I really dont think it has such long way really. All the pieces are ready, its just a matter of someone gluing them together into a coherent desktop. I havent a single issue right now at my own linux desktop. EVERYTHING works just as I want it to. When someone big enough decides to make a tailor made home desktop of off linux it will rock.
They are and will be a predatory monopoly. To engage in any cooperation with them at all is to write your own death sentence. Never play with the devil cause hes better at cheating than you. Remember that being a good sport isnt in Microsofts vocabulary.
I feel that most music today is cloning past successess. "hey, it worked back in the 80's, lets take a new artist and do it again" The problem probably lies in the narrowing of the music scene. Greed and profithunger has made them too afraid to take a chance so they spend all their PR on established music or clones. Is it a coincidence that new musicians always release a cover of a already known hit at first? Hopfully this will make room for new bold labels since the ones existing doesnt seem to have any balls whatsoever.
Name the biggest factor in the success of the pc platform?
Its most definetly the open nature of the platform. The ability to make hardware and software on a level plyfield has spured the advancement of the platform. Unfortunately the software ha been hampered by the applikation barrier upheld and defended by Microsoft. A good comparison between the advancement of hardware and software reveals that competition do make a big difference on both price and pace of development. Software has been almost in limbo compared to how hardware has ben advancing. If we get a lock in like the system Microsoft want us to have it is very likely that hardware development will grind to a halt too. I mean come on, when the only even remote competition is a free damn much better os it cant be very much competition can it?
Destroy the openness of hardware on the PC and it will suffer the same fate as software has done for the past 15 years.
If you want a ready to go solution and dont want to mess about. If else it can be done pretty easy with most distros, two nics and some tweaking. Two T1's shouldnt be any significant load to handle for the cpu.
Because they suck hard and are a monopoly thus forcing many of us that DONT want to be near it to use it anyway? I am forced to use it as long as i dont change profession and become a kindergarten teacher or something (the kids are easier to talk to than the MS reps. btw)
A bunch of grown ups hugging and kissing every time someone kicks the leather into the goal? Id rather have hot grits in my pants than too se that. Besides, until theres an engine in the ball its no real sport. Real sports says wrooom!
Thats very much possible but all we ever see in Sweden of american beer is budwiser and such. In movies and series budwiser is all thats presented. Drew is another chapter, thats a beer id like do have in my fridge;D
Much of Microsofts success lies in the fact that when all other was focusing their advertising towards the techies Microsoft went to the PHB's. Since the PHB's know sh*t about computers they are much easier to trick. Brainwashing works best to implant ideas and urges when the recipient is not aware of the product or service.
Thats very much a possibility but if this becomes an open protocol that doesnt matter. The technic used makes it possible to distribute the delivery onto thousands of computers. To sue thousands of users is much harder than to sue one single person or a company. This is probably the way to go next to keep music free. Next thing is that isp's are forced to filter such things. By then we tunnel with heavy encryption instead.
One thing i really do miss though is an independant p2p network that only deals with noncopyrighted music. I feel that i would be more comfortable with music that wasnt pirated and perhaps better and less ironed out to suit everybody.
Your sig about MTV says it all doesnt it? The music industry has taken a good healthy music collective and made it into a money milking cow. MTV was good but all it ever plays now is either corporate sponsored release promos (they call it hresh or something) or crappy mainstream (corporate owned) elevator crap.
How can they screw us over with one face and cry about how they need DRM with another. All this at the same time that they arent losing money to pirating but to games.
Realese som good music instead of brainwashing people with BSB and Britney Bimbo and maybe we ll feel that the music is worth paying for. As of today most isnt worth the plastiv its printed on. Note, thats not the artists fault. Pink is a good example of that!
I can imagine that DRM wont take notice of of backups and such. What if i had an old VHS of a movie that ive converted and cleaned up? Is it legal for them to delete it? I dont think so! Whats mine IS mine and nothing less of a courtorder or the police should be able to mess with it.
Oh?
So the countless bugs that resulted in loss of data all over the world have never happened? I have encountered many of them and never ever was there a script kiddie involved in any way.
I suppose that if a moneytransport company has their trucks wide open the clients cant hold them liable?
I decided to use open source software as much as possible since a couple of years back. Mostly because i have trouble using Microsoft software, mainly due to the lack of quality. A thing that bothers me more and more is that some companies want to take control over MY computer. A thought that dont please me at all. Its my computer and i make the decisions about it. If a company can gain access trough a back door to alter settings and such then surely anyone else that gets their hands on the keys can too.This makes a huge security threat to all possibly sensitive data i might have on my box. No serious OS shold contain a backdoor. There arent a single legit reason for it. Hopefully there are more people that thinks as i do and maybe there will be enough people using linux/freebsd/whatever to sustain alternatives to Microsoft in the future.
If this ever succed in my lifetime i will not use it. Even if hell freezes over and penguins fly i wont go near it! I will gladly use my linux and AMD 6 Ghz by then, only communicating with fellow open OS users. Heck, it will be like in the old times. Cant imagine it succeed though, have ANY protection trick ever worked? All i have seen is frustraded and angry customers not able to use their hardware and software and thats very bad for buisiness. With the popularity of fileswapping today and the % of online people into warez, how many would volontarily buy a computer that stopped their biggest use of the internet? Especially since it doesnt seem to add any value to the computer at all to the user.
So just because i have used MS in about two decades and has intimate knowledge of all the stupid things they have done to the software buisiness i should shut up? I always thought that we veterans at MS products is the most firce haters.I hate Microsoft and loves linux but the two hasnt any connection for me. Linux just do the things i want and better. (and when I tell it to and not at its own will)
How in gods name could X-box be safer than PS2? I thougt that xbox ran a mutated version of Windows XP. It is supposed to be a multimediahub in the future and as such it is bound to have many networking fetures turned on and fully implemented. Since many exploits that works on WINXP probably works on Xbox i can rpedict that it wont be that safe. PS2 on the other hand hasnt any known exploits yet and to get hold of the SDK is a bit harder. I think xbox owners will have to patch as often as any other WinXP user.
I cant think that its legal to do almost what kodak was sued for long ago.To force someone to buy a product if they buy or use the other is not legal. Especially since they are a convicted monopoly. If the trial continues this should most defenitly be in the evicence list!
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1029.ZS . tml
Today there arent anything that warrants writing comercial code better than "it works, mostly". Until there comes either market advantage of off writing stable secure apps it wont get much better. GNU/Linux, apache and other succesful projects has put the torch on some corporations but not near enough. If they dissapear its buissiness as usual. Liability would be good because fear of loosing big bucks works. Nothing gets your attention lika a magnum pointing at your head. liability wouldnt affect open source since its given away for free.
The state of software today is just sad, it could be like hardware, faster and smaller. Imagine an OS that ran faster with each release! Not impossible, look at beos.
One of the first things corrected would probably be the demise of enduser power. Not that i dislike that but then again, why should anyone be able to alter anything in anyway if the software works as it is supposed to? To prevent the enduser from goofing up is one of the most important things to reach quality. If you want control over the software, go opensource then.
The state of software today makes one wanna cry. The hardware part of the computerworld seems to be running circles around the software manufacturers. That is, hardware has gotten so much cheeper whilst software has gotten even more expensive.
The quality of mainstreem software sold today is pretty much none. Considering that software has been around longer than hardware (Ada anyone?) it should be the other way around. Todays EULA's keep the software companies free of any liability due to untested software and crappy programming. To say that the extreme complexity of software makes it impossible to make bugfree software is to oversimplify.
Why is it that new meens more feetures? How many fetures is usable and how many is there to show "look m'a i can"?.Would any engineer anywhere put things of random usability on a bridge/house/car? It seems that if a part was to be put anywhere where it affects security or usability it must be evaluated.
Something has to be done to give incentive to software companies to start making things that is built from ground up to "just work". Today the only incentive is the market and it has been clearly shown that no matter how bad ill-engineered software you have you still can prevail with some help from the media and a ton of marketing funds. Crap can be sold if you market it as goldcrap(tm) until people starts tp belive it really exists oldcrap(tm).
The best thing software liability could give is an escape from the never ending upgradecycle. The incentive to cram all and every line of code generated from your programmers in just because would wanish. To add code is usually to add problems.Atleast from a probability perspective. Old tested code would be more appriciated than new untested every year with new bugs to root out.
Im only speaking about companies selling software, not the open source/free software movement. You cant be held liable if you give something away. Thats just insane if it comes to that in the end.
Anyway, its perfectly clear that something has to be done before your fridge, car, bathtub or whatever is online and has its own CPU and software. Since the market and software companies has proven themselves definitely not up to the task of ensuring quality it have to be regulated. We dont want to put us in the position that a bug could kill us one day do we?
Duh?
The first time after youve installed the antivirus program you scan every and all files on the machine. Anything being copied or opened will be scanned for viruses so a virus shouldnt be able to lie unfound unless a. the virus is new b. the person installing didnt scan after install. Most AV programs scan the whole disk periodically by default also.
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I really dont think it has such long way really. All the pieces are ready, its just a matter of someone gluing them together into a coherent desktop. I havent a single issue right now at my own linux desktop. EVERYTHING works just as I want it to. When someone big enough decides to make a tailor made home desktop of off linux it will rock.
They are and will be a predatory monopoly. To engage in any cooperation with them at all is to write your own death sentence. Never play with the devil cause hes better at cheating than you. Remember that being a good sport isnt in Microsofts vocabulary.
I feel that most music today is cloning past successess. "hey, it worked back in the 80's, lets take a new artist and do it again" The problem probably lies in the narrowing of the music scene. Greed and profithunger has made them too afraid to take a chance so they spend all their PR on established music or clones. Is it a coincidence that new musicians always release a cover of a already known hit at first? Hopfully this will make room for new bold labels since the ones existing doesnt seem to have any balls whatsoever.
Its most definetly the open nature of the platform. The ability to make hardware and software on a level plyfield has spured the advancement of the platform. Unfortunately the software ha been hampered by the applikation barrier upheld and defended by Microsoft. A good comparison between the advancement of hardware and software reveals that competition do make a big difference on both price and pace of development. Software has been almost in limbo compared to how hardware has ben advancing. If we get a lock in like the system Microsoft want us to have it is very likely that hardware development will grind to a halt too. I mean come on, when the only even remote competition is a free damn much better os it cant be very much competition can it?
Destroy the openness of hardware on the PC and it will suffer the same fate as software has done for the past 15 years.
If you want a ready to go solution and dont want to mess about. If else it can be done pretty easy with most distros, two nics and some tweaking. Two T1's shouldnt be any significant load to handle for the cpu.
Because they suck hard and are a monopoly thus forcing many of us that DONT want to be near it to use it anyway? I am forced to use it as long as i dont change profession and become a kindergarten teacher or something (the kids are easier to talk to than the MS reps. btw)
A bunch of grown ups hugging and kissing every time someone kicks the leather into the goal? Id rather have hot grits in my pants than too se that. Besides, until theres an engine in the ball its no real sport. Real sports says wrooom!
Thats very much possible but all we ever see in Sweden of american beer is budwiser and such. In movies and series budwiser is all thats presented. Drew is another chapter, thats a beer id like do have in my fridge ;D
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One thing i really do miss though is an independant p2p network that only deals with noncopyrighted music. I feel that i would be more comfortable with music that wasnt pirated and perhaps better and less ironed out to suit everybody.
Many people here are like myself are:
a. from other countries
b. dont care about spelling or types faster than they can read.
PERIOD.
Your sig about MTV says it all doesnt it? The music industry has taken a good healthy music collective and made it into a money milking cow. MTV was good but all it ever plays now is either corporate sponsored release promos (they call it hresh or something) or crappy mainstream (corporate owned) elevator crap.
Realese som good music instead of brainwashing people with BSB and Britney Bimbo and maybe we ll feel that the music is worth paying for. As of today most isnt worth the plastiv its printed on. Note, thats not the artists fault. Pink is a good example of that!
I can imagine that DRM wont take notice of of backups and such. What if i had an old VHS of a movie that ive converted and cleaned up? Is it legal for them to delete it? I dont think so! Whats mine IS mine and nothing less of a courtorder or the police should be able to mess with it.
I suppose that if a moneytransport company has their trucks wide open the clients cant hold them liable?
I decided to use open source software as much as possible since a couple of years back. Mostly because i have trouble using Microsoft software, mainly due to the lack of quality. A thing that bothers me more and more is that some companies want to take control over MY computer. A thought that dont please me at all. Its my computer and i make the decisions about it. If a company can gain access trough a back door to alter settings and such then surely anyone else that gets their hands on the keys can too.This makes a huge security threat to all possibly sensitive data i might have on my box. No serious OS shold contain a backdoor. There arent a single legit reason for it. Hopefully there are more people that thinks as i do and maybe there will be enough people using linux/freebsd/whatever to sustain alternatives to Microsoft in the future.
If this ever succed in my lifetime i will not use it. Even if hell freezes over and penguins fly i wont go near it! I will gladly use my linux and AMD 6 Ghz by then, only communicating with fellow open OS users. Heck, it will be like in the old times. Cant imagine it succeed though, have ANY protection trick ever worked? All i have seen is frustraded and angry customers not able to use their hardware and software and thats very bad for buisiness. With the popularity of fileswapping today and the % of online people into warez, how many would volontarily buy a computer that stopped their biggest use of the internet? Especially since it doesnt seem to add any value to the computer at all to the user.
So just because i have used MS in about two decades and has intimate knowledge of all the stupid things they have done to the software buisiness i should shut up? I always thought that we veterans at MS products is the most firce haters.I hate Microsoft and loves linux but the two hasnt any connection for me. Linux just do the things i want and better. (and when I tell it to and not at its own will)
How in gods name could X-box be safer than PS2? I thougt that xbox ran a mutated version of Windows XP. It is supposed to be a multimediahub in the future and as such it is bound to have many networking fetures turned on and fully implemented. Since many exploits that works on WINXP probably works on Xbox i can rpedict that it wont be that safe. PS2 on the other hand hasnt any known exploits yet and to get hold of the SDK is a bit harder. I think xbox owners will have to patch as often as any other WinXP user.
I cant think that its legal to do almost what kodak was sued for long ago.To force someone to buy a product if they buy or use the other is not legal. Especially since they are a convicted monopoly. If the trial continues this should most defenitly be in the evicence list! http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1029.ZS . tml
Today there arent anything that warrants writing comercial code better than "it works, mostly". Until there comes either market advantage of off writing stable secure apps it wont get much better. GNU/Linux, apache and other succesful projects has put the torch on some corporations but not near enough. If they dissapear its buissiness as usual. Liability would be good because fear of loosing big bucks works. Nothing gets your attention lika a magnum pointing at your head. liability wouldnt affect open source since its given away for free. The state of software today is just sad, it could be like hardware, faster and smaller. Imagine an OS that ran faster with each release! Not impossible, look at beos.
One of the first things corrected would probably be the demise of enduser power. Not that i dislike that but then again, why should anyone be able to alter anything in anyway if the software works as it is supposed to? To prevent the enduser from goofing up is one of the most important things to reach quality. If you want control over the software, go opensource then.
The quality of mainstreem software sold today is pretty much none. Considering that software has been around longer than hardware (Ada anyone?) it should be the other way around. Todays EULA's keep the software companies free of any liability due to untested software and crappy programming. To say that the extreme complexity of software makes it impossible to make bugfree software is to oversimplify.
Why is it that new meens more feetures? How many fetures is usable and how many is there to show "look m'a i can"?.Would any engineer anywhere put things of random usability on a bridge/house/car? It seems that if a part was to be put anywhere where it affects security or usability it must be evaluated.
Something has to be done to give incentive to software companies to start making things that is built from ground up to "just work". Today the only incentive is the market and it has been clearly shown that no matter how bad ill-engineered software you have you still can prevail with some help from the media and a ton of marketing funds. Crap can be sold if you market it as goldcrap(tm) until people starts tp belive it really exists oldcrap(tm).
The best thing software liability could give is an escape from the never ending upgradecycle. The incentive to cram all and every line of code generated from your programmers in just because would wanish. To add code is usually to add problems.Atleast from a probability perspective. Old tested code would be more appriciated than new untested every year with new bugs to root out. Im only speaking about companies selling software, not the open source/free software movement. You cant be held liable if you give something away. Thats just insane if it comes to that in the end.
Anyway, its perfectly clear that something has to be done before your fridge, car, bathtub or whatever is online and has its own CPU and software. Since the market and software companies has proven themselves definitely not up to the task of ensuring quality it have to be regulated. We dont want to put us in the position that a bug could kill us one day do we?
Duh? The first time after youve installed the antivirus program you scan every and all files on the machine. Anything being copied or opened will be scanned for viruses so a virus shouldnt be able to lie unfound unless a. the virus is new b. the person installing didnt scan after install. Most AV programs scan the whole disk periodically by default also.