This kinda rings to me as the ol Fear and Uncertanty type tactics employeed by big companies. I don't see any technical references, other than the embedded 'Virtual Algorithm' which sounds suspicously like a trojan - trashing other files on the P2p Network. So if I keep all my legit documents in the same folder my P2P files [which hypotheically can be used for legitiment and legal file sharing] what happens when their 'virtual algorithm trashes my files ?
To me this reeks of the plan 'make them think we can do this, an they will stop' this sort of scare tactic has never worked on P2P before, why should they expect it to now ?
G
When i was growing up our family was on of the fist multibox familes in the area, both my sister and i turned out fine, and both with noteable technical expertise.
I believe this is in part, for hte most part due to how our parents, particularly my father, introduced and handled our initiation on computers. When i inherited my first hand-me-down box, his words to me had great influence in where i am today - he said "Here, this is now yours, if you break it, you fix it, if you don't know how to fix it, or can't figure out how to fix it, i'll show you" And alot of times i broke it - and at first alot of times he showed me how to fix it.. later i started to fix it more on my own - the internet had an effect in this increase. The point is, yes i have wasted alot of time on computers, but much of the knowledge i have about computers is based on events casued by that one sentence my father said on giving me his old box. Admittedly it probably doomed me into my fate as a self admitted geek - but hey, its something i enjoy and am making a careeer out of. In my introduction to the internet, i learned of chat rooms and game sites same as anyone else, but my folks showed me ways of finding information on the internet - and my mother, who is less techie and more artsie, taught me how to look at information found and begin to identify the useful from the crap.
Getting to the point, I tend to disagree with the report in that if the child is given a situation where they are encouraged to use the computer for learning first, then fun later [or better is learning that is actually fun; how i first learned programming] then be it one box or more, can be benificial to a family with children, but it is scenario dependant on how the partend envolve them with computer - if like above or similer, it can be helpful, but, if they are given a situation of "here's a computer.. go play" then, yeah -- its not gonna help much.
NASA took over 1% of our nation's entire GDP for a decade to get a small brief manned mission to the moon.
In an era where rocket trajectories were worked out on paper.
I think you make a very good point here, in reading this thread i've noticed a tendency to compare back to space-race era events and spending without looking at technological changes effecting cost. I am certain NASA is no longer working out trajectories on paper any more, and it would follow that alot of other things previously man-power heavy and costly are now automated or at least made easier by current technology [granted this brings in who new requirements for expenditures]
Anyway, I ramble - my point, if ever I had one, is when comparing present exploits and cost requirements, to past exploits and the costs assoicated with them, consider changes that have happened in the interm and how they might effect costs presently.
generally my big grype too - a thing in one language cannot always be clearly described in another... and in a book of that magnitude, there is bound to be situtions where this is the case. how many times has it been transalted and rewritten?
Slashdot Mirror
This kinda rings to me as the ol Fear and Uncertanty type tactics employeed by big companies. I don't see any technical references, other than the embedded 'Virtual Algorithm' which sounds suspicously like a trojan - trashing other files on the P2p Network. So if I keep all my legit documents in the same folder my P2P files [which hypotheically can be used for legitiment and legal file sharing] what happens when their 'virtual algorithm trashes my files ? To me this reeks of the plan 'make them think we can do this, an they will stop' this sort of scare tactic has never worked on P2P before, why should they expect it to now ? G
So how exactly does this software empower me ? and what sort of wattage do i expect to see as i am empowered ?
When i was growing up our family was on of the fist multibox familes in the area, both my sister and i turned out fine, and both with noteable technical expertise.
I believe this is in part, for hte most part due to how our parents, particularly my father, introduced and handled our initiation on computers.
When i inherited my first hand-me-down box, his words to me had great influence in where i am today - he said "Here, this is now yours, if you break it, you fix it, if you don't know how to fix it, or can't figure out how to fix it, i'll show you"
And alot of times i broke it - and at first alot of times he showed me how to fix it.. later i started to fix it more on my own - the internet had an effect in this increase.
The point is, yes i have wasted alot of time on computers, but much of the knowledge i have about computers is based on events casued by that one sentence my father said on giving me his old box. Admittedly it probably doomed me into my fate as a self admitted geek - but hey, its something i enjoy and am making a careeer out of.
In my introduction to the internet, i learned of chat rooms and game sites same as anyone else, but my folks showed me ways of finding information on the internet - and my mother, who is less techie and more artsie, taught me how to look at information found and begin to identify the useful from the crap.
Getting to the point, I tend to disagree with the report in that if the child is given a situation where they are encouraged to use the computer for learning first, then fun later [or better is learning that is actually fun; how i first learned programming] then be it one box or more, can be benificial to a family with children, but it is scenario dependant on how the partend envolve them with computer - if like above or similer, it can be helpful, but, if they are given a situation of "here's a computer.. go play" then, yeah -- its not gonna help much.
Just my $.02
Garret
I think you make a very good point here, in reading this thread i've noticed a tendency to compare back to space-race era events and spending without looking at technological changes effecting cost. I am certain NASA is no longer working out trajectories on paper any more, and it would follow that alot of other things previously man-power heavy and costly are now automated or at least made easier by current technology [granted this brings in who new requirements for expenditures]
Anyway, I ramble - my point, if ever I had one, is when comparing present exploits and cost requirements, to past exploits and the costs assoicated with them, consider changes that have happened in the interm and how they might effect costs presently.
Just my thoughts, on this.
Garret Jax
generally my big grype too - a thing in one language cannot always be clearly described in another... and in a book of that magnitude, there is bound to be situtions where this is the case. how many times has it been transalted and rewritten?