"If enough other people feel the same way, it will fail".... Most people don't know about it. Palladium unfortunately will probably succeed because 4 out of 5 people walking into Best Buy get the computer that the salesperson sells them and two or three years from now, that computer will have Palladium. So, 6 years from now when 80% of people have Palladium machines..what then?
Maybe I'm just caught up in too many what-if's. I personally won't buy a Palladium machine and will tell other people not to and I never intended to spend $1000 Canadian on Photoshop 8.0 [what a complete rip-off anyway]. If Windows has too many resrictions, people will continue to buy it because, believe it or not, there isn't another desktop that so many people are familiar/comfortable with.
I'm not disagreeing with your post, but I'm just very disturbed that these things happen at all.
And remember 76% of statistics are made up on the spot.
It is not that anyone's life is going to end, but the fact that the company even thought about crippling their product in ANY way. Money can't be scanned and then what is next. People have indicated pictures of a sexual nature would be next but it might not even be that.
Error: "The picture you are currently attempting to open looks too much like the Mona Lisa. Program terminating and deleting file"
This ranks up there with Palladium crippling hardware. I think that everyone consumer would agree that they want their programs and hardware to be free of these apparently arbitrary restrictions meant to appease certain organizations.
.... used to get my interest on slashdot, but after seeing 2&3, I don't really care. Nehril's synopsis was actually better than the movies as someone indicated. Thank you.
Boooo.
Working at an ISP I can say that MOST of the mail coming into our mail server IS spam and it is forcing us to purchase more bandwidth and develop a new mail system. Not cheap.
I have had my current account [soon to be gotten rid of] since early 1998. Up until about 1 year ago it was spam free and then started receiving a couple spams/day after somebody mailed me an article from a news site through their web form. About 8 months ago, some incident [which I believe to be a tech support email to a reputable gaming software company but it could be something else] ruined the account. It now gets on average 50 emails/day. Honestly, I get
Email just isn't what it used to be.
Bah who cares. I was a little disappointed when spoilers were posted here on Slashdot about the third installment of the Matrix, but in the end they didn't matter. This one shouldn't matter either. I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD and even then I may not see it.
We should all refuse to see the movie. The previous two episodes were disappointments anyway, and I don't even consider myself a Star Wars fan.
I don't know Mr. BigBlockMopar, nor do I know the lady in the story. As for being a jerk, he said himself he prefers asshole.
But, as we all know, the story was exaggerated a bit. She [verbally] attacked him and he [over]reacted to her attack [according to the story]. Nobody is a sinner here and nobody is a saint....just regular people.
Public embarassment. I thought I saw on television years ago a judge in Texas that did just that. If you stole a chocolate bar from a store and were caught, he wouldn't sentence you to anything other than standing outside the store for 10 hours wearing a sandwich board declaring your crime. Same thing for people who didn't pay child support etc. Seemed like an interesting concept.
I tend to store my lego [an absurd amount, but there are people with more] in flat, clear tackle boxes I get from Walmart. $5 Canadian and you can store another couple sets of lego.
The problem with punishing spammers is that currently it appears that there are several viruses/backdoors out there that make spam look like it is coming from certain computers. When you give these people a call, they're scared out of minds because they have no idea that their computer is being used for this relaying of spam.
The cane toad is no doubt a bad thing, but one of the biggest threats we can possibly face is ACCIDENTALLY producing a self replicating "entity" that in an evolutionary sense will destroy us. Bill Joy from Sun microsystems had a good article/interview/something and in it he mentioned a threat far worse that Nuclear/chemical weapons. Any self-replicating being/thing could very easily get out of control.
I don't know about the cane toad but I don't think it kills 100% of the beings it comes in contact with. This virus that infects only mice and kills them 100% of the time is a terrible thing. If it got out and killed all the mice on a continent [if we were lucky enough to have it stop there] imagine how that would affect the food chain....nothing to eat little bugs, nothing to feed birds/snakes etc.
Its scary because its not science fiction now. We really could kill ourselves completely by accident.
I fail to understand the desire to own a handgun. At age 30, I have held a handgun [in a case] because my father was a police officer and held two show guns with plugs welded into the barrels. That's it. As for rifles or anything, growing up we had two rifles...three if you count the pellet gun and that was the only one I've fired or ever wanted to fire.
I've seen it mentioned on/. before. What you really want is a reduction of primitives. Maybe the BIOS does too much already. Increase the complexity, like you said, and it only creates more problems. Reduce the complexity and get more flexibility.
My charger: Rayovac PS3
Great because it charges rechargeable alkaline, NiMH, and NiCd [not 9Volt form factors, but the standard AAA, AA, C and D batteries] and it won't overcharge them.
I have three or 4 pairs of NiMH for my digital camera [works great in there] and Talkabout radios. Have a couple sets of rechargeable alkalines for stuff like remote controls [long idle time in those]. Don't have any NiCd...too many problems with battery memory which the NiMH doesn't have.
The best battery I've seen was the Kodak Lithium Ion 3V [single battery in the form factor of two AA's]. It ran the camera for three months before I replaced it with the rechargeable NiMH.
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"If enough other people feel the same way, it will fail".... Most people don't know about it. Palladium unfortunately will probably succeed because 4 out of 5 people walking into Best Buy get the computer that the salesperson sells them and two or three years from now, that computer will have Palladium. So, 6 years from now when 80% of people have Palladium machines..what then?
Maybe I'm just caught up in too many what-if's. I personally won't buy a Palladium machine and will tell other people not to and I never intended to spend $1000 Canadian on Photoshop 8.0 [what a complete rip-off anyway]. If Windows has too many resrictions, people will continue to buy it because, believe it or not, there isn't another desktop that so many people are familiar/comfortable with.
I'm not disagreeing with your post, but I'm just very disturbed that these things happen at all.
And remember 76% of statistics are made up on the spot.
It is not that anyone's life is going to end, but the fact that the company even thought about crippling their product in ANY way. Money can't be scanned and then what is next. People have indicated pictures of a sexual nature would be next but it might not even be that.
Error: "The picture you are currently attempting to open looks too much like the Mona Lisa. Program terminating and deleting file"
This ranks up there with Palladium crippling hardware. I think that everyone consumer would agree that they want their programs and hardware to be free of these apparently arbitrary restrictions meant to appease certain organizations.
Where does it stop?
No no, you've got it all wrong.
"I'd buy it....for ME TO POOP ON"
.... used to get my interest on slashdot, but after seeing 2&3, I don't really care. Nehril's synopsis was actually better than the movies as someone indicated. Thank you.
Boooo. Working at an ISP I can say that MOST of the mail coming into our mail server IS spam and it is forcing us to purchase more bandwidth and develop a new mail system. Not cheap.
I have had my current account [soon to be gotten rid of] since early 1998. Up until about 1 year ago it was spam free and then started receiving a couple spams/day after somebody mailed me an article from a news site through their web form. About 8 months ago, some incident [which I believe to be a tech support email to a reputable gaming software company but it could be something else] ruined the account. It now gets on average 50 emails/day. Honestly, I get
Email just isn't what it used to be.
Bah who cares. I was a little disappointed when spoilers were posted here on Slashdot about the third installment of the Matrix, but in the end they didn't matter. This one shouldn't matter either. I'm waiting for it to come out on DVD and even then I may not see it.
We should all refuse to see the movie. The previous two episodes were disappointments anyway, and I don't even consider myself a Star Wars fan.
A friend of mine got married to a Columbian and she was surprised when he tried to put the ring on the left hand.
I don't know Mr. BigBlockMopar, nor do I know the lady in the story. As for being a jerk, he said himself he prefers asshole.
But, as we all know, the story was exaggerated a bit. She [verbally] attacked him and he [over]reacted to her attack [according to the story]. Nobody is a sinner here and nobody is a saint....just regular people.
Can't we just all get along.
And me without Mod Points.
Public embarassment. I thought I saw on television years ago a judge in Texas that did just that. If you stole a chocolate bar from a store and were caught, he wouldn't sentence you to anything other than standing outside the store for 10 hours wearing a sandwich board declaring your crime. Same thing for people who didn't pay child support etc. Seemed like an interesting concept.
I tend to store my lego [an absurd amount, but there are people with more] in flat, clear tackle boxes I get from Walmart. $5 Canadian and you can store another couple sets of lego.
I don't own anything else.
That is what would happen in Canada.
Actually, going backwards works out too. He just gets to repeat 2-3 years which will accumulate to 5+ years experience.
The problem with punishing spammers is that currently it appears that there are several viruses/backdoors out there that make spam look like it is coming from certain computers. When you give these people a call, they're scared out of minds because they have no idea that their computer is being used for this relaying of spam.
The word 'meeting' should be replaced with 'milieu'.
Thank you
The Bill Joy article can be found here
The cane toad is no doubt a bad thing, but one of the biggest threats we can possibly face is ACCIDENTALLY producing a self replicating "entity" that in an evolutionary sense will destroy us. Bill Joy from Sun microsystems had a good article/interview/something and in it he mentioned a threat far worse that Nuclear/chemical weapons. Any self-replicating being/thing could very easily get out of control.
I don't know about the cane toad but I don't think it kills 100% of the beings it comes in contact with. This virus that infects only mice and kills them 100% of the time is a terrible thing. If it got out and killed all the mice on a continent [if we were lucky enough to have it stop there] imagine how that would affect the food chain....nothing to eat little bugs, nothing to feed birds/snakes etc.
Its scary because its not science fiction now. We really could kill ourselves completely by accident.
Me too. Just like depressing both control keys concurrently with the same hand [thumb and pinky....its a stretch]
I fail to understand the desire to own a handgun. At age 30, I have held a handgun [in a case] because my father was a police officer and held two show guns with plugs welded into the barrels. That's it. As for rifles or anything, growing up we had two rifles...three if you count the pellet gun and that was the only one I've fired or ever wanted to fire.
Great analogies. The covered wagon chasing the bee. The most visual post I believe I have seen here. Are you a writer or something.
I've seen it mentioned on /. before. What you really want is a reduction of primitives. Maybe the BIOS does too much already. Increase the complexity, like you said, and it only creates more problems. Reduce the complexity and get more flexibility.
Plus, potatoes are cheaper than bullets.
Why go with real guns when you can use this
More bludgeoning with this.
My charger: Rayovac PS3
Great because it charges rechargeable alkaline, NiMH, and NiCd [not 9Volt form factors, but the standard AAA, AA, C and D batteries] and it won't overcharge them.
I have three or 4 pairs of NiMH for my digital camera [works great in there] and Talkabout radios. Have a couple sets of rechargeable alkalines for stuff like remote controls [long idle time in those]. Don't have any NiCd...too many problems with battery memory which the NiMH doesn't have.
The best battery I've seen was the Kodak Lithium Ion 3V [single battery in the form factor of two AA's]. It ran the camera for three months before I replaced it with the rechargeable NiMH.
Just my $0.02
Darn Red-Bull commercials..... Nobody would remember Sysiphus if it wasn't for those commercials.