Well, if we're going to go on about the olden days...
Why I remember playing Land Of Devistation on my 1200 baud modem. I would get less then 1 FPS! Killing mutant valley girls and avoiding land mines took real skill! And we were HAPPY, dangnabbit! You consarnit whippersnappers and your fancy shmancy 3D games makes my blood boil. Why if I had my electric sword, I show you ALL what REAL gaming is like!
I've downloaded and used the Thinking In Java book while I was a lowly college student, before it became part of the program. I thought it was great considering I was broke through most of college. But of course, when I started working and took my first Java course, guess which book I bought...
There will be a market for non-crippled hardware, don't worry about that. There's no way in hell I'd buy an MS-only (P)iece of (C)rap. For one...I don't buy, I build. Second, I dual-boot. No hardware should tell me I'm not allowed to do that. And if it does, then I don't buy. Simple as that.
Too bad people like me are in the minority though...
Currently, I am your average Canadian programmer. I don't do anything special. I work for an insurance company. I do a lot of web work, and some VB. I make less then $20 an hour. I have no idea how much benefits cost, but I can guarentee it isn't a lot. So it would probably just as cost effective to outsource to Canada, where we are just as smart. Plus, in most of the country, English is our first language.
I haven't bought a CD in years. The last one I bought I think was probably Our Lady Peace before they got really commercialized. Since them, my CD collection has pretty well vanished since I started selling them or giving them away. I have the MP3s, that's all I really need. And yes...I know what everyone will say. "YOU'RE VIOLATING YOUR COPYWRITE AGREEMENT!" Yeah, I am. So what? I bought the CD's at one point, supporting the label who happens to throw a few pennies in the general direction of the artists they own. I now go to concerts, supporting the artist directly. I'm tired of labels being the very expensive middleman sitting between us and the artists.
And you know what else? I don't download music much. Maybe every once in a while, to get songs I use to have but deleted. Or to get songs that you can't normally get from record stores, because they are worth the cost of production anymore. Other then that, I stay away from most of it, because 90% of the crap out there today isn't worth listening to. I'm tired of the cookie cutter bands, and that goes beyond the stupid N'Sync New Kids On the Backstreet pop bands. Generic rock crap, generic metal, generic everything. I think this is why I listen to more ska then anything...
My little business was able to "boom" simply because I was cheaper.
Don't always count on that. Sure, the little home user who doesn't know how to turn on their printer might be enough to get by. God know's there are enough of them. But I know complete idiots who do that, because they're about one step above the average home user. Real companies who would offer guarenteed work for a period of time would take one look at your price and laugh. Decent tech support starts at $40-$50. If you have the know how to do, why wouldn't you cash in on it? Don't sell yourself short to the moron masses who can't figure out where the On button is...
if enough parents say this, ILLEGAL filesharing could indeed be on its way to coming to an end. in fact, I think this is just what the mass media is planning out of all this. subpoena enough parents, parents WILL force the kids to stop sharing, and jail a few dozen as warning to all the rest.
Yes, and all those college students are going to stop sharing to. And NO ONE is going to come up with better protection from RIAA spies. And the rest of the world is going to stop sharing because the parents of America put their foot down.
Look...point is, file sharing will not stop. It will never stop. Since the my days on early BBSes, it has not stopped. Since first getting on the internet, it has not stopped. It will never end. The world is changing...deal with it. Don't make it illegal just because you can't cope.
Ah yes...because what teenagers really need is to be homeless and hungry and bitter at a world that cares more about money then about people.
Sorry, but your lack of compassion for actual human beings in appauling. Throwing parents in jail because their kid is downloading music is not the answer to the problem. Throwing anyone in jail for downloading music if not the answer. Americans seem really content on "locking up those vile criminals and keeping them away from good law-abiding citizens." Unless these kids are coming at me with baseball bats so they can steal my MP3 collection, I don't see the point. Copywrite infringement is not and should never be a cause to go to jail, especially if it's not to make profit. So what...a kid who can't afford $20 a pop for CDs downloads the music instead. Is he hurting anyone? No, accept for maybe the pocket books of an illegal organization, i.e. the RIAA. No one should go to jail for it though.
And second of all...who the hell are you to talk about legal issues in the first place, Mr. "I've gone as far as to build back doors into some of my networking products..." That could be considered illegal breaking the security of a computer system. And you're doing it to big Fortune 500 companies who have huge law teams. They would eat you alive if you ever brought anything up. So why don't you go back to daydreaming about Lars Ulrich crusading to "save" the music industry that is changing to fit a new world...
Wrong. Not all laws should be obeyed, if the majority of society believes a law to be too restrictive. Look at Amsterdam and the pot laws. Pot is still illegal there. But yet people use it often, and legitimately set up businesses around that illegal substance. No one considers the law to be pertinant, yet it's still on the books.
But also consider the fact that Amsterdam has fewer people per-capita who use pot compared to most American cities. You can go away for a long time for having a joint, yet people do it anyways. Soon, you can go away for a long time for having a pirated song on your computer. Yet a lot of people will do it anyways...
Thought and thinking are electrical charges firing in the brain caused by stimuli. We can monitor it. We can watch what fires, and ask what the person was thinking as it fires. From there we are mapping how the brian works. Yes, you're right. People doing brain research still can't answer those questions. Yet...
1: How does the brain work?
2: How does the brain handle failures?
We're learning that...
3: How can we interface hardware to the brain? Provide data transfers?
They've already invented an artificial hippocampus...that part in the middle of your brain that's responsible for storing and retrieving memories. I'd look it up, since I'm pretty sure it was on/. before, but I'm too lazy right now.
4: Provide a learning, crash-resistant OS
This one could be difficult. Definately won't be MS branded when it comes out though.
5: Provide very low, or no, heat CPU (your brain doesnt stay at 120F, does it?)
I don't know about yours, but mine stays at a constant 98.6F.
6: Use Quantum computing for branch logic
7: Understand Node/Traffic theory 100% mathematically
Technical hurdles. But they'll be jumped, and we'll sit back and wonder how we ever survived without such knowledge and power. Excuse me while I check my email and make sure there's no messages on my cell.
8: Provide some sort of emotion (all jobs include psychology, doesnt it?)
The last thing I want is some cheese-eating highschool boy thinking about my emotional state as I order my Big Mac.
9: Easy way to rapidly fix either mechanical or hardware problems (thinking of nanite soup)
Don't know what to say about that one...
10: Energy dense source for battery power. And remember, Bayttery power has NOT increased linearly with CPU power.
Hydrogen. Better chemical batteries. Lower power consumption needs. Perpetual motion Deloreans. It can be taken care of.
Yeah...until quantum computer comes along. Same goes with a lot of the non-volitile memory work being done. Changing the properties of plasics and other materials at the molecular level to increase it's usefullness is going to be a major area of development. The next revolution will not be computers. It will be nanotech. Computers, and a whole range of other products, will just be a beneficiary of the discoveries.
That is probably very true. Most of their money probably comes from the sale of hardware to run their proprietary software, and support of their proprietary software and the hardware it runs on. The software might not be the moneymaker, but it's the motivator.
Face it...Sun is a business, and all businesses have the number one goal of making money. Sun makes money off of proprietary software. There's no way that they will risk any of it becoming open source, unless it makes good financial sense. Jumping on the bandwagon and promising to add to Linux gave them good publicity at the time. I have no clue whether or not that move actually made them money, but it definately couldn't hurt. Fast forward a couple of years, and now it makes more financial sense to protect your source and buy code, rather then use GPLed software and be forced to release your code.
I honestly don't believe SCO has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but there's a chance. And Sun, like any business, is looking to cash in with as little risk as possible. If that means kissing SCO's ass and throwing them some money, it's a calculated and well thought out risk. And if/when SCO get's beaten like a red-headed stepchild in court, what happens to Sun? Like Microsoft, they'll say they were protecting their interests as any business would. And people will lap it up, and their involvement in the whole thing will become a footnote in history. It will be business as usual, with the company looking at what moves will potentially make them money. If open source is where it's at again, then they'll throw some weight behind. It makes good financial sense...
If tomorrow Linux is declared illegal because of the SCO suit
You forget that Japan also has to recognize that it's illegal. If I were Japan, I'd tell SCO to shove their FUD and their laws up their collective ass. But, if I were Japan, I'd have a lot more to worry about then just SCO...
I work at an insurance company, with offices in the US, and VoIP has been in use for a while now. I won't profess to know too much about it other then the fact that it's there, but it does save a lot of money for the company. This could all just be hype created by my bosses, but they've been giving us a couple of perks lately. We don't get perks normally. Hey...if it get's us perks, then I love it!
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Well, if we're going to go on about the olden days...
Why I remember playing Land Of Devistation on my 1200 baud modem. I would get less then 1 FPS! Killing mutant valley girls and avoiding land mines took real skill! And we were HAPPY, dangnabbit! You consarnit whippersnappers and your fancy shmancy 3D games makes my blood boil. Why if I had my electric sword, I show you ALL what REAL gaming is like!
I've downloaded and used the Thinking In Java book while I was a lowly college student, before it became part of the program. I thought it was great considering I was broke through most of college. But of course, when I started working and took my first Java course, guess which book I bought...
There will be a market for non-crippled hardware, don't worry about that. There's no way in hell I'd buy an MS-only (P)iece of (C)rap. For one...I don't buy, I build. Second, I dual-boot. No hardware should tell me I'm not allowed to do that. And if it does, then I don't buy. Simple as that.
Too bad people like me are in the minority though...
You must be new to /., aren't you...
Currently, I am your average Canadian programmer. I don't do anything special. I work for an insurance company. I do a lot of web work, and some VB. I make less then $20 an hour. I have no idea how much benefits cost, but I can guarentee it isn't a lot. So it would probably just as cost effective to outsource to Canada, where we are just as smart. Plus, in most of the country, English is our first language.
Nah...my favourite is www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa
I'm surprised I didn't see any kazaaliteuser@Kazaa in there.
I haven't bought a CD in years. The last one I bought I think was probably Our Lady Peace before they got really commercialized. Since them, my CD collection has pretty well vanished since I started selling them or giving them away. I have the MP3s, that's all I really need. And yes...I know what everyone will say. "YOU'RE VIOLATING YOUR COPYWRITE AGREEMENT!" Yeah, I am. So what? I bought the CD's at one point, supporting the label who happens to throw a few pennies in the general direction of the artists they own. I now go to concerts, supporting the artist directly. I'm tired of labels being the very expensive middleman sitting between us and the artists.
And you know what else? I don't download music much. Maybe every once in a while, to get songs I use to have but deleted. Or to get songs that you can't normally get from record stores, because they are worth the cost of production anymore. Other then that, I stay away from most of it, because 90% of the crap out there today isn't worth listening to. I'm tired of the cookie cutter bands, and that goes beyond the stupid N'Sync New Kids On the Backstreet pop bands. Generic rock crap, generic metal, generic everything. I think this is why I listen to more ska then anything...
Hell...even if I was on it, I wouldn't know. gisudfhgifuvoaiudsfg@kazaa or apohspgoniognpione@kazaa isn't easily recognizable...
My little business was able to "boom" simply because I was cheaper.
Don't always count on that. Sure, the little home user who doesn't know how to turn on their printer might be enough to get by. God know's there are enough of them. But I know complete idiots who do that, because they're about one step above the average home user. Real companies who would offer guarenteed work for a period of time would take one look at your price and laugh. Decent tech support starts at $40-$50. If you have the know how to do, why wouldn't you cash in on it? Don't sell yourself short to the moron masses who can't figure out where the On button is...
if enough parents say this, ILLEGAL filesharing could indeed be on its way to coming to an end. in fact, I think this is just what the mass media is planning out of all this. subpoena enough parents, parents WILL force the kids to stop sharing, and jail a few dozen as warning to all the rest.
Yes, and all those college students are going to stop sharing to. And NO ONE is going to come up with better protection from RIAA spies. And the rest of the world is going to stop sharing because the parents of America put their foot down.
Look...point is, file sharing will not stop. It will never stop. Since the my days on early BBSes, it has not stopped. Since first getting on the internet, it has not stopped. It will never end. The world is changing...deal with it. Don't make it illegal just because you can't cope.
Ah yes...because what teenagers really need is to be homeless and hungry and bitter at a world that cares more about money then about people.
Sorry, but your lack of compassion for actual human beings in appauling. Throwing parents in jail because their kid is downloading music is not the answer to the problem. Throwing anyone in jail for downloading music if not the answer. Americans seem really content on "locking up those vile criminals and keeping them away from good law-abiding citizens." Unless these kids are coming at me with baseball bats so they can steal my MP3 collection, I don't see the point. Copywrite infringement is not and should never be a cause to go to jail, especially if it's not to make profit. So what...a kid who can't afford $20 a pop for CDs downloads the music instead. Is he hurting anyone? No, accept for maybe the pocket books of an illegal organization, i.e. the RIAA. No one should go to jail for it though.
And second of all...who the hell are you to talk about legal issues in the first place, Mr. "I've gone as far as to build back doors into some of my networking products..." That could be considered illegal breaking the security of a computer system. And you're doing it to big Fortune 500 companies who have huge law teams. They would eat you alive if you ever brought anything up. So why don't you go back to daydreaming about Lars Ulrich crusading to "save" the music industry that is changing to fit a new world...
Wrong. Not all laws should be obeyed, if the majority of society believes a law to be too restrictive. Look at Amsterdam and the pot laws. Pot is still illegal there. But yet people use it often, and legitimately set up businesses around that illegal substance. No one considers the law to be pertinant, yet it's still on the books.
But also consider the fact that Amsterdam has fewer people per-capita who use pot compared to most American cities. You can go away for a long time for having a joint, yet people do it anyways. Soon, you can go away for a long time for having a pirated song on your computer. Yet a lot of people will do it anyways...
Thought and thinking are electrical charges firing in the brain caused by stimuli. We can monitor it. We can watch what fires, and ask what the person was thinking as it fires. From there we are mapping how the brian works. Yes, you're right. People doing brain research still can't answer those questions. Yet...
Damn...that enter key didn't do it's job...
1: How does the brain work? 2: How does the brain handle failures? We're learning that... 3: How can we interface hardware to the brain? Provide data transfers? They've already invented an artificial hippocampus...that part in the middle of your brain that's responsible for storing and retrieving memories. I'd look it up, since I'm pretty sure it was on /. before, but I'm too lazy right now.
4: Provide a learning, crash-resistant OS
This one could be difficult. Definately won't be MS branded when it comes out though.
5: Provide very low, or no, heat CPU (your brain doesnt stay at 120F, does it?)
I don't know about yours, but mine stays at a constant 98.6F.
6: Use Quantum computing for branch logic
7: Understand Node/Traffic theory 100% mathematically
Technical hurdles. But they'll be jumped, and we'll sit back and wonder how we ever survived without such knowledge and power. Excuse me while I check my email and make sure there's no messages on my cell.
8: Provide some sort of emotion (all jobs include psychology, doesnt it?)
The last thing I want is some cheese-eating highschool boy thinking about my emotional state as I order my Big Mac.
9: Easy way to rapidly fix either mechanical or hardware problems (thinking of nanite soup)
Don't know what to say about that one...
10: Energy dense source for battery power. And remember, Bayttery power has NOT increased linearly with CPU power.
Hydrogen. Better chemical batteries. Lower power consumption needs. Perpetual motion Deloreans. It can be taken care of.
And exactly how did you picture armageddon starting? Crazied homocidal robots with bad firmware seems to be a likely choice.
Yeah...until quantum computer comes along. Same goes with a lot of the non-volitile memory work being done. Changing the properties of plasics and other materials at the molecular level to increase it's usefullness is going to be a major area of development. The next revolution will not be computers. It will be nanotech. Computers, and a whole range of other products, will just be a beneficiary of the discoveries.
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Helping newbies understand the net since...a long time ago...
Do you ever hear a cougar before she's about to pounce...
That is probably very true. Most of their money probably comes from the sale of hardware to run their proprietary software, and support of their proprietary software and the hardware it runs on. The software might not be the moneymaker, but it's the motivator.
Face it...Sun is a business, and all businesses have the number one goal of making money. Sun makes money off of proprietary software. There's no way that they will risk any of it becoming open source, unless it makes good financial sense. Jumping on the bandwagon and promising to add to Linux gave them good publicity at the time. I have no clue whether or not that move actually made them money, but it definately couldn't hurt. Fast forward a couple of years, and now it makes more financial sense to protect your source and buy code, rather then use GPLed software and be forced to release your code.
I honestly don't believe SCO has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but there's a chance. And Sun, like any business, is looking to cash in with as little risk as possible. If that means kissing SCO's ass and throwing them some money, it's a calculated and well thought out risk. And if/when SCO get's beaten like a red-headed stepchild in court, what happens to Sun? Like Microsoft, they'll say they were protecting their interests as any business would. And people will lap it up, and their involvement in the whole thing will become a footnote in history. It will be business as usual, with the company looking at what moves will potentially make them money. If open source is where it's at again, then they'll throw some weight behind. It makes good financial sense...
If tomorrow Linux is declared illegal because of the SCO suit
You forget that Japan also has to recognize that it's illegal. If I were Japan, I'd tell SCO to shove their FUD and their laws up their collective ass. But, if I were Japan, I'd have a lot more to worry about then just SCO...
I work at an insurance company, with offices in the US, and VoIP has been in use for a while now. I won't profess to know too much about it other then the fact that it's there, but it does save a lot of money for the company. This could all just be hype created by my bosses, but they've been giving us a couple of perks lately. We don't get perks normally. Hey...if it get's us perks, then I love it!
Well, at the very least, they'd have known to send another shuttle up to retrieve the astronauts. Shuttles can be replaced, lives can't...
I would think the one-handed typists would just appreciate being able to clean it easily...