Agreed. I got the impression Gore thinks he knows it all. Now if he likes the story about him creating the internet what might he do to try and control the internet, and what we do with it. Since he knows it all he won't listen to us, so far he won't even respond to us.
Bush isn't the brightest, but at least he doesn't pretent to be. If he surrounds himself with intellegent resoning people and listens to them, he will make much better decisions than doing them all himself.
Besides, I think our government is big enough, we don't need another couple hundred agencies to look over our sholder to keep us in line.
1 War on drugs. Well, the problem is that its been a war too long. Lets declair peace and leagalize them. Why fight them when we could tax them.
2. Minority religions. As far as I'm concerned as long as you are not sacrificing innocent people you have nothing to worry about. If you want protection, I'd suggest your local gun merchant.
3. Tax cut. We don't need tax cuts, a flat tax would be the answer. Everyone pays 15%. No deductions, no oversized tax books. No more IRS. Taxes will take all of 15 min.
4. Electoral Colledge. In my opinion its far out of date. It was designed based on a country that lacked fast communications. When you had to wait for the pony express to arive that tended to slow the whole progress. But since congress is against change it would be a hard fight.
5. Intellectual Property. To start with the copywrite system needs to be overhauled and sectioned to different departments. Works of art, literatur, artwork, ect is pretty simple. For computers there needs to be a complete review of all copyrights and a change to make public domain and concepts used by many companies/people listed as non copywritable. Also a technical oreinted staff to review and process computer copywrites. Also a review system so the public can comment on the possibilies of invallid copywrite attempts.
6. Encryption. We should pass laws allowing all to create and use whatever encryption they feel they need. As for exporting encryption program, since we have many world wide companies based in the US, the restrictions should be removed to allow secure information regardless of location.
7. Corporat power. That is an issue that really needs attention. We need a set of laws allowing for criminal prosecution of corporate people abusing individuals. The selling of private information without the owners concent in writing should be a jailable offence. Large corporation who like to squash smaller companies (no names need be spoken here) should be cruely delt with with as drastic an action as needed. CEO's who continue to abuse their power after being informed of their violation would be brought up on criminal charges.
9. The future of the country. I think the future of the country should be to continue growth. Funding scientists to find new forms of energy to drive the nation. More funding towards space exploration. Allowing competition with NASA from private companies to promote the growth of new ways of getting into space. We should stop policing the world and move towards colonizing the moon, mars. Mining the asteroid belt, and many other possibilities.
I don't claim to be an expert on all the logging systems, but assuming whoever did break in and made the changes removed their ip's from the logs why wouldn't someone comming there later do the same if they were guilty.
I didn't think logs were that short, and why would logs hours later be more important than the log of the time the hacking occured.
Being curious about how it was done, although not real bright, is understandable. But if he didn't break in then there was no crime, its like someone looking at a crime scene after the crime. Obviously by the speed of the FBI comming they were already looking for people by the time he showed up and did his looking. But instead of being told to go away and leave things along, like would have happend at a crime scene, he was questioned and his personal property stolen by the FBI.
I'm just amazed that someone hasn't managed to hit them will illegal seizure. I know that the bill of rights supposed to protect us from illegal search and seizure. Obviously this doesn't cover computers since this seems to be pretty common.
So why don't the police ticket all the people rubbernecking on the interstate? Why don't the police arrest everyone left in the bank after a bank robbery?
If they didn't want anyone viewing what was done they should have shut down the site...confiscate the server hosting the site. I bet that machine isn't in the fbi's hands.
I wonder if they took the lamp too, since it was plugged into the same power strip as the computer?
I know that the majority of the people out there paying for console devises don't care. but Honestly, do you really think that the PS2 based on linux will loose out to XBox based on windows? So I could have a stable console game machine to play with...or the mini-computer in a box that has a tendancy to crash on me...
I don't know about anyone else, but I have a computer, and if I want to play a pc game I'll get it and play it on my pc. I am not buying a seperate peice of hardware to play something I can play now.
PS2 is going like mad right now...I've seen several people who were in line at the stores to get theirs...
Sony has done good, and will still do good, the ps1 was a good console box...and I have yet to find a lack of games or junk to go with it.
When america first began it developed a system of government that could handle your basic farmer and uneducated person. Basicly someone who had been to school was needed to help run the country for the ignorant.
Today, here as well as other countries, we have a government run by the ignorant. They know little to nothing about coumputers or the internet, and yet they make up laws regarding it.
How can this continue to happen? I know the geek community well outnumbers the govt officials in charge of making our lives miserable. So how do we manage to get all of the people (myself included) that do nothing into doing something? We have jobs, school, games, or whatever that we spend mass amounts of time on, and don't always take the time to get involved. Somewhere between writing code and killing others online I manage to read/. to keep me up on the upcomming evils that affect my life.
Getting more intellegent people in govt isn't going to happen any time sone. What can we do to stop these ridiculously blind attempts at making everything not moron normal illegal?
Chances are you send your child to a private school so they can be indoctrinated into your belief system instead of being "corrupted" by viewpoints that don't match with yours.
Actually I send her to a private school because after playing all of the 5th grade she couldn't even do simple fraction. On the "parents visit school day" we sat in the class for 20 min before my child even notice we were in the room. She was daydreaming, as wer 90% of the kids there. According to the public school she passed the 5th grade. When we went to put her in private school she was tested on the basics of 5th grade, she failed miserably. She now goes to class with 16 other children and they have more tests in a week than the public school had in a month. They cover more subjects and have more work. Daydreaming isn't ignored there.
My child is in a private school to learn, not to be brainwashed. I want the best for my child, if she isn't forced to learn she will not. She, like allot of children, is quite lazy, and will avoid doing the work if she can.
I went to both public and private schools. A few of the publics schools are good, but a depressing few. And in Maryland you don't have a choice of public schools, you have to take the one that you are assigned. At least with private schools you have a choice.
And I work with quite a few people making 6 figures a year. So why is it I produce more work than they do and with less problems?
I don't know about you but I'm rather sick of having the government meddle in my affairs as it is.
Agreed, I think we have too much govt control now. Bush want to remove some control and give us back our right to chose, Gore wants to keep that choice for himself. The word "dictator" comes to mind. Ok, so we elect our president, but does that give him the right to chose our lives for us.
I send my child to a private school, but does my tax money still fund the pathetic public school down the street pumping out ignorant future welfare recipients? Yes it does. I'd like my tax money to go to something important. Free handouts to the lazy are not important in my opinion.
I'd never see a tax cut from gore...I make too much. Why can't I take the cost of the private school off my taxes?
I don't believe all the things bush or gore says, but bush has a better line than gore.
Yes, vote for the control freak who wants you to trust him implicitly to give you more goverment control, and since he created the internet, more rules and regulation to make your life better. Regardless of the fact you may not want his version of life forced uppon you.
Didn't anyone else seem to be hearing that gore wishes to be in control of everything, and that he will fix it all, with magic money that we wont have to pay for.
Well face it...if you are making more than $60k a year, you don't fit in his middle class, so your f*cked with the rest of us. And by chance what if you did manage to make it rich, now you become his enemy and should pay even more money to the govt because you have more of it.
I'm not rich, but one day would like to be, and if that miracle was to happen I wouldn't want to be screwed by the govt every time I turned around.
Bush may not be the brightest on the block, but he seems bright enough to want very intellegent people around him. Most ceo's are not the brightest in their company, but that doesn't stop them from doing well.
I'm all for cutting govt, not people, but control. Gore wants to cut people and increase control. So all of you complaining about how our freedom is being taken away peice by piece, gore will take even more...trust him, he knows it all.
I'll vote for the dumber one, since he picked a vice president smarter than him, he will probably have a whole cabinet smarter than him. Lack of intellegence can be compensated for, control freeks need a shrink.
As for his comment on the internet turning the kids hearts dark, I took it as the hate sites that the kids were going to. Not the internet in general. Give him a break, he doesn't understand computers and internet, but if he gets people who do to give him advice its better than him thinking he knows what he's talking about on his own.
And Gore hasn't mistated many things also about bush? I just think he would be better off saying he supported the internet when it was new than allowing the media and others to say he invented it.
I think M$ has the right concept, delay till its no longer important to your average person. Give marketing more time to brainwash the masses into believing that m$ is god and they should worship at thier feet.
This is a good tactic concidering that the majority of the people don't know any better and really don't care. The longer they get this delayed the more people loose interest and when they hear about it again they wonder why this is still happening.
The overkill on their documents is to add confusion that adds more delay. I don't know about anyone else, but it would take me a good half year to read and process 56k words. More on the process what its saying but its just another delay tactic.
Regardless of the outcome its going to take a while. I am actually begining to believe that, unless they actually are charged with some of the blatent violations of the law they are still doing, they will not be broken up. After the appeals court gets done it will go to the supreem court, and that will take a good year or more.
Basicly, we seem to be stuck with them for a long while yet.
Actually, they could also do other things like declair it public domain, or refuse to prosecute anyone pirating it. I'm sure there are even much better things they could come up with which m$ wouldn't like.
M$ breakup would be good for all of us...even those of us who use windows would benifit by a separation of application and os (or marketing and programmers)
appart from some icons and stylesheet stuff, no real visible difference between Whistler and 2000
Thats what I was thinking...win2k with theams. I honestly don't want my os to look like a web page. I could see Whistler being like plus for 95...something with extra toys and some "flash" stuff. But in reality I've been more pleased with w2k than I thought I would, IT WORKS!!! Imagine my supprise when things that crashed 98 were dumped by w2k without crashing or corrupting itself. (I wonder how much reasearch the m$ programmers did in the linux sorce)
why their are server & workstation editions of 2000
well, in reality they are mainly the same thing, except server versions have extra software and default to giving the deamons/services more priority and cpu time. Also they charge more for the server..hehe, but I'm sure you know that. By default workstation doesn't have all the extra crap server does instaled. It takes an extra 1-2 minutes to boot server than workstation.
As for ME..a 98 upgrade with more problems...although I haven't looked at the details I'd bet its still 16 bit core based. I know two people who have tried it out...and went right back to w2k (the linux partitions never changed..hehe)...
I think I'll stay away from whistler till its shoved down my throat...or they put an off switch on it to turn off the ugly web look. If I want to see web pages I can come here...or to a billion other web sites.
My first modem exp was with 300 on a C64. I remember looking for bbs numbers to call...slow...very, very slow. I can't imagine going back to a 56k modem anymore, I'd just give up on a 300.
While I eagerly await Kylix, I still know that instant cross platform compatability will not be an option. It will be easier, but not instant. I think until all the programmers come to a like thinking will there be only one language, and since the chances of that happening are too low to even concider...I wouldn't hold my breath. Good idea but I don't see it happening myself. As new companies are trying to invent something new that comes closer to making web programming easier and more usefull they don't always concider modifing what exsists just making somehting new. Java was at least C based to a degree. The almighty dollar tends to help create more diversity, and at the rate things are going it doesn't appear to be getting any better.
I'm a developer and I am curious as to how you think the software will change in the future.
I know from looking at many contracted software packages that quality is something usually forgotten in the windows world. Badly written hard to use and usually very buggy. Do you feel at some point that companies will finally stand up for themselves and demand good software?
As for hardware, with the standars being modified so quickly will we end up back at a propriatary level again? I ask because of the splitting between amd and intel on the type of interface on the motherboard for the processor (not to mention the memory style variations happening) Will programmers end up writing towards a propriatary box/cpu do you think?
I think the reason for the destinction is that Delphi in know to be for windows. And as much as I hate to say it there will probably be a few people who are not really bright that might pick up "delphi for linux" and not really read that its for linux. So if its labled differently there is a destinction between the OS which is very different.
I myself have used delphi since v2 and love it. I am eagerly awaiting kylix so I can make some cool toys for linux. This will also alow me to do contracting work for linux, not to mention client server programming between winblows and linux. I imagine that being able to build the client app for winblows and a server for linux would be awesome. Stability on the server side with the user still able to use winblows.
I hope they get it done soon, been waiting since it first was announced.
One of the things I have seen recently when a freind sent me a link to a "win $1,000,00" site. I thought ok...I can click it...If I win they can have my info, I'll be moving anyway after getting the check.
But before it lets you try it wants name, address, phone, fax, email...and about 15 other personal fields. Needless to say I didn't provide them with what they wanted.
Offering a chance (small one at that) of winning money or other things and giving them all your info for their database is dumb. But I don't see them going out of business that fast, and more pop up everyday.
If the people at/. are concerned about privacy, then most aren't providing this information. So the fact is someone is, actually allot of someones. These are the people not only allowing thier privacy to be abused, but it encourages other companies to do so also.
You know what scares me the most? The fact that even if they somehow stayed afloat, most of the people out there would still buy from them. Its a sad fact that there are millions of morons out there that just don't know, or care what people are doing with their private information.
All the people who use major online companies for internet access are pretty used to spam from thier provider selling thier email address. They seem to accept this as normal and something that they deal with and think nothing of it. Look at all the "click to win" type sites. Where is all the money comming from to pay the winners? Why by the selling of the full info that you have to provide them to participate.
I find it depressing that the internet has formed a new form of revenue in the selling of personall information to be abused by marketing people. Telemarketers, spamers, ect. And the very sad thing is this is being done by the companies you are purchasing items from. It isn't enough you are buying from them, they also sell your info to make even more money.
Just thinking about all the uncarring people who will continue to use any company regardless of thier actions makes me sick.
Hint: If you are logged on to AOL and reading this you might fall into the catagory I mentiond
Very good point. Also the fact that at least pot is not illeagal, just the possesion of it. So you can smoke it...just not have it in your possession...I'm still trying to figure that one out.
I don't think the equipment will be fast enough to clear itself of the previous person before the next comes through. Basicly the security stations at the airport will have to be expanded quite a bit to accomidate more stations. Which would mean more cost, and more people to run them, and a bigger backup in the lines. Would greatly piss the passengers off.
Of course the govt tends to do first and wait for people to get pissed before they really concider the long term results. I bet they wouldn't want it if the first was to be installed at congress to detect drugs and other illicit activities.
The US is becoming a sad place, and getting worse. I personally am moving out farther into the country areas to get away from the crime and stupidity that flows out of major cities. I know...lets put one on all the ways in and out of a city....keep the garbage downtown...hehe
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Agreed. I got the impression Gore thinks he knows it all. Now if he likes the story about him creating the internet what might he do to try and control the internet, and what we do with it. Since he knows it all he won't listen to us, so far he won't even respond to us.
Bush isn't the brightest, but at least he doesn't pretent to be. If he surrounds himself with intellegent resoning people and listens to them, he will make much better decisions than doing them all himself.
Besides, I think our government is big enough, we don't need another couple hundred agencies to look over our sholder to keep us in line.
Not that I currently use it. But I'm all for leagalization of it. I'd rather be in a room full of people high on pot than a room full of drunks.
I say tax it instead of fighting it...
1 War on drugs. Well, the problem is that its been a war too long. Lets declair peace and leagalize them. Why fight them when we could tax them.
2. Minority religions. As far as I'm concerned as long as you are not sacrificing innocent people you have nothing to worry about. If you want protection, I'd suggest your local gun merchant.
3. Tax cut. We don't need tax cuts, a flat tax would be the answer. Everyone pays 15%. No deductions, no oversized tax books. No more IRS. Taxes will take all of 15 min.
4. Electoral Colledge. In my opinion its far out of date. It was designed based on a country that lacked fast communications. When you had to wait for the pony express to arive that tended to slow the whole progress. But since congress is against change it would be a hard fight.
5. Intellectual Property. To start with the copywrite system needs to be overhauled and sectioned to different departments. Works of art, literatur, artwork, ect is pretty simple. For computers there needs to be a complete review of all copyrights and a change to make public domain and concepts used by many companies/people listed as non copywritable. Also a technical oreinted staff to review and process computer copywrites. Also a review system so the public can comment on the possibilies of invallid copywrite attempts.
6. Encryption. We should pass laws allowing all to create and use whatever encryption they feel they need. As for exporting encryption program, since we have many world wide companies based in the US, the restrictions should be removed to allow secure information regardless of location.
7. Corporat power. That is an issue that really needs attention. We need a set of laws allowing for criminal prosecution of corporate people abusing individuals. The selling of private information without the owners concent in writing should be a jailable offence. Large corporation who like to squash smaller companies (no names need be spoken here) should be cruely delt with with as drastic an action as needed. CEO's who continue to abuse their power after being informed of their violation would be brought up on criminal charges.
9. The future of the country. I think the future of the country should be to continue growth. Funding scientists to find new forms of energy to drive the nation. More funding towards space exploration. Allowing competition with NASA from private companies to promote the growth of new ways of getting into space. We should stop policing the world and move towards colonizing the moon, mars. Mining the asteroid belt, and many other possibilities.
I don't claim to be an expert on all the logging systems, but assuming whoever did break in and made the changes removed their ip's from the logs why wouldn't someone comming there later do the same if they were guilty.
I didn't think logs were that short, and why would logs hours later be more important than the log of the time the hacking occured.
Being curious about how it was done, although not real bright, is understandable. But if he didn't break in then there was no crime, its like someone looking at a crime scene after the crime. Obviously by the speed of the FBI comming they were already looking for people by the time he showed up and did his looking. But instead of being told to go away and leave things along, like would have happend at a crime scene, he was questioned and his personal property stolen by the FBI.
I'm just amazed that someone hasn't managed to hit them will illegal seizure. I know that the bill of rights supposed to protect us from illegal search and seizure. Obviously this doesn't cover computers since this seems to be pretty common.
So the bank president goes into the vault and looks around to see what was stolen? So now this makes him the bank robber.
The point is that the crime had been commited, why were they not looking for ip's at the time of the break in instead of hours later?
So why don't the police ticket all the people rubbernecking on the interstate? Why don't the police arrest everyone left in the bank after a bank robbery?
If they didn't want anyone viewing what was done they should have shut down the site...confiscate the server hosting the site. I bet that machine isn't in the fbi's hands.
I wonder if they took the lamp too, since it was plugged into the same power strip as the computer?
I know that the majority of the people out there paying for console devises don't care. but Honestly, do you really think that the PS2 based on linux will loose out to XBox based on windows? So I could have a stable console game machine to play with...or the mini-computer in a box that has a tendancy to crash on me...
I don't know about anyone else, but I have a computer, and if I want to play a pc game I'll get it and play it on my pc. I am not buying a seperate peice of hardware to play something I can play now.
PS2 is going like mad right now...I've seen several people who were in line at the stores to get theirs...
Sony has done good, and will still do good, the ps1 was a good console box...and I have yet to find a lack of games or junk to go with it.
Just my $0.02
When america first began it developed a system of government that could handle your basic farmer and uneducated person. Basicly someone who had been to school was needed to help run the country for the ignorant.
/. to keep me up on the upcomming evils that affect my life.
Today, here as well as other countries, we have a government run by the ignorant. They know little to nothing about coumputers or the internet, and yet they make up laws regarding it.
How can this continue to happen? I know the geek community well outnumbers the govt officials in charge of making our lives miserable. So how do we manage to get all of the people (myself included) that do nothing into doing something? We have jobs, school, games, or whatever that we spend mass amounts of time on, and don't always take the time to get involved. Somewhere between writing code and killing others online I manage to read
Getting more intellegent people in govt isn't going to happen any time sone. What can we do to stop these ridiculously blind attempts at making everything not moron normal illegal?
Chances are you send your child to a private school so they can be indoctrinated into your belief system instead of being "corrupted" by viewpoints that don't match with yours.
Actually I send her to a private school because after playing all of the 5th grade she couldn't even do simple fraction. On the "parents visit school day" we sat in the class for 20 min before my child even notice we were in the room. She was daydreaming, as wer 90% of the kids there. According to the public school she passed the 5th grade. When we went to put her in private school she was tested on the basics of 5th grade, she failed miserably. She now goes to class with 16 other children and they have more tests in a week than the public school had in a month. They cover more subjects and have more work. Daydreaming isn't ignored there.
My child is in a private school to learn, not to be brainwashed. I want the best for my child, if she isn't forced to learn she will not. She, like allot of children, is quite lazy, and will avoid doing the work if she can.
I went to both public and private schools. A few of the publics schools are good, but a depressing few. And in Maryland you don't have a choice of public schools, you have to take the one that you are assigned. At least with private schools you have a choice.
And I work with quite a few people making 6 figures a year. So why is it I produce more work than they do and with less problems?
I don't know about you but I'm rather sick of having the government meddle in my affairs as it is.
Agreed, I think we have too much govt control now. Bush want to remove some control and give us back our right to chose, Gore wants to keep that choice for himself. The word "dictator" comes to mind. Ok, so we elect our president, but does that give him the right to chose our lives for us.
I send my child to a private school, but does my tax money still fund the pathetic public school down the street pumping out ignorant future welfare recipients? Yes it does. I'd like my tax money to go to something important. Free handouts to the lazy are not important in my opinion.
I'd never see a tax cut from gore...I make too much. Why can't I take the cost of the private school off my taxes?
I don't believe all the things bush or gore says, but bush has a better line than gore.
Yes, vote for the control freak who wants you to trust him implicitly to give you more goverment control, and since he created the internet, more rules and regulation to make your life better. Regardless of the fact you may not want his version of life forced uppon you.
Didn't anyone else seem to be hearing that gore wishes to be in control of everything, and that he will fix it all, with magic money that we wont have to pay for.
Well face it...if you are making more than $60k a year, you don't fit in his middle class, so your f*cked with the rest of us. And by chance what if you did manage to make it rich, now you become his enemy and should pay even more money to the govt because you have more of it.
I'm not rich, but one day would like to be, and if that miracle was to happen I wouldn't want to be screwed by the govt every time I turned around.
Bush may not be the brightest on the block, but he seems bright enough to want very intellegent people around him. Most ceo's are not the brightest in their company, but that doesn't stop them from doing well.
I'm all for cutting govt, not people, but control. Gore wants to cut people and increase control. So all of you complaining about how our freedom is being taken away peice by piece, gore will take even more...trust him, he knows it all.
I'll vote for the dumber one, since he picked a vice president smarter than him, he will probably have a whole cabinet smarter than him. Lack of intellegence can be compensated for, control freeks need a shrink.
As for his comment on the internet turning the kids hearts dark, I took it as the hate sites that the kids were going to. Not the internet in general. Give him a break, he doesn't understand computers and internet, but if he gets people who do to give him advice its better than him thinking he knows what he's talking about on his own.
Your choice.
And Gore hasn't mistated many things also about bush? I just think he would be better off saying he supported the internet when it was new than allowing the media and others to say he invented it.
I think M$ has the right concept, delay till its no longer important to your average person. Give marketing more time to brainwash the masses into believing that m$ is god and they should worship at thier feet.
This is a good tactic concidering that the majority of the people don't know any better and really don't care. The longer they get this delayed the more people loose interest and when they hear about it again they wonder why this is still happening.
The overkill on their documents is to add confusion that adds more delay. I don't know about anyone else, but it would take me a good half year to read and process 56k words. More on the process what its saying but its just another delay tactic.
Regardless of the outcome its going to take a while. I am actually begining to believe that, unless they actually are charged with some of the blatent violations of the law they are still doing, they will not be broken up. After the appeals court gets done it will go to the supreem court, and that will take a good year or more.
Basicly, we seem to be stuck with them for a long while yet.
Actually, they could also do other things like declair it public domain, or refuse to prosecute anyone pirating it. I'm sure there are even much better things they could come up with which m$ wouldn't like.
M$ breakup would be good for all of us...even those of us who use windows would benifit by a separation of application and os (or marketing and programmers)
can we assume that 5% of their 56k words are also buggy and/or incorrect?
I'd bet that its more like 50% or more is buggy and incorrect. Remember that in m$ eyes they have done nothing wrong..heheh
all others who dare open-source once proprietary code
So we should scorn all things not open source...so all the nice linux games should be boycotted since they are not open source?
appart from some icons and stylesheet stuff, no real visible difference between Whistler and 2000
Thats what I was thinking...win2k with theams. I honestly don't want my os to look like a web page. I could see Whistler being like plus for 95...something with extra toys and some "flash" stuff. But in reality I've been more pleased with w2k than I thought I would, IT WORKS!!! Imagine my supprise when things that crashed 98 were dumped by w2k without crashing or corrupting itself. (I wonder how much reasearch the m$ programmers did in the linux sorce)
why their are server & workstation editions of 2000
well, in reality they are mainly the same thing, except server versions have extra software and default to giving the deamons/services more priority and cpu time. Also they charge more for the server..hehe, but I'm sure you know that. By default workstation doesn't have all the extra crap server does instaled. It takes an extra 1-2 minutes to boot server than workstation.
As for ME..a 98 upgrade with more problems...although I haven't looked at the details I'd bet its still 16 bit core based. I know two people who have tried it out...and went right back to w2k (the linux partitions never changed..hehe)...
I think I'll stay away from whistler till its shoved down my throat...or they put an off switch on it to turn off the ugly web look. If I want to see web pages I can come here...or to a billion other web sites.
My first modem exp was with 300 on a C64. I remember looking for bbs numbers to call...slow...very, very slow. I can't imagine going back to a 56k modem anymore, I'd just give up on a 300.
Of course at the time it seemed very cool...
I don't know anyone who can honestly say copying some CDs caused their health condition to deteriorate, for starter...
Possibly some moral harm maybe? Of course that is assuming that they have morals...
While I eagerly await Kylix, I still know that instant cross platform compatability will not be an option. It will be easier, but not instant. I think until all the programmers come to a like thinking will there be only one language, and since the chances of that happening are too low to even concider...I wouldn't hold my breath. Good idea but I don't see it happening myself. As new companies are trying to invent something new that comes closer to making web programming easier and more usefull they don't always concider modifing what exsists just making somehting new. Java was at least C based to a degree. The almighty dollar tends to help create more diversity, and at the rate things are going it doesn't appear to be getting any better.
I'm a developer and I am curious as to how you think the software will change in the future.
I know from looking at many contracted software packages that quality is something usually forgotten in the windows world. Badly written hard to use and usually very buggy. Do you feel at some point that companies will finally stand up for themselves and demand good software?
As for hardware, with the standars being modified so quickly will we end up back at a propriatary level again? I ask because of the splitting between amd and intel on the type of interface on the motherboard for the processor (not to mention the memory style variations happening) Will programmers end up writing towards a propriatary box/cpu do you think?
Tim Hayes
I think the reason for the destinction is that Delphi in know to be for windows. And as much as I hate to say it there will probably be a few people who are not really bright that might pick up "delphi for linux" and not really read that its for linux. So if its labled differently there is a destinction between the OS which is very different.
I myself have used delphi since v2 and love it. I am eagerly awaiting kylix so I can make some cool toys for linux. This will also alow me to do contracting work for linux, not to mention client server programming between winblows and linux. I imagine that being able to build the client app for winblows and a server for linux would be awesome. Stability on the server side with the user still able to use winblows.
I hope they get it done soon, been waiting since it first was announced.
One of the things I have seen recently when a freind sent me a link to a "win $1,000,00" site. I thought ok...I can click it...If I win they can have my info, I'll be moving anyway after getting the check.
/. are concerned about privacy, then most aren't providing this information. So the fact is someone is, actually allot of someones. These are the people not only allowing thier privacy to be abused, but it encourages other companies to do so also.
But before it lets you try it wants name, address, phone, fax, email...and about 15 other personal fields. Needless to say I didn't provide them with what they wanted.
Offering a chance (small one at that) of winning money or other things and giving them all your info for their database is dumb. But I don't see them going out of business that fast, and more pop up everyday.
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You know what scares me the most? The fact that even if they somehow stayed afloat, most of the people out there would still buy from them. Its a sad fact that there are millions of morons out there that just don't know, or care what people are doing with their private information.
All the people who use major online companies for internet access are pretty used to spam from thier provider selling thier email address. They seem to accept this as normal and something that they deal with and think nothing of it. Look at all the "click to win" type sites. Where is all the money comming from to pay the winners? Why by the selling of the full info that you have to provide them to participate.
I find it depressing that the internet has formed a new form of revenue in the selling of personall information to be abused by marketing people. Telemarketers, spamers, ect. And the very sad thing is this is being done by the companies you are purchasing items from. It isn't enough you are buying from them, they also sell your info to make even more money.
Just thinking about all the uncarring people who will continue to use any company regardless of thier actions makes me sick.
Hint: If you are logged on to AOL and reading this you might fall into the catagory I mentiond
Very good point. Also the fact that at least pot is not illeagal, just the possesion of it. So you can smoke it...just not have it in your possession...I'm still trying to figure that one out.
I don't think the equipment will be fast enough to clear itself of the previous person before the next comes through. Basicly the security stations at the airport will have to be expanded quite a bit to accomidate more stations. Which would mean more cost, and more people to run them, and a bigger backup in the lines. Would greatly piss the passengers off.
Of course the govt tends to do first and wait for people to get pissed before they really concider the long term results. I bet they wouldn't want it if the first was to be installed at congress to detect drugs and other illicit activities.
The US is becoming a sad place, and getting worse. I personally am moving out farther into the country areas to get away from the crime and stupidity that flows out of major cities. I know...lets put one on all the ways in and out of a city....keep the garbage downtown...hehe