Come on!
I've already decided that my next machine will be a mac. It's some of the nicest hardware.
I think that migrating away from IA-32 hardware is the next logical step for the power user.
Well, I'm not from the US, but here's the way I see the problem.
The people like microsoft. It's the consumer's dream come true. It's all bubbly, and friendly, and has that *coool* little paperclip, and this neat-o MSN messanger...
The general public is not concerned about Digital *Restrictions* Management. Although it would completely eliminate independant artists' ablity to distribute their art, nobody cares about indies, and would rather watch the 24 hour Britney Spears cam, for a nominal fee of $.35 per minute.
The problem is that the corporations, are providing the Luse^H^H^H^H consumer with everything they want. And *sure* the slashdot people are upset, but we probably don't even make up 1% of the drooling consumer body that allows this to continue.
Unices have the command line. That is an incredibly powerful utility if you know how to use it. Pipes and filters are excelent ways of representing data.
The GUIs we have, are good for manipulating visual data.
The problem with our current interfaces is not that they're too difficult to use. In fact, our technology is fine. We have a *moral* problem.
Our parents and grandparents have raised a generation of selfish, arrogant, lazy people with no patience at all.
People spend $3000( That's canadian dollars, eh) on a computer, and therefore expect it to work with absolutely ZERO effort on their part. They ignore any or all visual prompts or warnings. They will completely ignore any on-screen instructions that are presented to them.
I can only say that either these people are lazy, arrogant, spoiled snobs. Or they really are that stupid. How much reading comprehension does it take to understand the concept of "Any Key"?
Maybe we should leave the interface alone? It is possible that our money would best be spent, not on UI research, but on educating our children?
Bad Joke Part: That's odd, i don't recall seeing "Fucking Fast" in the table of accepted SI units of measurement.
Serious part: Velocity/Speed should be unimportant unless "High Speed" is near the speed of light. Since none of our "targets" are likely to travel that fast for a while, i'm assuming that they meant "accelerating rapidly"?
And shortly after your new rating system comes into effect, the last 2 hours of good television that are still available, will be replaced with a close up of britany's chest while she jumps up and down...
Well, we have OpenNic. I use them. If we could persuade our ISPs to configure their servers to use the open nic root, which of course is merged with the ICANN root and AlterNIC for the largest namespace, then we could eventually phase out
ICANN.
It's true that {Li,U}nix machines do build up cruft. I have 4 machines running 24/7.
Machine 1: DHCP/DNS/NIS/SYSLOG server for my lan. This has been sitting at CF1 for 3 years. I log into it about once every 2 months, to add or remove a user.
Machine 2: Firewall and mail/http/ftp server. This probably was at a CF 3 after 2 years, up until last week when i moved from redhat 5.2 to slackware 8.0. It's seen a fair bit of tweaking, and frobbing, and i'm not disappointed. After all, windows has a CF 4 out of the box.
Machine 3: My Laptop. It's at my girlfriend's apartment, I'm not sure but it's probably at CF3 or 4, but it's running a late model redhat distro, which comes with the cruft pre-installed
Machine 4: My Desktop. My poor desktop. It gets a full reinstall every 6 months. What can i say? Unix was designed to be configured and left alone. Not somthing I can do (well, i could but it's no fun) When my machine reaches CF 5 it's an excuse to finally upgrade to the latest release of my favorite distro of the week.
I have an AS/400 that i picked up for $150
Whatadeal!
It goes up to F24.:o)
And god, if you think that a PC takes a while to reboot, TRY an AS/400 Some Time
NoNoNoNoNo!! No Crypto Keys! The only way to ensure that that would work, would be to have some master CA issue us our keys. But that is how bigbrother works
Sorry.. My post seems incomplete..
So why do we take this crap? We have today's business marketplace by the balls!
We are the ones that are developing these standards
for our employers. Would microsoft be so powerful
if all bill's code grinders quit?
if we were to simply *refuse* to write the software
that would allow these nasty DRM technologies possible then it simply wouldn't happen
He does have a point.
we do control the internet.
how fast would the US government change their mind if all the geeks walked off the job?
Would they be persuaded by the entire IT/Telecom industry grinding to a screeching halt over a period of 30 seconds or so?
Slashdot Mirror
Come on! I've already decided that my next machine will be a mac. It's some of the nicest hardware. I think that migrating away from IA-32 hardware is the next logical step for the power user.
Well, I'm not from the US, but here's the way I see the problem.
The people like microsoft. It's the consumer's dream come true. It's all bubbly, and friendly, and has that *coool* little paperclip, and this neat-o MSN messanger...
The general public is not concerned about Digital *Restrictions* Management. Although it would completely eliminate independant artists' ablity to distribute their art, nobody cares about indies, and would rather watch the 24 hour Britney Spears cam, for a nominal fee of $.35 per minute.
The problem is that the corporations, are providing the Luse^H^H^H^H consumer with everything they want. And *sure* the slashdot people are upset, but we probably don't even make up 1% of the drooling consumer body that allows this to continue.
What about the Caramilk bar? How do they get the caramel in it? I REALLY wanna know!
I AM OFFICIALLY *ENDING* This thread, and all it's children. .......... nazis
There. You can say no more.
I'm Maybe we already *have* a good UI.
Unices have the command line. That is an incredibly powerful utility if you know how to use it. Pipes and filters are excelent ways of representing data.
The GUIs we have, are good for manipulating visual data.
The problem with our current interfaces is not that they're too difficult to use. In fact, our technology is fine. We have a *moral* problem.
Our parents and grandparents have raised a generation of selfish, arrogant, lazy people with no patience at all.
People spend $3000( That's canadian dollars, eh) on a computer, and therefore expect it to work with absolutely ZERO effort on their part. They ignore any or all visual prompts or warnings. They will completely ignore any on-screen instructions that are presented to them.
I can only say that either these people are lazy, arrogant, spoiled snobs. Or they really are that stupid. How much reading comprehension does it take to understand the concept of "Any Key"?
Maybe we should leave the interface alone? It is possible that our money would best be spent, not on UI research, but on educating our children?
Just My 2.0E-2 Dollars.
Did you feel it as an observer, or as the reciever?
That sounds so much like .net
Bad Joke Part: That's odd, i don't recall seeing "Fucking Fast" in the table of accepted SI units of measurement. Serious part: Velocity/Speed should be unimportant unless "High Speed" is near the speed of light. Since none of our "targets" are likely to travel that fast for a while, i'm assuming that they meant "accelerating rapidly"?
From what I understand, the GPL has not been violated. This article isn't about the GPL.
/. readers do have respect for other people's privacy.
This is about a piece of craptacular spyware. Now, surely you can say that most
And shortly after your new rating system comes into effect, the last 2 hours of good television that are still available, will be replaced with a close up of britany's chest while she jumps up and down...
Was that a troll? Or did you actually intend to post to that cruft article?
Well, we have OpenNic. I use them. If we could persuade our ISPs to configure their servers to use the open nic root, which of course is merged with the ICANN root and AlterNIC for the largest namespace, then we could eventually phase out ICANN.
It's true that {Li,U}nix machines do build up cruft. I have 4 machines running 24/7.
Machine 1: DHCP/DNS/NIS/SYSLOG server for my lan. This has been sitting at CF1 for 3 years. I log into it about once every 2 months, to add or remove a user.
Machine 2: Firewall and mail/http/ftp server. This probably was at a CF 3 after 2 years, up until last week when i moved from redhat 5.2 to slackware 8.0. It's seen a fair bit of tweaking, and frobbing, and i'm not disappointed. After all, windows has a CF 4 out of the box.
Machine 3: My Laptop. It's at my girlfriend's apartment, I'm not sure but it's probably at CF3 or 4, but it's running a late model redhat distro, which comes with the cruft pre-installed
Machine 4: My Desktop. My poor desktop. It gets a full reinstall every 6 months. What can i say? Unix was designed to be configured and left alone. Not somthing I can do (well, i could but it's no fun) When my machine reaches CF 5 it's an excuse to finally upgrade to the latest release of my favorite distro of the week.
"Linux-nazi empire. I can't believe it." Wasn't Goldwyns law supposed to stop this thread dead in it's tracks?
I have an AS/400 that i picked up for $150 Whatadeal! It goes up to F24. :o)
And god, if you think that a PC takes a while to reboot, TRY an AS/400 Some Time
Didn't kuro5hin.org have a fund raiser a month or 2 ago? I thought they met their goals
Yep. They dangled the bait infront of you, and you bit it. Oh, and just for the record, no, I didn't do it.
Errr... Wasn't Titanic supposed to be unsinkable?
NoNoNoNoNo!! No Crypto Keys! The only way to ensure that that would work, would be to have some master CA issue us our keys. But that is how bigbrother works
Sorry.. My post seems incomplete.. So why do we take this crap? We have today's business marketplace by the balls! We are the ones that are developing these standards for our employers. Would microsoft be so powerful if all bill's code grinders quit? if we were to simply *refuse* to write the software that would allow these nasty DRM technologies possible then it simply wouldn't happen
He does have a point. we do control the internet. how fast would the US government change their mind if all the geeks walked off the job? Would they be persuaded by the entire IT/Telecom industry grinding to a screeching halt over a period of 30 seconds or so?