Famous proverb:
"Those who control the masses can control what music is purchased."
Sure, I made that up, but the point is still true - you would have to send a powerful message to the general public about the low quality of a large amount of major label music. Convince all those [pre-]teenage girls that they should be listening to indie rock instead of boy bands and Britney. Give it a shot. If anyone had the marketing power to do this, I would be impressed. And without the masses' support, a boycott of music from RIAA labels in futile.
And people won't stop paying for music in the copy protected future anymore than they don't buy macrovision protected DVD's now.
There IS a big difference in these two examples, however - DVDs have been using copy protection of some type since the beginning - with CDs this is a new problem, and the kind of problems people have playing crippled CDs is likely to far outnumber problems with incompatible DVD players, because the CD players are not aware of the methods being used to make them "copy-protected".
The very fact that geeks are so concerned with Linux Shortcomings kinda makes it difficult to have time to respond to their female's sexuality.
Linux is the nemesis of female sexuality.
Actually, it implements more than emacs does (in terms on Java tooling), and far more elegantly. For Java development, it really beats the pants off of most of the other tools out there.
Emacs may be powerful, but it needs a usability overhaul.
Actually, J2ME support (MIDP) will be offered on BREW in the future anyway, so that midlets can be run on the device alongside "native" applications. After Sun gets their next version of MIDP finished, they'll likely move onto that as well. Qualcomm is working with Java vendors.
Sony's new Clie is the first Palm-based handheld to nix the permanent silk-screened input area in favor of a software-based area displayed at the bottom of the new, larger LCD screen.
Hmm. Think the storyline might be different this time? My guess is the same old, same old. ..but as long as they keep the cliche exploding barrels from the original games (Doom, Doom II), I'm sure it will play like a charm:-)
With e.g. Debian boot floppies [debian.org] or any other mini Linux [uga.edu] and mini Unix [cotse.com] distribution you can just insert a floppy, hit reset and wait a while until you got r00t and do whatever you want (like change the real root password in/etc/shadow on the main partition to whatever you want).
It's really even easier than that, in fact, without a floppy, you can just tell the bootloader (e.g. lilo) to boot with options like "linux init=/bin/sh" or something similar, and after the kernel loads you'll just get a shell.
"The US Robotics Pilot sucked when it first came out, but it evolved into an essestial tool over time."
This really isn't a valid argument, because the whole PDA market was in its infancy at the time. That's a bit like saying that Yugos had their problems, but so did the Ford Model T...
"I really, REALLY don't like the slide-out keyboard!! I can understand why it's included, but the buttons are tiny and it seems useless for anything except painstaking data entry where accuracy is absolutely essential. If I was going to type on a pda, I'd get a portable fold-out keyboard like they have for the palms."
I have to say this is the one feature I like with this device (I've been developing for them since last fall). I can "type" much much faster than I can write graffiti or other recognition types, and I can do graffiti quite quickly on a palm device.
I have big thumbs and I can still type on the Zaurus with them, with very high accuracy.
". ..the J2EE community can't ignore the need for tools that create powerful and efficient applications in a timely manner."
Indeed. Perhaps that tool could be (to Mr. Gosling's dissapointment) Eclipse or one of the IBM Websphere Studio products based on it, like WS Application Developer.
However, I don't think that Java makes sense for any *serious* (e.g. console/PC) gaming, you still need a healthy amount of native code to get anything done, right? So the idea of write once, run everywhere, of course requires that a set of gfx libs are implemented on every platform.
So fine, even if you do that, suddenly there's no real competitive advantage for the consoles. There are features you wouldn't be able to exploit on some consoles, you would have to cut corners. Ultimately you are limited, you can't push the envelope without writing native code for a specific platform. The gaming industry has progressed SO much because pushing the technology can produce better games. I want quality games. Portability of gaming code, in this industry, has to take a back seat.
One of the niftier solutions I saw in use at Sun were Sun "Ray" stations, which were little boxes that had video/input/audio/etc. on them, no fan, and they were basically dumb terminals. You would insert your ID card and your desktop would come up immediately. It "just worked". Unfortunately it requires Sun hardware, but is quite interesting nonetheless.
Citrix is the other environment that comes to mind. If you want free you'd need VNC though.
I've never had problems with disruption of service. Compared to other webmail services, I have found Yahoo to be quite solid. I've changed ISPs a few times in the past couple years, and I've never had to worry about my mail.
Yahoo wants more revenue from this service. They run a quality email service. The $19.95 gets you a bigger mailbox, allows larger attachemnts, and really isn't expensive, compared to other communication services (e.g. telephone service, which I don't even use as much as email, yet pay a hell of a lot more for). I'm happy to pay them so little for what I gain from it.
However, it isn't as though you can plop down VPN software on library computers and do your WORK from there. Same goes for internet cafe. Working in public places on computers that are not yours or your company's property is a BAD idea IMHO.
Hmm, VMWare can do this in a different way.
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VMware suspends to disk. You can go as far as suspending the Virtual Machine, not Virtual Memory. Then copy the "data" files to another machine and resume the same suspended virtual machine like nothing ever happened, as long as the same basic hardware exists on the host system (e.g. NIC, sound, serial ports, etc).
While this isn't quite what you are looking for, it spawn an idea of the level this can be taken to. Think of how neat it is for distributed applications. Of course, something like this has to exist somewhere. . .
This will have a chance only if they can reduce the amount of time the players watch the story. . .
A buddy of mine finished FFX over the course of 2 weeks, but said a good chunk of the time was spent watching the fancy graphics of the story being told, rather than playing/making decisions. In an online environment, this would get annoying and repetitive. I hope "cinema" in this MMORPG takes a small role. After all, a MMORPG should be a persistent world without a set quest - something that FF has never really been at all. . .
Eclipse is designed for a much broader audience than Emacs. In addition, it's a cross-platform app, written almost entirely in Java (with the exception of JNI hooks for access to "native" widgets for Windows/Motif/GTK+).
Eclipse is also being used as the basis for a large number of IBM development products (Websphere Studio Application Developer, Websphere Studio Device Developer [for embedded systems], etc. The learning curve for Emacs is a bit steeper than Eclipse, as well.
You mean the way Compaq reverse engineered IBM's PC BIOS so that they could manufacture and market a clone; thereby creating an open platform and launching the PC revolution? Are you saying that little bit of engineering should have been declared illegal? Why?
No, I'm NOT referring to reverse-engineering at all. I mean literally an identical copy, e.g. take an Intel part, and reproduce it down to the last detail, and then re-sell it as if it is the real (Intel) thing. I'm not saying this is even feasibly possible, I meant it more hypothetically (I should have clarified). That kind of copying is EASY with software, and my point is that it is this factor that causes some people to act as if everyone has the right to copy software.
I was not attempting to protect the US and what they're doing. I don't like it and I DO NOT think the US should bully around the rest of the world. I was speaking for software (produced anywhere) in general, and how it can be percieved as a psuedo-tangible product.
Software is a product like any other - it is just very easy to copy.
It wouldn't be right to refab, say, a specific piece of hardware (identical to the original) and then sell it like an original version, that's outright stealing. Software only seems to get special treatment because of the way it is easily re-distributed.
While this may seem like a bully move (the US *is* obviously using its power to its advantage) it's legitimate to go after such things - most people completely disregard the notion of copyrights. It wouldn't be shocking to see people in other nations such as Ukraine not just disregard commericial software licenses, but also open-source licenses like GPL as well. It's potentially a greater issue than just people copying Windows, etc.
They may be using Ukraine as a sort of gateway to Russia for future pressure, since Russia has just as big a problem with illegal copying of software (I really dislike the term "piracy").
I don't really agree with what is being proposed here with tracking numbers on media, but I do think steps should be made to try and curb the rampant disregard for software licenses.
Which is safer? Refueling or recharging?
Some US states (NJ, Oregon) don't even let people fill up their own tanks with gas, you need to have a gas station attendant do it for you. . .
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Famous proverb:
"Those who control the masses can control what music is purchased."
Sure, I made that up, but the point is still true - you would have to send a powerful message to the general public about the low quality of a large amount of major label music. Convince all those [pre-]teenage girls that they should be listening to indie rock instead of boy bands and Britney. Give it a shot. If anyone had the marketing power to do this, I would be impressed. And without the masses' support, a boycott of music from RIAA labels in futile.
And people won't stop paying for music in the copy protected future anymore than they don't buy macrovision protected DVD's now.
There IS a big difference in these two examples, however - DVDs have been using copy protection of some type since the beginning - with CDs this is a new problem, and the kind of problems people have playing crippled CDs is likely to far outnumber problems with incompatible DVD players, because the CD players are not aware of the methods being used to make them "copy-protected".
The very fact that geeks are so concerned with Linux Shortcomings kinda makes it difficult to have time to respond to their female's sexuality. Linux is the nemesis of female sexuality.
Actually, it implements more than emacs does (in terms on Java tooling), and far more elegantly. For Java development, it really beats the pants off of most of the other tools out there. Emacs may be powerful, but it needs a usability overhaul.
Actually, J2ME support (MIDP) will be offered on BREW in the future anyway, so that midlets can be run on the device alongside "native" applications. After Sun gets their next version of MIDP finished, they'll likely move onto that as well. Qualcomm is working with Java vendors.
Untrue: Handera's model 330 did this first.
Hmm. Think the storyline might be different this time? My guess is the same old, same old. . .but as long as they keep the cliche exploding barrels from the original games (Doom, Doom II), I'm sure it will play like a charm :-)
It's really even easier than that, in fact, without a floppy, you can just tell the bootloader (e.g. lilo) to boot with options like "linux init=/bin/sh" or something similar, and after the kernel loads you'll just get a shell.
Indeed - I had the same problem with Galeon(which renders with gecko from Mozilla). I bet it has to do with *FLASH* ads. . .
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"The US Robotics Pilot sucked when it first came out, but it evolved into an essestial tool over time."
This really isn't a valid argument, because the whole PDA market was in its infancy at the time. That's a bit like saying that Yugos had their problems, but so did the Ford Model T...
"I really, REALLY don't like the slide-out keyboard!! I can understand why it's included, but the buttons are tiny and it seems useless for anything except painstaking data entry where accuracy is absolutely essential. If I was going to type on a pda, I'd get a portable fold-out keyboard like they have for the palms."
I have to say this is the one feature I like with this device (I've been developing for them since last fall). I can "type" much much faster than I can write graffiti or other recognition types, and I can do graffiti quite quickly on a palm device. I have big thumbs and I can still type on the Zaurus with them, with very high accuracy.
". . .the J2EE community can't ignore the need for tools that create powerful and efficient applications in a timely manner."
Indeed. Perhaps that tool could be (to Mr. Gosling's dissapointment) Eclipse or one of the IBM Websphere Studio products based on it, like WS Application Developer.
I work in Java tooling.
However, I don't think that Java makes sense for any *serious* (e.g. console/PC) gaming, you still need a healthy amount of native code to get anything done, right? So the idea of write once, run everywhere, of course requires that a set of gfx libs are implemented on every platform.
So fine, even if you do that, suddenly there's no real competitive advantage for the consoles. There are features you wouldn't be able to exploit on some consoles, you would have to cut corners. Ultimately you are limited, you can't push the envelope without writing native code for a specific platform. The gaming industry has progressed SO much because pushing the technology can produce better games. I want quality games. Portability of gaming code, in this industry, has to take a back seat.
One of the niftier solutions I saw in use at Sun were Sun "Ray" stations, which were little boxes that had video/input/audio/etc. on them, no fan, and they were basically dumb terminals. You would insert your ID card and your desktop would come up immediately. It "just worked". Unfortunately it requires Sun hardware, but is quite interesting nonetheless. Citrix is the other environment that comes to mind. If you want free you'd need VNC though.
I've never had problems with disruption of service. Compared to other webmail services, I have found Yahoo to be quite solid. I've changed ISPs a few times in the past couple years, and I've never had to worry about my mail.
Yahoo wants more revenue from this service. They run a quality email service. The $19.95 gets you a bigger mailbox, allows larger attachemnts, and really isn't expensive, compared to other communication services (e.g. telephone service, which I don't even use as much as email, yet pay a hell of a lot more for). I'm happy to pay them so little for what I gain from it.
However, it isn't as though you can plop down VPN software on library computers and do your WORK from there. Same goes for internet cafe. Working in public places on computers that are not yours or your company's property is a BAD idea IMHO.
VMware suspends to disk. You can go as far as suspending the Virtual Machine, not Virtual Memory. Then copy the "data" files to another machine and resume the same suspended virtual machine like nothing ever happened, as long as the same basic hardware exists on the host system (e.g. NIC, sound, serial ports, etc).
While this isn't quite what you are looking for, it spawn an idea of the level this can be taken to. Think of how neat it is for distributed applications. Of course, something like this has to exist somewhere. . .
This will have a chance only if they can reduce the amount of time the players watch the story. . .
A buddy of mine finished FFX over the course of 2 weeks, but said a good chunk of the time was spent watching the fancy graphics of the story being told, rather than playing/making decisions. In an online environment, this would get annoying and repetitive. I hope "cinema" in this MMORPG takes a small role. After all, a MMORPG should be a persistent world without a set quest - something that FF has never really been at all. . .
Back in 1982. The movie was Bladerunner. Remember the Japanese scientist who worked for Tyrell?
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Eclipse is designed for a much broader audience than Emacs. In addition, it's a cross-platform app, written almost entirely in Java (with the exception of JNI hooks for access to "native" widgets for Windows/Motif/GTK+).
Eclipse is also being used as the basis for a large number of IBM development products (Websphere Studio Application Developer, Websphere Studio Device Developer [for embedded systems], etc. The learning curve for Emacs is a bit steeper than Eclipse, as well.
No, I'm NOT referring to reverse-engineering at all. I mean literally an identical copy, e.g. take an Intel part, and reproduce it down to the last detail, and then re-sell it as if it is the real (Intel) thing. I'm not saying this is even feasibly possible, I meant it more hypothetically (I should have clarified). That kind of copying is EASY with software, and my point is that it is this factor that causes some people to act as if everyone has the right to copy software.
I was not attempting to protect the US and what they're doing. I don't like it and I DO NOT think the US should bully around the rest of the world. I was speaking for software (produced anywhere) in general, and how it can be percieved as a psuedo-tangible product.
Software is a product like any other - it is just very easy to copy. It wouldn't be right to refab, say, a specific piece of hardware (identical to the original) and then sell it like an original version, that's outright stealing. Software only seems to get special treatment because of the way it is easily re-distributed.
While this may seem like a bully move (the US *is* obviously using its power to its advantage) it's legitimate to go after such things - most people completely disregard the notion of copyrights. It wouldn't be shocking to see people in other nations such as Ukraine not just disregard commericial software licenses, but also open-source licenses like GPL as well. It's potentially a greater issue than just people copying Windows, etc.
They may be using Ukraine as a sort of gateway to Russia for future pressure, since Russia has just as big a problem with illegal copying of software (I really dislike the term "piracy").
I don't really agree with what is being proposed here with tracking numbers on media, but I do think steps should be made to try and curb the rampant disregard for software licenses.
Which is safer? Refueling or recharging? Some US states (NJ, Oregon) don't even let people fill up their own tanks with gas, you need to have a gas station attendant do it for you. . .
Suddenly it's less convienient!