Well, there is the obivous reason why they are using legal means to hide there doctorine. They have somethign to hide. Maybe it's the shock therapy. They wouldn't want the stars that fund their cult to look bad you know. I bet they have a lot to hide. Hmm... all you need is a place that doesn't recognise US trademarks etc. and we can all se what they are hiding.
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I might just have to get one of these!!!! This is too cool. The only snag I see is if the patents are licensed out at a very expensive rate. Then the technology will never catch on. Still I'd like to be able to say, "Do you like my paper phone?"
Somebody will make a harddrive that is not copy protected. We would just have to buy those hard drives.
Also, it would probably be a while before copy protected harddrives hit the used harddrive market, so another option would be to buy sed harddrives.
As long as there is your general purpose computers where sellers sell PC parts at great prices (both new and used), there will be general purpose PCs because we will build them.
Vote with youe wallet. Buy used CDs and when they start selling harddrives with copy protection, buy used harddrives. Some great advances/ideas came about from reusing old hardware
I think the big companies may find that there will be a significant number of people that will still want a general purpose PC. The big companies will also be watchign and companies that are selling uncopy protrected harddrives closely. If they notice these companies cutting into there profit because of copy protrection, they will start selling harddrives without compy protection.
Either way, we the people, MUST speak with our money. Don't buy these products that infringe on our rights. Buy used CDs and videos. Depending on the source you can get a lot of good used cds. It would be hard for the entertainment industry to sue resellers of used cds. I bought a lot of my cds used when I was in college. $3 a cd is a lot better then $10 to $12 (that's about where they were priced in the early 90s). The same goes for hardware. I know there is at least one company runnig a very good Computer Show in the ME,NH,MA area. I got 128 Meg 168pin 100Mhz SDRAM chip for $45 dollars at the show last time. I still see prices of $99+ (average around $110) in the regular stores.
It comes down to one thing. The big comapies and industries have forgotten the basic marketing classes. Supply and Demand! In the case of the entertainment industry, they are selling products are overly inflated prices. The market didn't like these prices, so the market went else to get the entertainment--ie Napster et. al.. Instead of changing their prices to reflect a better price that the market would except and eliminate the new competition, these companies have decided to take the legal approach. They are trying to legislate the market.
The same goes for hardware. If a company, or companies, start selling a product that the consumors don't like. Then the consumors should turn to another source such as used products. A wise company would then realise they are losing consumors, and they would give the consumers what they want instead of tryign to dictate what they want.
What good is it to put money into the research when the people dueing the research are getting stupid? Not mention all the "stupid" research project that millions are spent on just in the name of science.
Why should the government keep funelling our money into projects they are not as good as they were when they first started? They shouldn't. Why should the government keep my money if they over taxed me? They shouldn't. It is my money. I can spend it far better than the government where a lot of my money gets tied up in "red tape" and other beaucratic nightmares.
The fact of the mater are:
1. It's our money. We should get to spend it how we want.
2. We can spend our money better than the government.
How will Bush put us back into the Dark ages? He is not. He is put money in education. He wants children to be able to switch to a better school if the public school where the children are learning is not doing a good job of educating them. He doesn't want to just keep funelling money into programs that may not be working at all.
What good is the best science research if the next generation doesn't understand what the previous generations have done? It's no good. You have to have your priorities straight. We should keep the space shuttle for now. The replacement projects keep ballooning in cost and are over budget. With the international space station being built, some experiements will be done there. We can cut down the number of trips into space.
We are far from heading into dark ages. If anything I would say the Democrats were sending us to into the dark ages with all there funnelling of money into old useless programs that may only work in a couple of states!
No. I would pay for content. Why should I pay to read about someone's biased liberal views? I can buy a paper and do that, or I can go to my library and read the paper there. I check the internet for other information.
I don't think that Apple could really claim ownership of the "Aqua" buttons. I worked for a company doing CBT, and they had a similar looking interface prior to 7/98.
The further I get in the book "Pride Before the Fall", by John Heilemann, the more I laugh at all the mistakes Microsoft and Bill Gates made. My favorite quote from the book has to be "the only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English...because then I could charge you $249 for the right to speak English, and I could charge you an upgrad fee when I add new letters--like N and T." (Pride Before the Fall, p. 84). It was said by McNealy, of Sun Microsystems, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
If the appeal is anything like the trial (and the events leading up to the trial), then you can count on some funny quotes.
The people just don't get it. The market has speoken. The market has proven they are not providing a good service at a decent price to everybody.
If they record companies produced a quality cd at a decent cost (not $16 to $20), then Napster would not have taken off so quickly. If the company that holds the encryption on DVDs had provided a free linux DVD player so we watch our LEGALLY PURCHASED DVD movies on our machines, then their problems wouldn't be so bad.
We are supposed to live in a society where the market decides. That is BS. When the BIG Companies don't get their way and the market decides to go another way, the run crying to the government saying they need help to make the market go the way they want!
These stupid, overpaid, cry babies just don't get it. You haven't provided your services at decent prices and decent quality. Piracy increases the more the market, and consumer, decide the product they want is not being provided at a good enough price and/or quality.
They need to stop their crying and start producing a better product at a better price. Then a lot of the piracy will disappear! Their will always be piracy to a degree. The amount of piracy can be used to measure how satisfied the consumers are with the products and services being sold to them.
If you look at it that way, then the consumers are obviously telling the industry that their performance sucks!
SO, IF ANY MPAA OD RIAA PEOPLE ARE READING THESE THINGS, GET OFF YOU FAT, OVERPAID, CRY BABY BUTTS AND START PRODUCING A BETTER PRODUCT AT A BETTER PRICE. YOU WILL LOSE IN THE END IF YOU TRY TO LEGISLATE WHAT CONSUMERS SHOULD WANT! START DOING YOUR JOB AND STOP OVERCHARGING!
This idea really doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiney(sp?). There is only 4 "letters" (yes I know that is not the right term for it, but I am using it to prove a point) in the DNA alphabet. They always come in pairs. The same two letters are always paired together--of course their will be similarities. There is no real factual evidence to this. There conclusion is based on assumptions. Remember at one time scientist of a certain time period thought the Earth was the center of the Universe, and the thought the Earth was flat in another period of time. All of these were base on "assumptions" made.
In this case, they are assuming that because changes can happen they did. They have NEVER found the "missing link" to link us to the "common ancestor" Just because our genes are similar, it doesn't mean we are related.
Let's say evolution is true. That still wouldn't mean we are related to chimps through some commo ancestor. It could mean we were all in the same general area in the "premordial muck".
The article is written by a Phd Proffessor who is a professor in bioethics. There is no real evidence to support evolutionism or creationism. On both sides it comes down to what you believe, and it also takes a leap of faith. For evolutionist, this leap of faith assumes that there common ancestor thoery is true. Despite no real evidence to prove we have a common ancestor.
Recently the found a human skeleton that was older than what they had thought possible. In other words, they found out that we were thousands of years older than previously thought (I dont remember the exact number).
Scientist are revisionist. They are constantly rewriting what they say as they get more information. Evolution is only a theory, and there is no evidence to ever make it a law. Both view required a leap of faith of some sort.
Not another ST series. Haven't they realised they have played out ST yet. I prefer Andromeda of Star Trek. I barely watch any of the current series. They have become boring. Why must all intelligent main characters be in humanoid form? That is stupid. At least Andromeda has the Thran(sp?) which an insect race.
I'd prefer to watch reruns of Babylon 5! I wish Lucas would do a series based off of the New Jedi Order series. Now that would have potential. Large living planets to move troops and other living technology accross the universe. They need to give ST a break for a little while. Haven't they heard of overkill and flooding the market?
I like to see another star trek after voyager but not include all of the current crew. I'd like to see the slip stream technology incorporated. I would like to see aliens that are humanoid in form.
I have been saying this is where Microsoft is going as soon as the announced.NET. My posts have been lost in the clearing of old posts, but those people who live total inside the Microsoft world better get used to this.
Subscriptions are just the start. Eventually you will be paying to use the software just like you pay for your electricity in the US! While Microsoft may have lost some of it's power, it is not dead yet. They still have enough power to require EOMs to put the subscription version of MS Office on there computers. Remember, the next version of MS Office will also be sold as a subscription.
We, in the Linux and open source community, need to move foreward to prepare Linux to be the best desktop it can be. When consumers are forced to switch to subscription services, or forced to pay for software as a service based on the time you use the software, they will eventually start to look for other alternatives.
Originally, just before ".Net" was announced I thought we'd have more time. I underestimated Microsofts aggresive time table. We need to prepare! Otherwise, consumers will look elsewhere!
I realise some of you are high school kids, but let's look at things from a nother point of view. Regaurdless if the software works or not, the school HAS TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO CONTROL WHAT YOU VIEW. You don't have any rights when it comes to using their equipment. They have to control what you view to prevent lawsuit because so and so saw this on a computer at school. They have to make that effort. If you remove the software, then they will more than likely ahave to have teachers supervise what you do on those computers.
Like it or not, you will just have to deal with it. The computer is only one tool to use to do research. Their are these things called books. There are gouping of books call Encyclopedia, and their are news papers and magazines for recent events. Most public libraries subscribe various publications.
I realise a lot of you don't like censorship, but in todays society it required because anybody can sue anybody of the stupidest things. Until society as a whole changes, we will have censorship. Complain all you want, but it will not do any good in this case. You will always have some form of censorship in schools--especially school computers.
I see it as being too easy to tack on more charges to the consumer. When you buy a printed book today. It is yours. You can look at it when you want, and how you want. It is hard, if not impossible for a company to charge you for every time you read it.
Now, consider e-paper. It would be easy to come up with means to charge you everytime you want to read the book. You could be charge everytime you use index. You could even be charge on on the number pages you read. Essentially, buying a book and reading it will become services. You pay for the priviledge to "read" or "use" the book in only the methods the companies want you to use it. Think it won't happen? It will. Why? This could eventually happen if publishers/authors decide they don't like you reading a book more than once. Since they own the information, and with the current changes in the laws, they could easily dictate where, when, and how you read a book with e-paper.
I deffinately have mixed feeling about e-paper. I like the idea, but I don't like giving the publishers a new way to charge me.
I think it could be graphically oriented and at the same time doesn't have to be. I think that is what they mean when they talk about filters. You can view how you want to view it. Say you view it in an UML type way, then you use a UML filter, and if you want to view it with text, you'd use a text filter.
There is something I would like to point out. IT DOESN'T COMPILE. From what I have read, it is an interpreted language. You need what they are calling the kernel to run it. I am assuming that this is their version of a virtual machine.
This leads me to another feature. They are writing it in JAVA! I understand the "coolness" and "cross platform" abilities you get by writing in something in Java, but do we really want to write an interpreted language using an interpreted language? I don't think so. I would think it would be better to write it in C,C++,Pascal,Fortran, et. al.. This would be the equivilant writing a c/c++ interpreter in the old interpreted basic in which you had to be in basic to run the code. Does this make sense to anyone?
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea, I disagree with how they are doing it. I would write it in another language taking time to design it so that the platform dependant sections are together to make porting easy. I would also write it so that you could either run the code in the kernel or compile down to a native binary and run the code independant of the kernel/virtual machine. I would probably have done a proof of concept in python, or another scripting language, to get peoples appetite wet for the project and allow for people to be creating code.
I think this has potential. So far, I don't like where this is going. I am sure somebody will come up with a similar methodology that with the benefits I want, but the question is when.
I would have to disagree to a point. The idea is ok, but the implementation is bad. This is just another interpreted language instead of a virtual machine (like java uses) you have a kernel.
I would also miss the use of pointers and references. They can save on memory and space instead of requiring the copies to be made. Althought the could implement it so this is not a problem.
I like the idea. It would open up new avenues in developement. I don't like the idea of forcing OOP as much as they do. I think a good tool set would allow for adaptions of better designs as they come along (like C++ does). Java is pretty much stuct in OOP model because of its rigid focus on OOP. It appears this is where they want this to go.
I also don't like the idea that the code doesn't appear to compile down to a binary. I would like an enviornment like for development, but I would want the final product to have the option of creating a binary that would run faster then when you use the kernel to run it.
Scripting languages are great--as we all should know, but do we want to go back to an interpreted language format. The kernel idea reminds me of the old basic days when basic was only interpreted.
Overall, I think this is a good start, but I thik they need to reconsider the design a little. There is a big potential when removing "dangerous" stuff like pointers for more programmers to not bother learning what is going on and to think things through. This again reminds me of my childhood, and programming in basic.
If this get enough attention, people will start to realise how stupid these companies are being. The idea that book publishers are going to sue Libraries is stupid! I wish these companies were not so stupid!
You are forgetting the fact that this is Microsoft. They don't care what the DOJ is doing. They do what they want anyways!
I don't think MS is going to merge, but I do think this is an attmpt to hit Linux. I am sure Microsoft has been paying attemtion to the scalability of Linux. Especially the Linux watch that IBM created.
If they can create a chip with Windows CE on it, the can further push there windows OS. I want to see them try this. Microsoft code is bloate and bad. I wouldn't buy a product with a windoze chip in it.
Anyone know how many companies are working on a Linux chip?
Looks like Microsofts fir wave of attacks has begun. This should get interesting. My favorite quote is:
"[']the recent security problems with Linux... really call into question whether Linux should be used at all.[']"
Let's use that logic and apply it to Microsoft, given that MS has had a LONG history of security problems--usually big, we shouldn't use and MS product. Wait, I forgot those security problem (even the one on there own network) were really features.
Gee, that leaves Macs and other Unix machine. What am I to do? The stupid of MS sometimes surprised me.
I will wait for two things. The price to come down, and C++ support. I couldn't find anywhere on the website is GNOME was supported tho.
I would definately prefer this over g++ IFF (if and only if) the price were lower. I could see paying $500 for a desktop version, but not $999. I think they will find that this out and eventually lower the cost.
Remember your thinking in terms of traditional coding. The wide spread use of voice recognition would allow for other models of coding to happen. You wouldn't want to have to spell everything out. Instead, there would be a environment specifically gear towards coding with voice recognition. For example, you might say "for" ad the entire c/c++ for loop struct would appear in the code ("for ( ; ; ) {}"). Ideas like this is where you'd gain the most speed. The coding could more naturally match your style of thinking. You wouldn't have to worry about typing everything in.
This would also move the keyboard to a secondary input device. The design of the keyboard is really bad for us. The keyboard, no matter how you have it designed, will always be repetitive motions. The human body doesn't like repetitive motions over long periods of time. Next, I'd like to see something to make the mouse a secondary method of input.
This is really just the first step in a long process of rethinking how we access our computers. In the long run, it will help us interact with computers more easily.
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Well, there is the obivous reason why they are using legal means to hide there doctorine. They have somethign to hide. Maybe it's the shock therapy. They wouldn't want the stars that fund their cult to look bad you know. I bet they have a lot to hide. Hmm... all you need is a place that doesn't recognise US trademarks etc. and we can all se what they are hiding.
I might just have to get one of these!!!! This is too cool. The only snag I see is if the patents are licensed out at a very expensive rate. Then the technology will never catch on. Still I'd like to be able to say, "Do you like my paper phone?"
Somebody will make a harddrive that is not copy protected. We would just have to buy those hard drives.
Also, it would probably be a while before copy protected harddrives hit the used harddrive market, so another option would be to buy sed harddrives.
As long as there is your general purpose computers where sellers sell PC parts at great prices (both new and used), there will be general purpose PCs because we will build them.
Vote with youe wallet. Buy used CDs and when they start selling harddrives with copy protection, buy used harddrives. Some great advances/ideas came about from reusing old hardware
I think the big companies may find that there will be a significant number of people that will still want a general purpose PC. The big companies will also be watchign and companies that are selling uncopy protrected harddrives closely. If they notice these companies cutting into there profit because of copy protrection, they will start selling harddrives without compy protection.
Either way, we the people, MUST speak with our money. Don't buy these products that infringe on our rights. Buy used CDs and videos. Depending on the source you can get a lot of good used cds. It would be hard for the entertainment industry to sue resellers of used cds. I bought a lot of my cds used when I was in college. $3 a cd is a lot better then $10 to $12 (that's about where they were priced in the early 90s). The same goes for hardware. I know there is at least one company runnig a very good Computer Show in the ME,NH,MA area. I got 128 Meg 168pin 100Mhz SDRAM chip for $45 dollars at the show last time. I still see prices of $99+ (average around $110) in the regular stores.
It comes down to one thing. The big comapies and industries have forgotten the basic marketing classes. Supply and Demand! In the case of the entertainment industry, they are selling products are overly inflated prices. The market didn't like these prices, so the market went else to get the entertainment--ie Napster et. al.. Instead of changing their prices to reflect a better price that the market would except and eliminate the new competition, these companies have decided to take the legal approach. They are trying to legislate the market.
The same goes for hardware. If a company, or companies, start selling a product that the consumors don't like. Then the consumors should turn to another source such as used products. A wise company would then realise they are losing consumors, and they would give the consumers what they want instead of tryign to dictate what they want.
What good is it to put money into the research when the people dueing the research are getting stupid? Not mention all the "stupid" research project that millions are spent on just in the name of science.
Why should the government keep funelling our money into projects they are not as good as they were when they first started? They shouldn't. Why should the government keep my money if they over taxed me? They shouldn't. It is my money. I can spend it far better than the government where a lot of my money gets tied up in "red tape" and other beaucratic nightmares.
The fact of the mater are:
1. It's our money. We should get to spend it how we want.
2. We can spend our money better than the government.
How will Bush put us back into the Dark ages? He is not. He is put money in education. He wants children to be able to switch to a better school if the public school where the children are learning is not doing a good job of educating them. He doesn't want to just keep funelling money into programs that may not be working at all.
What good is the best science research if the next generation doesn't understand what the previous generations have done? It's no good. You have to have your priorities straight. We should keep the space shuttle for now. The replacement projects keep ballooning in cost and are over budget. With the international space station being built, some experiements will be done there. We can cut down the number of trips into space.
We are far from heading into dark ages. If anything I would say the Democrats were sending us to into the dark ages with all there funnelling of money into old useless programs that may only work in a couple of states!
I thought Starblazers was out on DVD. I had a friend tell me it was. I am thinking of collecting all 3 Starblazer series. I liked all three of them.
No. I would pay for content. Why should I pay to read about someone's biased liberal views? I can buy a paper and do that, or I can go to my library and read the paper there. I check the internet for other information.
They obvoiusly read that book on how to lie with charts. There are just greedy cry babies!!!
I don't think that Apple could really claim ownership of the "Aqua" buttons. I worked for a company doing CBT, and they had a similar looking interface prior to 7/98.
The further I get in the book "Pride Before the Fall", by John Heilemann, the more I laugh at all the mistakes Microsoft and Bill Gates made. My favorite quote from the book has to be "the only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English...because then I could charge you $249 for the right to speak English, and I could charge you an upgrad fee when I add new letters--like N and T." (Pride Before the Fall, p. 84). It was said by McNealy, of Sun Microsystems, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
If the appeal is anything like the trial (and the events leading up to the trial), then you can count on some funny quotes.
The people just don't get it. The market has speoken. The market has proven they are not providing a good service at a decent price to everybody.
If they record companies produced a quality cd at a decent cost (not $16 to $20), then Napster would not have taken off so quickly. If the company that holds the encryption on DVDs had provided a free linux DVD player so we watch our LEGALLY PURCHASED DVD movies on our machines, then their problems wouldn't be so bad.
We are supposed to live in a society where the market decides. That is BS. When the BIG Companies don't get their way and the market decides to go another way, the run crying to the government saying they need help to make the market go the way they want!
These stupid, overpaid, cry babies just don't get it. You haven't provided your services at decent prices and decent quality. Piracy increases the more the market, and consumer, decide the product they want is not being provided at a good enough price and/or quality.
They need to stop their crying and start producing a better product at a better price. Then a lot of the piracy will disappear! Their will always be piracy to a degree. The amount of piracy can be used to measure how satisfied the consumers are with the products and services being sold to them.
If you look at it that way, then the consumers are obviously telling the industry that their performance sucks!
SO, IF ANY MPAA OD RIAA PEOPLE ARE READING THESE THINGS, GET OFF YOU FAT, OVERPAID, CRY BABY BUTTS AND START PRODUCING A BETTER PRODUCT AT A BETTER PRICE. YOU WILL LOSE IN THE END IF YOU TRY TO LEGISLATE WHAT CONSUMERS SHOULD WANT! START DOING YOUR JOB AND STOP OVERCHARGING!
This idea really doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiney(sp?). There is only 4 "letters" (yes I know that is not the right term for it, but I am using it to prove a point) in the DNA alphabet. They always come in pairs. The same two letters are always paired together--of course their will be similarities. There is no real factual evidence to this. There conclusion is based on assumptions. Remember at one time scientist of a certain time period thought the Earth was the center of the Universe, and the thought the Earth was flat in another period of time. All of these were base on "assumptions" made.
In this case, they are assuming that because changes can happen they did. They have NEVER found the "missing link" to link us to the "common ancestor" Just because our genes are similar, it doesn't mean we are related.
Let's say evolution is true. That still wouldn't mean we are related to chimps through some commo ancestor. It could mean we were all in the same general area in the "premordial muck".
The article is written by a Phd Proffessor who is a professor in bioethics. There is no real evidence to support evolutionism or creationism. On both sides it comes down to what you believe, and it also takes a leap of faith. For evolutionist, this leap of faith assumes that there common ancestor thoery is true. Despite no real evidence to prove we have a common ancestor.
Recently the found a human skeleton that was older than what they had thought possible. In other words, they found out that we were thousands of years older than previously thought (I dont remember the exact number).
Scientist are revisionist. They are constantly rewriting what they say as they get more information. Evolution is only a theory, and there is no evidence to ever make it a law. Both view required a leap of faith of some sort.
Not another ST series. Haven't they realised they have played out ST yet. I prefer Andromeda of Star Trek. I barely watch any of the current series. They have become boring. Why must all intelligent main characters be in humanoid form? That is stupid. At least Andromeda has the Thran(sp?) which an insect race.
I'd prefer to watch reruns of Babylon 5! I wish Lucas would do a series based off of the New Jedi Order series. Now that would have potential. Large living planets to move troops and other living technology accross the universe. They need to give ST a break for a little while. Haven't they heard of overkill and flooding the market?
I like to see another star trek after voyager but not include all of the current crew. I'd like to see the slip stream technology incorporated. I would like to see aliens that are humanoid in form.
I have been saying this is where Microsoft is going as soon as the announced .NET. My posts have been lost in the clearing of old posts, but those people who live total inside the Microsoft world better get used to this.
Subscriptions are just the start. Eventually you will be paying to use the software just like you pay for your electricity in the US! While Microsoft may have lost some of it's power, it is not dead yet. They still have enough power to require EOMs to put the subscription version of MS Office on there computers. Remember, the next version of MS Office will also be sold as a subscription.
We, in the Linux and open source community, need to move foreward to prepare Linux to be the best desktop it can be. When consumers are forced to switch to subscription services, or forced to pay for software as a service based on the time you use the software, they will eventually start to look for other alternatives.
Originally, just before ".Net" was announced I thought we'd have more time. I underestimated Microsofts aggresive time table. We need to prepare! Otherwise, consumers will look elsewhere!
I realise some of you are high school kids, but let's look at things from a nother point of view. Regaurdless if the software works or not, the school HAS TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO CONTROL WHAT YOU VIEW. You don't have any rights when it comes to using their equipment. They have to control what you view to prevent lawsuit because so and so saw this on a computer at school. They have to make that effort. If you remove the software, then they will more than likely ahave to have teachers supervise what you do on those computers.
Like it or not, you will just have to deal with it. The computer is only one tool to use to do research. Their are these things called books. There are gouping of books call Encyclopedia, and their are news papers and magazines for recent events. Most public libraries subscribe various publications.
I realise a lot of you don't like censorship, but in todays society it required because anybody can sue anybody of the stupidest things. Until society as a whole changes, we will have censorship. Complain all you want, but it will not do any good in this case. You will always have some form of censorship in schools--especially school computers.
I see it as being too easy to tack on more charges to the consumer. When you buy a printed book today. It is yours. You can look at it when you want, and how you want. It is hard, if not impossible for a company to charge you for every time you read it.
Now, consider e-paper. It would be easy to come up with means to charge you everytime you want to read the book. You could be charge everytime you use index. You could even be charge on on the number pages you read. Essentially, buying a book and reading it will become services. You pay for the priviledge to "read" or "use" the book in only the methods the companies want you to use it. Think it won't happen? It will. Why? This could eventually happen if publishers/authors decide they don't like you reading a book more than once. Since they own the information, and with the current changes in the laws, they could easily dictate where, when, and how you read a book with e-paper.
I deffinately have mixed feeling about e-paper. I like the idea, but I don't like giving the publishers a new way to charge me.
I think it could be graphically oriented and at the same time doesn't have to be. I think that is what they mean when they talk about filters. You can view how you want to view it. Say you view it in an UML type way, then you use a UML filter, and if you want to view it with text, you'd use a text filter.
There is something I would like to point out. IT DOESN'T COMPILE. From what I have read, it is an interpreted language. You need what they are calling the kernel to run it. I am assuming that this is their version of a virtual machine.
This leads me to another feature. They are writing it in JAVA! I understand the "coolness" and "cross platform" abilities you get by writing in something in Java, but do we really want to write an interpreted language using an interpreted language? I don't think so. I would think it would be better to write it in C,C++,Pascal,Fortran, et. al.. This would be the equivilant writing a c/c++ interpreter in the old interpreted basic in which you had to be in basic to run the code. Does this make sense to anyone?
Don't get me wrong. I like the idea, I disagree with how they are doing it. I would write it in another language taking time to design it so that the platform dependant sections are together to make porting easy. I would also write it so that you could either run the code in the kernel or compile down to a native binary and run the code independant of the kernel/virtual machine. I would probably have done a proof of concept in python, or another scripting language, to get peoples appetite wet for the project and allow for people to be creating code.
I think this has potential. So far, I don't like where this is going. I am sure somebody will come up with a similar methodology that with the benefits I want, but the question is when.
I would have to disagree to a point. The idea is ok, but the implementation is bad. This is just another interpreted language instead of a virtual machine (like java uses) you have a kernel.
I would also miss the use of pointers and references. They can save on memory and space instead of requiring the copies to be made. Althought the could implement it so this is not a problem.
I like the idea. It would open up new avenues in developement. I don't like the idea of forcing OOP as much as they do. I think a good tool set would allow for adaptions of better designs as they come along (like C++ does). Java is pretty much stuct in OOP model because of its rigid focus on OOP. It appears this is where they want this to go.
I also don't like the idea that the code doesn't appear to compile down to a binary. I would like an enviornment like for development, but I would want the final product to have the option of creating a binary that would run faster then when you use the kernel to run it.
Scripting languages are great--as we all should know, but do we want to go back to an interpreted language format. The kernel idea reminds me of the old basic days when basic was only interpreted.
Overall, I think this is a good start, but I thik they need to reconsider the design a little. There is a big potential when removing "dangerous" stuff like pointers for more programmers to not bother learning what is going on and to think things through. This again reminds me of my childhood, and programming in basic.
Actually, it could be said that the experience is gained before they reach the teens. Especially since computers are so wide spread these days.
If this get enough attention, people will start to realise how stupid these companies are being. The idea that book publishers are going to sue Libraries is stupid! I wish these companies were not so stupid!
You are forgetting the fact that this is Microsoft. They don't care what the DOJ is doing. They do what they want anyways!
I don't think MS is going to merge, but I do think this is an attmpt to hit Linux. I am sure Microsoft has been paying attemtion to the scalability of Linux. Especially the Linux watch that IBM created.
If they can create a chip with Windows CE on it, the can further push there windows OS. I want to see them try this. Microsoft code is bloate and bad. I wouldn't buy a product with a windoze chip in it.
Anyone know how many companies are working on a Linux chip?
Guess that rulls out Northern NH, ME, and VT. They all have lots of trees in the northen parts of the state.
Looks like Microsofts fir wave of attacks has begun. This should get interesting. My favorite quote is: ... really call into question whether Linux should be used at all.[']"
"[']the recent security problems with Linux
Let's use that logic and apply it to Microsoft, given that MS has had a LONG history of security problems--usually big, we shouldn't use and MS product. Wait, I forgot those security problem (even the one on there own network) were really features.
Gee, that leaves Macs and other Unix machine. What am I to do? The stupid of MS sometimes surprised me.
I will wait for two things. The price to come down, and C++ support. I couldn't find anywhere on the website is GNOME was supported tho.
I would definately prefer this over g++ IFF (if and only if) the price were lower. I could see paying $500 for a desktop version, but not $999. I think they will find that this out and eventually lower the cost.
Remember your thinking in terms of traditional coding. The wide spread use of voice recognition would allow for other models of coding to happen. You wouldn't want to have to spell everything out. Instead, there would be a environment specifically gear towards coding with voice recognition. For example, you might say "for" ad the entire c/c++ for loop struct would appear in the code ("for ( ; ; ) {}"). Ideas like this is where you'd gain the most speed. The coding could more naturally match your style of thinking. You wouldn't have to worry about typing everything in.
This would also move the keyboard to a secondary input device. The design of the keyboard is really bad for us. The keyboard, no matter how you have it designed, will always be repetitive motions. The human body doesn't like repetitive motions over long periods of time. Next, I'd like to see something to make the mouse a secondary method of input.
This is really just the first step in a long process of rethinking how we access our computers. In the long run, it will help us interact with computers more easily.
I want to see it, but I doubt it come into the Northern New England area. I can only hope it makes it to tape so I can watch it at home.