I think nothing demonstrates better the immaturity and self-importance of the Slashdot Linux Geek than when he quotes and mis-quotes Pastor Niemöller and Gandhi.
Apple is going to extend thier lead over Microsoft using the iPhone like they did with all thier products
Apple currently has a half-dozen or so hardware-software products in the notoriously volatile consumer market space. It can win big and it lose big on any one of them.
In the broader PC market the Mac occupies essentially the same niche as it did in 1984 - while Microsoft supplies the conceptual and software framework for products from hundreds of vendors in hundreds of markets.
In this upscale village of 2,500 you'll find Microsoft in the home, in the hospital, in the car and at the garage, it powers the ATM, the terminal at point of sale...
All of the old people in America either get with the program or DIE, If they'd only just learn new things, or even just about new things instead of passing laws against them.
we age. we change. most of us, anyway.
the parent does not see the net as the eternally-adolescent geek sees the net.
Another example is stem cell policy. Most people on the right think stem cells=cloning=killing babies=wrong, a position which also has nothing to do with science or whats best for the progress of life saving therapies, and a Republican candidate has to agree or risk losing votes. Look for more issues to start being decided by the whim of the masses rather than what's best...
A free society has the right to say what paths of development it choses to follow. The technocrat - the geek - should have a voice. But the decision is not his alone to make.
And no one said you have to communicate purely via TCP in traditional ways. Most of these censorship systems are bricks which are designed to restrict clueless users who don't know about tunneling traffic through various secure & anonymous means.
The tech-sophisticates are most likely to be part of the governing elite and no threat whatever to the existing order. They are the ones with the state-funded education. The best jobs. The best housing.
The Geek as rebel is a laughable conceit to anyone with a sense of history. He has no real connection to the masses, "the clueless users." Which is why when real Revolution comes he is often the first to meet Madame Guillotine.
How long till the economic value of censorship becomes fluid enough that the richer you are, the more access to useful content you get. Thats your little singularity and perfect storm of copyright and the like.
"The richer you are the more useful content you get."
That wasn't headline news when the Sumerian began keeping records etched in baked clay tablets.
The pre-copyright regime in the U.S. seems scarcely idyllic:
Few publishers were willing to pay American authors for books when they could purloin better-known British ones for free. Herman Melville was hurt by the lack of an international copyright, and such eminent American authors as Emerson, Longfellow, and Hawthorne had to pay publishers an advance, rather than vice versa, in order to have their books produced. The early giants of American literature had to scramble for work at customhouses and in other government jobs, and Edgar Allan Poe, according to his biographer Sidney P. Moss, had to raise advance money for one collection of poems by soliciting 75 cents a head from his fellow West Point classmates, to whom he then dedicated the book.Copy Wrong
There is no place in this system like this for the working-class writer.
No place for the woman or the black - excluded from politics, the patronage system, the professions - they could scarcely be said to have any leisure time or an independent income.
Re:Does anyone have an actual video of the demo?
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Photosynth Demo
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Also there's microsoft's page, which has the demo (I don't think that's new either). It seems to have some longer videos
I find sys admins often don't make the best user-friendly assessments of desktop software and OSs, especially from average Joe's point of view.
Chances are good, Joe has no experience with W2K, no experience with Linux. He could have ten years invested in Paint Shop Pro and MS Office.
He doesn't want to be a system administrator, as the geek understands the term [which means that the tools he needs have to be designed and presented in a very different way.]
Every capable young software engineer I know here at Cambridge University uses and codes for Linux. In fact, make that every young software engineer I know. Because it's easy to get and set up development tools on Linux and they have good documentation, and you can actually get help when you have a problem.
The key words in your post are "university" and "software engineer."
Express and Coding4Fun reaches out to a much broader audience, including kids who have not yet made a career decision. Kids who are far more likely to running Windows at home than Linux.
How many programmers began with Microsoft BASIC in ROM? With the programs and projects published in magazines like Creative Computing?
Imagine Microsoft investing some significant fraction of its billions into making MSDN the destination for the beginner, the student, the hobbyist. It just might have an impact on your future Cambridge scholar.
Visual Studio Express is there now. Express SDKs for the robotics. XNA for the PC and console gamer, down the road, perhaps, Express SDKs for Windows Home Server.
Regarding your issues with the developer of the unit-testing framework which your product sorely lacks
Express provides free tools and resources for the recreational, and student programmer. Coding4Fun
Charging for development tools is a bloody stupid idea in the first place
Microsoft has been in the business of providing development tools for the PC since 1975. That bloody stupid idea is what drew IBM to the fast-moving young company in 1980. It seems to be still working quite well for Adobe.
Every developer you piss off helps to push up the value of my portfolio.
There have been 14 million downloads of the Express product.
Suggesting that there is a younger generation of programmers emerging that are not as pissed off by Microsoft as their elders believe.
Perhaps - just perhaps - the beginnings of an adolescent rebellion against the middle-aged spread, the predictable pieties of free and open source.
My 2001) 43" Hitachi Projection HDTV (monitor 1080i/540p) has schematics available that I used to replace the convergence chips with.
2001 puts you in the category of early adopter for HD projection.
There can't have been many even among those who had the skills who would have willingly attempted do-it-yourself surgery on so expensive of piece of unfamiliar hardware.
What I find offensive is that some appliance parts (refrigerator and dishwasher)from some manufacturers are not available to the general public.
There has been a recall of dishwashers in the U.S. because of leaks that could short-out high voltage wiring.
There isn't a lot of room for mistakes here - and most people don't even have the tools or experience needed to move a heavy appliance safely, much less make significant repairs.
The good old days of really simple games, where game played mattered the most and the GFX and sound were a last thing on the devs minds.
It was the last thing on Infocom's mind, certainly.
But the truth is that gamers jumped ship as soon as PC graphics and sound began to deliver the goods. Perhaps you began with the Atari, the Commodore VIC or C-64. Maniac Mansion. Monkey Island. Commander Keen. Wolfenstein 3-D...
Re:What's changed in 30 years?
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The Apple II At 30
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What's the big thing that seems to have changed at Apple over 30 years?
In 1977, Apple Computer included the schematics for all of the motherboard and CPU design for the Apple ][.
In 1935 your Grandad's Hallicrafters shortwave set came with a schematic. In 1965 your Dad's RCA Color TV did not. What begins as the private preserve of the technical hobbyist becomes domesticated and mass market.
The RIAA's tactics so far have been so far over the line that it's hard to see how they can not be convicted of something.
In a civil case you cannot be convicted of anything.
Shotgun blasts of counter-claims are not necessarily the best way to persuade a judge that your defense has merit... More likely he'll see these pre-trial theatrics as a waste of his time.
It is part of his job to ruthlessly prune a case back to its essentials.
Yeah, I also don't think ANYONE should be allowed to profit from food. I mean, you're basically exploiting people's NEED for sustenance. Whatever happened to "need before greed"?
The US has a population of 300 million.
There are about 2 million farms in the U.S. and about 1 million full-time farmers. Ag 101
It is damn hard work that doesn't end with the harvest.
The geek might usefully spent some time at the wholesale markets (3 AM - 5AM) or a meat processing plant. These are not the kind of jobs that attract volunteer labor.
Subsistence agriculture - non-profit by definition - essentially employs 100% of your population. There are few chances to specialize, little opportunity for the farmer to trade or barter for the goods and services that might improve his lot in life.
Gas prices are up. Health care costs are up. Home sales are down. Discretionary spending is under pressure from all sides.
I wouldn't have expected to see a lot of interest in warmed-over XP systems. If you want the tech in Vista you probably also want the hybrid hard drive, DX10 video, integrated ReadyBoost flash, etc., that is still high-end.
The laptop I'm writing this on (Vista Home Basic) is currently running at almost 600MB used, with Firefox, Thunderbird and AVG running!
A modern OS should be able to manage resources so that every available resource is being used to good advantage. I don't care if I am down to my last byte of free RAM.
If the hard drive ain't thrashing and apps are more responsive, that is just fine by me.
Re:Gah GPLv3 is total bullshit
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GPLv2 Vs. GPLv3
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What will happen with TiVo is that because they cannot build a business model out of Linux, they will move to another operating system
And this is a bad thing?
It is bad thing if others in the consumer market space follow TiVo's example.
I have heard that it is the case for Britain at least, although I don't see how it can possibly be legally compatible with the presumption of innocence.
You don't have to be target of an investigation to be searched, what matters is that relevant evidence may be in your possession.
In the american system, the presumption of innocence sets a high standard for conviction in a criminal trial - a standard of civility and caution that ought to be maintained through every stage of the criminal process.
But to obtain a search warrant all the police need to show is a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and that the search they propose is an appropriate response.
They don't need to do any work. All they need to do is open up the specs, and people will do all the work for them.
and when the non-Geek calls technical support or returns a card under warranty because he doesn't have a fully functional driver - who fields the call and pays the bill?
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I think nothing demonstrates better the immaturity and self-importance of the Slashdot Linux Geek than when he quotes and mis-quotes Pastor Niemöller and Gandhi.
More likely he will be joining Scrooge McDuck for a refreshing dip in the money bin.
Apple currently has a half-dozen or so hardware-software products in the notoriously volatile consumer market space. It can win big and it lose big on any one of them.
In the broader PC market the Mac occupies essentially the same niche as it did in 1984 - while Microsoft supplies the conceptual and software framework for products from hundreds of vendors in hundreds of markets.
In this upscale village of 2,500 you'll find Microsoft in the home, in the hospital, in the car and at the garage, it powers the ATM, the terminal at point of sale...
we age. we change. most of us, anyway.
the parent does not see the net as the eternally-adolescent geek sees the net.
A free society has the right to say what paths of development it choses to follow. The technocrat - the geek - should have a voice. But the decision is not his alone to make.
The tech-sophisticates are most likely to be part of the governing elite and no threat whatever to the existing order. They are the ones with the state-funded education. The best jobs. The best housing.
The Geek as rebel is a laughable conceit to anyone with a sense of history. He has no real connection to the masses, "the clueless users." Which is why when real Revolution comes he is often the first to meet Madame Guillotine.
"The richer you are the more useful content you get."
That wasn't headline news when the Sumerian began keeping records etched in baked clay tablets.
The pre-copyright regime in the U.S. seems scarcely idyllic:
Few publishers were willing to pay American authors for books when they could purloin better-known British ones for free. Herman Melville was hurt by the lack of an international copyright, and such eminent American authors as Emerson, Longfellow, and Hawthorne had to pay publishers an advance, rather than vice versa, in order to have their books produced. The early giants of American literature had to scramble for work at customhouses and in other government jobs, and Edgar Allan Poe, according to his biographer Sidney P. Moss, had to raise advance money for one collection of poems by soliciting 75 cents a head from his fellow West Point classmates, to whom he then dedicated the book. Copy Wrong
There is no place in this system like this for the working-class writer.
No place for the woman or the black - excluded from politics, the patronage system, the professions - they could scarcely be said to have any leisure time or an independent income.
The page also links to sample collections and a Photosynth Firefox plugin.
Perhaps not so easily obtained if your computer is down or what you need is the known-good set of drivers that shipped with your OEM Dell.
I would begin with the vendor: lost dell windows recovery cd [May 26, 2007]
Chances are good, Joe has no experience with W2K, no experience with Linux. He could have ten years invested in Paint Shop Pro and MS Office.
He doesn't want to be a system administrator, as the geek understands the term [which means that the tools he needs have to be designed and presented in a very different way.]
Heck, he doesn't want to be a geek, period.
The teaser echoes the unforgettable intro to Fallout One.
It is precisely what every fan of the original has been praying for.
Fallout is one of a handful of RPGs that exist outside the fantasy framework of D&D and Star Wars. There are no generic post-apocalyptic games.
The thing is, most appliances have become so reliable and long-lived that there is no incentive to develop the necessary skill sets.
I have seen enough botched "handyman" repairs that words like "gas valve" tend to make me itch.
There is this sudden desire to be elsewhere before he lights the match.
The key words in your post are "university" and "software engineer."
Express and Coding4Fun reaches out to a much broader audience, including kids who have not yet made a career decision. Kids who are far more likely to running Windows at home than Linux.
How many programmers began with Microsoft BASIC in ROM? With the programs and projects published in magazines like Creative Computing?
Imagine Microsoft investing some significant fraction of its billions into making MSDN the destination for the beginner, the student, the hobbyist. It just might have an impact on your future Cambridge scholar.
Visual Studio Express is there now. Express SDKs for the robotics. XNA for the PC and console gamer, down the road, perhaps, Express SDKs for Windows Home Server.
Express provides free tools and resources for the recreational, and student programmer. Coding4Fun
Charging for development tools is a bloody stupid idea in the first place
Microsoft has been in the business of providing development tools for the PC since 1975. That bloody stupid idea is what drew IBM to the fast-moving young company in 1980. It seems to be still working quite well for Adobe.
Every developer you piss off helps to push up the value of my portfolio.
There have been 14 million downloads of the Express product.
Suggesting that there is a younger generation of programmers emerging that are not as pissed off by Microsoft as their elders believe. Perhaps - just perhaps - the beginnings of an adolescent rebellion against the middle-aged spread, the predictable pieties of free and open source.
2001 puts you in the category of early adopter for HD projection.
There can't have been many even among those who had the skills who would have willingly attempted do-it-yourself surgery on so expensive of piece of unfamiliar hardware.
What I find offensive is that some appliance parts (refrigerator and dishwasher)from some manufacturers are not available to the general public.
There has been a recall of dishwashers in the U.S. because of leaks that could short-out high voltage wiring.
There isn't a lot of room for mistakes here - and most people don't even have the tools or experience needed to move a heavy appliance safely, much less make significant repairs.
It was the last thing on Infocom's mind, certainly.
But the truth is that gamers jumped ship as soon as PC graphics and sound began to deliver the goods. Perhaps you began with the Atari, the Commodore VIC or C-64. Maniac Mansion. Monkey Island. Commander Keen. Wolfenstein 3-D...
In 1977, Apple Computer included the schematics for all of the motherboard and CPU design for the Apple ][.
In 1935 your Grandad's Hallicrafters shortwave set came with a schematic. In 1965 your Dad's RCA Color TV did not. What begins as the private preserve of the technical hobbyist becomes domesticated and mass market.
In a civil case you cannot be convicted of anything.
Shotgun blasts of counter-claims are not necessarily the best way to persuade a judge that your defense has merit... More likely he'll see these pre-trial theatrics as a waste of his time.
It is part of his job to ruthlessly prune a case back to its essentials.
The US has a population of 300 million.
There are about 2 million farms in the U.S. and about 1 million full-time farmers. Ag 101
It is damn hard work that doesn't end with the harvest.
The geek might usefully spent some time at the wholesale markets (3 AM - 5AM) or a meat processing plant. These are not the kind of jobs that attract volunteer labor.
Subsistence agriculture - non-profit by definition - essentially employs 100% of your population. There are few chances to specialize, little opportunity for the farmer to trade or barter for the goods and services that might improve his lot in life.
I wouldn't have expected to see a lot of interest in warmed-over XP systems. If you want the tech in Vista you probably also want the hybrid hard drive, DX10 video, integrated ReadyBoost flash, etc., that is still high-end.
or you could have tried injecting a little ReadyBoost flash, about $15 at Walmart.com.
A modern OS should be able to manage resources so that every available resource is being used to good advantage. I don't care if I am down to my last byte of free RAM.
If the hard drive ain't thrashing and apps are more responsive, that is just fine by me.
And this is a bad thing?
It is bad thing if others in the consumer market space follow TiVo's example.
You don't have to be target of an investigation to be searched, what matters is that relevant evidence may be in your possession.
In the american system, the presumption of innocence sets a high standard for conviction in a criminal trial - a standard of civility and caution that ought to be maintained through every stage of the criminal process.
But to obtain a search warrant all the police need to show is a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and that the search they propose is an appropriate response.
and when the non-Geek calls technical support or returns a card under warranty because he doesn't have a fully functional driver - who fields the call and pays the bill?