This is a fantastic idea if for no other reason than it is easy to accidently change the volume when it is in your pocket. The click wheel is too sensitive and you can end up blasting your head off accidently. This is even more so with in-ear earphones which only need the volume half as high for the same amount of decibels in your ear drum.
So let's not hear any talk about this being a silly idea. It's not.
Since when was "legitimate business purposes" part of the equation? Many business users just using office and email could use a 5 year old PC. But the industry moves on. Lease agreements terminate. The upgrade cycle continues its relentless march. Smart businesses could slow their upgrades down. Typcial businesses will keep paying Dell and keeping HP's business model afloat.
1) Take your hand off the mouse/keyboard when you're not using them. Even if it's only for a few seconds, it gives your muscles a break. Put your hands in your lap.
2) Half the problem is the muscles in your hand are constantly "ready" and tensed ready to push that button. Be aware of this. Relax your muscles. And do (1) often to relax them again.
What a bunch of baloney. What's this about "risk of forced disclosure of confidential code"? Risk makes it sound like it is some kind of roll of the dice thing where if you're unlucky, and you get busted, you have to disclose the code.
How about "agencies should read the licence agreement and abide by it whether open source or not"?
And what about "include an increased risk of exposure to faults". Is that supposed to mean open source has a higher "risk" (there's that word again) of faults, because it is bad quality? Or does it mean you have to make sure you pay for support if you can't support it yourself? Why don't they call a spade a spade?
And what of intellectual property claims? Paying somebody for your software, frankly doesn't guarantee anything. It may give you someone to sue, but when did you last see a goverment department sueing a software house? Uh, it aint going to happen.
Half the Unixes out there aren't tested against the Unix specification. If somebody ever bought a licence from AT&T, they have the right to call it Unix, and screw what the spec says.
His methodology seems to be that when 1/2 the oil has been used, that is "peak oil". But that isn't peak oil. Peak oil is when the barrels shipped per month hits the highest of all time. That point hasn't come yet. Sorry, it just hasn't. The world has the ability to ship quite a bit more than it is now.
Of course, that just means the oil is being used faster, and when peak oil REALLY comes, the drop off will be rather sudden and acute. Don't panic yet, but DO start building the bunker.
I don't know that it will be hacked so easily. DVD was around quite a while, and it wasn't hacked till some cheapo CDROM company made a mistake and left the key easily accessable in software, not to mention a software implementation of decryption.
But if the next-gen DRM is all-hardware, it won't be so easy to crack. Not impossible I guess, but something this hard COULD go for years and years without being cracked, unless there is someone super-motivated to analyse the hardware.
I suspect you won't have any choice soon, ALL video cards will be DRM enabled, and monitors too. You can of course refuse to buy the content, that's about all the freedom you'll have.
Ok, so Windows Vista will need HDCP to play HD-DVD and Blu-ray. But will Linux be able to avoid it because it controls the hardware? Or will the DRM need to be hacked first? Or is this nearly unhackable?
Many people saw this coming, but I never expected it to arrive so soon. If people accept this and bow to the content providers, then the DRM world is upon us.
>Either every single thing in it is literal (and the earth has four corners) or everything >must be interpreted.
That's a false dichotomy if ever I heard one. Nobody at all denies that some things in the bible are allegories. And I would hope you would acknowledge that some things in the bible are meant to be literal. However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin? Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?
>Now, ask yourself these questions: Which bible do you read, and why?
What does it matter what bible people read?
>Do you think the Romans (who cannonized the Bible with their selected bishops in 313) >were answering the call of God or politics?
Nothing happened in 313 about the canon.
>Why do you go to church on Sunday instead of the Sabbath, or Saturday?
Why should anybody go to church on the Sabbath?
>Why do most of the Christian holidays coincide exactly with pagan holidays that are >centuries older?
I can't see why it would matter one whit what file system you use. The only problem you list is ReiserFS being too slow (which I doubt, but anyway...). Is speed the worry?? Well, just pick a bigger block size. Make a 64kb block size or something, and just go with whatever file system you would normally use.
Absolutely yes, standardising one one language is a Good Thing(tm)
Lisp systems did it. Of course lisp is so powerful and flexible nobody would have considered that a restriction.
A language like Java has a number of flaws but it is Good Enough(tm) to standardise on also.
So I say standardise away within reason. Obviously there may be exceptions, but if your primary language you choose is a good one, you should need a damned good reason to leave the standard.
I'm pretty skeptical of this new area of business for Borland, but we'll see how it goes.
But I suspect the IDE business was a loser proposition anyway. Pascal is headed towards its death throws (not yet, but it's headed there). Java is still growing, but IBM killed the market by releasing Eclipse for free. C++ is stagnant at best, and in decline at worst. Besides which, Microsoft has used its predatory practices to grab too much of that market. Postgres and MySQL have killed Borland's database ambitions and JBoss has killed their application server ambitions.
I guess you could say that Borland is in large part a victim of open source. A pity in some ways, but inevitable.
I already use my regular mouse with my hand vertical, my index finger drapes across the mouse to the button. This mouse would presumably make it more comfortable. I'm tired though of paying through the nose for hardware that is designed ergonomically. To try out all the interesting ideas would cost thousands. I wish there was some organisation which tested out all the neat ideas and then went to Dell and IBM etc and told them to make it mainstream.
Christianity says that all the earth is fallen because of man's sin. Why that would affect wasps isn't clear, but certainly it is not inconsistent with the Christian world view.
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This is a fantastic idea if for no other reason than it is easy to accidently change the volume when it is in your pocket. The click wheel is too sensitive and you can end up blasting your head off accidently. This is even more so with in-ear earphones which only need the volume half as high for the same amount of decibels in your ear drum.
So let's not hear any talk about this being a silly idea. It's not.
>1) Shareholders don't give a shit about daily price fluctuations.
When all the daily "fluctuations" are in a downward direction, they sure do!
Since when was "legitimate business purposes" part of the equation? Many business users just using office and email could use a 5 year old PC. But the industry moves on. Lease agreements terminate. The upgrade cycle continues its relentless march. Smart businesses could slow their upgrades down. Typcial businesses will keep paying Dell and keeping HP's business model afloat.
Two very important things:
1) Take your hand off the mouse/keyboard when you're not using them. Even if it's only for a few seconds, it gives your muscles a break. Put your hands in your lap.
2) Half the problem is the muscles in your hand are constantly "ready" and tensed ready to push that button. Be aware of this. Relax your muscles. And do (1) often to relax them again.
It needs to do a full rescan on reboot?
UGH!
That kills it for me.
What a bunch of baloney. What's this about "risk of forced disclosure of confidential code"? Risk makes it sound like it is some kind of roll of the dice thing where if you're unlucky, and you get busted, you have to disclose the code.
How about "agencies should read the licence agreement and abide by it whether open source or not"?
And what about "include an increased risk of exposure to faults". Is that supposed to mean open source has a higher "risk" (there's that word again) of faults, because it is bad quality? Or does it mean you have to make sure you pay for support if you can't support it yourself? Why don't they call a spade a spade?
And what of intellectual property claims? Paying somebody for your software, frankly doesn't guarantee anything. It may give you someone to sue, but when did you last see a goverment department sueing a software house? Uh, it aint going to happen.
What is it going to cost you to install Linux and give it a chance?
All we are say....ing..... is give Linux a chance..
Half the Unixes out there aren't tested against the Unix specification. If somebody ever bought a licence from AT&T, they have the right to call it Unix, and screw what the spec says.
Pretty silly to count Unix and Linux separately.
His methodology seems to be that when 1/2 the oil has been used, that is "peak oil". But that isn't peak oil. Peak oil is when the barrels shipped per month hits the highest of all time. That point hasn't come yet. Sorry, it just hasn't. The world has the ability to ship quite a bit more than it is now.
Of course, that just means the oil is being used faster, and when peak oil REALLY comes, the drop off will be rather sudden and acute. Don't panic yet, but DO start building the bunker.
Uh, using a lot of memory is not the same as a memory leak.
I don't know that it will be hacked so easily. DVD was around quite a while, and it wasn't hacked till some cheapo CDROM company made a mistake and left the key easily accessable in software, not to mention a software implementation of decryption.
But if the next-gen DRM is all-hardware, it won't be so easy to crack. Not impossible I guess, but something this hard COULD go for years and years without being cracked, unless there is someone super-motivated to analyse the hardware.
I suspect you won't have any choice soon, ALL video cards will be DRM enabled, and monitors too. You can of course refuse to buy the content, that's about all the freedom you'll have.
Ok, so Windows Vista will need HDCP to play HD-DVD and Blu-ray. But will Linux be able to avoid it because it controls the hardware? Or will the DRM need to be hacked first? Or is this nearly unhackable?
Many people saw this coming, but I never expected it to arrive so soon. If people accept this and bow to the content providers, then the DRM world is upon us.
>Either every single thing in it is literal (and the earth has four corners) or everything
>must be interpreted.
That's a false dichotomy if ever I heard one. Nobody at all denies that some things in the bible are allegories. And I would hope you would acknowledge that some things in the bible are meant to be literal. However, anybody who says that Genesis 1 and 2 are allegories have some tricky questions to answer. Firstly, where does the allegory end, and literal history begin? Secondly, if it is allegorical, what message is it REALLY conveying?
>Now, ask yourself these questions: Which bible do you read, and why?
What does it matter what bible people read?
>Do you think the Romans (who cannonized the Bible with their selected bishops in 313)
>were answering the call of God or politics?
Nothing happened in 313 about the canon.
>Why do you go to church on Sunday instead of the Sabbath, or Saturday?
Why should anybody go to church on the Sabbath?
>Why do most of the Christian holidays coincide exactly with pagan holidays that are
>centuries older?
I don't know. Who cares?
Christian theistic evolutionists have got some very hairy questions to answer....
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v18/i3/q
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2004/0112reje
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/t
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i1/t
I can't see why it would matter one whit what file system you use. The only problem you list is ReiserFS being too slow (which I doubt, but anyway...). Is speed the worry?? Well, just pick a bigger block size. Make a 64kb block size or something, and just go with whatever file system you would normally use.
That's fascinating. How can J&J justify trademarking the Red Cross symbol?
Absolutely yes, standardising one one language is a Good Thing(tm)
Lisp systems did it. Of course lisp is so powerful and flexible nobody would have considered that a restriction.
A language like Java has a number of flaws but it is Good Enough(tm) to standardise on also.
So I say standardise away within reason. Obviously there may be exceptions, but if your primary language you choose is a good one, you should need a damned good reason to leave the standard.
And pray tell, what field of endeavour is GPL3 supposed to prevent? None!
I'm pretty skeptical of this new area of business for Borland, but we'll see how it goes.
But I suspect the IDE business was a loser proposition anyway. Pascal is headed towards its death throws (not yet, but it's headed there). Java is still growing, but IBM killed the market by releasing Eclipse for free. C++ is stagnant at best, and in decline at worst. Besides which, Microsoft has used its predatory practices to grab too much of that market. Postgres and MySQL have killed Borland's database ambitions and JBoss has killed their application server ambitions.
I guess you could say that Borland is in large part a victim of open source. A pity in some ways, but inevitable.
I already use my regular mouse with my hand vertical, my index finger drapes across the mouse to the button. This mouse would presumably make it more comfortable. I'm tired though of paying through the nose for hardware that is designed ergonomically. To try out all the interesting ideas would cost thousands. I wish there was some organisation which tested out all the neat ideas and then went to Dell and IBM etc and told them to make it mainstream.
Perl? Fuck. He wants a stable app with good code. Sheesh.
Christianity says that all the earth is fallen because of man's sin. Why that would affect wasps isn't clear, but certainly it is not inconsistent with the Christian world view.