We can go to other stars now if we wanted it. The technology is available.
For energy and propulsion, you use nuclear power.
For gravity, you use rotation.
Build a large enough spaceship which can host gardens and animals, and you have a small Earth that can easily approach relativistic speeds and reach nearby starts in one generation.
Have you ever considered how big space is? the aliens might not even know yet that there is a solar system in this part of this galaxy, let alone a planet with intelligent life.
Although what you are saying is correct, it has no relation to what the rant is about. The Google engineer accuses Google of not making services out of its applications, not that Google does not have applications.
I think that the set 'potential customers' is non-existent, but for the sake of the discussion, I am gonna say it exists.
Assuming media become DRM-free, why should a potential customer spend his cash on that media, when he can find the exact same quality for free on a torrent site?
And if the legal version is better than the pirated version, and the legal version is DRM free, what's stopping them from pirating the legal version?
I think that DRM or not, piracy won't change. In fact, without DRM, piracy will only go up, because those customers that were forced to buy legal media will now turn to torrents, since the torrents will be of the same quality with the legal media.
Suppose Adobe made Flash open source, along with its dev tools. Would then Flash be a viable alternative for rich internet applications?
If I was Adobe, I'd certainly open Flash up: there is nothing worst for Microsoft, Apple, Google and others at this time than a vendor that has over 90% market penetration to open source its tools.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, many people approach life not by using logic, but by using emotion. Emotion forces them to create non-existing divisions where science and religion are kept distinct: science is applied to what can be seen, religion is applied to what cannot be seen. It is their emotional needs that force them to bind to religion for some of the things they do not have an explanation for.
I sincerely doubt secure boot is of any concern nowadays. While boot sector malware may still be feasible, it is extremely limited, to the point that it is quite difficult to locate people around you with such a problem.
This effort is more about controlling which operating systems can run on a PC than securing the boot process.
An expressed opinion that makes a statement, and justifies this statement using an argument based on logic, is a valid proposition.
Unregulated capitalism, into which the big corporations can get their way by lobbying and bribing, have no ethical boundaries. Microsoft has demonstrated this in the past several times. I do not need to post the various cases that this happened in the past. Microsoft continues the same policy, i.e. vendor-lock in, which is visible in almost all their software products, and their operating system is no exception.
When one is a scientist, i.e. when he/she believes in the scientific method, he/she cannot believe in religion, for the simple reason that, when the scientific method is applied to religion, religion is falsified.
Furthermore, science answers the 'how' question, but religion does not answer the 'who' question, as many claim, because science proves its answer's validity, whereas religion does not.
I have yet to hear a logical argument against secure boot, just lots of emo and fud.
That Microsoft will press OEMs to 'suck', as per your definition (i.e. not being able to disable secure boot), isn't a logical argument? it's not that Microsoft has not done similar things to OEMs in the past.
Everything a human can do a machine can also do, since humans are also machines. So, in the end, humans will be reduntant. Then, the possible options are:
- humans will be exterminated. No longer will be allowed to plunder the resources of this planet.
- humans will revolt and demand machines to be destroyed so as that humans will have work.
- real socialsm will be implemented for the first time in history: humans will be home, resting, while the goods arrive at their home.
Personally, I think trhe extermination scenario will take place.
Deployment of native apps could be just as easy as web apps if they used a lazy download component mechanism in the core executable. The executable, when run, it would check if the main applicaion's component is present, and if not, it would download it and install it in a specific position. Further components could be downloaded and updated in the exact same way.
A space station that can travel to the Moon and Mars is what NASA should strive for. Forget all the manned missions to the Moon: if you have a space ship can travel between planets, you wouldn't have to create infrastructure just for a specific trip to a specific planet.
A large percentage of Italians want to be like him. They want fast cars, plenty of hookers, a large bank account, a football team and enough connections to drown any sense of democracy in Tiber.
Could it be that miniature black holes have formed somewhere along the path of the beam? those miniature black holes may have deformed the space in the path of the beam in such a way that the neutrinos arrived earlier, because they actually traveled a shorter distance.
Computers, if programmed correctly, are a lot more reliable than people. Perhaps with fully automated weapons, the number of innocent being killed accidentally will be minimized.
Interesting question. The comparison with Star Trek is not valid though, because in Star Trek, they have managed to extract incredibly huge amounts of energy from the matter-antimatter reaction, and as we all know energy = matter. In other words, in Star Trek, energy is "infinite", which is not in our world. So, it doesn't really matter if we have 3d printers, we are never gonna achieve Star Trek's communism without huge amounts of energy.
WinRT is not standards-compliant C++.
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WinRT requires Microsoft's C++/CLI extensions, which are compiled into the executable.
This means that you can't take your application's code, write a WinRT emulation layer and compile it for another platform. You also have to write a new compiler that understands Microsoft's C++ extensions.
This is just another attempt from Microsoft on vendor lock-in. Microsoft is notorious for taking a standard, and altering it a little in order to make it incompatible with the rest of the world. That's why we have WinMain (instead of 'main' for GUI processes), J++ instead of Java, C++/CLI instead of C++, and now WinRT/C++/CLI instead of standards-compliant C++.
The guys cannot just play along with the rest of the world.
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The average Joe is satisfied with the current consoles, and therefore Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo doesn't see why they should invest in new technology.
PC gamers, which are not average Joes, are not to buy a console anyway.
Impressive armchair guerrilla speech, my friend.
What will you do if you cannot participate in any economic activity without a TPM platform?
We can go to other stars now if we wanted it. The technology is available.
For energy and propulsion, you use nuclear power.
For gravity, you use rotation.
Build a large enough spaceship which can host gardens and animals, and you have a small Earth that can easily approach relativistic speeds and reach nearby starts in one generation.
Have you ever considered how big space is? the aliens might not even know yet that there is a solar system in this part of this galaxy, let alone a planet with intelligent life.
Although what you are saying is correct, it has no relation to what the rant is about. The Google engineer accuses Google of not making services out of its applications, not that Google does not have applications.
He can't do that, those Paramount studios no longer exist.
I think that the set 'potential customers' is non-existent, but for the sake of the discussion, I am gonna say it exists.
Assuming media become DRM-free, why should a potential customer spend his cash on that media, when he can find the exact same quality for free on a torrent site?
And if the legal version is better than the pirated version, and the legal version is DRM free, what's stopping them from pirating the legal version?
I think that DRM or not, piracy won't change. In fact, without DRM, piracy will only go up, because those customers that were forced to buy legal media will now turn to torrents, since the torrents will be of the same quality with the legal media.
Suppose they give the customers what they want, i.e. DRM-free media that can be played in any device.
Again, I ask: how is this gonna help decrease piracy?
99% of people that were previously forced to buy media will now download them from torrent sites.
How exactly does your model deal with piracy? those .avi files will hit the torrent servers as soon as they are released.
Suppose Adobe made Flash open source, along with its dev tools. Would then Flash be a viable alternative for rich internet applications?
If I was Adobe, I'd certainly open Flash up: there is nothing worst for Microsoft, Apple, Google and others at this time than a vendor that has over 90% market penetration to open source its tools.
Under which operating system and which version are you experiencing massive memory usage?
I agree with you. Unfortunately, many people approach life not by using logic, but by using emotion. Emotion forces them to create non-existing divisions where science and religion are kept distinct: science is applied to what can be seen, religion is applied to what cannot be seen. It is their emotional needs that force them to bind to religion for some of the things they do not have an explanation for.
I sincerely doubt secure boot is of any concern nowadays. While boot sector malware may still be feasible, it is extremely limited, to the point that it is quite difficult to locate people around you with such a problem.
This effort is more about controlling which operating systems can run on a PC than securing the boot process.
An expressed opinion that makes a statement, and justifies this statement using an argument based on logic, is a valid proposition.
Unregulated capitalism, into which the big corporations can get their way by lobbying and bribing, have no ethical boundaries. Microsoft has demonstrated this in the past several times. I do not need to post the various cases that this happened in the past. Microsoft continues the same policy, i.e. vendor-lock in, which is visible in almost all their software products, and their operating system is no exception.
When one is a scientist, i.e. when he/she believes in the scientific method, he/she cannot believe in religion, for the simple reason that, when the scientific method is applied to religion, religion is falsified.
Furthermore, science answers the 'how' question, but religion does not answer the 'who' question, as many claim, because science proves its answer's validity, whereas religion does not.
I have yet to hear a logical argument against secure boot, just lots of emo and fud.
That Microsoft will press OEMs to 'suck', as per your definition (i.e. not being able to disable secure boot), isn't a logical argument? it's not that Microsoft has not done similar things to OEMs in the past.
Everything a human can do a machine can also do, since humans are also machines. So, in the end, humans will be reduntant. Then, the possible options are:
- humans will be exterminated. No longer will be allowed to plunder the resources of this planet.
- humans will revolt and demand machines to be destroyed so as that humans will have work.
- real socialsm will be implemented for the first time in history: humans will be home, resting, while the goods arrive at their home.
Personally, I think trhe extermination scenario will take place.
Deployment of native apps could be just as easy as web apps if they used a lazy download component mechanism in the core executable. The executable, when run, it would check if the main applicaion's component is present, and if not, it would download it and install it in a specific position. Further components could be downloaded and updated in the exact same way.
A space station that can travel to the Moon and Mars is what NASA should strive for. Forget all the manned missions to the Moon: if you have a space ship can travel between planets, you wouldn't have to create infrastructure just for a specific trip to a specific planet.
A large percentage of Italians want to be like him. They want fast cars, plenty of hookers, a large bank account, a football team and enough connections to drown any sense of democracy in Tiber.
Could it be that miniature black holes have formed somewhere along the path of the beam? those miniature black holes may have deformed the space in the path of the beam in such a way that the neutrinos arrived earlier, because they actually traveled a shorter distance.
Computers, if programmed correctly, are a lot more reliable than people. Perhaps with fully automated weapons, the number of innocent being killed accidentally will be minimized.
Interesting question. The comparison with Star Trek is not valid though, because in Star Trek, they have managed to extract incredibly huge amounts of energy from the matter-antimatter reaction, and as we all know energy = matter. In other words, in Star Trek, energy is "infinite", which is not in our world. So, it doesn't really matter if we have 3d printers, we are never gonna achieve Star Trek's communism without huge amounts of energy.
WinRT requires Microsoft's C++/CLI extensions, which are compiled into the executable.
This means that you can't take your application's code, write a WinRT emulation layer and compile it for another platform. You also have to write a new compiler that understands Microsoft's C++ extensions.
This is just another attempt from Microsoft on vendor lock-in. Microsoft is notorious for taking a standard, and altering it a little in order to make it incompatible with the rest of the world. That's why we have WinMain (instead of 'main' for GUI processes), J++ instead of Java, C++/CLI instead of C++, and now WinRT/C++/CLI instead of standards-compliant C++.
The guys cannot just play along with the rest of the world.