent and harmful solutions to problems.
They make seem violence the best solution for problems but it's always the worst and the last.
This might be just the usual hollywood crap, but hollywood is flooding and brainwashing the whole world with such movies.
We don't need to be surprised when youngesters in palestine or north ireland make violent terror to solve their problems because they just learned it all for hollywood movies.
Therefore I think such movies are very bad and should be banned all over the world.
Even Microsofts high marketshare is mainly based on hollywoods movies because they always show windows and people think that every computer must have windows and therefore buy only computers with windows.
There you see how bad such hollywood movies are !!!
Yes, you have point but how to communicate with aliens that are too strange too understand (or we are too strange for them).
Let's say there are some intelligent super vegetables on Venus having an enourmous lifetime (let's say 10000 years), but their information processing is extremely slow.
We would never have any chance to commute with them, so trying it is useless.
So I think's it's ok to concentrate on anthromorphic lifeforms. There might none of them, but there might be no aliens at all.
And anyway: have we got anything better than radio communications (I mean a form of communication with electromagnetic waves, which includes light or X-rays) ?
this stuff seems to be all tautologies or very basic ideas.
Like: make the buttons visible, make links visible, don't confuse users.
You don't need a book to figure this out. A working brain should be sufficient.
However, I admit that many pages seem to be designed by people without a brain.
On the other this might just the after effects of the dot-com hype with low level qualified people doing thing for which you need high level people
(lvl 15++).
I think the positive side effect of the dotcom crash is that now proffesionals will take over the internet, who don't need "smart" books like this.
It's just a question of time when spammers start scripted "voting" to push their pages on top.
Google might block such "votes", but I suppose the traffic created by all the spammers worldwide will act like an ulta ddos attack on google.
In AI this is called "learning by reinforcement".
If the FBI wants to catch some big-ass criminal and an anti-virus screws up to whole thing by busting magic lantern, wouldn't the anti-virus company get into serious legal trouble ?
Providing help in criminal acts or something like this ?
E.g. when you tip Sorpidio Calzone, big evil mafia bugger, that the police is tapping his phone etc. YOU would get into some trouble.
Many they plead for unknowingly help etc. but still holds some reputation damaging legal action.
In Germany we have ID cards.
And in Germany you can legally go to the local authorities and ask for the adress of any person you want. And they will tell you (perhaps not the adress of "endangered" person like Rushdie).
And there is no large scale abuse of this.
Guess why ?
Because be smelly Europeans have made a nice invention. It's called photograph. It allows you to make picures of things. And a (hopefully) nice picture of yourself is on every ID card. And without huge resources (security agency style) these ID cards can't be faked (theoretically they are claimed unfakeable but I doubt this). And this system protects from ID theft.
Because when someone wants to verify your ID, he let's you show him your ID card.
The problem of ID theft is an very USian one.
Ans the main reason is an absence of thing like ID cards etc. we have in Europe.
The burocracy is sometimes much pain in the butt, but it's worth.
...but this won't work with larger spacecrafts ?
I can see them using this for smaller satellites
but they'll have a hard time to fit a shuttle into a military transport (ok, they might saw off the wings)
With these PDA-alikes becoming more and more powerful, I wonder if these couldn't be used as a weapon for cyberterrorism/espionage.
Let's see you have a small, decent computer. Networking capabilities. Easily hidden and, hey, would anyone expect an assault from these things ?
The keyboard comes in handy for mission critical scripting etc.
Just go into desired building, h4x0r their nets (or aquire confidential data - when you are working for govermental bodies) and leave.
And you'll get away because noone will notice that YOU did anything. Might work with laptops, too, but laptops are more difficult to hide and may raise suspicion.
What do you want with a computer with a tiny display and low performance ?
Keeping adresses etc. ?
Science has a better answer for this and it's called notebook (the paper ones).
Playing games ?
With this display you really can't go any further then gameboy style one. I don't see anyone using them for Quake or DOOM.
I suppose these thing have the same right to exist like nosehair cutters, electrical earwax removers etc.
Hahaha.
While the US DID invent.mil.gov.edu etc.
Europe DID invent latin and greek letters.
Without us you would have to write your domains in babylonian, hebrew or chinese letters.
BTW, we hold all copyrights for the latin and greek alphabet, so start rolling the money over or stop using our IP !
No, animal which survive because we like/need/use them survive because they found a comfortable niche to survive (being liked/needed/used by humans).
Your viewpoint is the typical ecologist side: humans as surperior/non natural/godlike beings.
But this IS nonsense.
The examples of domestic animals are really some kind of symbiotic/parasitic (hark, all dogs are parasites:) behavoir. It's more complicated - because we are a really complicated species. But it is nothing non natural.
There are ANTS in the Amazonas region which domesticated a certain sort of fungi to create food from leaves. Are ANTS non natural, godlike, super beings ?
You might now argue that we a different because of our mind, but what makes a mind really non natural. Why should it make us artifical ? And if we are really these Homo Sapians why do we like that panda. The is NO logical reason for this. They are cute - because they trigger certain perception shemes in our mind, initially used for nursing children etc.
You would argue, too, that we have in fact changed the face of this world. This is true, indeed. But plants have changed to face of this world, too. They have changed to atmosphere far more than any human CO2 pollution will achive. So are plants superior, over natural beings ?
And why should we recreate this tiger ?
Could YOU tell a Tasmanian tiger from an Indian one ?
Would it look really different for humans ?
No, this is just a waste of resources.
I might a perhaps a good cloning/gene manipulation test, but that's all.
Should they really do this ?
The tasmanian tiger was not fit enough to survive the treat of another more dangerous species.
This species was the infamous Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
It is the usual ecologist point of view that men is an evil intruder in the eco system and should stay apart of it whereever possible.
But this is utter nonsense.
We are a part of nature. And, yes, we are predators that means that we KILL species. And species which aren't fit enough to avoid this treat will be annihilated.
But this IS nature. This is not "artificial" or even "bad".
Some people will no rant "Behold we'll destroy the whole world, the wikked evil ones we are !!!"
But this is nonsense, too. It's not so easy to destroy the nature. There were worse catastrophes in the history of the world which didn't. These eco-freaks are overrating human power exactly the same way as these tech-gonzo dreaming of terraforming liveless planets etc. do.
Why a history of doom ?
Some kiddies would say now: "Hey first graphical interactive 3D game" which is plain wrong at least Ultima Underworld came before and HAD A PLOT instead of shooting everything at moves (yes, you won't belive this !).
Gaming over a network ?
Done before. Even action games. Nothing new or creative.
What was really innovative of DOOM ?
Combing all these features ?
Yes that's nice, but no innovation.
I suppose DOOM's success is due to unlimited agression and violence, which was hardly found in many games before in this way (ok. Wolfenstein, but the Naziesque atmosphere was disapproved by too many potential players).
I don't think all scientist who were working and the first ICBM really wanted to create ICBMs instead of real "space rockets".
I think some of them tried to build "space rockets" and used them for military purposes.
Take von Braun for example. He always wanted real space flight (well known fact) but build military rockets for the Nazis and the US first. But when the US were searching for space flight rockets after the sputnik shock his project succeeded at once unlike to navy's whose blew up very impressively. The navy used ICBM based designs. I suspect that von Braun always kept space flight capable rockets in mind and created the rocket stuff this way. Therefore his success.
It is not good to see that there are more and free browsers based on mozillas rendering engine.
The marketshare of open source browsers get more and more splitted up between different programs.
This makes it very difficult to establish new standard because there will be only little compatibility.
In fact this helps in the long term microsoft very much, because people get confused with this many open source browsers and in the end choose the microsoft explorer giving microsoft more and more power over the internet.
Additionally a larger number of browsers create more possibilities for security holes, so that security will be worse than microsofts.
The open source review mechanism will not apply because there are too many browsers, so that not all will be reviewed for security holes sufficiently.
It is very important that all slashdotters contribute to make sure that Software Engineering includes a great knowledge of free software and free operating systems.
Of course software engineers make new systems but they can't make good new one if they don't know the good old one, really.
To set a good example I will provide them my great expriences with linux installation and writing very good programs in assembler.
I URGE YOU ALL TO DO THE VERY SAME !!!
If we don't free software will be unknown to software engineers in some years because Microsoft had set up all standards for software engineering which all included Microsoft Windows.
There will be noone to contribute to the linux kernel and other projects anymore, because all older free software developers are very rich on Hawaii from money made by consulting. And all younger developers will be software engineers and won't know the vast qualities and possibilities of free software !!!
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They'll be smitten and crushed for were lies the root of evil there will be destruction and chaos.
Perhaps the downfall of the internet is the beginning of the doom of Cisco. Perhaps in the future will nobody need any routers from Cisco anymore because everyone will use XIP and
And someday the sinners will find themselves in the gutter together with some old Cisco routers.
Repent brothers ! Repent your wikked ways !
When a company switches to 100 percent MS free they might have very much problems to exchange data with their customers.
This will give their competitors very much advantage and they'll finally die in the end.
Also there are very much legal problems with the GNU license and people are not sure if they must distribute their own work for free. This might be ok with open source but you must keep in might that a company cannot distribute their confidential data all over the world because their competitors would use their customer lists and have very much advantage.
And there is the problem with reliability on open source systems because a single command: umount can wipe out the whole harddisk.
A linux guy told me lately that you must do always umount to halt your computer, so a operation system which can't be switched off is not good for a company especially the running computers use much power all over the night and this is very expensive and bad for the environment, too.
So you should stay with Windows which has not these problems. And the service is very much better from microsoft because of the programs which are installed on your computer and send every you do to microsoft so that they can help you all the time.
No.
The domesticated sheep, ovis aries, is in fact a non flying bird like an ostrich. And bird as you might know lay eggs and have therefore and vagina.
People always get exited at faster and faster CPUs.
But what is the use ?
Ok, it's a good marketing argument to make people buy new computers every 2 years.
But is there any significant advancement in computer programs ?
You would now say Quake and CS but these are only a few games. And most their functions could be spend up by dedicated co processors (this arguments is around for years but always stompe up by Intel and AMD to make people buy their expensive new processors).
And graphical user interfaces ?
These were running on old macs which had only 5 percent of the processing speed of modern cpus.
Are programs becoming more useful ?
Most software is today just silly bloatware, you need several 100 MB of storage for a program which fullfill just the functions a 2 1.44 MB floppys program did in 1990.
There is also an unholy connection to OO.
Programmers take often OO as an excuse for bloated (which is not the same a reusable) and uneffective code. When their program is too slow the don't fix this, they just claim that the computer is too slow.
And perhaps AI ?
This is nonsense, too. Most AI problems are in the core at least NP complete, sometimes even PSPACE.
So just speeding up the CPU doesn't help anyway, we need totally different computer models for such problems, e.g. read the recent slashdot article about ants (hello hex).
So the CPU capacity increase is just a scam from the computer manufacturers. We should boycott this and it can be done: we just make our open source software compatible to old system and let AMD and Intel to starve in the desert.
...about working in the IT industry and making a decent money. You can always DONATE money to any volunteer organisation. And they can do something with it. When you are volunteering you are pretty useless for decent 3. world development projects. However, your money can make much use from such projects.
Think about it: 100 $ make may supply several people with food/medication for some days. These are 1-3 hours of work for IT people.
What useful could you do in 1-3 hours in a 3 world country ?
Volunteering might make you feel good, but DONATIONS do something good.
Decide for yourself what you really want.
Such war movies always propagate violent and harmful solutions to problems.
They make seem violence the best solution for problems but it's always the worst and the last.
This might be just the usual hollywood crap, but hollywood is flooding and brainwashing the whole world with such movies.
We don't need to be surprised when youngesters in palestine or north ireland make violent terror to solve their problems because they just learned it all for hollywood movies.
Therefore I think such movies are very bad and should be banned all over the world.
Even Microsofts high marketshare is mainly based on hollywoods movies because they always show windows and people think that every computer must have windows and therefore buy only computers with windows.
There you see how bad such hollywood movies are !!!
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This thing mainly relies on methane.
Yes, you have point but how to communicate with aliens that are too strange too understand (or we are too strange for them).
Let's say there are some intelligent super vegetables on Venus having an enourmous lifetime (let's say 10000 years), but their information processing is extremely slow.
We would never have any chance to commute with them, so trying it is useless.
So I think's it's ok to concentrate on anthromorphic lifeforms. There might none of them, but there might be no aliens at all.
And anyway: have we got anything better than radio communications (I mean a form of communication with electromagnetic waves, which includes light or X-rays) ?
this stuff seems to be all tautologies or very basic ideas.
Like: make the buttons visible, make links visible, don't confuse users.
You don't need a book to figure this out. A working brain should be sufficient.
However, I admit that many pages seem to be designed by people without a brain.
On the other this might just the after effects of the dot-com hype with low level qualified people doing thing for which you need high level people
(lvl 15++).
I think the positive side effect of the dotcom crash is that now proffesionals will take over the internet, who don't need "smart" books like this.
It's just a question of time when spammers start scripted "voting" to push their pages on top.
Google might block such "votes", but I suppose the traffic created by all the spammers worldwide will act like an ulta ddos attack on google.
In AI this is called "learning by reinforcement".
If the FBI wants to catch some big-ass criminal and an anti-virus screws up to whole thing by busting magic lantern, wouldn't the anti-virus company get into serious legal trouble ?
Providing help in criminal acts or something like this ?
E.g. when you tip Sorpidio Calzone, big evil mafia bugger, that the police is tapping his phone etc. YOU would get into some trouble.
Many they plead for unknowingly help etc. but still holds some reputation damaging legal action.
I don't know what Mr. Blach is exactly doing but the Robocup is already there for years.
In Germany we have ID cards.
And in Germany you can legally go to the local authorities and ask for the adress of any person you want. And they will tell you (perhaps not the adress of "endangered" person like Rushdie).
And there is no large scale abuse of this.
Guess why ?
Because be smelly Europeans have made a nice invention. It's called photograph. It allows you to make picures of things. And a (hopefully) nice picture of yourself is on every ID card. And without huge resources (security agency style) these ID cards can't be faked (theoretically they are claimed unfakeable but I doubt this). And this system protects from ID theft.
Because when someone wants to verify your ID, he let's you show him your ID card.
The problem of ID theft is an very USian one.
Ans the main reason is an absence of thing like ID cards etc. we have in Europe.
The burocracy is sometimes much pain in the butt, but it's worth.
...but this won't work with larger spacecrafts ?
I can see them using this for smaller satellites
but they'll have a hard time to fit a shuttle into a military transport (ok, they might saw off the wings)
With these PDA-alikes becoming more and more powerful, I wonder if these couldn't be used as a weapon for cyberterrorism/espionage.
Let's see you have a small, decent computer. Networking capabilities. Easily hidden and, hey, would anyone expect an assault from these things ?
The keyboard comes in handy for mission critical scripting etc.
Just go into desired building, h4x0r their nets (or aquire confidential data - when you are working for govermental bodies) and leave.
And you'll get away because noone will notice that YOU did anything. Might work with laptops, too, but laptops are more difficult to hide and may raise suspicion.
What do you want with a computer with a tiny display and low performance ?
Keeping adresses etc. ?
Science has a better answer for this and it's called notebook (the paper ones).
Playing games ?
With this display you really can't go any further then gameboy style one. I don't see anyone using them for Quake or DOOM.
I suppose these thing have the same right to exist like nosehair cutters, electrical earwax removers etc.
Hahaha. .mil .gov .edu etc.
While the US DID invent
Europe DID invent latin and greek letters.
Without us you would have to write your domains in babylonian, hebrew or chinese letters.
BTW, we hold all copyrights for the latin and greek alphabet, so start rolling the money over or stop using our IP !
No, animal which survive because we like/need/use them survive because they found a comfortable niche to survive (being liked/needed/used by humans). :) behavoir. It's more complicated - because we are a really complicated species. But it is nothing non natural.
Your viewpoint is the typical ecologist side: humans as surperior/non natural/godlike beings.
But this IS nonsense.
The examples of domestic animals are really some kind of symbiotic/parasitic (hark, all dogs are parasites
There are ANTS in the Amazonas region which domesticated a certain sort of fungi to create food from leaves. Are ANTS non natural, godlike, super beings ?
You might now argue that we a different because of our mind, but what makes a mind really non natural. Why should it make us artifical ? And if we are really these Homo Sapians why do we like that panda. The is NO logical reason for this. They are cute - because they trigger certain perception shemes in our mind, initially used for nursing children etc.
You would argue, too, that we have in fact changed the face of this world. This is true, indeed. But plants have changed to face of this world, too. They have changed to atmosphere far more than any human CO2 pollution will achive. So are plants superior, over natural beings ?
And why should we recreate this tiger ?
Could YOU tell a Tasmanian tiger from an Indian one ?
Would it look really different for humans ?
No, this is just a waste of resources.
I might a perhaps a good cloning/gene manipulation test, but that's all.
Should they really do this ?
The tasmanian tiger was not fit enough to survive the treat of another more dangerous species.
This species was the infamous Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
It is the usual ecologist point of view that men is an evil intruder in the eco system and should stay apart of it whereever possible.
But this is utter nonsense.
We are a part of nature. And, yes, we are predators that means that we KILL species. And species which aren't fit enough to avoid this treat will be annihilated.
But this IS nature. This is not "artificial" or even "bad".
Some people will no rant "Behold we'll destroy the whole world, the wikked evil ones we are !!!"
But this is nonsense, too. It's not so easy to destroy the nature. There were worse catastrophes in the history of the world which didn't. These eco-freaks are overrating human power exactly the same way as these tech-gonzo dreaming of terraforming liveless planets etc. do.
I think this species should be kept dead.
Why a history of doom ?
Some kiddies would say now: "Hey first graphical interactive 3D game" which is plain wrong at least Ultima Underworld came before and HAD A PLOT instead of shooting everything at moves (yes, you won't belive this !).
Gaming over a network ?
Done before. Even action games. Nothing new or creative.
What was really innovative of DOOM ?
Combing all these features ?
Yes that's nice, but no innovation.
I suppose DOOM's success is due to unlimited agression and violence, which was hardly found in many games before in this way (ok. Wolfenstein, but the Naziesque atmosphere was disapproved by too many potential players).
I don't think all scientist who were working and the first ICBM really wanted to create ICBMs instead of real "space rockets".
I think some of them tried to build "space rockets" and used them for military purposes.
Take von Braun for example. He always wanted real space flight (well known fact) but build military rockets for the Nazis and the US first. But when the US were searching for space flight rockets after the sputnik shock his project succeeded at once unlike to navy's whose blew up very impressively. The navy used ICBM based designs. I suspect that von Braun always kept space flight capable rockets in mind and created the rocket stuff this way. Therefore his success.
It is not good to see that there are more and free browsers based on mozillas rendering engine.
The marketshare of open source browsers get more and more splitted up between different programs.
This makes it very difficult to establish new standard because there will be only little compatibility.
In fact this helps in the long term microsoft very much, because people get confused with this many open source browsers and in the end choose the microsoft explorer giving microsoft more and more power over the internet.
Additionally a larger number of browsers create more possibilities for security holes, so that security will be worse than microsofts.
The open source review mechanism will not apply because there are too many browsers, so that not all will be reviewed for security holes sufficiently.
It is very important that all slashdotters contribute to make sure that Software Engineering includes a great knowledge of free software and free operating systems.
Of course software engineers make new systems but they can't make good new one if they don't know the good old one, really.
To set a good example I will provide them my great expriences with linux installation and writing very good programs in assembler.
I URGE YOU ALL TO DO THE VERY SAME !!!
If we don't free software will be unknown to software engineers in some years because Microsoft had set up all standards for software engineering which all included Microsoft Windows.
There will be noone to contribute to the linux kernel and other projects anymore, because all older free software developers are very rich on Hawaii from money made by consulting. And all younger developers will be software engineers and won't know the vast qualities and possibilities of free software !!!