I'd like to know what financial motivations (investments, shorted stock, whatever) folks at the Silicon Insider or AbcNews has to run drivel like this.
Exactly. There was a strip along the same lines a while back. Wally said something like "everything should be available free on the internet and creators should make their money from tips." Someone, I don't remember who, replied, "Great idea, we should try that with engineers."
We have that already... it's called open source.;)
Ok, let's say you have a DVD in your hand. A physical object. You purchased it legally. Let's say your friend says, "gosh I'd like to view that DVD." You hand it to him. He watches it and returns it. No money changes hands.
How in the fsck is that illegal once that DVD becomes a DiVX AVI? If the P2P system could guarantee a "good faith" mechanism for single-user-at-a-time access to a file, (yes, I realize there will always be a way to break the system), how can the studio claim that the digital file is ANY DIFFERENT than the physical object? You just haven't had to pack the thing up in a mailing envelope and mail it to your friend.
It isn't "rebroadcasting" -- it's the same as handing the physical medium to them. In fact, I don't see why if the P2P software just didn't have an EULA saying "by using this, you swear to delete this file off your system after 3 hours" or something like that. Push the liability on the borrower.
Ok, talking hypothetically here for a moment. Let's assume that in the (near?) future it is standard practice for us to augment our brain (analog, neural memory) with digital recording of some sort.
Are we expected to turn off this recording device at the whims of "copyright holders"? "Oops, the radio is playing a song, gotta click this off." "Oops, someone talking in the room hasn't signed a form to let me record this, gotta click this off."
Previous Slashdot articles have discussed wearable cameras that record our day in snapshots, so it's not hard to extrapolate that out a bit.
Don't we have a right to remember what we experience? Is it a crime to present that experience to others? Give them those memories?
I do get your point about providing a 3rd dimension for organizing "flat" application windows, but in my opinion, the "virtual desktops" provided by KDE/Gnome/Nvidia-display-drivers/etc. work more intuitively.
I'm not sure rotating a virtual perspective to look at various flat windows is a big win over those existing tools.
If the applications themselves were consistently rendered in three dimensions, rather than just flat windows, the user would already be having to deal with pivoting their perspective, and then I could see your point better over a 2d windowing system.
Of coruse, I haven't yet read the article yet, because it has melted down under the slashdot effect.:-P
... it's called voting. We have an election coming up. If you care strongly about changing the status quo, go out and preach to the masses. Decide your vote based on which candidates are willing to face off against Microsoft, the RIAA, MPAA, etc. If the Democrat and Republican candidates refuse to take a stand, vote for a 3rd party. You might be thinking you are throwing your vote away, but in fact, you aren't GIVING YOUR VOTE to the democrats or republicans either.
I know soemone will reply with talk about how the last election was stolen, etc., but let's get past that and focus on the election that is to come. Negativity and pessamism on this are working in favor of the status quo!
It looks like a real dilemma where if you refuse to hire your replacement, you are fired without severance and are ineligible for unemployment benefits, and if you quit, you don't receive severance and are ineligible for unemployment.
I propose a third option:
Train them to do things the wrong way, reap maximum amusement out of your last days at the firm, and laugh as you walk out the door.
These kinds of stupid psuedo-science mythologies are bad [..] distract from the real techno-conspiracies out there, [..] the Clipper Chip, [..]
Yeah but have you heard about the Clippy Chip? Word is that Bill Gates has millions of them stashed away in his Mt. Reinier bunker, just waiting for the first commerical human-brain interfaces...
Clippy Chip: "I see your trying to go Offtopic. Would you like a corrective jolt? A distracting thought? A mental image of Natalie Portman?"
If I recall correctly, at some point the music industry was able to successfully push through legislation that put music-rental stores out of business. In other words, there's a legal (not marketing) reason why you can't go and rent a CD for a few bucks like you can rent a DVD/VHS.
How did the MPAA not managed to shove similar legislation down our throats?
Has the video industry just not been successful at squashing Netflix via "senators-in-the-pocket", or are they actually embracing these rentals?
I'd also add that Control Data split into Ceridian and Control Data Systems around 1992. Control Data Systems continued with a systems integration focus and support for the CDC hw legacy. Ceridian took the business of payroll processing.
Control Data Systems was later bought by British Telecom and became (part of?) Syntegra.
What type of stick could a government wield to actually make MS take notice and play nice?
Simple: criminal charges against the executives (Gates, Balmer, etc.).
I'm not trolling here, I'm entirely serious. If the executives at Microsoft actually had to think about their actions in terms of prison time, rather than just dollar signs, they would have a new and fresh perspective on things.
But it isn't going to happen. I'd like to see Gates behind bars, because it's exactly where he deserves to be.
Here's to hoping that future transportation systems facilitate optional, integrated exercise. I say optional, because I realize that not everyone wants to exercise every time or all the time they are in transit.
Look at what options we have in the area today: bicycles. Yep, that's pretty much it. Even the much hyped segway just has you stand there like a lazy bum, coasting on battery power.
I'm not talking about Flintstones cars here, but perhaps future vehicles could facilitate some physical, aerobic activity on the part of the driver or passengers.
Just think, your commute could be your workout for part of the journey; that's valuable time reclaimed.
This is like saying that driving a car to work dosn't work becuase you just sat in your driveway drinking beer.
Take a car, put two programmers in it, load it up with cases of an intoxicating beverage of their choice. Then tell them to drive to work. What happens?
Such is pair programming.
My take on the grandparent post was simply pointing out that when you put two people side by side and tell them to share one keyboard to program, you're probably going to get a lot of chatter and crap that you wouldn't necessarily get if they were out of speaking distance with each other.
It's just basic social behavior. I'd be more worried if two people pair-programming did NOT end up distracted a lot of the time; they must be zombies.
I can create a methodology that has as a rule that programmers must not waste time reading Slashdot, and then I'll insist, as you have, that when they break that rule they didn't follow my methodology to the letter and that's why the project failed/was-terminated/was-late/is-a-mess.
I'll call it the "NO SlasHdot In Teams" methodology; it just needs a catchy acronym like XP... hmm...
pair programming seems to be able to produce the same results in about 55% of the time that one programmer would take, but with about 40% less software faults
When I see someone slinging around unattributed percentages like that, the credability drops to 7.5% and my attention span drops to 0%.
Programmers jumping out of planes, parachuting in tandem, sharing a laptop and chugging mountain dew.
Programmer 1: Dude! We're EXTREME programming! This is so cool!
Programmer 2: OMG my 'chute didn't open! aaaaah!
Programmer 1: We don't need 'chutes! We're frickin' EXTREME! We'll refactor the corpses!
Hats off to you if you've made this methodology work, but to me -- the name says it all.
Your analysis is incomplete... if you break down the first 99% further, you'll see that actually 90% goes to hookers and blow. (The other 9% is to divorce settlements.)
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I'd like to know what financial motivations (investments, shorted stock, whatever) folks at the Silicon Insider or AbcNews has to run drivel like this.
Rome wasn't built in a day...
We have that already... it's called open source. ;)
You must be new here...
How in the fsck is that illegal once that DVD becomes a DiVX AVI? If the P2P system could guarantee a "good faith" mechanism for single-user-at-a-time access to a file, (yes, I realize there will always be a way to break the system), how can the studio claim that the digital file is ANY DIFFERENT than the physical object? You just haven't had to pack the thing up in a mailing envelope and mail it to your friend.
It isn't "rebroadcasting" -- it's the same as handing the physical medium to them. In fact, I don't see why if the P2P software just didn't have an EULA saying "by using this, you swear to delete this file off your system after 3 hours" or something like that. Push the liability on the borrower.
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Of course, they'd probably just use the labels and keep the disks blank.
Are we expected to turn off this recording device at the whims of "copyright holders"? "Oops, the radio is playing a song, gotta click this off." "Oops, someone talking in the room hasn't signed a form to let me record this, gotta click this off."
Previous Slashdot articles have discussed wearable cameras that record our day in snapshots, so it's not hard to extrapolate that out a bit.
Don't we have a right to remember what we experience? Is it a crime to present that experience to others? Give them those memories?
Interesting times ahead of us my friends.
I'm not sure rotating a virtual perspective to look at various flat windows is a big win over those existing tools.
If the applications themselves were consistently rendered in three dimensions, rather than just flat windows, the user would already be having to deal with pivoting their perspective, and then I could see your point better over a 2d windowing system.
Of coruse, I haven't yet read the article yet, because it has melted down under the slashdot effect. :-P
I know soemone will reply with talk about how the last election was stolen, etc., but let's get past that and focus on the election that is to come. Negativity and pessamism on this are working in favor of the status quo!
Peace.
I propose a third option:
Train them to do things the wrong way, reap maximum amusement out of your last days at the firm, and laugh as you walk out the door.
... worked for Nixon!
Yeah but have you heard about the Clippy Chip? Word is that Bill Gates has millions of them stashed away in his Mt. Reinier bunker, just waiting for the first commerical human-brain interfaces...
Clippy Chip: "I see your trying to go Offtopic. Would you like a corrective jolt? A distracting thought? A mental image of Natalie Portman?"
How did the MPAA not managed to shove similar legislation down our throats?
Has the video industry just not been successful at squashing Netflix via "senators-in-the-pocket", or are they actually embracing these rentals?
Control Data Systems was later bought by British Telecom and became (part of?) Syntegra.
Read more about it here.
Simple: criminal charges against the executives (Gates, Balmer, etc.).
I'm not trolling here, I'm entirely serious. If the executives at Microsoft actually had to think about their actions in terms of prison time, rather than just dollar signs, they would have a new and fresh perspective on things.
But it isn't going to happen. I'd like to see Gates behind bars, because it's exactly where he deserves to be.
Look at what options we have in the area today: bicycles. Yep, that's pretty much it. Even the much hyped segway just has you stand there like a lazy bum, coasting on battery power.
I'm not talking about Flintstones cars here, but perhaps future vehicles could facilitate some physical, aerobic activity on the part of the driver or passengers.
Just think, your commute could be your workout for part of the journey; that's valuable time reclaimed.
Please download a sense of humor.
That's right, just a few years of law school, and you can cash in on the corrupt patent system.
If being called a "lawyer" troubles you, just insist on being called "Esquire". If people won't, sue em. Sue everybody!
They'll be no reason to worry anymore -- you'll see politicians and doctors outsourced before the lawyers go.
Let's apply genetic manipulation to produce carbohydrate-free rice please. This Atkins diet is killin' me!
Take a car, put two programmers in it, load it up with cases of an intoxicating beverage of their choice. Then tell them to drive to work. What happens?
Such is pair programming.
My take on the grandparent post was simply pointing out that when you put two people side by side and tell them to share one keyboard to program, you're probably going to get a lot of chatter and crap that you wouldn't necessarily get if they were out of speaking distance with each other.
It's just basic social behavior. I'd be more worried if two people pair-programming did NOT end up distracted a lot of the time; they must be zombies.
I can create a methodology that has as a rule that programmers must not waste time reading Slashdot, and then I'll insist, as you have, that when they break that rule they didn't follow my methodology to the letter and that's why the project failed/was-terminated/was-late/is-a-mess.
I'll call it the "NO SlasHdot In Teams" methodology; it just needs a catchy acronym like XP... hmm...
When I see someone slinging around unattributed percentages like that, the credability drops to 7.5% and my attention span drops to 0%.
Programmer 1: Dude! We're EXTREME programming! This is so cool!
Programmer 2: OMG my 'chute didn't open! aaaaah!
Programmer 1: We don't need 'chutes! We're frickin' EXTREME! We'll refactor the corpses!
Hats off to you if you've made this methodology work, but to me -- the name says it all.
Your analysis is incomplete ... if you break down the first 99% further, you'll see that actually 90% goes to hookers and blow. (The other 9% is to divorce settlements.)
... is the gimp.org server at the moment. ;-)
Yes, let's...
50,000,000 users * $3,000 average settlement = $150,000,000,000
Crap, why even make music. They just need more lawyers! Somewhere, in a top secret lab, the RIAA is cloning lawyers.
I see those bastards plans clearly now.