If you think in the short term (like 10-30 years time range) then yes, there is a waste of money. Now, if you try to think on the level of 100-500 years, this becomes very cost effective. Right now we are limited to the resources on this little ball of rock and water we call Earth. One well placed asteroid and we are ALL dead, doesn't matter what country you live in. If we can get off this little rock and start to take advantage of all those nice resources on other planets and in the asteroid fields around Jupiter, we will have plenty of material to not only keep the human race alive but to expand it well beyond our solar system. In the end, for a relatively puny monitary investment, we can "bootstrap" our entire species (and maybe ecosystem?) into the universe. It just requires people to start thinking beyond the "what will I have for dinner tonight" and "I hope my sports team wins its next game" time limitations.
I used to have problems getting flash to work, but then they released a Netscape/Mozilla specific plugin, not just a Netscape one. Try looking through their site, grab the tar file, untar it, become root, and run the little install program. It's basicly just copying a few files to a specific directory. Never had a problem with flash since. Sure, it isn't seamless, but in the end flash is working and it doesn't really take that much effort. Hope that helps.
This is a perfect example of why software patents are bad. While I enjoy watching MS wiggle at the end of a hook just like everyone else here, this will definatly effect the Open Source community. A lot of the web's best features revolve around plugins in the web browser. A company like MS might be able to pay the little company enough money to let them keep doing business as usual, but how could the Mozilla team, or the Opera team? They could be forced to "downgrade" their programs, thus being less useful/relavent than IE. And if MS can't/won't pay them off, then everyone will suffer from the loss of plugins in web browsers. This is something that doesn't just affect the geek community. It will cause huge ripples through the corporate world and in the home user markets. All because people can get patents on software. I'm moving to Europe (if things go well over there that is).
Well, coupled with one of their nice wireless keyboards (which I have and have only had to change the batteries once in 5 years), I would be able to play a game on my big screen TV without having to sit within cord distance of my computer. Plus, since it would be a trackball, I wouldn't need to have a very big surface to set it on, or any at all for that matter!
Got to agree with you there! I use the TrackMan+ and I love it! The only way to make it better would have be to make it wireless. When they did they took out the middle wheel button, slammed the left and right buttons together and stuck the wheel tightly between them. Now that's great for your average person, but I have large hands to the three button design was great for me. Today whenever I use a two button mouse I instictively use my index finger and my ring finger for left and right, respectivally. Just feels wierd to use my middle finger for anything but scrolling:)
Only the copyright holders can go after people downloading their work illegally, and last time I checked the RIAA's contract practices, the artists give up all rights to their works to whatever label just signed them. Someone about their songs being concidered "work for hire" or something. The artists are little more than line workers to the RIAA.
Well, they can encourance it. I know at my University the resnet department has a sight license for a virus scanner (can't remember which) that they bundle on a CD full of all kinds of good programs (spam blockers for various email programs, ftp programs, SSH programs, etc) that they give away free to ALL the dorm people when they move in (they physically hand it to them and tell them what it is) and to anyone else who asks for it for that matter (even us lonely apartment dwellers). They also can block an individual's computer since each switch is managed and each dorm has two seperate jacks to the switch. So, if they find a specific computer is infected and spamming the network, they just turn off their port and wait for them to either call or walk into the office to tell them they have a virus and how to fix it. Pretty good system:)
If you had been paying attention for the last year or so, you would have noticed that IBM has contributed a lot in the way of kernel development, mainly in the high level mainframe area. This allows Linux to scale up to Big Iron where there is a lot of important work done, given Linux credibility as an OS that can play with the big boys. That credibility scores more points with PHB than anything else. The more PHB's that start OKing the use of it, the more groups there will be contributing to it to make it work for them. And all that time, those contributions will come back to the community as a whole, who can all benifit. Everyone wins, no one losses. Don't forget, just because IBM can start selling an Enterprise Class 123ABC Server with Linux on it for millions of dollars doesn't prevent you or me or the next person from using Linux and doing the same thing IBM is doing, or just using it in a SOHO setting to get other work done that brings in the money. With FOSS, one's person gain is NOT another's loss!
There's a reason it costs money: it is NOT an easy project! If it was something that just took some time, there would have been a plugin already. Also, it requires access to a working Exchange Server, which isn't exactly cheap or easy to get working in the first place.
The better solution is to develope a sane, open protocol that ANY developer could use, including Microsoft. Then would could have all the alternative programs (you know, mostly OSS) start using it and to start pressuring for more interoperablility from MS. Yes, I know, that's a long shot. But if we do all the work for them, they are more inclined to use it. Anyway, that's my two cents.
Why is this a troll? I think it is very relavent. Universities around the country have been hitting financial troubles, and they ALWAYS pass this off to the students in some form. Most students are there because of scholarships, part time jobs and financial aid. Very few are there completely on Mommy and Daddy's dollar. When a University builds something like this it is pretty cool, but who is paying for it? I doubt the administration will be taking a pay cut in order to pay for it. Maybe they'll just fire a few professors and put some more on research and grant writing full time, leaving fewer teachers for students. Or maybe they'll just charge every student more money under something like a "reasource fee". Point is, is it really financially responsible for the University to built this big computer?
You are an evil, evil person! How dare you steal money out of the mouths of artists! You must pay for each medium in which you listen to music! It's only fair.
Act now and the RIAA will let you buy a one month listening pass for listening to any music that might float your way through the air for only $699! What a deal! Act now before it goes up to $1499 this October!
No, then the RIAA will just blame piracy for the drop in sales, like always, and press Congress/law enforcement agenecies to track down these horrible pirates to protect their old and failing business model. They've done it before, they'll do it again. And again. And again. And again. And...
All you need is simple automatic/remote technologies to allow for the UNMANED mining of a NEO (near earth object), and it becomes damn justifiable!!!! These ideas have been around for decades and have been fleshed out and thought through, but because of NASA, no one is ever given a chance to try them. Image being able to mine an astoriod the size of Texas that is nothing but metals that can be mines by machines and dropped back into the atmosphere. All the pollution involved with the mining would be off-planet allowing for the use of "non green" technologies which have been around for a long time. Keep it all unmanned and the costs/risks are greatly reduced.
What makes you think they will be freely available? If there is money to be made by maintaining a strangle hold on IP addresses, much like DeBeers with diamonds, then I can guaranty that some group or company will find a way (ethical or not) to become the one and only distributor of "legal" IPv6 addresses. That is the kind of tainting I think he is referring to. Artificial (political) tainting, not technological.
I think you forgetting a great market that moved away from this kind of mentality and has not collapsed under a pile of crap games: the pc game market. Sure, they have crap games out there. But they don't survive. The good games become popular and the companies that make them produce more games. The setup of the pc game market does not prevent a 15 year old super coding genious from producing the Next Great Thing in his basement while still allowing for large companies like Blizzard et. al. to produce greate and not so greate games in mass. The console world can take a page from the pc game market and let the consumers decide what is a good game and what is a bad game.
Have you thought that if we can figure a way to grow these ourselves, quickly and cheaply, that this would be what brings fiber to your doorstep? It's not cheap to make a spool of fiber cable right now, but what if we can just flip a few genetic switches in some sponges in a lab and have them start growing these things by the miles? Or even better, we learn how they make the glass, and duplicate it industrially. I can only see good things comin from this (well, maybe not for the sponge with a 3 mile long glass strand growing out of its ass, but it's a sponge, I doubt anyone at PETA will come calling on it's behalf).
It's a lot easier to stomach a cross the board small increase in taxes than it is to stomach target cost increases that have always been incredibly unfair. Come on, increasing the costs of higher education? You actually want to try to get more money out of a bunch of college students?!?!?!? We servive on Ramen and water, we can't afford a $1500 a term increase in costs, but we can afford a $500 per year increase.
Yes. It's much like comparing a 486 to a P4 3GHz. The water cooling is much quieter, runs much cooler, and allows for creater control over temperature. If done right, there is no risk of frying your system, unless you cut the hoses or something, but even that can be protected from. Plus, if you have any kind of case window and lighting, you can injust florecent(sic) coloring into the water system and use clear tubes, giving a very cool light effect.
Probably not. The PCI bus is so dog slow that no matter had good an algorithm you used or how fast you were able to get an indepentant clock on the the PCI board to run, you would starve the whole thing just fetching chunks of memory from RAM to encode and push back out to the hard drive. Now, if this plugged into an AGP slot, then you could have some real fun:)
What article did you read? He didn't expose it while an employee. He told management which did nothing for over six months. What was he suppoed to do once he wasn't employed there? Tell management again? They could have had him arrest for exstoration (sic). The next level up is to inform the people affected by the security hole so they could protect themselves. He took responsibility for the problem and tried to help protect the people with the most to loose. He could have just turned a blind eye once he was no longer employed and waited for some black hat hacker to find the same thing he did and to start reading all the customers' emails. He did the right thing, which wasn't easy.
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If you think in the short term (like 10-30 years time range) then yes, there is a waste of money. Now, if you try to think on the level of 100-500 years, this becomes very cost effective. Right now we are limited to the resources on this little ball of rock and water we call Earth. One well placed asteroid and we are ALL dead, doesn't matter what country you live in. If we can get off this little rock and start to take advantage of all those nice resources on other planets and in the asteroid fields around Jupiter, we will have plenty of material to not only keep the human race alive but to expand it well beyond our solar system. In the end, for a relatively puny monitary investment, we can "bootstrap" our entire species (and maybe ecosystem?) into the universe. It just requires people to start thinking beyond the "what will I have for dinner tonight" and "I hope my sports team wins its next game" time limitations.
I used to have problems getting flash to work, but then they released a Netscape/Mozilla specific plugin, not just a Netscape one. Try looking through their site, grab the tar file, untar it, become root, and run the little install program. It's basicly just copying a few files to a specific directory. Never had a problem with flash since. Sure, it isn't seamless, but in the end flash is working and it doesn't really take that much effort. Hope that helps.
This is a perfect example of why software patents are bad. While I enjoy watching MS wiggle at the end of a hook just like everyone else here, this will definatly effect the Open Source community. A lot of the web's best features revolve around plugins in the web browser. A company like MS might be able to pay the little company enough money to let them keep doing business as usual, but how could the Mozilla team, or the Opera team? They could be forced to "downgrade" their programs, thus being less useful/relavent than IE. And if MS can't/won't pay them off, then everyone will suffer from the loss of plugins in web browsers. This is something that doesn't just affect the geek community. It will cause huge ripples through the corporate world and in the home user markets. All because people can get patents on software. I'm moving to Europe (if things go well over there that is).
Well, coupled with one of their nice wireless keyboards (which I have and have only had to change the batteries once in 5 years), I would be able to play a game on my big screen TV without having to sit within cord distance of my computer. Plus, since it would be a trackball, I wouldn't need to have a very big surface to set it on, or any at all for that matter!
Got to agree with you there! I use the TrackMan+ and I love it! The only way to make it better would have be to make it wireless. When they did they took out the middle wheel button, slammed the left and right buttons together and stuck the wheel tightly between them. Now that's great for your average person, but I have large hands to the three button design was great for me. Today whenever I use a two button mouse I instictively use my index finger and my ring finger for left and right, respectivally. Just feels wierd to use my middle finger for anything but scrolling :)
So, when's the funeral? I'll bring a cake :)
Only the copyright holders can go after people downloading their work illegally, and last time I checked the RIAA's contract practices, the artists give up all rights to their works to whatever label just signed them. Someone about their songs being concidered "work for hire" or something. The artists are little more than line workers to the RIAA.
Well, they can encourance it. I know at my University the resnet department has a sight license for a virus scanner (can't remember which) that they bundle on a CD full of all kinds of good programs (spam blockers for various email programs, ftp programs, SSH programs, etc) that they give away free to ALL the dorm people when they move in (they physically hand it to them and tell them what it is) and to anyone else who asks for it for that matter (even us lonely apartment dwellers). They also can block an individual's computer since each switch is managed and each dorm has two seperate jacks to the switch. So, if they find a specific computer is infected and spamming the network, they just turn off their port and wait for them to either call or walk into the office to tell them they have a virus and how to fix it. Pretty good system :)
If you had been paying attention for the last year or so, you would have noticed that IBM has contributed a lot in the way of kernel development, mainly in the high level mainframe area. This allows Linux to scale up to Big Iron where there is a lot of important work done, given Linux credibility as an OS that can play with the big boys. That credibility scores more points with PHB than anything else. The more PHB's that start OKing the use of it, the more groups there will be contributing to it to make it work for them. And all that time, those contributions will come back to the community as a whole, who can all benifit. Everyone wins, no one losses. Don't forget, just because IBM can start selling an Enterprise Class 123ABC Server with Linux on it for millions of dollars doesn't prevent you or me or the next person from using Linux and doing the same thing IBM is doing, or just using it in a SOHO setting to get other work done that brings in the money. With FOSS, one's person gain is NOT another's loss!
Damn, that gave me goose bumps :)
Does that make me weird, sad, or both?
There's a reason it costs money: it is NOT an easy project! If it was something that just took some time, there would have been a plugin already. Also, it requires access to a working Exchange Server, which isn't exactly cheap or easy to get working in the first place.
The better solution is to develope a sane, open protocol that ANY developer could use, including Microsoft. Then would could have all the alternative programs (you know, mostly OSS) start using it and to start pressuring for more interoperablility from MS. Yes, I know, that's a long shot. But if we do all the work for them, they are more inclined to use it. Anyway, that's my two cents.
Why is this a troll? I think it is very relavent. Universities around the country have been hitting financial troubles, and they ALWAYS pass this off to the students in some form. Most students are there because of scholarships, part time jobs and financial aid. Very few are there completely on Mommy and Daddy's dollar. When a University builds something like this it is pretty cool, but who is paying for it? I doubt the administration will be taking a pay cut in order to pay for it. Maybe they'll just fire a few professors and put some more on research and grant writing full time, leaving fewer teachers for students. Or maybe they'll just charge every student more money under something like a "reasource fee". Point is, is it really financially responsible for the University to built this big computer?
You are an evil, evil person! How dare you steal money out of the mouths of artists! You must pay for each medium in which you listen to music! It's only fair.
Act now and the RIAA will let you buy a one month listening pass for listening to any music that might float your way through the air for only $699! What a deal! Act now before it goes up to $1499 this October!
No, then the RIAA will just blame piracy for the drop in sales, like always, and press Congress/law enforcement agenecies to track down these horrible pirates to protect their old and failing business model. They've done it before, they'll do it again. And again. And again. And again. And...
All you need is simple automatic/remote technologies to allow for the UNMANED mining of a NEO (near earth object), and it becomes damn justifiable!!!! These ideas have been around for decades and have been fleshed out and thought through, but because of NASA, no one is ever given a chance to try them. Image being able to mine an astoriod the size of Texas that is nothing but metals that can be mines by machines and dropped back into the atmosphere. All the pollution involved with the mining would be off-planet allowing for the use of "non green" technologies which have been around for a long time. Keep it all unmanned and the costs/risks are greatly reduced.
What makes you think they will be freely available? If there is money to be made by maintaining a strangle hold on IP addresses, much like DeBeers with diamonds, then I can guaranty that some group or company will find a way (ethical or not) to become the one and only distributor of "legal" IPv6 addresses. That is the kind of tainting I think he is referring to. Artificial (political) tainting, not technological.
I think you forgetting a great market that moved away from this kind of mentality and has not collapsed under a pile of crap games: the pc game market. Sure, they have crap games out there. But they don't survive. The good games become popular and the companies that make them produce more games. The setup of the pc game market does not prevent a 15 year old super coding genious from producing the Next Great Thing in his basement while still allowing for large companies like Blizzard et. al. to produce greate and not so greate games in mass. The console world can take a page from the pc game market and let the consumers decide what is a good game and what is a bad game.
Just you :)
Have you thought that if we can figure a way to grow these ourselves, quickly and cheaply, that this would be what brings fiber to your doorstep? It's not cheap to make a spool of fiber cable right now, but what if we can just flip a few genetic switches in some sponges in a lab and have them start growing these things by the miles? Or even better, we learn how they make the glass, and duplicate it industrially. I can only see good things comin from this (well, maybe not for the sponge with a 3 mile long glass strand growing out of its ass, but it's a sponge, I doubt anyone at PETA will come calling on it's behalf).
Let's see.
Is Gaim a MS sponsered MSN Messenger?
Nope.
We are out in the cold.
It's a lot easier to stomach a cross the board small increase in taxes than it is to stomach target cost increases that have always been incredibly unfair. Come on, increasing the costs of higher education? You actually want to try to get more money out of a bunch of college students?!?!?!? We servive on Ramen and water, we can't afford a $1500 a term increase in costs, but we can afford a $500 per year increase.
Yes. It's much like comparing a 486 to a P4 3GHz. The water cooling is much quieter, runs much cooler, and allows for creater control over temperature. If done right, there is no risk of frying your system, unless you cut the hoses or something, but even that can be protected from. Plus, if you have any kind of case window and lighting, you can injust florecent(sic) coloring into the water system and use clear tubes, giving a very cool light effect.
Ya, mad at his barber *buddum ching* Go ahead, mod me down! I dare you!
Probably not. The PCI bus is so dog slow that no matter had good an algorithm you used or how fast you were able to get an indepentant clock on the the PCI board to run, you would starve the whole thing just fetching chunks of memory from RAM to encode and push back out to the hard drive. Now, if this plugged into an AGP slot, then you could have some real fun :)
What article did you read? He didn't expose it while an employee. He told management which did nothing for over six months. What was he suppoed to do once he wasn't employed there? Tell management again? They could have had him arrest for exstoration (sic). The next level up is to inform the people affected by the security hole so they could protect themselves. He took responsibility for the problem and tried to help protect the people with the most to loose. He could have just turned a blind eye once he was no longer employed and waited for some black hat hacker to find the same thing he did and to start reading all the customers' emails. He did the right thing, which wasn't easy.