C'mon. Jackson loves all the movies with monsters/giant apes/ugly orcs/lots of blood
Look at his filmography.
He loves to scare. And this 'giant ape' movie is The Scary Movie All-time Classic.
Besides with the props and CG effects fromWETA this will be masterpiece. I can't wait.
I can tell one thing for sure about Apple. They have brilliant marketing - they take simple MP3 player does some magic advertising and tadam! we have the thing that changes culture
Maybe I'm a bit conservative but I still think p2p networks are evil. They consume all aviable bandwidth, they're hard to control - limiting Kazaa for network larger than 3 computers is a nightmare - it uses all aviable ports, you have to actually filter it by IP packet contents, looking for certain strings in packets.
They're also damn easy for abuse - name your trojan preetingirlsuckingdog.exe and tadam! next day it's everywhere.
I know they can be used for 'decent' purposes also, like torrents lately for sharing kernel sources. But still - what was wrong with ftp/http downloading?
Don't be so hasty with putting this memory in your computres and MP3 players. The way from idea to stores is quite long and a lot of ideas don't go beyond the project stage.
There still are Polymer Memory, Ovionics Unified Memory (OUM), Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) and ferro-electric RAM (FeRAM) There is a lot of intresting memory-related projecs in progress, only time will show which of them are actually useful and will be installed in our future computers.
We're constantly bitching about low security of Microsft products. Nothing changes - they're still as lousy as before.
But Microsoft doesn't care. People still use their software. Instead of fixing the bugs they launch new zillions $$$ worth advertising campaings, showing they're much better than OS solutions.
In world of real operating systems standard answer for a bug is bugfix. Microsoft has different strategy. They release new marketing patch every time somebody discovers new security flaw.
Good for everybody and therefore probably good for nobody. And if anybody hopes complicated equations will help him pick the best Christmas gift for his nephew he's mistaken. It will be easier to ask.
Also, by Europeans I think he means "Brits". To my knowledge, only we pay a TV License.
Wrong. There is a TV fee in all scandinavian countries, Poland and the most of former comunistic countries. These i'm sure of, probably more has it. In Bulgaria you have to pay it even if you dont have the TV set...
I have to pay this tax. They say these are money for so called "social mission" of state television. I woulnt mind if it would guarantee me something, for instance commercial ads free program. It does not. There is absolutely no difference between state television and commercial broadcasters - same crap everywhere - a lot of commercials, reality shows, stupid quiz shows. Thank you, but no thank you - the TV tax is a bad idea.
From the interview, concerning DRM systems:
So it seems quite obvious that conditioning access on locks and keys doesn't work today, and is purely a theoretical, hypothetical suggestion that has never proven value in the marketplace.
Sounds like "information wants to be free". In this case free from strange limitations (Yes, you can play that CD on the computer, but it will only work, when it's Windows or Mac. Can you repeat? Linux? What is Linux? Ah, yes I heard something. No, sorry Sir, we don't support it. Oh, one more thing - to make it work during playback every 17 seconds you have to press Ctrl+V+F7). If the DRM-protected file is less useful and flexible than one you've just got from Kazaa, you will use the one from Kazaa. Period.
Do you think Piccard does all this stuff cause it's eco friendly? Nah, I don't think so. I know such guys. They do things only because nobody earlier did. They don't care about values. They don't care about publicity. They dont care if their project will consume all their money. Hell, they don't even care if they die adventuring.
I admire such people. Their achievements are great and spectacular. But they're risk addict - please God let me avoid one of these persons in my family. Waiting when and if one's husband/wife/whatever returns can be damn hard.
So we have now Big Mouth Billy Bass linux support . We have color Ascii Art Library. Wow. I really needed those two.
But when we're talking about it more seriously: I've heard once from CTO of some medium-business company, when I was suggesting him to use some Open Source solution instead of MS SQL based system:
Yes. I know that they do lots of useful things, but how can I trust to people who release stuff like aalib.
So the bottom line is they will never consider us geeks as serious conversation partner. OS movement needs some white collar guys, that can speak to all those marketing infested CTO's CEOs and other wiseasses. The ones that speak marketingish.
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C'mon. Jackson loves all the movies with monsters/giant apes/ugly orcs/lots of blood Look at his filmography. He loves to scare. And this 'giant ape' movie is The Scary Movie All-time Classic.
Besides with the props and CG effects fromWETA this will be masterpiece. I can't wait.
There are two OSes now! - Windows and Unices.
Is there anything else left? I dont think so.
I can tell one thing for sure about Apple. They have brilliant marketing - they take simple MP3 player does some magic advertising and tadam! we have the thing that changes culture
Maybe I'm a bit conservative but I still think p2p networks are evil. They consume all aviable bandwidth, they're hard to control - limiting Kazaa for network larger than 3 computers is a nightmare - it uses all aviable ports, you have to actually filter it by IP packet contents, looking for certain strings in packets. They're also damn easy for abuse - name your trojan preetingirlsuckingdog.exe and tadam! next day it's everywhere.
I know they can be used for 'decent' purposes also, like torrents lately for sharing kernel sources. But still - what was wrong with ftp/http downloading?
Even if game costs 2$ you can still find release of it on warez sites and p2p networks.
Don't be so hasty with putting this memory in your computres and MP3 players. The way from idea to stores is quite long and a lot of ideas don't go beyond the project stage.
There still are Polymer Memory, Ovionics Unified Memory (OUM), Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) and ferro-electric RAM (FeRAM) There is a lot of intresting memory-related projecs in progress, only time will show which of them are actually useful and will be installed in our future computers.
We're constantly bitching about low security of Microsft products. Nothing changes - they're still as lousy as before. But Microsoft doesn't care. People still use their software. Instead of fixing the bugs they launch new zillions $$$ worth advertising campaings, showing they're much better than OS solutions.
In world of real operating systems standard answer for a bug is bugfix. Microsoft has different strategy. They release new marketing patch every time somebody discovers new security flaw.
Good for everybody and therefore probably good for nobody. And if anybody hopes complicated equations will help him pick the best Christmas gift for his nephew he's mistaken. It will be easier to ask.
Also, by Europeans I think he means "Brits". To my knowledge, only we pay a TV License.
Wrong. There is a TV fee in all scandinavian countries, Poland and the most of former comunistic countries. These i'm sure of, probably more has it. In Bulgaria you have to pay it even if you dont have the TV set...
I have to pay this tax. They say these are money for so called "social mission" of state television. I woulnt mind if it would guarantee me something, for instance commercial ads free program. It does not. There is absolutely no difference between state television and commercial broadcasters - same crap everywhere - a lot of commercials, reality shows, stupid quiz shows. Thank you, but no thank you - the TV tax is a bad idea.
From the interview, concerning DRM systems:
So it seems quite obvious that conditioning access on locks and keys doesn't work today, and is purely a theoretical, hypothetical suggestion that has never proven value in the marketplace.
Sounds like "information wants to be free". In this case free from strange limitations (Yes, you can play that CD on the computer, but it will only work, when it's Windows or Mac. Can you repeat? Linux? What is Linux? Ah, yes I heard something. No, sorry Sir, we don't support it. Oh, one more thing - to make it work during playback every 17 seconds you have to press Ctrl+V+F7). If the DRM-protected file is less useful and flexible than one you've just got from Kazaa, you will use the one from Kazaa. Period.
Do you think Piccard does all this stuff cause it's eco friendly? Nah, I don't think so. I know such guys. They do things only because nobody earlier did. They don't care about values. They don't care about publicity. They dont care if their project will consume all their money. Hell, they don't even care if they die adventuring.
I admire such people. Their achievements are great and spectacular. But they're risk addict - please God let me avoid one of these persons in my family. Waiting when and if one's husband/wife/whatever returns can be damn hard.
So we have now Big Mouth Billy Bass linux support . We have color Ascii Art Library. Wow. I really needed those two.
But when we're talking about it more seriously: I've heard once from CTO of some medium-business company, when I was suggesting him to use some Open Source solution instead of MS SQL based system: Yes. I know that they do lots of useful things, but how can I trust to people who release stuff like aalib.
So the bottom line is they will never consider us geeks as serious conversation partner. OS movement needs some white collar guys, that can speak to all those marketing infested CTO's CEOs and other wiseasses. The ones that speak marketingish.