We're in the same situation in Sweden actually. By 2008 we will be all digital. Of course the general public is royally pissed off by having to buy a box for hundreds of dollars for every television in the household.
Sure, if you want to install a pirate copy of Windows on a new PC, your only real choice is to order a PC with either no OS or one with a free OS (i.e. Linux). Since none of the big PC makers will even let you order a PC without an OS, guess which one you'll choose.
M$ Release Sp2 for XP. People resist installing cause they hear it can screw things up etc so they delay installing. M$ announce a new flaw with sample code in the wild, show how every O/S they have (practically) is suseptable EXCEPT XpSp2....? Funny order of events no?
Yeah very funny... except that there is a fix for non-sp2 users too.
As I'm sure numerous people have already said in this discussion, child porn will not go away by blocking web sites. I'm sure that real pedophiles (by that I mean people who are serious about getting this material and not some curious 15 year old kid who wants to know what it's about) get their child porn either by meeting people they know irl or get it over heavily encrypted connections.
Would a ring leader (or whatever they call it) share child porn over a public connection using www? I find that VERY unlikely.
Ummmm...... Might you want to use a different simile? Or have you never had kids?
I seriously have NO idea why I used that phrase. I was probably thinking of "smooth as a baby's but" and getting things mixed up... and no I've never had kids.
"As long as it makes me money, I'll continue to do it."
That's the key issue here. As long as spam is profitable people will continue doing it no matter how illegal it is. When 1 in 19 AOL users stop clicking on spam, Mr Cunningham and his friends will go away for good. Personally I haven't received any spam whatsoever since I moved away from Hotmail a few years ago. My university email is as clean as a baby's but and my yahoo.se is very clean (1-2 a week). Most likely because my univeristy has a very competent IT staff.
The further development of filters and smarter users are, imo, the things that will make spam go away... in a few hundred years or so...
Nope. They might pay it, or the big donators who pay for everything else around a college might pay for it. It's probably them, but you can't state that categorically.
And if a doner payed for it then there's something else the doners can't cover instead, or am I wrong?
These factors, coupled with a dock (plug in a monitor, keyboard and mouse) allow one to imagine a world where maybe they won't need a desktop, or laptop, or mp3 player, video jukebox, digicam, etc.
Multifunctional devices are all dandy but I don't see how they could compete with devices designed for one thing only. Sure, things develop and multifunctional devices get better people might say but so does the single purpose device. There are mp3 players you connect to your mobile phone but will they ever get as good or compete with say, the iPod?
Will the camera in most mobile phones ever get as good as a good digital camera? I doubt it.
It's just too expensive and difficult to bring the best of everything into a device of this kind. You compromise and hope that someone REALLY NEEDS all these things in small package enough to be willing to pay alot of money for it. I certainly won't.
From the games I've played it's my opinion that the very simple designs work the best. Take Tetris for example. A very simple game in the sense that I could very well be done by a single person but very addictive and _by far_ the best game I've played on any phone. A bluetooth-enabled tetris clone is probably the ultimate phone game in my book (I don't know if one is out there or not).
Think about games using camera, bluetooth or games which could be played in two minutes breaks etc.
I agree completely. The phone is not for long adventure games or anything else that takes longer than a break or a short busride to complete. But a two minute game, isn't that something that will take a short time to program once the design is finalized? (compared to a big console title).
do you think these large investments are going to pay off?
No it wont. The phone is just not suited for games. Most of the games I've tried are clearly not worth the $5-6 they would cost if I had bought them. The graphics are by far worse than the original now 10+ years old Game Boy and the game concepts are very basic. The only thing that phone games have going for them is that they are most often very simple designs that can be programmed by a single non-professional programmer. It could be a starting point for the future game developer.. or something. But even that is unsure...
Just because the book contains more advanced topics doesn't mean it can't be aimed at the casual user. To me it seems that the book is aimed at the casual but interested user. Someone who's not the least interested in security will not pick this up no matter how basic it is. As Joe Sixpack starts reading this book he will learn more and more and by the time he comes to chapter 5 he will hardly be Joe Sixpack anymore.
In my opinion, if CD sales are in fact down (hard to tell), it's due to the lack of good music rather than file sharing. I don't buy CDs anymore, but that's not because I can download everything. It's because everything out now sucks. Like the post said, maybe we have all the good music already... If the record companies spent their money making really good music like they used to, rather than their new tactic of suing their customers, I'm sure CD sales would go back up.
I see posts like this in every thread about downloading music. In every single one, without fail. And when I see one of these thread I think about all the great new music I listen to and discover every week. Great music is being released every day. By companies within the RIAA (yes even the RIAA releases good music, OH THE HORROR, but since it's released by the RIAA it must suck, right?) and by indie labels.
Could it be that you aren't really that interested in discovering new music anymore? Could it be that you don't care enough to make an effort? Everyone complains that they only hear crap music on the radio and on MTV but they still don't make an effort to find the gems out there, and they are there, trust me.
I'll burn karma for this but...
Windows XP is not bloated compared to your average Linux distribution. The amount of extra programs and utilities you get when you do a default install in say debian or red hat tops that of XP. Sure, you can choose not to install any of them but the same rings true for XP.
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You're right. I was thinking in my own currency but wrote dollars. The boxes are probably around $100.
We're in the same situation in Sweden actually. By 2008 we will be all digital. Of course the general public is royally pissed off by having to buy a box for hundreds of dollars for every television in the household.
Or you can build your own computer from parts...
My Yahoo account has 100 MB (yes it's a free account). It changed from 4 or 6 to 100 recently.
Yeah very funny... except that there is a fix for non-sp2 users too.
"Imagine this: I'll walk into a bar and ask for a girl's number, then break out my phone," he said. "How could you say no to that?"
uhm, yeah.
From Hard To Kill: I'll take you to the bank! The Blood Bank!
As I'm sure numerous people have already said in this discussion, child porn will not go away by blocking web sites. I'm sure that real pedophiles (by that I mean people who are serious about getting this material and not some curious 15 year old kid who wants to know what it's about) get their child porn either by meeting people they know irl or get it over heavily encrypted connections. Would a ring leader (or whatever they call it) share child porn over a public connection using www? I find that VERY unlikely.
I seriously have NO idea why I used that phrase. I was probably thinking of "smooth as a baby's but" and getting things mixed up... and no I've never had kids.
"As long as it makes me money, I'll continue to do it."
That's the key issue here. As long as spam is profitable people will continue doing it no matter how illegal it is. When 1 in 19 AOL users stop clicking on spam, Mr Cunningham and his friends will go away for good. Personally I haven't received any spam whatsoever since I moved away from Hotmail a few years ago. My university email is as clean as a baby's but and my yahoo.se is very clean (1-2 a week). Most likely because my univeristy has a very competent IT staff.
The further development of filters and smarter users are, imo, the things that will make spam go away... in a few hundred years or so...
ja men min svenska är mycket bättre än din.
And if a doner payed for it then there's something else the doners can't cover instead, or am I wrong?
So what if they received their iPod. In one way or another they will pay for it in their tuition fee.
Wear a Ted Kennedy mask?
Not enough of a geek to get the damn html right tough...
I am a geek :-)
Multifunctional devices are all dandy but I don't see how they could compete with devices designed for one thing only. Sure, things develop and multifunctional devices get better people might say but so does the single purpose device. There are mp3 players you connect to your mobile phone but will they ever get as good or compete with say, the iPod?
Will the camera in most mobile phones ever get as good as a good digital camera? I doubt it.
It's just too expensive and difficult to bring the best of everything into a device of this kind. You compromise and hope that someone REALLY NEEDS all these things in small package enough to be willing to pay alot of money for it. I certainly won't.
Think about games using camera, bluetooth or games which could be played in two minutes breaks etc.
I agree completely. The phone is not for long adventure games or anything else that takes longer than a break or a short busride to complete. But a two minute game, isn't that something that will take a short time to program once the design is finalized? (compared to a big console title).
No it wont. The phone is just not suited for games. Most of the games I've tried are clearly not worth the $5-6 they would cost if I had bought them. The graphics are by far worse than the original now 10+ years old Game Boy and the game concepts are very basic. The only thing that phone games have going for them is that they are most often very simple designs that can be programmed by a single non-professional programmer. It could be a starting point for the future game developer.. or something. But even that is unsure...
Just because the book contains more advanced topics doesn't mean it can't be aimed at the casual user. To me it seems that the book is aimed at the casual but interested user. Someone who's not the least interested in security will not pick this up no matter how basic it is. As Joe Sixpack starts reading this book he will learn more and more and by the time he comes to chapter 5 he will hardly be Joe Sixpack anymore.
I see posts like this in every thread about downloading music. In every single one, without fail. And when I see one of these thread I think about all the great new music I listen to and discover every week. Great music is being released every day. By companies within the RIAA (yes even the RIAA releases good music, OH THE HORROR, but since it's released by the RIAA it must suck, right?) and by indie labels.
Could it be that you aren't really that interested in discovering new music anymore? Could it be that you don't care enough to make an effort? Everyone complains that they only hear crap music on the radio and on MTV but they still don't make an effort to find the gems out there, and they are there, trust me.
He has no right to release it, obviously, as previously mentioned in this thread.
The CAM from POT is the only release so far.
I'll burn karma for this but... Windows XP is not bloated compared to your average Linux distribution. The amount of extra programs and utilities you get when you do a default install in say debian or red hat tops that of XP. Sure, you can choose not to install any of them but the same rings true for XP.
and why would you use that instead of ctrl+c, ctrl+v? Why use two hands when you can use one?