You knew it was happening, it would be really nice if serious open source projects stayed away from this stuff until there is a decisive technological leader/standard.
With Wi-Fi equipment hitting $20 only 2 years after it was created there will definitly be a push by the Hardware Manufacturers to try to implement a more expensive standard, lets not let that happen.
I love Slahdotters, they think it's so cut and dried, it'll be easy.
I will hook my children up with monitoring devices that will accuratly show me everything I need to be a good parent.
What's worse is there doesn't seem to be any feeling in the Slashdot community that they need to balance the kids freedoms or treat them as human beings.
A more concrete example is all around us. Anti-Societal behavior is curbed with "The Police" a group which will use an escelating level of violence to get you to conform to their wishes.
Canada has always outlined greater powers for it's government then the U.S. We do have better checks and balances, more open and accountable government (seemingly of course/tinfoil).
I find it insightful to consider the American motto... "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" (Which should be assumed rights everwhere and go without saying)...
Canadian "Peace, Order, and Good Government".
It's right there on our Clown coloured money! GOOD GOVERNMENT!
I will bet $1000,000 that Canadian government starts broadcasting all government conversations before the U.S. (We already broadcast the house of commons 24 hrs on channel 62 Does the U.S. Do the same?)
The bigger issue these people seem to be discussing is one that plauges the U.S. how responsible/proud should U.S. citizens be of the work of their corperations.
U.S. corperations have been key in laying cables FOR OTHER COUNTRIES which the other countries paid them to do.
As far as having the initial idea it was a business decision and one which has been enormously profitable for U.S. corperations and their nation in General but the fact of the matter is that the internet is too ubiqutous for one nation to profit from it in the way the U.S. has been doing any longer.
Likely it will become very difficult for ANYONE to profit from it, it's simply too stable a system with too much importance for it to be controlled by a corperation or even a single government.
There is a reason that other countries seem socialist to people in the U.S. and that is because we'd like to see the internet solidified and essentially have the problems it poses solved whereas the U.S. wants corperations to keep fighting within it because they think it will make things better.
As far as the U.S.s faith in their corperations it usually stems from a huge perceptional divide in what a corperation is. In the U.S. it's a logo in other countries a subsidary of the government tasked with fulfilling a role in society (one of which is to make money for shareholders) and policed by the government.
U.S. citizens outside of the business community don't understand that their government is to blame for Mont Santo, Enron, Nike and other corperations which are destroying people's lives in other countries.
The U.S. has let their corperations get out of hand and to me at least it seems like their huge millitary might exist to keep their corperations in check not other nations.
When your insurance company doesn't pay and the judge rules against you you'll understand why the U.N. and not the U.S. deserves to be in charge.
For some they'll figure it out with their U.S. credit card which charge the highest interest rates in the world (Usury) and apply massive fees to those who default despite the governments ruling that such actions are blatantly illegal.
The three biggest corperations in the U.S. are getting fat from credit card debt and the government seems TOTALLY incapable of doing anything about it.
Hahahahha a nation billions in arrears on agreed upon payments making a loan which will be spent INSIDE IT'S OWN BORDERS.
Not to mention the effect this will have to solidify the U.S. as an important centre for U.N. actions (Which is kind of ludicrous considering it's physical location in the world.
Compare that to incompatibilities and the poor hardware support that inevitably follows in the plethora of linux OSs that hit!
These guys won't be releasing open source drivers they'll release binary drivers with API support and the LINUX pocket OSs will make a mess of them, IF the OS gets developed in house it MIGHT be ok.
But none of the qualities that make linux superior are applicable to devices that are best served with PalmOS.
It is increadibly stable, user friendly and compatible, and from a handheld perspective that's all you need.
With normal wifi, it's b but they did something strange to it, they never implemented a stack to connect to a local WLAN and they have no software to connect to any central server. Basically they screwed over their consumers, and now they're charging to fix their intentional mistake.
If by 2045 they can't just take a picture of the disk and have the patterns/data automatically analyzed.
ex: Graphics through facial recognition and OCR, Text through a spell checker, code through an assembly language checking algorithm. Then a CS major becomes a joke, don't underestimate the profession, it's producing more progress than any other industry.
Slashdot Mirror
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,390204 18,39231005,00.htm/
YAY Microsoft!
You knew it was happening, it would be really nice if serious open source projects stayed away from this stuff until there is a decisive technological leader/standard.
With Wi-Fi equipment hitting $20 only 2 years after it was created there will definitly be a push by the Hardware Manufacturers to try to implement a more expensive standard, lets not let that happen.
./team HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I really miss those...
/me holds silent vigil.
I love Slahdotters, they think it's so cut and dried, it'll be easy.
I will hook my children up with monitoring devices that will accuratly show me everything I need to be a good parent.
What's worse is there doesn't seem to be any feeling in the Slashdot community that they need to balance the kids freedoms or treat them as human beings.
A more concrete example is all around us. Anti-Societal behavior is curbed with "The Police" a group which will use an escelating level of violence to get you to conform to their wishes.
Really Society IS violence.
//http://www.china.org.cn/english/scitech/34496.ht m/> Pic
Um you do know Everyone owes China money :P
The E.U. is the world's biggest democracy, except maybe India.
The U.S. is what 12th?
20th?
Damn Trolls.
Canada has always outlined greater powers for it's government then the U.S. We do have better checks and balances, more open and accountable government (seemingly of course /tinfoil).
I find it insightful to consider the American motto... "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" (Which should be assumed rights everwhere and go without saying)...
Canadian "Peace, Order, and Good Government".
It's right there on our Clown coloured money! GOOD GOVERNMENT!
I will bet $1000,000 that Canadian government starts broadcasting all government conversations before the U.S. (We already broadcast the house of commons 24 hrs on channel 62 Does the U.S. Do the same?)
Canadian?
The bigger issue these people seem to be discussing is one that plauges the U.S. how responsible/proud should U.S. citizens be of the work of their corperations.
U.S. corperations have been key in laying cables FOR OTHER COUNTRIES which the other countries paid them to do.
As far as having the initial idea it was a business decision and one which has been enormously profitable for U.S. corperations and their nation in General but the fact of the matter is that the internet is too ubiqutous for one nation to profit from it in the way the U.S. has been doing any longer.
Likely it will become very difficult for ANYONE to profit from it, it's simply too stable a system with too much importance for it to be controlled by a corperation or even a single government.
There is a reason that other countries seem socialist to people in the U.S. and that is because we'd like to see the internet solidified and essentially have the problems it poses solved whereas the U.S. wants corperations to keep fighting within it because they think it will make things better.
As far as the U.S.s faith in their corperations it usually stems from a huge perceptional divide in what a corperation is. In the U.S. it's a logo in other countries a subsidary of the government tasked with fulfilling a role in society (one of which is to make money for shareholders) and policed by the government.
U.S. citizens outside of the business community don't understand that their government is to blame for Mont Santo, Enron, Nike and other corperations which are destroying people's lives in other countries.
The U.S. has let their corperations get out of hand and to me at least it seems like their huge millitary might exist to keep their corperations in check not other nations.
When your insurance company doesn't pay and the judge rules against you you'll understand why the U.N. and not the U.S. deserves to be in charge.
For some they'll figure it out with their U.S. credit card which charge the highest interest rates in the world (Usury) and apply massive fees to those who default despite the governments ruling that such actions are blatantly illegal.
The three biggest corperations in the U.S. are getting fat from credit card debt and the government seems TOTALLY incapable of doing anything about it.
News at 8:00 all your genes belong to Africa!*
Documented proof of first prostitution!
"Hey guys, we invented it, we paid for it!"
Patent Pending
Hahahahha a nation billions in arrears on agreed upon payments making a loan which will be spent INSIDE IT'S OWN BORDERS.
Not to mention the effect this will have to solidify the U.S. as an important centre for U.N. actions (Which is kind of ludicrous considering it's physical location in the world.
Are you out of your mind?
Compare that to incompatibilities and the poor hardware support that inevitably follows in the plethora of linux OSs that hit!
These guys won't be releasing open source drivers they'll release binary drivers with API support and the LINUX pocket OSs will make a mess of them, IF the OS gets developed in house it MIGHT be ok.
But none of the qualities that make linux superior are applicable to devices that are best served with PalmOS.
It is increadibly stable, user friendly and compatible, and from a handheld perspective that's all you need.
With normal wifi, it's b but they did something strange to it, they never implemented a stack to connect to a local WLAN and they have no software to connect to any central server. Basically they screwed over their consumers, and now they're charging to fix their intentional mistake.
That wouldn't be a 7800 would it?
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603&pa ge=8/ ATI IS FASTER!
e id=734&cid=2/ ATI is slower :(
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articl
And never gets as high as 21....
:P
That's why we rule you
Government sponsorship?
Benefactors?
This model won't last forever, or even very long. Don't get used to it.
There is a brilliant adventure game out there right now bringing people into the genre.
It's called Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy (Stupid American naming system!)
It's increadible check it out.
downloaders should go to jail
Whoa there boy, I think what you meant is "is the government commited to putting you in jail."
All revolutions start with people breaking the law, the law is not iron clad.
And when one detects a flaw in the way society is structured what do you do?
There is no voice left, but the revolution will come anyway.
We do know that cancerous cells break off and circulate through the blood stream.
If we could detect those cells or other cells influenced by their passing we could find the cancer and irradicate it (Perhaps through microwaves?)
4 Pronged don't forget P2P!
If by 2045 they can't just take a picture of the disk and have the patterns/data automatically analyzed.
ex: Graphics through facial recognition and OCR, Text through a spell checker, code through an assembly language checking algorithm. Then a CS major becomes a joke, don't underestimate the profession, it's producing more progress than any other industry.
You should admit it's increadible they didn't lean from the U.S.'s folly.