There's just no way the average guy is going to geek all day on the phone, for one thing.
For another, people's thumb tendons won't let them....
Only geeks will geek on the phone all day long and the cell doesn't do anything the pc doesn't do better, except walk around. And what kind of geek wants to walk around?
What MIGHT happen is people can be their own rolling data centers with secure VPN to their home box, their own mp3s playing from home in their hifi earphones and a Dragon Ball Z type Scouter visual thingy to keep an eye on the important stuff with.
All with provable open source very good privacy.
However, not only is this not here yet, it might well be illegalized in the very near future....
I'm kind of amazed at what a huge hero Harry is turning into. I mean, he's twelve and he's killed a Basalisk - Conan the Barbarian hasn't killed a Basalisk....
MS makes it SO EASY to go windows. My computers came with them installed. I got XP Pro for free by attending a MS seminar in Mississauga on web services.
Second - compatibility.
Everything RUNS on Windows - especially games. You can't run lots of good software unless you run it under Windows. I had to install Windows 3.1 for the first time ever to run Power Japanese.
Windows NT 4 drove me NUTS as it only went up to Direct X 3 and couldn't play modern games. After SP 6 it was rock solid too...
Third - arrogant prick behavior on the part of *nix users.
Several times during my youth I ran into installed Unix systems only to be run off like a wino at Tiffany's when I tried to find out how they worked. I saw Unix people literally crinkle their noses with disgust while I asked my stupid newby questions.
Over and over I ran into the attitude that Unix people were genetically superior and that if you didn't know Unix you could never know Unix, that knowing Unix was like being seven feet tall, in that it you are not seven feet tall you can never BE seven feet tall. But it's not like that at all.
When I first heard of Unix while at AES in Mississauga and they gave us all some lectures on it. I was used to IBM 80 column punch cards and when I heard of the Unix philosophy of pipes and filters and everything being a bit stream I knew right away that that was the correct way to do it.
Then - they stopped the lectures for the staff and only continued them for the University of Waterloo co-op students. I can still see those kids rushing into that room and the door closing in my face. I knew the bus was leaving without me.
Today I'd like to report that I'm a big Unix guru and sys admin etc but it's not so. I'm a Windows developer with an obsolete skill set - no, wait, that's LEGACY skill set, and my *nix skills are minimal. I have a Mandrake box at home but just putter around with it.
I'm sold on OpenBSD by a friend of mine who actually WAS a big *nix guru and sys admin and is now coding instead. I really respect his opinion.
I figure OpenBSD will sweep the field, once people figure out it's there, and it gets easy to install (Mandrake OpenBSD anyone?) AND gets compatible with all Windows apps.
One - I remember a two-part article in Byte that was the most informative article on game tree searching imaginable - they implimented min-max then turned it to nega max and implinted alpha-beta and prefered variation - all in Basic!
I remember another article in a magazine called ROM that implimented public key cryptography in BASIC way before PGP existed....
They are going to try this as battlefield sensor system with small mobile disguised robots, and some soldier is gonna lose it when he sees the rocks sneaking up on him....
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There's just no way the average guy is going to geek all day on the phone, for one thing.
For another, people's thumb tendons won't let them....
Only geeks will geek on the phone all day long and the cell doesn't do anything the pc doesn't do better, except walk around. And what kind of geek wants to walk around?
What MIGHT happen is people can be their own rolling data centers with secure VPN to their home box, their own mp3s playing from home in their hifi earphones and a Dragon Ball Z type Scouter visual thingy to keep an eye on the important stuff with.
All with provable open source very good privacy.
However, not only is this not here yet, it might well be illegalized in the very near future....
ALL of his cartoons star them.
I'm worried about him, personally....
Why not just run GCC?
Of course, Tom Swift did this in one of his books in 1965....
Bayesian spam filters will save it.
Especially when they are used at the ISP end like they're supposed to be.
I just wish I understood half of it.
They want us to break our computers to support their business model.
Let's not do that.
Is that after you get sick eating their contaminated food, they SUE you for appropriating their technology....
Except J Edger Hoover. They thought HE was straight...
That book three was the best book.
I'm 47 and I am a Potter fan.
I'm kind of amazed at what a huge hero Harry is turning into. I mean, he's twelve and he's killed a Basalisk - Conan the Barbarian hasn't killed a Basalisk....
I got laid off at a company but the guy who laid me off asked me to finish my job before I left that day and I did.
First - seduction.
MS makes it SO EASY to go windows. My computers came with them installed. I got XP Pro for free by attending a MS seminar in Mississauga on web services.
Second - compatibility.
Everything RUNS on Windows - especially games. You can't run lots of good software unless you run it under Windows. I had to install Windows 3.1 for the first time ever to run Power Japanese.
Windows NT 4 drove me NUTS as it only went up to Direct X 3 and couldn't play modern games. After SP 6 it was rock solid too...
Third - arrogant prick behavior on the part of *nix users.
Several times during my youth I ran into installed Unix systems only to be run off like a wino at Tiffany's when I tried to find out how they worked. I saw Unix people literally crinkle their noses with disgust while I asked my stupid newby questions.
Over and over I ran into the attitude that Unix people were genetically superior and that if you didn't know Unix you could never know Unix, that knowing Unix was like being seven feet tall, in that it you are not seven feet tall you can never BE seven feet tall. But it's not like that at all.
When I first heard of Unix while at AES in Mississauga and they gave us all some lectures on it. I was used to IBM 80 column punch cards and when I heard of the Unix philosophy of pipes and filters and everything being a bit stream I knew right away that that was the correct way to do it.
Then - they stopped the lectures for the staff and only continued them for the University of Waterloo co-op students. I can still see those kids rushing into that room and the door closing in my face. I knew the bus was leaving without me.
Today I'd like to report that I'm a big Unix guru and sys admin etc but it's not so. I'm a Windows developer with an obsolete skill set - no, wait, that's LEGACY skill set, and my *nix skills are minimal. I have a Mandrake box at home but just putter around with it.
I'm sold on OpenBSD by a friend of mine who actually WAS a big *nix guru and sys admin and is now coding instead. I really respect his opinion.
I figure OpenBSD will sweep the field, once people figure out it's there, and it gets easy to install (Mandrake OpenBSD anyone?) AND gets compatible with all Windows apps.
I never knew pubscience existed until it was destroyed...
is at the ISP end.
They should check every outgoing piece of mail for spam.
This, properly implemented, could completely kill the whole spam industry.
from sourceforge and no problems so far.
Let you know how it does when it's trained.
The reason we have the leaky abstraction problem is because we are clueless about computers.
We are at the stage with computers where medicine was when the guy who set your bones was the same guy who cut your hair.
50 years from now they're gonna look back on us and feel pity.
Yes but the NSA is a special case.
Fact is, they are where open source divides by zero.
Software out of the NSA is BETTER than OSS....
Too many good people wail the tar out of it before it goes out the door.
Only NASA nakes better software.
And remember - the NSA knows math they don't teach at the universities....
I just checked the NSA web site and it's /.'d ...
By the guy who did ARJ, JAR implimeneted GOST as it's encryption.
One - I remember a two-part article in Byte that was the most informative article on game tree searching imaginable - they implimented min-max then turned it to nega max and implinted alpha-beta and prefered variation - all in Basic!
I remember another article in a magazine called ROM that implimented public key cryptography in BASIC way before PGP existed....
The Stones started their own label....
If the software is any good, opening the source will not effect it's security.
Wait until the Chinese kick in. They'll kick India's butt all over the place.
They are going to try this as battlefield sensor system with small mobile disguised robots, and some soldier is gonna lose it when he sees the rocks sneaking up on him....
They appropriate our technology, use it to make billions, then turn around and tell us how it's going to be done from now on.
Well HERE'S how its going to be done.
ITS ALL A BIT STREAM.
Everything - disks, keyboards, the Internet, your software, your scanned artwork and your precious music.
People who wouldn't dream of shoplifting a CD wouldn't hesitate to rip a bought one to MP3 and put it on DalNet. People like me.
Because Physics Beats Ethics.
When everything is a bit stream - AND IT IS - you are going to have to change your business model Mr. Businessman. To what are you going to change it?
Like the US Customs man told me when I said I had waited a year for the convention he wouldn't let me attend -
That's not my concern.