Give me a break. Yes, the book 1984 is a very vivid example of how this technology can be misused, but to assume or imply that the Boston police are installing these cameras for the express purpose of CONTROLLING and SPYING ON the public, as seen in the mentioned novel, is ludicrous. The cameras are for people's SAFETY.
Uhm, where the hell do you live? Under a rock? I use on demand video all the time through my cable company. It isn't uncommon at all. The demand does exist and the technology is quite popular. It isn't even that new, its been around for several years now.
Well, since people like you are so open with their contempt of software companies and commercial software in general, it's no wonder that those same companies see the linux market as being non-existent.
Please try pulling your head out of your ass and consider that CyberLink is still one of a very small number of companies that is supporting linux. They are helping linux. You, however, are hurting it and the community. No, we do not owe any measure of respect or thanks to these companies, but if we all show attitudes like yours, I doubt it's going to get any better.
Gun manufacturers/retailers have legal guidelines to follow in manufacturing and distributing guns. But P2P vendors put out a product knowing damn well what it is often used for and yet have no guidelines to follow and install no preventative mechanisms in their software. That is irresponsible.
> Playstation/Playstation 2 was THE major exception in U.S. console gaming.
Uhm, no. Look at Game Boy. Ok, so it isn't really a console--it's portable, but I really don't see why that's very relevant. One of the reasons the Advance SP and soon the DS are so attractive to consumers is the HUGE library of games dating back fifteen years or so to the original game boy.
The ironic thing about these arguments that warn of this so-called "slippery slope" is that they themselves are slippery slope arguments--there is no evidence provided in any of them that A leads to B which leads to C which leads to Total Censorship. To people with such arguments: your argument is not self-validating--just because you speculate that this may happen does not make this a valid argument against censoring child porn.
Who said anything about it being a programming language? It is a structured computer language in any case, and it gives a lot of people who otherwise don't have much of a computer background the ability to create web pages, which is something that everyone likes to do.
No, YOU are missing the point. There is no one at Google reading anyone's email. Its their COMPUTERS that are scanning the messages and fetching appropriate ads and making NO RECORD of this in any database.
If you can go to a school and test out of "a lot of CS classes," then your school probably has very little to offer anyway. A degree is about more than knowledge--it's about achievement. There are VERY few people, if any, that come out of high school that have enough knowledge or experience to even approach that level.
As for testing out of a degree, any school that would give a degree to you after a semester is not worth your time or money.
Well, the test does ask quite a few questions on Big-O notation and algorithm complexity analysis, so I'd say that calling it a "Computer Science" test is fair.
> That being said, I don't really care how fast the processor is and the like (I don't plan to use my palm for computational computing).
Me neither. Mine is mostly a datebook. The fact that there is a "console" icon on the menu disturbs me. I mean, is there any reason why ANYONE would ever want/need a console on their pda?
Well, I live in Manassas, VA, which is set to be the first municipality in the U.S. to use BPL. Most of the potential problems that people have been describing don't seem to exist in spite of the fact that they've been testing the technology in parts of the city for the last two years.
We've had cable/DSL/wireless for as long as anyone , so most people have already made that switch, so I'm sure that its already been determined that there is some fiscal advantage to this thing. In answer to the question about using fiber bypasses, I believe that they are doing just that.
"This article has been slashdotted. I'd like to clarify that the posting at slashdot is misleading, suggesting that Dell itself is installing spyware. That is not the case at all and please don't be confused into believing that. Dell is absolutely NOT bundling spyware on their PCs."
so many people, including people in congress, do not realize the utter impossibilibity of taxing email. Hopefully at some point they will have this realization so that they can stop wasting our time and their time.
Actually, if you read the recent messages on bugtraq, there are a lot of people that have been very concerned that Apple really was not going to patch their OS. No one made up anything, people were just speculating based on the circumstances.
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Give me a break. Yes, the book 1984 is a very vivid example of how this technology can be misused, but to assume or imply that the Boston police are installing these cameras for the express purpose of CONTROLLING and SPYING ON the public, as seen in the mentioned novel, is ludicrous. The cameras are for people's SAFETY.
Uhm, where the hell do you live? Under a rock? I use on demand video all the time through my cable company. It isn't uncommon at all. The demand does exist and the technology is quite popular. It isn't even that new, its been around for several years now.
Firefox already has cookie management.
Well, since people like you are so open with their contempt of software companies and commercial software in general, it's no wonder that those same companies see the linux market as being non-existent.
Please try pulling your head out of your ass and consider that CyberLink is still one of a very small number of companies that is supporting linux. They are helping linux. You, however, are hurting it and the community. No, we do not owe any measure of respect or thanks to these companies, but if we all show attitudes like yours, I doubt it's going to get any better.
Gun manufacturers/retailers have legal guidelines to follow in manufacturing and distributing guns. But P2P vendors put out a product knowing damn well what it is often used for and yet have no guidelines to follow and install no preventative mechanisms in their software. That is irresponsible.
> Playstation/Playstation 2 was THE major exception in U.S. console gaming.
Uhm, no. Look at Game Boy. Ok, so it isn't really a console--it's portable, but I really don't see why that's very relevant. One of the reasons the Advance SP and soon the DS are so attractive to consumers is the HUGE library of games dating back fifteen years or so to the original game boy.
They'll get you!!!
>notice as well.. the thing has OPTICAL out capabilities. i see 5.1 surround coming from itunes soon. Yeah, but unfortunately MP3s are only in stereo.
The ironic thing about these arguments that warn of this so-called "slippery slope" is that they themselves are slippery slope arguments--there is no evidence provided in any of them that A leads to B which leads to C which leads to Total Censorship. To people with such arguments: your argument is not self-validating--just because you speculate that this may happen does not make this a valid argument against censoring child porn.
I'd mod this up, but its already a five.
Of all the people that I know that have > 40 GB of music, ALL of them BOUGHT only a small percentage of that.
You must work in tech support, right?
Who said anything about it being a programming language? It is a structured computer language in any case, and it gives a lot of people who otherwise don't have much of a computer background the ability to create web pages, which is something that everyone likes to do.
No, YOU are missing the point. There is no one at Google reading anyone's email. Its their COMPUTERS that are scanning the messages and fetching appropriate ads and making NO RECORD of this in any database.
That is ridiculous. The law is about P2P, not publishing. Whether P2P is a form of publishing is irrelevant.
If you can go to a school and test out of "a lot of CS classes," then your school probably has very little to offer anyway. A degree is about more than knowledge--it's about achievement. There are VERY few people, if any, that come out of high school that have enough knowledge or experience to even approach that level. As for testing out of a degree, any school that would give a degree to you after a semester is not worth your time or money.
Well, the test does ask quite a few questions on Big-O notation and algorithm complexity analysis, so I'd say that calling it a "Computer Science" test is fair.
It wasn't for only a year. C++ was the language for many years. The story is wrong.
> That being said, I don't really care how fast the processor is and the like (I don't plan to use my palm for computational computing). Me neither. Mine is mostly a datebook. The fact that there is a "console" icon on the menu disturbs me. I mean, is there any reason why ANYONE would ever want/need a console on their pda?
Well, I live in Manassas, VA, which is set to be the first municipality in the U.S. to use BPL. Most of the potential problems that people have been describing don't seem to exist in spite of the fact that they've been testing the technology in parts of the city for the last two years.
We've had cable/DSL/wireless for as long as anyone , so most people have already made that switch, so I'm sure that its already been determined that there is some fiscal advantage to this thing. In answer to the question about using fiber bypasses, I believe that they are doing just that.
> A fucking meter is almost exactly the length of one fucking yard.
Yeah, thats apparently what the disney people thought too...
Uhm, quite wrong. Congress does have the power to regulate interstate commerce...
"This article has been slashdotted. I'd like to clarify that the posting at slashdot is misleading, suggesting that Dell itself is installing spyware. That is not the case at all and please don't be confused into believing that. Dell is absolutely NOT bundling spyware on their PCs."
so many people, including people in congress, do not realize the utter impossibilibity of taxing email. Hopefully at some point they will have this realization so that they can stop wasting our time and their time.
Actually, if you read the recent messages on bugtraq, there are a lot of people that have been very concerned that Apple really was not going to patch their OS. No one made up anything, people were just speculating based on the circumstances.