I'm a little doubtfull about the benifits of this treatment but hopefully we'll start to see more devices for our brains.
what I'd really like to see is something to aid memory, but I guess this is a start. the sooner people get used to the udea of having there brain plugged into something the sooner we get to some real advancements
There have been many innovations, features, and improvments between windows 95 and today.
even the iconic grandma only who uses her 2nd hand win98 machine for email and photos of her grandchildren would benifit from some of those innovations.
grandma isn't going to upgrade tho.
maybe shes unaware of the benfits of the newer tech. maybe she's comfortable (or just starting to get comfotable) with how to do what she needs under 98. maybe she isn't inconvienced enough to feel the need to fork over the cache for a new machine.
even if the next version of windows was the most innovative and powerful OS on earth and offered at bargan prices - alot of people wouldn't bother because are happy enough where they are at.
It just means people providing information can't relay on the journalists to protect there identity and the good reporters will be more accepting of information provided to them by annon contributers.
if a blogger doesn't HAVE your identity, they can't be forced to reval it.
One thing I'd read somewhere was that he had written QDOS while reading over a CP/M manual to see what commands to add, what syntax to use etc.
I dont see a problem with that.
even early versions of MS-DOS didn't exactly feature a robust set of commands.
pretty much the same sort of things you'd need for any OS at the time. something to copy files, rename files, list files, format disks etc.
as long as the code itself was patersons, I can't see giving gary credit for the QDOS.
as to why people would do it?
imagine if you get a computer that came with XP but you never got a real disk or couldn't get the latest service pack installed because your copy is pirated. now you can't update the system you paid for. that would piss me off. I can't imagine it happens as often as a iso is knowingly downloaded or a disk is shared between people, but at least those people who do get screwed by shaddy dealers get what they paid for. (and in the case of instable updates : what they deserve)
"You can de-authorize computers to play Apple Protected AAC's and thus authorize any different computer. So if you upgrade a computer you can de-authorize the old one and authorize the new one at no penalty."
the point is without DRM you dont have to.
apples DRM adds no value to the user, but adds a hastle. I shouldn't have to call apple when I want to reformat my machine. I wouldn't have to with the files I could download of a P2P.
"We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research"
I dont have malaria, and I dont plan on having it. I do plan on ripping music to my pc. guess which bit of news I care more about
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I'm a little doubtfull about the benifits of this treatment but hopefully we'll start to see more devices for our brains. what I'd really like to see is something to aid memory, but I guess this is a start. the sooner people get used to the udea of having there brain plugged into something the sooner we get to some real advancements
There have been many innovations, features, and improvments between windows 95 and today. even the iconic grandma only who uses her 2nd hand win98 machine for email and photos of her grandchildren would benifit from some of those innovations. grandma isn't going to upgrade tho. maybe shes unaware of the benfits of the newer tech. maybe she's comfortable (or just starting to get comfotable) with how to do what she needs under 98. maybe she isn't inconvienced enough to feel the need to fork over the cache for a new machine. even if the next version of windows was the most innovative and powerful OS on earth and offered at bargan prices - alot of people wouldn't bother because are happy enough where they are at.
It just means people providing information can't relay on the journalists to protect there identity and the good reporters will be more accepting of information provided to them by annon contributers. if a blogger doesn't HAVE your identity, they can't be forced to reval it.
One thing I'd read somewhere was that he had written QDOS while reading over a CP/M manual to see what commands to add, what syntax to use etc. I dont see a problem with that. even early versions of MS-DOS didn't exactly feature a robust set of commands. pretty much the same sort of things you'd need for any OS at the time. something to copy files, rename files, list files, format disks etc. as long as the code itself was patersons, I can't see giving gary credit for the QDOS.
as to why people would do it? imagine if you get a computer that came with XP but you never got a real disk or couldn't get the latest service pack installed because your copy is pirated. now you can't update the system you paid for. that would piss me off. I can't imagine it happens as often as a iso is knowingly downloaded or a disk is shared between people, but at least those people who do get screwed by shaddy dealers get what they paid for. (and in the case of instable updates : what they deserve)
"You can de-authorize computers to play Apple Protected AAC's and thus authorize any different computer. So if you upgrade a computer you can de-authorize the old one and authorize the new one at no penalty." the point is without DRM you dont have to. apples DRM adds no value to the user, but adds a hastle. I shouldn't have to call apple when I want to reformat my machine. I wouldn't have to with the files I could download of a P2P.
"We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research" I dont have malaria, and I dont plan on having it. I do plan on ripping music to my pc. guess which bit of news I care more about