If usabillity and insecurity go hand then the most user frendly item is the most insecure. I proclaim this "most user friendly" item to be minesweeper. Now, how insecure is minesweeper?
So you mean to say that you can be both user friendly and rock solid secure? IIS is hacked much much more often, but Apache has market share.
The simple fact that just because more people know the system doesn't mean more people can hack the system. With Microsoft products the more you know the more you realize some of the huge holes which exist in the system. With Linux no huge holes present themselves. Get a person who knows Linux Servers and Microsoft Servers like the back of their hand. They will be much more likely to be able to hack the Micorsoft Server.
The question is not usablillity, its knowledge of flaws. No flaws, no knowledge of flaws. I'm not saying that there aren't flaws in Linux, but I am saying that the flaws in MS products are much much larger.
The Department of Energy banned larger bowled toilets so frankly we need government approval for more than the skies.
In a practical sense, you don't need there stupid aircraft hitting another aircraft, so it really is best to check. Without governement regulation on the sky it might be a little more difficult to get from point A to point B, because idiot C has a hot air balloon, near an airport and causes plane D to be flameball E.
The funny thing about Moore's law is it works regardless of restrictions like minimum size for working wires, the speed of light, or battery power. Every few years a well thought out arguement of a real restriction to the law comes around. X is going to bottleneck progress. And a year or so before X is going to matter Y technology comes out solving X or making it generally no longer a problem.
We don't need a second Moore's Law. The one works perfectly fine for computer speed. If you want a trend law for battery life (which don't get me wrong thanks to the cellphone and labtop industry has been increasing very nicely) you can make up your own law, and don't tag it onto Moore's for the added oomf, to make it catch on.
I also question the chicken-egg Moore's law-Computer Speed connection. As if Moore's law makes computers faster. No, superscalar, pipelining, better fab, these make computers faster. Moore's law is a law of trends.
Moore's Law is like the Anti-Murphey's Law. It seems like there is always something ready to pimpslap poor chip designer's dream of 1.5x a year, but somehow they always think themselves out of danger.
"Anything that can go wrong, won't stand in the way of progress." - Moore's law as stated by a pessimist.
Don't get me wrong, but you have to wait a day or two for the SVCD's to come around. Getting the XVids a few hours later is a much better option. Sure you can't just burn it to cd and watch it in your dvd player, but you get better quality watching it on the computer.
Assuming your DVD player even plays them. When they don't its very annoying.
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I did download an episode of "The Screen Savers" a week or so back that had commercials it was highly freakish.
Standarly there are no commercials in any downloaded show.
Does it count all the episodes I download.
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Don't get me wrong, but I fit smack into that bracket and I don't get cable or sat. I just use my broadband connection to download all the shows I need.
Few bittorrent sites, supranova.org, torrentz.com, and an irc.irchighway.net network later and I've dropped completely off their "This group watches TV" radar, when the fact is I have over half a terabyte of TV.
To be fair, he most likely hasn't seen windows in a couple years. Windows 2000, isn't what I would describe as multi-user. It was just multi-account, and when somebody else logged in at the screen saver password, all my crap was gone. Its a fairly new feature on microsoft's part, and with XP is pretty hack and slash. I wouldn't go SSH'ing in from home but, its still describable as multi-user now.
First person shooters are very common nowadays and frankly I could program a very crappy one in about a month, with network support and sphere heads ect.
If you cast your net too wide you miss what makes a game worthwhile.
Most games fall into one of the following categories: 1) Games
Thief, is the perfect example. It's plenty first person shooter, action adventure and puzzle. You can't run in guns blazing. And when it came out it was in a class by its own.
MMORPG are going to be huge. But, frankly the future is in just MMOG. Picture a first person shooter game where you fight it out against 2000 people, 1000 on one team 1000 on the other. You'd have an online war. That'd be fun right?
I am of the distint impression that *ALL* games would be more fun as massive multiplayer online games. GTA3 as a massive multiplayer online game. Raving gangs of thugs walking around beating folks up and taking their money. Stealing cars and running a convoy of them over to a rival gangs place. Joining the police force and... The list goes on.
Roleplaying games have just been the first step. Simulation games are the next step (read Sims Online). I personally can't wait till RTS goes MM. You are set on planet (already in progress) and forced to build up your forces before being wiped out by somebody already better established, or ally with somebody in the fight against some other factions.
To say that there are no new ideas in games is silly. Sure, in theory there might not be many more viable genres, but there are surely new dimensions.
Although, I agree Linux as it stands would never arise as a protest OS as such. The talent would still be there, the ideas would still be there, the people would still be there.
Apple wouldn't have crashed and burned as soon. They would have retained more of their market share for a while longer. IBM would have more than likely had DOS written for their machine, though it wouldn't have succeeded. The alternate machine for the apple could have been anything from the DEC to NEC to perhaps still the x86, or most likely a mac clone. The only sure thing would be it would be as cheap to produce as the PC clones, were in the early days. Without an obvious alternative much more pressure would have been placed on breaking Mac's stranglehold on the hardware, this would have lead to cloning of the Mac as it had lead to cloning the PC.
Without direct competition Apple prices would be higher than they were causing more pressure to create a cheap counterpart for the OS. Without windows ripping off the interface early on, a few other mac clone OS's would come around, though they would only serve to contribute code to the later clones.
The real shift would be when AT&T built Unix. Although they would have developed an extensive GUI'd OS to rival Apple, so much of the code was contributed and tossed around that surely a either a quick scratch project or a release would dump this into Open Source Which wasn't so much reactionary to Microsoft as it was idealogical after Emacs was written/stole. After the start of a free Open Unix for Mac/Mac Clone, it would continue to grow from earlier than linux started to grow. And would have overtaken Apple in the early 90's. As all the game hardware and games would be supported, and much more easily integrated with the hardware than what Apple deam Mac. Hardware manufacturers would be some of the greater contributers to Open Unix as they would prefer their technology be used. Apple would have effectivly be cloned out of existance. As the hardware clones would kill their hardware market, and Open Unix would take over the OS. Rather than see the revival of Mac we have seen in the past 5 years or so, they would have died out quickly after losing market share, only having the same functionality for much more money.
Conclusion: Most likely we would be using an Open Source Unix clone, on Apple clone hardware. Apple as a hardware/software company would be completely dead.
Don't get me wrong but banning AOL users outright from services does save gobs of headaches. Just instantly get rid of folks who happen to be a cut below the rest.
And with any luck all this banning will lead AOL users to goto some non-coddling ISP, and AOL will whither and die.
Charge as much as I pay for broadband... YOU WILL GET YOUR COMEUPINS! I hear the grand canyon is void of AOL CD's... Fill that sucker to the brim.
20% of the people, are 80% of the problem... Guess what? They are all located at one ISP.
Somebody tell google to make a service to cache a webpage and keep that cache for a week or so, so we can lock some of these webpages in place by linking to the cache.
Couldn't even locate the google cache for this. And besides under my idea it would have all the picture too.
Not a hard idea, just run over have everything copied and call it a day. Readied for the slashdot.
3) Because while brainstorming we are helping to inform the other very smart people on the site about the problem, and somebody might churn out an answer. Information and ideas are not weapons, they are the solution.
I understood what all the projects were... so I guess I don't feel entirely retarded. "Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in the Mouse Brain" - for understanding what this is I deserve a fricking medal.
Charge for the Windows version.
Release the Linux version for free.
Game makers still make all their money, the windows folks out number the linux folks by a huge margin. But, never underestimate Joe Windows-came-pre-installed's wanten need to save a buck.
Also, for the game creator this brings much geek love. Geek love is ofcourse the best type of love. If only women could learn that lesson.
So game creator X, you have a raving band of loving geeks? What do you want to do with em?
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If usabillity and insecurity go hand then the most user frendly item is the most insecure. I proclaim this "most user friendly" item to be minesweeper. Now, how insecure is minesweeper?
So you mean to say that you can be both user friendly and rock solid secure? IIS is hacked much much more often, but Apache has market share.
The simple fact that just because more people know the system doesn't mean more people can hack the system. With Microsoft products the more you know the more you realize some of the huge holes which exist in the system. With Linux no huge holes present themselves. Get a person who knows Linux Servers and Microsoft Servers like the back of their hand. They will be much more likely to be able to hack the Micorsoft Server.
The question is not usablillity, its knowledge of flaws. No flaws, no knowledge of flaws. I'm not saying that there aren't flaws in Linux, but I am saying that the flaws in MS products are much much larger.
The Department of Energy banned larger bowled toilets so frankly we need government approval for more than the skies.
In a practical sense, you don't need there stupid aircraft hitting another aircraft, so it really is best to check. Without governement regulation on the sky it might be a little more difficult to get from point A to point B, because idiot C has a hot air balloon, near an airport and causes plane D to be flameball E.
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The funny thing about Moore's law is it works regardless of restrictions like minimum size for working wires, the speed of light, or battery power. Every few years a well thought out arguement of a real restriction to the law comes around. X is going to bottleneck progress. And a year or so before X is going to matter Y technology comes out solving X or making it generally no longer a problem.
We don't need a second Moore's Law. The one works perfectly fine for computer speed. If you want a trend law for battery life (which don't get me wrong thanks to the cellphone and labtop industry has been increasing very nicely) you can make up your own law, and don't tag it onto Moore's for the added oomf, to make it catch on.
I also question the chicken-egg Moore's law-Computer Speed connection. As if Moore's law makes computers faster. No, superscalar, pipelining, better fab, these make computers faster. Moore's law is a law of trends.
Moore's Law is like the Anti-Murphey's Law. It seems like there is always something ready to pimpslap poor chip designer's dream of 1.5x a year, but somehow they always think themselves out of danger.
"Anything that can go wrong, won't stand in the way of progress." - Moore's law as stated by a pessimist.
Well I personally would only give my $0.00 for linux to an American company!
google's april fool's Joke
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Hmmm, that's what I get for using a word I've only heard and not double checked.
This is the book you want to read.
These are not the droids you are looking for.
This is not the book you want to read.
You mean I actually would have bought 4 CD's... Amazing.
Don't get me wrong, but you have to wait a day or two for the SVCD's to come around. Getting the XVids a few hours later is a much better option. Sure you can't just burn it to cd and watch it in your dvd player, but you get better quality watching it on the computer.
Assuming your DVD player even plays them. When they don't its very annoying.
I did download an episode of "The Screen Savers" a week or so back that had commercials it was highly freakish.
Standarly there are no commercials in any downloaded show.
Don't get me wrong, but I fit smack into that bracket and I don't get cable or sat. I just use my broadband connection to download all the shows I need.
Few bittorrent sites, supranova.org, torrentz.com, and an irc.irchighway.net network later and I've dropped completely off their "This group watches TV" radar, when the fact is I have over half a terabyte of TV.
To be fair, he most likely hasn't seen windows in a couple years. Windows 2000, isn't what I would describe as multi-user. It was just multi-account, and when somebody else logged in at the screen saver password, all my crap was gone. Its a fairly new feature on microsoft's part, and with XP is pretty hack and slash. I wouldn't go SSH'ing in from home but, its still describable as multi-user now.
First person shooters are very common nowadays and frankly I could program a very crappy one in about a month, with network support and sphere heads ect.
... The list goes on.
If you cast your net too wide you miss what makes a game worthwhile.
Most games fall into one of the following categories:
1) Games
Thief, is the perfect example. It's plenty first person shooter, action adventure and puzzle. You can't run in guns blazing. And when it came out it was in a class by its own.
MMORPG are going to be huge. But, frankly the future is in just MMOG. Picture a first person shooter game where you fight it out against 2000 people, 1000 on one team 1000 on the other. You'd have an online war. That'd be fun right?
I am of the distint impression that *ALL* games would be more fun as massive multiplayer online games. GTA3 as a massive multiplayer online game. Raving gangs of thugs walking around beating folks up and taking their money. Stealing cars and running a convoy of them over to a rival gangs place. Joining the police force and
Roleplaying games have just been the first step. Simulation games are the next step (read Sims Online). I personally can't wait till RTS goes MM. You are set on planet (already in progress) and forced to build up your forces before being wiped out by somebody already better established, or ally with somebody in the fight against some other factions.
To say that there are no new ideas in games is silly. Sure, in theory there might not be many more viable genres, but there are surely new dimensions.
Although, I agree Linux as it stands would never arise as a protest OS as such. The talent would still be there, the ideas would still be there, the people would still be there.
Apple wouldn't have crashed and burned as soon. They would have retained more of their market share for a while longer. IBM would have more than likely had DOS written for their machine, though it wouldn't have succeeded. The alternate machine for the apple could have been anything from the DEC to NEC to perhaps still the x86, or most likely a mac clone. The only sure thing would be it would be as cheap to produce as the PC clones, were in the early days. Without an obvious alternative much more pressure would have been placed on breaking Mac's stranglehold on the hardware, this would have lead to cloning of the Mac as it had lead to cloning the PC.
Without direct competition Apple prices would be higher than they were causing more pressure to create a cheap counterpart for the OS. Without windows ripping off the interface early on, a few other mac clone OS's would come around, though they would only serve to contribute code to the later clones.
The real shift would be when AT&T built Unix. Although they would have developed an extensive GUI'd OS to rival Apple, so much of the code was contributed and tossed around that surely a either a quick scratch project or a release would dump this into Open Source Which wasn't so much reactionary to Microsoft as it was idealogical after Emacs was written/stole. After the start of a free Open Unix for Mac/Mac Clone, it would continue to grow from earlier than linux started to grow. And would have overtaken Apple in the early 90's. As all the game hardware and games would be supported, and much more easily integrated with the hardware than what Apple deam Mac. Hardware manufacturers would be some of the greater contributers to Open Unix as they would prefer their technology be used. Apple would have effectivly be cloned out of existance. As the hardware clones would kill their hardware market, and Open Unix would take over the OS. Rather than see the revival of Mac we have seen in the past 5 years or so, they would have died out quickly after losing market share, only having the same functionality for much more money.
Conclusion: Most likely we would be using an Open Source Unix clone, on Apple clone hardware. Apple as a hardware/software company would be completely dead.
Don't get me wrong but banning AOL users outright from services does save gobs of headaches. Just instantly get rid of folks who happen to be a cut below the rest.
And with any luck all this banning will lead AOL users to goto some non-coddling ISP, and AOL will whither and die.
Charge as much as I pay for broadband... YOU WILL GET YOUR COMEUPINS! I hear the grand canyon is void of AOL CD's... Fill that sucker to the brim.
20% of the people, are 80% of the problem... Guess what? They are all located at one ISP.
Somebody tell google to make a service to cache a webpage and keep that cache for a week or so, so we can lock some of these webpages in place by linking to the cache.
Couldn't even locate the google cache for this. And besides under my idea it would have all the picture too.
Not a hard idea, just run over have everything copied and call it a day. Readied for the slashdot.
I'm just annoyed not being able to see it.
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3) Because while brainstorming we are helping to inform the other very smart people on the site about the problem, and somebody might churn out an answer. Information and ideas are not weapons, they are the solution.
I understood what all the projects were... so I guess I don't feel entirely retarded.
"Quantitative Trait Loci Modulating Corpus Callosum Size in the Mouse Brain" - for understanding what this is I deserve a fricking medal.
Charge for the Windows version.
Release the Linux version for free.
Game makers still make all their money, the windows folks out number the linux folks by a huge margin. But, never underestimate Joe Windows-came-pre-installed's wanten need to save a buck.
Also, for the game creator this brings much geek love. Geek love is ofcourse the best type of love. If only women could learn that lesson.
So game creator X, you have a raving band of loving geeks? What do you want to do with em?
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To be fair this isn't Joe Denomenator at work it's Kevin-Sorbo is a complete retard at work.
And calling Wolfe just the producer is wrong, he's more the creator than Roddenberry. He was just a producer of DS9.
Mashed potatoes are way way better than Andromeda.
Scifi screwed entry for Andromeda