What would be work best is a single account. You buy say an apple computer, with that computer you pay a single monthly fee say $9.99 monthly. For that $9.99 you get access to 25 song downloads per month, access to your local and your choice of up to 4 national news papers ad free, or with maybe a couple of small text adds (like google) and 10 streaming videos. In addition you get text messaging as cheap as email and of course an email account. This service would be available to your computer, your handheld and your DVR. You just need broadband.
Of course your broadband could offer it as a package too. A cable modem with a wireless built into the modem your connections are all encrypted to the modem using VPN software. They provide security, content and non intrusive DRM. Based on usage you can than decide no video and get more songs or pay for more content. Using a single x509 certificate and password would allow you to connect to the service from any network connection
The problem with this senario is providors are too greedy and would constantly complain about their share of the proceeds. They will only partner up and make something like this work when they absolutely have to to survive. In the mean time they will litigate, bribe and be dragged kicking and screaming into acceptance.
The problem with micropayments is everytime you do anything Ka Ching! Cell phones are a prime example, I could text message someone from online for almost nothing and they pay on their phone bill everytime they look at it. I know someone who sent no text messages yet got a $400 bill, from a stalker. The cellphone plans are getting cheaper, they have to. So will content, it has to.
At some point, todays situation will seem archaic. I think google sees the possibilities, unlimited information and content available always. You pay for the single service, like electric power, water etc.
The US government has been working on these issues for awhile. Not just defensive technologies, but also using cyber warfare to get information on war / terrorists plans, cause confusion, cause insurrection, disrupt supply lines and cause economic damage.
Who here would have even known about it, if the offended person had just edited it and / or contacted Wikipedia and informed them of the libel. Wikipedia could have stopped it cold, but now we all know he might be a killer and may have spent time in Russia. The guilty often cry the loudest. Is that the outcome wanted?
Ah! There lies the main problem with out sourcing manufacturing overseas. The US and the EU have ways correcting bad behaviour was using trade sanctions. Punish the many for the actions of a few. When the country decides it's not profitable to dump counterfiet chips on the market, it stops. It's not enforcing US laws on China, it's coercing China to follow established international trade accords. Capitalism cannot work without a formal or informal structure. China would crush any attempt to do, what it's government owned companies do daily. If China were producing it's own cutting edge chips and say North Korea were taking factory rejects running at reduced clock speed and under bidding China with their own technology, what do you think would happen?
Well since copying a master, with apple and the customer paying the distribution costs (bandwidth) if the sell twice as many at 75 cents, than $1.25 they would profit wouldn't they? But they wouldn't know that because they haven't tried it have they? Jobs is right, this pure greed!
There really isn't a need for the RIAA. Artists could sell directly through the internet. The only thing they lack is marketing, and venture capital. Technology could eventually eliminate the RIAA all together. Currently, we find out about acts mostly through radio and television. I learn about new acts almost exclusively through driving with the radio on and some I learn about through iTunes. If apple made it easy to listen before you buy, they could sell alot more. I don't like buying albums or tracks I haven't heard, I've been burned too many times.
As satellite radio becomes more prevelant there is an opening there for a change in the guard. The radio payola scams, could be a thing of the past there. Also more & more ipods are being connected in cars to stereos etc. Mine is, I even use it to DJ at a local pub, though I may start using an iBook for that, it's easier. My Tivo is connected to my wireless network, a Tivo streamcast channel devouted to the best in independent artists would be great, they already have an Entertainment Magazine feature. MTV is becoming more and more traditional TV and less Music Television. A new cable channel devoted to independent acts sponsored by Apple & Pixar studios could create new markets. Pixar studios could use independent artists in their movie sound tracks. And market them just like those you see be promoted by television shows like smallville etc. Apple needs to get more control of the content, with that and the iPod and iTunes, they could have Sony et al singing the blues about the good old days when they had the market clout.
The Mac UI is streets ahead of linux and windows in terms of useability (IMHO, but hell, I'm writing this!), it's been designed with thought for how to make things simple, rather than just available.
You've been at the Mac Zealot Kool aid I see. The only real thing about a Mac's user experience that is superior is it's software install. It doesn't get much easier than drag & drop. Spotlight's nice but most users I watch save every damn thing on the desktop and never use it. They might have a nice wallpaper somewhere under all those icons. Linux has Beagle and Windows, well they will probably integrate internet search and desktop search and in the process leave a million exploitable holes, but that's another matter.
After that is starts going downhill. First, closing the only open window does not close the program.
This is fine for those who don't mind pointing the mouse into the far left corner and scrolling down a menu to exit the program. But from the amount of users I find with 10+ programs running unknown to the user, this should have been fixed years ago. It's 2005 and Mac finally makes a multi button mouse, their OS has supported them for years. Yet they have been inadvertantly selling other peoples stuff years. Go to CompUSA, every one who buys a Mac at some point goes in and buys a Kingston, MS or Logitech mouse with scroll wheel. Every other major or minor OS in the world is wrong and apple is right? I pay almost $2000 for an iMac and they couldn't throw in their frickin top of the line also over priced mouse? Another oddity, the menu at the top of the screen. Great! instead of moving the mouse a 100 pixels or so I again have to move way out of the area I'm working to access a menu, whose bright idea was that? Now lets look at uniformity, brushed metal, white, white with stipples, top window bar blended into the window as to be invisible ( aka System Preferences), brushed metal window, window with a visible top bar. Things that are pretty much standard practice on every other OS/GUI in the world, are different on a Mac. And usually it seems for no good reason except to be different. It's fine if all your ever gonna use is a Mac, but that not ever gonna happen in the real world.
I use several OS's daily, I own two Mac's and two Linux Machines. At work I develop on and administer VAX, SGI, Solarix, Windows(NT,2K,XP), Linux and Mac's. No OS is perfect period. Linux is like an old friend, it can be a server, a desktop, a laptop and it's the perfect system for people who love to tinker, like a hot rodder who has to have chrome wheels, Nitrous tank, and a million amp sub woofer. And it's great for a small talented IT department to build web apps on and a full set of network services at 1/8 the cost of other proprietary systems.
Useability, some distros have it some don't. But generally once you've used one GUI you can figure out anything. Why is it, people will call a system admistrator to find out how to use a piece of software? The administrator has not used every single feature on every piece of of software there is, but instead starts checking menus. Mac users are just as as bad at this as others, in fact ability seems to inversely proportional to position. And guess who gets the expensive Macs?
All that and I still bought an iMac, why? One word.... iPod.:)
The margins set properly to print in open office did not produce the same bottom margin in the Word 2000 in windows. The problem was not the user it was compatibility. And as a side note, the file displayed and printed correctly on my MAC's version of Office. The teacher didn't take already printed versions, he had to have them on a floppy. This was about 3 years ago, open office is heck of alot better now. The paper also was longer than required. This teacher was an idiot, (still is) he is just indicative of the larger problem. People assume a computer to be windows with microsoft software on it. And anything different from what the school, government etc. uses is not acceptable. I had a powerbook about 5 years ago, and a previous employer would not let me use it on the network. Because one MCSE, 6 month technical school idiot said it causes noise on "his" network.
I can tell you this I looked at the paper in both Word & OpenOffice. It was perfectly legible, it just didn't follow his written instructions, again he used a freaking ruler. The teacher excuse was that he would allow "special case students" to use the classroom computer after school. But he never told the kids this, he only said it after the issue was raised by several parents at the PTA meeting. Anyway, what middle school child is going to volunteer that they are "special case"?"
And where in the store is it sold? You would only know it if you went to a college bookstore or maybe their website. You won't find it at CompUSA. Then you need a student ID, or teacher credentials. Middle schools in poor small Mid - West towns do not issue student ID cards.
Fair competition is always good for the consumer. A document created by a poor child for school under a freely available word processor on an older used computer will be accepted by the teacher. The idiot teacher will not be able to force the child's parents to trade a coat for a wordprocessor. Think I'm kidding, my niece had a science project fail because the document produced in Open Office didn't produce on his MS Word a lower margin of 1 inch, it created a lower margin of 1.25 inches, yes the idiot used a ruler. When he was told that the document was produced in Open Office, his response was "What's that? I said to use Microsoft Word!" and my sister who was an Airman Basic making $800 a month paid $399 for it!
Oh and you guys murdered most of your native population and then enslaved another.
Can you name one major empire that didn't ever in there history do the same?
The Greeks, The Roman's, Ancient Egypt, The Byzantine's, the Moors, The Crusades, Napolean, Genghis Kahn, Japan's invasion of Korea & Manchuria etc. Nazi germany, the USSR, and the US genocide of the Indian's to name a few. Black slave's were a commodity worldwide. Thanks in no small part to the Arabs, the Spanish and the Dutch who entered the slave market and in a short time exported more slaves than all the previous put together. All have had histories of murder & genocide. Mankind pretty much has a history of doing the most dreadful things imaginable. Facist,Communist,Islamist,Capitalist, pretty much any order with an 'ist' at the end becomes a reason to kill.
Seriously that is the reason I continue to use linux. I can do alot for free and not feel guilty! I do submit bug reports, and try as much as I can to give back to the community. I did some work on gtkmm and have created several themes for KDE, GNOME and Gkrellm. Mostly older stuff back in about 2001. The community spirit was alot higher back in 96, but linux has become more mainstream now. I was even hired because of my Linux experience. There is no going back to windows, though I do flirt with OS X. I now feel uncomfortable with windows.
I agree, I think that Excell is by far the best program Microsoft has ever produced. Unfortunately, the rest of office peaked in Office 97 in my opinion. I really like OpenOffice.org 2.0, but OOCalc does need serious attention. Gnumeric is my spreadsheet of choice on linux. OpenOffice is slow booting, but after that seems fine. I use it daily at work, nobody knows I am not using word or powerpoint.
So I guess the answer is yes & no, Their are plans to support it with a plugin (like other plugin file filters word etc.), but no plans for making it the default. So it's really not clear if they will support it well or anytime soon.
Say Hello to the World Internet Taxation Authority.
Say Hello to International Monitoring and Suppression (Chinese Model).
Say GoodBye to Slasdot.
Say Goodbye to Freedom of Expression.
I imagine the discussion went something like this:
Kofi: Now how do we blame this on W? Ayatolla got any Ideas? Mugabe: We got the EU on board from pure nationalism, irrational fear and plain old hate for Americans. How can we expand on this to include national sovereignty? Abbas: If we succeeed maybe next we'll be able to force territorial concessions. Isn't this Instant Messaging wonderful? My Al Qaeda brothers have been using for years to plot the wests destruction. Now that the invasion of Europe is well under way, taxing the Internet will make up for the loss of the Oil for Food business and allow us to begin new opportunities in South America. They hate Americans too. Kofi: First thing on the agenda is to remove all references to "God" Ayatolla: That doesn't include Allah does it? Kofi: LOL! of course not!
The Bastion of freedom comment was his not mine. I agree with you, except on lower standard of living, quality of life, then Europe. I've lived in Frankfurt Germany in what was considered a great apartment, it cost $1400 a month. It sucked, I own my own home with 2 acres. Cities everywhere pretty much suck in my opinion. In the US there is poverty, and in most cases it didn't have to happen.
People make decisions, some of those decisions have long term negative impact. Choosing to act like your friends, not finishing school etc. In this country we have people living of others with no intent on changing anything. I substituted at a local high school, the school is 70% kids who were tranfered and bussed in to increase diversity. All it really did was make the school overcrowded. Many of the students I taught were 16 and pregnant, there communication skills were non-existent and they refused to put in any effort. They have follwed the same example set by their parents and they made decisions that will effect their children. No one did it to them, yet they expect the state to care for them. The US has spent 20 trillion dollars to fight poverty and give educational benefits to the poor. It's not money well spent, what have we accomplished? Socialism provides no motivation to work. You cannot solve poverty by throwing money at people. I've seen examples of socialism at work, if it weren't for private contractors, Nasa couldn't build a paper airplane under budget and able to fly. Government employees seem to learn laziness, the minute they have that secure job.
In Germany I read about a women getting denied unemployment benifits. Seems the enlightened germans made prostitution legal. So now the brothels can offer jobs to women on unemployment. The women lost her benefits by refusing a job as a prostitute. So how is that better than here? What I'm tired of is all the bashing of the US, I really am tired of all the arrogance and hippocracy. They call Americans arrogant, they need to look at themselves. I've sat and listened to Germans, Kuwaitis, Saudis and Koreans bash the US and proclaim how great they are. It's really disgusting, so I'm tired of listening to it. I've lived in all those countries and visited many others. It's amazing how people think it's perfectly okay to unload on me all their hatred and bigotism. But when I point out their faults, I'm arrogant.
So it's alright for others to point out America's faults but when the conversation turns the other way. Listen, I spent 20 years defending this country, I have friends that died at khobar towers.
You are an anonymous troll who instead of making the US into the bastion of Freedom, as you say would rather we be become self loathing cowards.
Yes those US Christian terrorists are just awful. Blowing themselves up in the name of god and all. And those enlightened athiest communists in China and North Korea killing Christians, Tibetans are so rightous.
Americans deposing a despot, fighting terrorism, while building schools, roads and promoting womens rights and democracy in the Middle east is just so awful. And Russia has no problems with the peaceful islamic folk in Chechnya. That school blew itself up.
And Europeans with their so enlightend ways are just having a grand time integrating all those immigrants, so they can keep their socialist programs in a shrinking native population. That's working real well huh? Too bad about those blown up synagogues, train tracks and subways. Europeans have no neo nazi's or terrorists. America contains all the evil in the world. Those awful Christians!
Didn't Europe give us facism? You do realise it was Europeans that spread christianity don't you?
It just happens that America has more than its fair share of ignorants that refuse to understand history.
It also so happens slashdot has a lot of idiots posting on who have no concept of what America is really about. And the sad fact is some of them are Americans.
I've been following your thread here. I define art as creative construction. Music is a person taking the basic tools, measure, pitch, harmony, scales & noise and combining them in new and interesting ways. The art of medicine combines , patient history, symptoms, medicines, surgery etc. to heal a patient. You have to design an aircraft which is an art combining asthetics, aerodynamics, math and physics. Then you produce a prototype to workout any issues that don't quite work, by testing, testing and more testing. It then becomes the spec which the copies are manufactured against. Design is by definition an art. It is the same with software, you have a functionality that you want to achieve. You then creatively combine the tools available to to you to give you that functionality. You then compile the prototype and continuously debug, test and modify until you have the right balance of form and function. You then copy the program a billion times and distribute it. You then get bug reports, feature requests etc. The developer takes this new information and uses it to develop a more perfect product. With out art, you end up with interfaces that users hate, limited features and zero innovation. While you may get your users to provide the innovation in the feedback, which you then implement. More likely, someone else will create their own creative solution making your engineered solution unused and obsolete.
Only an absolute moron would admit to that. You have idiots working for you fire them immediately!
With absolutely no experience with any unix/linux system and very little windows experience, I setup a mail server, webserver and started creating a website for a company. I did that back in 1996 with RedHat 5 & a Linux for Dummies Book. Linux has come a long way since then. If they can't figure out how to install a modern linux distro in less than 4 hours, you should not be let near any computer ever! I could build a PC clone system from parts and install Fedora Core 4 configure it with apache, mysql, ftp and secure it before lunch. I've done it several times at work.
Agreed! Nobody is 100% immune to hackers, viruses, worms etc. All you can do is make it difficult enough that the jerks either give up or slip up and get caught. It's the same as your house or car, most theives look for the easy pickins first.
Looks good from far away but closer inspection reveals the awfull truth.
Initially, the press will fawn all over the flashy interface. Then after awhile users will note somethings just not quite right. As with the current version of office, they will have to continue adding features to keep making money. So eventually the new menus and such will become as difficult as before. Right now you have to play find the hidden option with their menus because there are too many options with the interface they have. While this interface seems to help, it doesn't address the core issue, feature bloat.
Fortunately, such an incident would infect only users of that distro.
Even then it would only affect users who downloaded a free version. A store bought CD would make the distributor liable for damages. So the odds are extremely high someone tested the CD image before shipping. In fact, I would bet the single RPM packages available via ftp would be the likely target. It's alot more work to infect an ISO and not change the MD5SUM. There are also very good reasons why packages in yum etc. have digital signatures. Your most likely to get burned by third party or by a scam where you have fake site posing as an official site.
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Of course your broadband could offer it as a package too. A cable modem with a wireless built into the modem your connections are all encrypted to the modem using VPN software. They provide security, content and non intrusive DRM. Based on usage you can than decide no video and get more songs or pay for more content. Using a single x509 certificate and password would allow you to connect to the service from any network connection
The problem with this senario is providors are too greedy and would constantly complain about their share of the proceeds. They will only partner up and make something like this work when they absolutely have to to survive. In the mean time they will litigate, bribe and be dragged kicking and screaming into acceptance.
The problem with micropayments is everytime you do anything Ka Ching! Cell phones are a prime example, I could text message someone from online for almost nothing and they pay on their phone bill everytime they look at it. I know someone who sent no text messages yet got a $400 bill, from a stalker. The cellphone plans are getting cheaper, they have to. So will content, it has to.
At some point, todays situation will seem archaic. I think google sees the possibilities, unlimited information and content available always. You pay for the single service, like electric power, water etc.
My old employer
Of course you also have these guys!
Who here would have even known about it, if the offended person had just edited it and / or contacted Wikipedia and informed them of the libel. Wikipedia could have stopped it cold, but now we all know he might be a killer and may have spent time in Russia. The guilty often cry the loudest. Is that the outcome wanted?
Ah! There lies the main problem with out sourcing manufacturing overseas. The US and the EU have ways correcting bad behaviour was using trade sanctions. Punish the many for the actions of a few. When the country decides it's not profitable to dump counterfiet chips on the market, it stops. It's not enforcing US laws on China, it's coercing China to follow established international trade accords. Capitalism cannot work without a formal or informal structure. China would crush any attempt to do, what it's government owned companies do daily. If China were producing it's own cutting edge chips and say North Korea were taking factory rejects running at reduced clock speed and under bidding China with their own technology, what do you think would happen?
There really isn't a need for the RIAA. Artists could sell directly through the internet. The only thing they lack is marketing, and venture capital. Technology could eventually eliminate the RIAA all together. Currently, we find out about acts mostly through radio and television. I learn about new acts almost exclusively through driving with the radio on and some I learn about through iTunes. If apple made it easy to listen before you buy, they could sell alot more. I don't like buying albums or tracks I haven't heard, I've been burned too many times.
As satellite radio becomes more prevelant there is an opening there for a change in the guard. The radio payola scams, could be a thing of the past there. Also more & more ipods are being connected in cars to stereos etc. Mine is, I even use it to DJ at a local pub, though I may start using an iBook for that, it's easier. My Tivo is connected to my wireless network, a Tivo streamcast channel devouted to the best in independent artists would be great, they already have an Entertainment Magazine feature. MTV is becoming more and more traditional TV and less Music Television. A new cable channel devoted to independent acts sponsored by Apple & Pixar studios could create new markets. Pixar studios could use independent artists in their movie sound tracks. And market them just like those you see be promoted by television shows like smallville etc. Apple needs to get more control of the content, with that and the iPod and iTunes, they could have Sony et al singing the blues about the good old days when they had the market clout.
You've been at the Mac Zealot Kool aid I see. The only real thing about a Mac's user experience that is superior is it's software install. It doesn't get much easier than drag & drop. Spotlight's nice but most users I watch save every damn thing on the desktop and never use it. They might have a nice wallpaper somewhere under all those icons. Linux has Beagle and Windows, well they will probably integrate internet search and desktop search and in the process leave a million exploitable holes, but that's another matter.
After that is starts going downhill. First, closing the only open window does not close the program. This is fine for those who don't mind pointing the mouse into the far left corner and scrolling down a menu to exit the program. But from the amount of users I find with 10+ programs running unknown to the user, this should have been fixed years ago. It's 2005 and Mac finally makes a multi button mouse, their OS has supported them for years. Yet they have been inadvertantly selling other peoples stuff years. Go to CompUSA, every one who buys a Mac at some point goes in and buys a Kingston, MS or Logitech mouse with scroll wheel. Every other major or minor OS in the world is wrong and apple is right? I pay almost $2000 for an iMac and they couldn't throw in their frickin top of the line also over priced mouse? Another oddity, the menu at the top of the screen. Great! instead of moving the mouse a 100 pixels or so I again have to move way out of the area I'm working to access a menu, whose bright idea was that? Now lets look at uniformity, brushed metal, white, white with stipples, top window bar blended into the window as to be invisible ( aka System Preferences), brushed metal window, window with a visible top bar. Things that are pretty much standard practice on every other OS/GUI in the world, are different on a Mac. And usually it seems for no good reason except to be different. It's fine if all your ever gonna use is a Mac, but that not ever gonna happen in the real world.
I use several OS's daily, I own two Mac's and two Linux Machines. At work I develop on and administer VAX, SGI, Solarix, Windows(NT,2K,XP), Linux and Mac's. No OS is perfect period. Linux is like an old friend, it can be a server, a desktop, a laptop and it's the perfect system for people who love to tinker, like a hot rodder who has to have chrome wheels, Nitrous tank, and a million amp sub woofer. And it's great for a small talented IT department to build web apps on and a full set of network services at 1/8 the cost of other proprietary systems.
Useability, some distros have it some don't. But generally once you've used one GUI you can figure out anything. Why is it, people will call a system admistrator to find out how to use a piece of software? The administrator has not used every single feature on every piece of of software there is, but instead starts checking menus. Mac users are just as as bad at this as others, in fact ability seems to inversely proportional to position. And guess who gets the expensive Macs?
All that and I still bought an iMac, why? One word .... iPod. :)
The margins set properly to print in open office did not produce the same bottom margin in the Word 2000 in windows. The problem was not the user it was compatibility. And as a side note, the file displayed and printed correctly on my MAC's version of Office. The teacher didn't take already printed versions, he had to have them on a floppy. This was about 3 years ago, open office is heck of alot better now. The paper also was longer than required. This teacher was an idiot, (still is) he is just indicative of the larger problem. People assume a computer to be windows with microsoft software on it. And anything different from what the school, government etc. uses is not acceptable. I had a powerbook about 5 years ago, and a previous employer would not let me use it on the network. Because one MCSE, 6 month technical school idiot said it causes noise on "his" network.
I can tell you this I looked at the paper in both Word & OpenOffice. It was perfectly legible, it just didn't follow his written instructions, again he used a freaking ruler. The teacher excuse was that he would allow "special case students" to use the classroom computer after school. But he never told the kids this, he only said it after the issue was raised by several parents at the PTA meeting. Anyway, what middle school child is going to volunteer that they are "special case"?"
And where in the store is it sold? You would only know it if you went to a college bookstore or maybe their website. You won't find it at CompUSA. Then you need a student ID, or teacher credentials. Middle schools in poor small Mid - West towns do not issue student ID cards.
Fair competition is always good for the consumer. A document created by a poor child for school under a freely available word processor on an older used computer will be accepted by the teacher. The idiot teacher will not be able to force the child's parents to trade a coat for a wordprocessor. Think I'm kidding, my niece had a science project fail because the document produced in Open Office didn't produce on his MS Word a lower margin of 1 inch, it created a lower margin of 1.25 inches, yes the idiot used a ruler. When he was told that the document was produced in Open Office, his response was "What's that? I said to use Microsoft Word!" and my sister who was an Airman Basic making $800 a month paid $399 for it!
Can you name one major empire that didn't ever in there history do the same? The Greeks, The Roman's, Ancient Egypt, The Byzantine's, the Moors, The Crusades, Napolean, Genghis Kahn, Japan's invasion of Korea & Manchuria etc. Nazi germany, the USSR, and the US genocide of the Indian's to name a few. Black slave's were a commodity worldwide. Thanks in no small part to the Arabs, the Spanish and the Dutch who entered the slave market and in a short time exported more slaves than all the previous put together. All have had histories of murder & genocide. Mankind pretty much has a history of doing the most dreadful things imaginable. Facist,Communist,Islamist,Capitalist, pretty much any order with an 'ist' at the end becomes a reason to kill.
Seriously that is the reason I continue to use linux. I can do alot for free and not feel guilty! I do submit bug reports, and try as much as I can to give back to the community. I did some work on gtkmm and have created several themes for KDE, GNOME and Gkrellm. Mostly older stuff back in about 2001. The community spirit was alot higher back in 96, but linux has become more mainstream now. I was even hired because of my Linux experience. There is no going back to windows, though I do flirt with OS X. I now feel uncomfortable with windows.
I agree, I think that Excell is by far the best program Microsoft has ever produced. Unfortunately, the rest of office peaked in Office 97 in my opinion. I really like OpenOffice.org 2.0, but OOCalc does need serious attention. Gnumeric is my spreadsheet of choice on linux. OpenOffice is slow booting, but after that seems fine. I use it daily at work, nobody knows I am not using word or powerpoint.
So I guess the answer is yes & no, Their are plans to support it with a plugin (like other plugin file filters word etc.), but no plans for making it the default. So it's really not clear if they will support it well or anytime soon.
Say Hello to International Monitoring and Suppression (Chinese Model).
Say GoodBye to Slasdot.
Say Goodbye to Freedom of Expression.
I imagine the discussion went something like this:
Kofi: Now how do we blame this on W? Ayatolla got any Ideas?
Mugabe: We got the EU on board from pure nationalism, irrational fear and plain old hate for Americans. How can we expand on this to include national sovereignty?
Abbas: If we succeeed maybe next we'll be able to force territorial concessions. Isn't this Instant Messaging wonderful? My Al Qaeda brothers have been using for years to plot the wests destruction. Now that the invasion of Europe is well under way, taxing the Internet will make up for the loss of the Oil for Food business and allow us to begin new opportunities in South America. They hate Americans too.
Kofi: First thing on the agenda is to remove all references to "God"
Ayatolla: That doesn't include Allah does it?
Kofi: LOL! of course not!
People make decisions, some of those decisions have long term negative impact. Choosing to act like your friends, not finishing school etc. In this country we have people living of others with no intent on changing anything. I substituted at a local high school, the school is 70% kids who were tranfered and bussed in to increase diversity. All it really did was make the school overcrowded. Many of the students I taught were 16 and pregnant, there communication skills were non-existent and they refused to put in any effort. They have follwed the same example set by their parents and they made decisions that will effect their children. No one did it to them, yet they expect the state to care for them. The US has spent 20 trillion dollars to fight poverty and give educational benefits to the poor. It's not money well spent, what have we accomplished? Socialism provides no motivation to work. You cannot solve poverty by throwing money at people. I've seen examples of socialism at work, if it weren't for private contractors, Nasa couldn't build a paper airplane under budget and able to fly. Government employees seem to learn laziness, the minute they have that secure job.
In Germany I read about a women getting denied unemployment benifits. Seems the enlightened germans made prostitution legal. So now the brothels can offer jobs to women on unemployment. The women lost her benefits by refusing a job as a prostitute. So how is that better than here? What I'm tired of is all the bashing of the US, I really am tired of all the arrogance and hippocracy. They call Americans arrogant, they need to look at themselves. I've sat and listened to Germans, Kuwaitis, Saudis and Koreans bash the US and proclaim how great they are. It's really disgusting, so I'm tired of listening to it. I've lived in all those countries and visited many others. It's amazing how people think it's perfectly okay to unload on me all their hatred and bigotism. But when I point out their faults, I'm arrogant.
So it's alright for others to point out America's faults but when the conversation turns the other way. Listen, I spent 20 years defending this country, I have friends that died at khobar towers. You are an anonymous troll who instead of making the US into the bastion of Freedom, as you say would rather we be become self loathing cowards.
Americans deposing a despot, fighting terrorism, while building schools, roads and promoting womens rights and democracy in the Middle east is just so awful. And Russia has no problems with the peaceful islamic folk in Chechnya. That school blew itself up. And Europeans with their so enlightend ways are just having a grand time integrating all those immigrants, so they can keep their socialist programs in a shrinking native population. That's working real well huh? Too bad about those blown up synagogues, train tracks and subways. Europeans have no neo nazi's or terrorists. America contains all the evil in the world. Those awful Christians!
Didn't Europe give us facism? You do realise it was Europeans that spread christianity don't you?
It just happens that America has more than its fair share of ignorants that refuse to understand history.
It also so happens slashdot has a lot of idiots posting on who have no concept of what America is really about. And the sad fact is some of them are Americans.
I've been following your thread here. I define art as creative construction. Music is a person taking the basic tools, measure, pitch, harmony, scales & noise and combining them in new and interesting ways. The art of medicine combines , patient history, symptoms, medicines, surgery etc. to heal a patient. You have to design an aircraft which is an art combining asthetics, aerodynamics, math and physics. Then you produce a prototype to workout any issues that don't quite work, by testing, testing and more testing. It then becomes the spec which the copies are manufactured against. Design is by definition an art. It is the same with software, you have a functionality that you want to achieve. You then creatively combine the tools available to to you to give you that functionality. You then compile the prototype and continuously debug, test and modify until you have the right balance of form and function. You then copy the program a billion times and distribute it. You then get bug reports, feature requests etc. The developer takes this new information and uses it to develop a more perfect product. With out art, you end up with interfaces that users hate, limited features and zero innovation. While you may get your users to provide the innovation in the feedback, which you then implement. More likely, someone else will create their own creative solution making your engineered solution unused and obsolete.
Only an absolute moron would admit to that. You have idiots working for you fire them immediately! With absolutely no experience with any unix/linux system and very little windows experience, I setup a mail server, webserver and started creating a website for a company. I did that back in 1996 with RedHat 5 & a Linux for Dummies Book. Linux has come a long way since then. If they can't figure out how to install a modern linux distro in less than 4 hours, you should not be let near any computer ever! I could build a PC clone system from parts and install Fedora Core 4 configure it with apache, mysql, ftp and secure it before lunch. I've done it several times at work.
And do what? Run. It seems it would only be useful as a glorified treadmill.
Maybe this group of stars is not a natural phenomena? Que the twilight zone theme.
All kidding aside, they could have formed outside the vicinty and got pulled in. What keeps them from ripping apart from tidal forces is interests me.
The original CD.
I wouldn't say you're invulnerable, though.
Agreed! Nobody is 100% immune to hackers, viruses, worms etc. All you can do is make it difficult enough that the jerks either give up or slip up and get caught. It's the same as your house or car, most theives look for the easy pickins first.
Initially, the press will fawn all over the flashy interface. Then after awhile users will note somethings just not quite right. As with the current version of office, they will have to continue adding features to keep making money. So eventually the new menus and such will become as difficult as before. Right now you have to play find the hidden option with their menus because there are too many options with the interface they have. While this interface seems to help, it doesn't address the core issue, feature bloat.
Even then it would only affect users who downloaded a free version. A store bought CD would make the distributor liable for damages. So the odds are extremely high someone tested the CD image before shipping. In fact, I would bet the single RPM packages available via ftp would be the likely target. It's alot more work to infect an ISO and not change the MD5SUM. There are also very good reasons why packages in yum etc. have digital signatures. Your most likely to get burned by third party or by a scam where you have fake site posing as an official site.