I see the next idea involving two gloves (yes we've all seen the glove thing, and we've all seen the 3D Glove thing, this is a variation someone has probably thought of before).
The gloves need to be light and thin so that one can smoke and type while wearing them, this is important. Using the gloves one navigates through the desktop, pulling it forward to navigate forward, pushing away to navigate backward, grabbing as if grabbing a box and rotating it to rotate the desktop. Tap fingers to select an object, hold finger in place to "carry it", double tap to open an application.
Of course the gloves couldn't be active all the time, otherwise god knows what happens when you light a cigerette or type on your keyboard. Simple solution you have an activator, but it can't be some complex or awkward gesture. Something simple like moving your pinky away from your other fingers, depending on which pinky is extended it selects between two logically grouped subsets of commands so their gestures won't be confused. Like file and folder operations versus spacial navigation.
Within your 3D vault you have boxes and shelves. And a workbench where you keep running applications. The gloves themselves of course would probably be corded at first and later wireless. Gamers and the blind might want feedback gloves down the line, so long as you can type comfortably with them it really doesn't matter.
Nope, but volunteer and well paid generally are mutually exclusive.
Typically volunteer just means you willing choose to get screwed in some fashion. For instance, you might volunteer to fetch a kite out of a volcano, that doesn't mean if you actually pull it off you can't get a reward.
Patenting of any METHOD is evil. METHOD's should not be patentable, THINGS should be patentable. You build thing X, you patent thing X. You don't not patent your method of constructing thing X, only the end result.
Seems obvious to me. Next comes our own citizens. The war on Terror was just a stepping stone to turning america into a police state.
Whether you buy into conspiracy theories about US being the ones truely behind 9/11 or not (I don't), it's pretty clear our government has been waiting for 9/11 or something like it to happen and was sure to seize the day.
Whatever title you call him by (he has several, as most nobles, generally you'd call him by the ranking title your correct), he still HAS all of his titles. Simply gaining a higher title does not mean losing the lessor.
Being a lord means you probably wouldn't call him Sir, but it doesn't mean he's lost his knighthood.
That's all well and good. But you do realize that this is the same thing the United States does in times of economic peril as well?
That's never the "official" plan to revive the economy but historically it's ALWAYS been what we've done. World war was how we ended the great depression. We reached recession here lately, and what do you know magically wars developed seemingly out of thin air which not only generated defense contracts but we gave LOTS of oil money to US contracters to rebuild the same iraq WE destroyed.
There is money in war, Hiltler is hardly the only one to successfully use this tactic. He also had alot of creative accounting going on where he invented phantom money to keep things going but I'm sure we do quite a bit that to if we need to.
Francis Bacon (stopping reading your list after this name).
Unless you mean a different SIR Francis Bacon, Keeper of the Seal who sat in the House of Lords. I do believe you are a bit mistaken. He was not only knighted but also a british lord. I've never heard of him being an artist however so perhaps your not meaning the same person? He was a thinker, poet, playwright, scientist, maybe artist but that is certainly not what he is known for.
It almost sounds as if you are indicating there are any grocery stores that are large enough to have reasonable prices that DON'T have cards such as these and follow the practice I mentioned.
Let me tell you a little story, I once did a check by phone to pay a credit card bill. The company (providian) didn't apply a $30 payment to my account, instead they put through a payment of $300 on my mother in law's account with them. The charge came through in her name to my account, the bank automatically processes the payment so they automatically deducted it from my account.
Of course I cried foul and after $450 dollars in bank fees I got my $300 back. Naturally I was pissed, these aren't reviewed, this charge was clearly NOT authorized by an account holder. So I shopped around for a bank that didn't operate this way... I found out a little secret, EVERY bank does this. Anyone you've ever written a check has all the information they need to put through charges to your account without any human review or authentication, not even a signiture.
You can't simply choose another bank to avoid check by phone in the same way you can't simply choose another grocery store. Just like you can't simply buy another manufacturers IDE drives because yours cut the warranty to one year, because THEY ALL cut the warranty together.
That's true, if you don't already know what your doing it can take hours to get something working linux.
If you don't already know what you are doing, then why are you developing a linux solution? Don't you think it might be wise to actually learn wtf your doing and how linux works BEFORE developing a linux appliance?
"but 1 year is a modest amount of time to prepare people for entry-level jobs in networking. Some of my classmates actually did go from being secretaries to being geeks whom I'd trust with a network."
That's the problem with MCSE's. I'd argue that 5yrs is a barely adequate timeframe of on the job training before the trainee is qualified for an entry level NETWORKING job.
After you have the skillsets learned within that timeframe however if you are talented you get MUCH better quite rapidly.
It's not like you had any real choice in the matter either. Once these cards took hold the stores raised the prices most of their products and in order to get what used to be the standard price you MUST have the card.
"With windows, the hardware manufacturers make the drivers, etc. so the PVR coders don't have to"
So what your saying is that With Windows, we lose on both fronts - not only do the PVR developers have to code their software to work for a variety of different platforms (hardware/software encoders, different remotes, distributions, etc), but they also have to rely on other sets of developers who work on the drivers for the sound cards, video cards (ivtv, v4l), tv-out video cards, etc
Since of course either way you have to rely on other sets of developers to write the drivers for all of those devices (the hardware manufacturers hire developers to do this to you know, and they are NOT the ones who develop the hardware). They hand them a blackbox list of specs and they code off it. Pretty much EXACTLY like the ones that cooperating manufacturers hand open source driver developers.
The major difference here is that with the open source if a feature is missing or doesn't work the way you need it or is not optimized enough then of course you can fix that without relying on anyone else. With the windows drivers your just fscked.
The truth is that either way you lose, it's all about costs, if it's cheaper (or you NEED the flexibility) to use premade hardware that there are drivers for then linux is the obvious answer since the source is there and it can be trimmed to suit. Otherwise the best answer is a dedicated hardware platform, luckily there are probably linux ports for whatever processor that is and you only need to code drivers for your custom stuff.
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Speaking of commercial customers, will UserLinux be targeting fortune 500 servers and workstations like the other distro's that claim these goals or hitting the real sweet spot... small and medium sized business that everybody ignores.
Small and medium business it seems to me has more to offer. They are as numerous like the stars like home users, and though they rarely have millions to spend they generally spend thousands on a regular basis... that adds up to alot.
I suppose the real question is, will Userlinux be working toward a QuickBOOKS/Peachtree replacement... for most small/medium (5-100 employee is what I define as small/medium, not the stock market definition) outfits this is what is really missing.
The other is an access compatible app. With those we could commence to deploying 100% linux solutions to a couple hundred such outfits for which our company IS the IT department in central IL.
It will be kind of nice to be able to advise to our customers to spend that $5000 contracting a feature they miss to their accounting app instead of replacing it and retraining.
Kiyooka, I agree the whole racism debate got boring a bit back. I think we've both given a bit of ground and come as close to a middle ground as we are going to get;)
Was fun debating with you though, it's not often you get to debate a topic like racism that is usually met blindly by both sides of the issue.
Putting you on my friends list, I'm not interested in seeing posts from just people who agree with my own viewpoint. I'm interested in having people there who are willing to give thought to issues and I believe you are one of those.
The reason hollywood pays for the rights to books is that the hollywood movie is NOT original, it may have some original content but it's not 100% original, they take lines directly from the book characters, etc. There is a difference between applying the same logical concepts (ideas) and lifting actual lines of code, schematics, etc. The hollywood movie will include SOME content from the book.
In the rare case where it does not, hollywood generally pays for the rights ANYWAY to avoid a lawsuit and bad publicity. Avoiding Bad PR is more important for a multi-billion dollar industry which is all about popularity than paying a few bucks for book rights.
No actually if you don't include any content from the book then you may get sued but not legitimately.
Popular characters are often trademarked, that protects others from using them. But if you don't use lines from the book or trademarked names etc. You are perfectly legitimate in making your movie.
Hell you could completely rewrite the book not using any of the actual text of the original, and not using any trademarked names and you would be legal.
Except that CSS was cracked before that distribution. I'm betting like every other copy protection and security scheme that significant numbers are interested in breaking it, it WILL be cracked.
How exactly does one steal an idea? There are currently over 30 different companies manufacturing DVD players. Did they steal the idea? Did they all steal the idea to play movies to begin with?
Ideas are NOT property, they can't be stolen. You don't own ideas you have, there is nothing exclusive about an idea. Most people go their entire lives without having any truely ORIGINAL educated idea.
Idea's today are based on hundreds or even thousands of "stolen" ideas that came before them.
Once long ago someone had the idea of mathmatics, does that mean that nobody else should be performing calculations or expanding that idea and improving upon it? Someone once thought of the a device that calculates, lots of people took the idea of the abucus and made other devices which calculate, leading eventually to modern day calculators and computers.
When you write a program you are "stealing" ideas, lots of people have these ideas. Ideas float all over the place, there are THIS VERY MOMENT billions of people on earth, all of them having ideas. Belive it or not, the odds of there being a chain of logic which is not followed by two of them without knowledge of the other at some point in their lives is pretty slim. At a billion to one odds of someone else thinking of the same thing you did that yields 3 who *gasp* stole your idea without ever even knowing it existed!
Ideas are NOT property. They cannot be stolen. You don't even own something copyrighted or patented. You own the copyright or the patent, but the not the thing to which it pertains. Mankind owns the thing, and has granted you certain limited controls of that thing for a limited term in exchange for expressing your idea so the rest of mankind can possibly benefit from it. The ideas you have don't belong to you, they belong to the human race.
Would you like to make a bet about whether or not they will be playable on a computer whether that's the intention or not?
So little faith, do you realize that thus far NOBODY has ever written encryption that has withstood the crack me I dare ya test, nobody has made a copyprotection scheme that has withstood. Nobody. Even billions of dollars isn't enough money to win out against the teaming millions of hackers and crackers out there with nothing better to do than give you the finger for telling them they don't own the DVD they just bought.
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I see the next idea involving two gloves (yes we've all seen the glove thing, and we've all seen the 3D Glove thing, this is a variation someone has probably thought of before).
The gloves need to be light and thin so that one can smoke and type while wearing them, this is important. Using the gloves one navigates through the desktop, pulling it forward to navigate forward, pushing away to navigate backward, grabbing as if grabbing a box and rotating it to rotate the desktop. Tap fingers to select an object, hold finger in place to "carry it", double tap to open an application.
Of course the gloves couldn't be active all the time, otherwise god knows what happens when you light a cigerette or type on your keyboard. Simple solution you have an activator, but it can't be some complex or awkward gesture. Something simple like moving your pinky away from your other fingers, depending on which pinky is extended it selects between two logically grouped subsets of commands so their gestures won't be confused. Like file and folder operations versus spacial navigation.
Within your 3D vault you have boxes and shelves. And a workbench where you keep running applications. The gloves themselves of course would probably be corded at first and later wireless. Gamers and the blind might want feedback gloves down the line, so long as you can type comfortably with them it really doesn't matter.
Nope, but volunteer and well paid generally are mutually exclusive.
Typically volunteer just means you willing choose to get screwed in some fashion. For instance, you might volunteer to fetch a kite out of a volcano, that doesn't mean if you actually pull it off you can't get a reward.
If patents on processes were eliminated. then you wouldn't need to defensively patent your processes.
Patenting of any METHOD is evil. METHOD's should not be patentable, THINGS should be patentable. You build thing X, you patent thing X. You don't not patent your method of constructing thing X, only the end result.
Yes but a Star Wars Movie COSTS buckets of money to make. It hurts MORE not less when it's your own pocket, even if your pockets are deep.
You think dealing with a boss if tough, try being one.
How exactly does okrut get it's initial user base if it's invite only?
Seems obvious to me. Next comes our own citizens. The war on Terror was just a stepping stone to turning america into a police state.
Whether you buy into conspiracy theories about US being the ones truely behind 9/11 or not (I don't), it's pretty clear our government has been waiting for 9/11 or something like it to happen and was sure to seize the day.
Whatever title you call him by (he has several, as most nobles, generally you'd call him by the ranking title your correct), he still HAS all of his titles. Simply gaining a higher title does not mean losing the lessor.
Being a lord means you probably wouldn't call him Sir, but it doesn't mean he's lost his knighthood.
Actually the most proper title for the man I was speaking of would presently be Viscount or Baron.
This is missing a bit but you can look here http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/ to find out a little bit more about him.
Apparently he didn't mean this one (1561-1626): http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/bacon/
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He meant this one (1909-1992):
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/ba
That's all well and good. But you do realize that this is the same thing the United States does in times of economic peril as well?
That's never the "official" plan to revive the economy but historically it's ALWAYS been what we've done. World war was how we ended the great depression. We reached recession here lately, and what do you know magically wars developed seemingly out of thin air which not only generated defense contracts but we gave LOTS of oil money to US contracters to rebuild the same iraq WE destroyed.
There is money in war, Hiltler is hardly the only one to successfully use this tactic. He also had alot of creative accounting going on where he invented phantom money to keep things going but I'm sure we do quite a bit that to if we need to.
Francis Bacon (stopping reading your list after this name).
Unless you mean a different SIR Francis Bacon, Keeper of the Seal who sat in the House of Lords. I do believe you are a bit mistaken. He was not only knighted but also a british lord. I've never heard of him being an artist however so perhaps your not meaning the same person? He was a thinker, poet, playwright, scientist, maybe artist but that is certainly not what he is known for.
It almost sounds as if you are indicating there are any grocery stores that are large enough to have reasonable prices that DON'T have cards such as these and follow the practice I mentioned.
Let me tell you a little story, I once did a check by phone to pay a credit card bill. The company (providian) didn't apply a $30 payment to my account, instead they put through a payment of $300 on my mother in law's account with them. The charge came through in her name to my account, the bank automatically processes the payment so they automatically deducted it from my account.
Of course I cried foul and after $450 dollars in bank fees I got my $300 back. Naturally I was pissed, these aren't reviewed, this charge was clearly NOT authorized by an account holder. So I shopped around for a bank that didn't operate this way... I found out a little secret, EVERY bank does this. Anyone you've ever written a check has all the information they need to put through charges to your account without any human review or authentication, not even a signiture.
You can't simply choose another bank to avoid check by phone in the same way you can't simply choose another grocery store. Just like you can't simply buy another manufacturers IDE drives because yours cut the warranty to one year, because THEY ALL cut the warranty together.
That's true, if you don't already know what your doing it can take hours to get something working linux.
If you don't already know what you are doing, then why are you developing a linux solution? Don't you think it might be wise to actually learn wtf your doing and how linux works BEFORE developing a linux appliance?
"but 1 year is a modest amount of time to prepare people for entry-level jobs in networking. Some of my classmates actually did go from being secretaries to being geeks whom I'd trust with a network."
That's the problem with MCSE's. I'd argue that 5yrs is a barely adequate timeframe of on the job training before the trainee is qualified for an entry level NETWORKING job.
After you have the skillsets learned within that timeframe however if you are talented you get MUCH better quite rapidly.
It's not like you had any real choice in the matter either. Once these cards took hold the stores raised the prices most of their products and in order to get what used to be the standard price you MUST have the card.
FUD Total FUD.
"With windows, the hardware manufacturers make the drivers, etc. so the PVR coders don't have to"
So what your saying is that With Windows, we lose on both fronts - not only do the PVR developers have to code their software to work for a variety of different platforms (hardware/software encoders, different remotes, distributions, etc), but they also have to rely on other sets of developers who work on the drivers for the sound cards, video cards (ivtv, v4l), tv-out video cards, etc
Since of course either way you have to rely on other sets of developers to write the drivers for all of those devices (the hardware manufacturers hire developers to do this to you know, and they are NOT the ones who develop the hardware). They hand them a blackbox list of specs and they code off it. Pretty much EXACTLY like the ones that cooperating manufacturers hand open source driver developers.
The major difference here is that with the open source if a feature is missing or doesn't work the way you need it or is not optimized enough then of course you can fix that without relying on anyone else. With the windows drivers your just fscked.
The truth is that either way you lose, it's all about costs, if it's cheaper (or you NEED the flexibility) to use premade hardware that there are drivers for then linux is the obvious answer since the source is there and it can be trimmed to suit. Otherwise the best answer is a dedicated hardware platform, luckily there are probably linux ports for whatever processor that is and you only need to code drivers for your custom stuff.
Speaking of commercial customers, will UserLinux be targeting fortune 500 servers and workstations like the other distro's that claim these goals or hitting the real sweet spot... small and medium sized business that everybody ignores.
Small and medium business it seems to me has more to offer. They are as numerous like the stars like home users, and though they rarely have millions to spend they generally spend thousands on a regular basis... that adds up to alot.
I suppose the real question is, will Userlinux be working toward a QuickBOOKS/Peachtree replacement... for most small/medium (5-100 employee is what I define as small/medium, not the stock market definition) outfits this is what is really missing.
The other is an access compatible app. With those we could commence to deploying 100% linux solutions to a couple hundred such outfits for which our company IS the IT department in central IL.
It will be kind of nice to be able to advise to our customers to spend that $5000 contracting a feature they miss to their accounting app instead of replacing it and retraining.
Kiyooka, I agree the whole racism debate got boring a bit back. I think we've both given a bit of ground and come as close to a middle ground as we are going to get ;)
Was fun debating with you though, it's not often you get to debate a topic like racism that is usually met blindly by both sides of the issue.
Putting you on my friends list, I'm not interested in seeing posts from just people who agree with my own viewpoint. I'm interested in having people there who are willing to give thought to issues and I believe you are one of those.
The reason hollywood pays for the rights to books is that the hollywood movie is NOT original, it may have some original content but it's not 100% original, they take lines directly from the book characters, etc. There is a difference between applying the same logical concepts (ideas) and lifting actual lines of code, schematics, etc. The hollywood movie will include SOME content from the book.
In the rare case where it does not, hollywood generally pays for the rights ANYWAY to avoid a lawsuit and bad publicity. Avoiding Bad PR is more important for a multi-billion dollar industry which is all about popularity than paying a few bucks for book rights.
No actually if you don't include any content from the book then you may get sued but not legitimately.
Popular characters are often trademarked, that protects others from using them. But if you don't use lines from the book or trademarked names etc. You are perfectly legitimate in making your movie.
Hell you could completely rewrite the book not using any of the actual text of the original, and not using any trademarked names and you would be legal.
Except that CSS was cracked before that distribution. I'm betting like every other copy protection and security scheme that significant numbers are interested in breaking it, it WILL be cracked.
nah, I don't think anybody has covered the BOTH are for ideas option. There is room to get in on this action yet my friend ;P
How exactly does one steal an idea? There are currently over 30 different companies manufacturing DVD players. Did they steal the idea? Did they all steal the idea to play movies to begin with?
Ideas are NOT property, they can't be stolen. You don't own ideas you have, there is nothing exclusive about an idea. Most people go their entire lives without having any truely ORIGINAL educated idea.
Idea's today are based on hundreds or even thousands of "stolen" ideas that came before them.
Once long ago someone had the idea of mathmatics, does that mean that nobody else should be performing calculations or expanding that idea and improving upon it? Someone once thought of the a device that calculates, lots of people took the idea of the abucus and made other devices which calculate, leading eventually to modern day calculators and computers.
When you write a program you are "stealing" ideas, lots of people have these ideas. Ideas float all over the place, there are THIS VERY MOMENT billions of people on earth, all of them having ideas. Belive it or not, the odds of there being a chain of logic which is not followed by two of them without knowledge of the other at some point in their lives is pretty slim. At a billion to one odds of someone else thinking of the same thing you did that yields 3 who *gasp* stole your idea without ever even knowing it existed!
Ideas are NOT property. They cannot be stolen. You don't even own something copyrighted or patented. You own the copyright or the patent, but the not the thing to which it pertains. Mankind owns the thing, and has granted you certain limited controls of that thing for a limited term in exchange for expressing your idea so the rest of mankind can possibly benefit from it. The ideas you have don't belong to you, they belong to the human race.
Are they digital? Are they made on a pc?
Would you like to make a bet about whether or not they will be playable on a computer whether that's the intention or not?
So little faith, do you realize that thus far NOBODY has ever written encryption that has withstood the crack me I dare ya test, nobody has made a copyprotection scheme that has withstood. Nobody. Even billions of dollars isn't enough money to win out against the teaming millions of hackers and crackers out there with nothing better to do than give you the finger for telling them they don't own the DVD they just bought.