I agree, right now the people who would do this either:
run SETI@home already:)
or don't really like the idea of someone else benefitting from their pipe.
It's very similar to the cable modem "hack" that can suck bandwidth out of a "cluster" of served modems...the people who would use it would tend to abuse it.
although open source is prefered for it's free nature, imagine what would happen if MSoft went to open source help. They would lose money hosting it, compared to now when they charge an arm and a leg, or blame the problem on something else.
In keeping with the true nature of the article, open sourced collaberative works tend to not be associated with the product or actual use of the works, but instead with the hard core users or people who are interesting in helping/developing on their own time. Right now it is impossible to tell who will win out, Companies who use open source, or Free Open source communities...In my case hopefully the later.
and we'll see the first quantum walkie-talkies within 10-15 years
Woah! we're going from,
crap toy store talkies that can transmit over 5 miles.
to
talkies that need line of sight, and transmit using light?
Quickly i reach down and aim my talkie gun at roger atempting to send him a quantum encrypted message....BLAM....even though our message was encrypted and our enemies knew not what we planned, roger thought i was aiming my gun at him and thus...shot me.
I agree Cryptography won't go further than stronger or more obscure forms of crypto, first make data transmission that is competative on a consumer level, then encrypt it. the underlying physics here means that the Decryption process may be nearly impossible or in the very least displeasingly unsimple.
Reading the articles above I can only assume one or two things...this may in fact be the new dawn of intel, and AMD may have made the fatal mistake to make its own technology. I shall explain further and all shall be revealed.
AMD up until now has had the support of the desktop users, and the low end server crowd because of their price/performance ratio. Since it was a realatively low ratio people were able to get a lot of quick performance at a low price. AMD with the advent of their 64 bit technology, obviously behind Apple, has raised the price of their chips almost 4 fold.
Intel has always produced the top end of expensive processors, but they were always "achievable" even to the young new computer user. the disparity between the two has changed from a 2 over 1 situation (with intel leading) to a 6 over 2 (with AMD leading).....what's the problem you say? AMD hasn't proven, or developed their architectural structure. I would much rather purchase a pair of 2.8 ghz intels and run them on a dual processor board instead of running head long into the new 64 bit AMD's.
What is the big benefit for Intel? Well the dirty little secret of the server and workstation industry is that price rules, the differences in price and performance do not warrant investing in 64 bit technology....or for that matter any new technology because the industry has to develop applications (real and theoretical) to utilze the structure. Even though each processor company claims to have the lion's share of server users, and a slew of corporate "sponsors", one can not ignore the fact that most mission critical systems are still run on something Other than AMD.
To sum up the statements i've made; AMD doesn't have the track record to demand their current prices. Even more relevent; because Intel isn't "developing" the architecture they can finally start offering high-end new-age processors at ajusted prices. If anything can be seen it's that Intel may still come out on top, because AMD seems to be short sighted......of course in the end it always seems to be the end user who is short sighted.
from inlaid article:
Would it sense a stair to avoid a tragic fall?
Nope.
Can it bring a chair to relieve walking fatigue?
Uh, no.
What century is it going to be before futuristic versions of household help are actually in someone's home?
This one.
I would much rather help my mother out myself or hire in home help....not only is it much cheeper but at least she would be dealing with real people. Instead she'd be getting:
"Hell..o young madam how may i assist you?"
"quick get me a chair, a phone, a glass of water, anything to help me"
"Negative, i am unable to decrypt your off-topic request"
"god damnit your a helper-bot, what can you do?"
"i can dance, dance, dance if i want to" "and leave this world behind"
This is no scientific mission, or experiment. This is comming from the same place where people tried to sell their virginity and collect money for an IPO on themselves in order to get through college. Basically it's the home of the insane, mundane, over-priced...EeeBaaY!
BTW who the hell would want to colonize the moon, the very most that I would want to do is put a few missle launchers on the moon to insure our security as a nation....personally I don't think the missle launchers would care, I doubt they'll throw a fit when they land.
The moon is the perfect example of a solar system junk yard, because of it's gravitational pulls and pushes. It's because of the moon's ability to suck in small astroids that in the future small cities like New York might survive, and quite possibly it may be why life survived here in the first place.
At the same time because of its lack of an atmosphere in any noticable sense there is very much a reason to trash it up, it would actually further human "colonization" by providing work for people in the "trash" business.
I do agree with you that there are problems that deffinately need to be worked out, personally I've come to the realization that I would much rather have my ballot printed out and that used for voting purposes....
You can still have your real time voting stats,
It will still be easy to use as hell
And people such as you won't go all crazy like Al "Florida hates me" Gore.
On a side note, please stay away from me if Bush wins the national elections, i really don't want a person screaming in my ear that he rigged it any more than the democratic party would.
Democins and Republicrats, their both apples and both oranges, neither one really makes a difference; gass won't go down in price, the world won't stop rotating, i'll still vote republican, and no matter which party we have in office neither one is REALLY better (good, moral, nice, cute, truthful, real.....)
Peh, alcohol is indeed a major problem, but America and the rest of the world have had such a long relationship with distilled beverages that it won't pass to quickly. Sadly abuse of any substance, from pizza to meth is part of a deep rooted psycological problem under the basic addiction to said substance.
As for in response to agressiveness, it can't be logically put forth that Americans are agressive and repressed based on our culture. Evidence has shown us in the past few months that the most violent and agressive culture comes from a particular religion that outlaws violence and carnal behavior.
I think the headline released with this video is distasteful, the person who wrote that should be sued for damages or put to community service. Unfortunately this has turned into a racial slur as well, objectivity is the key.
WITHIN this situation we can see that the young man wanted to be a rapper. EVEN more interesting; the fact that he shot himself because of falling short of his goal shows us that this rap culture is short sighted, failing, and pointless. Every person that I have known, heard of, or talked to in this business has an agrandized view of themselves, often is an egocentric person who does not care for anyone other than theirselves, and 90 percent of the time they are violent. Clearly it is the subculture here that lead to his death, Not American Culture, not violence in movies, not the legalization of alcohol and the absence of legal marijuana, and certainly not repression of graphic sexual conotation.
I'm really tired of people bashing microsoft on a daily basis...let's just get a few things in the open.
If you want to run a server or "secure" software Windows is not the answer
If you want to run graphics or games, support is better and they run on a wider range of platforms as of now on windows
Even though open source is better for finding and controlling bugs, there is a common misconception that it has less bugs. Look at the ammount of bugs that come out in each revision or each nightly release of the main linux distrobutions.
If you look at the numbers you can see that YES a open source community can jump on a problem and fix it quickly, much more quickly than closed source MS, but in fact you have a much better track record and more obscure system when using the closed source windows.
BTW the DIEBOLD voting system runs on a varriant of Windows CE, so i would rather have the people who built the god damn OS review the program....
it's very much time for us, the open source community, to rise above petty arguing and just develop software that SHOWS we can do better. Instead we have people who prefer to show nothing of their efforts and debase a companies efforts to appease the open source community.
Truth that time travel causes insanity, 2007 would mark the year before the end of his first term, if by chance he was to be elected (crossing my fingers hoping the american people aren't stupid and vote for him).
This is like saying that 5 minutes of DVD commentary from the Simpsons DVD Season 4 has been released.....anyone who shows a vested interest in George Lucas bragging about his "space" movie truely has stepped over to the "Dark Side"
Technically my gulibility tends to shore up at noon on april fools day....you have to get me with a joke at 6am since i've been reading slashdot for a while now.
" your comment is short-sighted and plainly idiotic "
My comment is not short sighted and it is not plainly idiotic. My comments are based on my beliefs after working in the peace corps in Affrica for a while, after seeing all factors available to me and examining the information i recieved, that is how i arrived at my "plainly idiotic" comment.
I'm Surpised you were modded up, unless a friend modderated for you, your obviously a person who reads propaganda in circles all day and doesn't absorb unbiased information. And at the same time you fight with words like Yank, Idiotic and Short-sighted, showing your 5th grade propensity to resort to simple name calling because you YOURSELF can't bring a better argument with proof to the table, you can only suppose or guess as to the validity of your sources.
As to your referance to the TRIPS + agreements you should also understand that while it is all fun and games to offer aid to other countries and unbiased support, I don't see you jumping up and running to help people in third world countries, and I deffinately don't see anyone in Britain supporting better treatment of these G8 countries if it comes out of their check book. In Fact in 1999 ENGLAND said, and I QUOTE: South Africa "must patent biotech inventions; highest international standards; must undertake to go beyond TRIPS"
PS: if you want to take your childish arguing out of this forum i'm sure everyone in the thread will appreciate it.
The reasons Americans would do something like this is because most leaders in Affrica would rather get money instead of American drugs from the United States. So they spit out propaganda that AIDS was a construct of American Scientists in the first place developed to kill Affricans, and that AIDS is contained in the vacinations and drugs that are used to prevent other more simplistic problems.
There is no "negative, hateful policy" but rather a wish to see the PEOPLE of affrica helped not the rulers. Constantly we see the rulers of the poor nations of Affrica taking food, drugs, and resources donated by other countries and selling them to their people.....the next best thing?: "Just hand money over to them."
Bringing this around back to the Affrican open source issue: I say all the more power to them, the last thing they need is An SCO or Microsoft running around claiming people of the world need to watch out for the mischevious Affricans and their Open Source Software!
You have to admit, even in the midst of a legal issue, taking on two monumental giants (open source community, and IBM), and spitting out propaganda they are smart to continue on their quest. They somehow still have time and intelligence to sew their seed in foreign countries. This looks like the group is just using legislation as a smoke-screen, everything they are doing stems from intellectual property which they bought up. Since they bought up the IP and they're not distributing anything new I'm not worrying. They can go around till doomsday distributing "licenses" all they want, still doesn't mean i have to buy one now! US and most common International law states that an individual can't be charged retroactively for a crime committed before a law was created (how does he know it's wrong)...
"I'm not really sure who owns the base code anymore, it's just too confusing your honor. If you'd be so kind as to point to the party who does own the code i will apologize and be on my way."
This is sort of a stretch, but SCO's shelf life is wanning, and i for one don't see myself switching over to UNIX anytime soon.....
using nano tubes in construction and electronics is different, gladly we've learned about the problems that can be caused by implimentation of these products into "nature". This is fortunate because we did not have that opportunity with CFC's.
I can't say don't worry about all this -because of the way corperations, and every god damn person on earth, go about distributing waste- but I can say i'm not going to start swallowing handfuls of carbon nano tubes and buckyballs any time soon. Hopefully it doesn't impact my children and the world too badly.
And hopefully carbon tubes and buckyballs will find many greater uses, other than killing or retarding fish.
The only problem is that MSOffice is like using a 18 wheeler to get you around the city when clearly a fuel efficient VW bug will do....heck it even parks easier, just doesn't start up quite as fast.
-hopefully you can get past my complicated analogies and simply see that OO.org is FREE, MSOffice is 3 times more expensive than it needs be.
Needless to say the Office division at MS should be rolling out cheeper, smaller, more educational based versions. Instead they've made one huge clunker of a program and cut off non-essential pieces to sell in 3-4 smaller less "professional" programs.
I could also write a thesis on how MS charges more and more each year for the "business" portions of the program: Access, Powerpoint, and Publisher.....needless to say those parts are quickly becomming outdated, i wouldn't use PowerPoint if someone payed me minimum wage to do so, and i wouldn't touch publisher with a twenty foot pole.
Their MSRP's are horribly high, they cost as much as a small computer in most cases. I would love to own one of their left handed 3D manipulators for use in MAYA.....it gets wierd using a keyboard when my artistic background involves sculpting and pottery. I just see some of those products being worth 400 dollars for a mouse, or even 600-700 in their higher end models. Seems to me they are priced for companies who have money to blow in the wrong places.
"they've changed my perception--why did data storage just get more expensive?"
-and complicated (obviously not for the likes of us, but needless to say the likes of us can figure something less expensive and far more useful out.)
I fail to understand why the industry is trying to decentralize the elements of computers and electronics. At the same time it's still just as easy and less expensive to put it in a computer or share a hard drive on the network.
EVEN plugging an existing external hard drive into a computer with wireless capabilities is probably simpler and cheeper.
Anyone who gets sued by the RIAA through their use of Kazaa, can in very sound theory sue Kazaa for damages. Because Kazaa has failed to protect the privacy of each of these users in each and every case. Again because they are not cooperating with the authorities directly this theory can not be contradicted by the EULA of Kazaa. Kazaa doesn't suddenly release the idents of certain users to whett the RIAA's mouth. They have failed to protect their users from identification and the only way that the RIAA has been able to figure out who is who is through their use of Kazaa and the "criminal's" use of Kazaa.
I do understand how totally useless it is to Sue Kazaa given their past legal/logistical history
I hereby disown myself, and remove myself from any comments I may or may not have made above... have fun with that.
My brilliant physics teacher was booted out of school, after almost 40 years of teaching highschool students, a few years back. He simply told an upstart, bossy, socialite that using her skimpy dress and snobby attitude wouldn't get her far in his class. He told her this in front of the entire class, and everyone nearly agreed with him to the point that she looked silly trying to yell at a man who'd been through Vietnam to teach us PHYSICS....he was forced out of the school, and his retirement taken from him.
i know it's off topic, you don't need to tell me by wasting your mod-points on me
"That second worker points to the appropriate line on the address list, and the PCM operator sees which party to program a ballot for - with the party name never said aloud."
- that's funny the poll workers at the National Guard Armory in El Cajon made it a point to spit my party name "Republican" or as she said "REP!" across the table to another woman who entered that into her workstation.
The two ladies acted like it was insulting to their mouths to have to pass the word through it...launching it with a weighted hatred.
Actually i've yet to make money using rights to my work...just what I provide free of strings to my clients. for a one time charge.
But instead of assuming that my change from lack interest/support of copy rights to a strong stance in support of producers/copyrights is based on my new found production, it should instead be pointed out I came to this realization when I'm still in college throwing money down the public drain.
I'm not simply saying that because producers produce things that they should support copyrights, I'm saying it is childish, and meglothymic for people to download something that they didn't or don't have rights to. I indeed have uses for the benefits of a RIAA and MPAA free world. I do feel that some things should be shared....such as information and public source. But what i can not condone even if i was a blue collar laborer is the theft of creative reproduction.
Tell me it's not true that what filesharers do is purely the reasoning of their Thymos instead of their MORALS.
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I agree, right now the people who would do this either:
:)
run SETI@home already
or don't really like the idea of someone else benefitting from their pipe.
It's very similar to the cable modem "hack" that can suck bandwidth out of a "cluster" of served modems...the people who would use it would tend to abuse it.
although open source is prefered for it's free nature, imagine what would happen if MSoft went to open source help. They would lose money hosting it, compared to now when they charge an arm and a leg, or blame the problem on something else.
In keeping with the true nature of the article, open sourced collaberative works tend to not be associated with the product or actual use of the works, but instead with the hard core users or people who are interesting in helping/developing on their own time. Right now it is impossible to tell who will win out, Companies who use open source, or Free Open source communities...In my case hopefully the later.
and we'll see the first quantum walkie-talkies within 10-15 years
Woah! we're going from,
crap toy store talkies that can transmit over 5 miles.
to
talkies that need line of sight, and transmit using light?
Quickly i reach down and aim my talkie gun at roger atempting to send him a quantum encrypted message....BLAM....even though our message was encrypted and our enemies knew not what we planned, roger thought i was aiming my gun at him and thus...shot me.
I agree Cryptography won't go further than stronger or more obscure forms of crypto, first make data transmission that is competative on a consumer level, then encrypt it. the underlying physics here means that the Decryption process may be nearly impossible or in the very least displeasingly unsimple.
Your missing the point, there is obviously no plan in the mission for retransmission..
The whole point is to land send data and then make molten computer parts....short of interplanetary art.
Reading the articles above I can only assume one or two things...this may in fact be the new dawn of intel, and AMD may have made the fatal mistake to make its own technology. I shall explain further and all shall be revealed.
AMD up until now has had the support of the desktop users, and the low end server crowd because of their price/performance ratio. Since it was a realatively low ratio people were able to get a lot of quick performance at a low price. AMD with the advent of their 64 bit technology, obviously behind Apple, has raised the price of their chips almost 4 fold.
Intel has always produced the top end of expensive processors, but they were always "achievable" even to the young new computer user. the disparity between the two has changed from a 2 over 1 situation (with intel leading) to a 6 over 2 (with AMD leading).....what's the problem you say? AMD hasn't proven, or developed their architectural structure. I would much rather purchase a pair of 2.8 ghz intels and run them on a dual processor board instead of running head long into the new 64 bit AMD's.
What is the big benefit for Intel? Well the dirty little secret of the server and workstation industry is that price rules, the differences in price and performance do not warrant investing in 64 bit technology....or for that matter any new technology because the industry has to develop applications (real and theoretical) to utilze the structure. Even though each processor company claims to have the lion's share of server users, and a slew of corporate "sponsors", one can not ignore the fact that most mission critical systems are still run on something Other than AMD.
To sum up the statements i've made; AMD doesn't have the track record to demand their current prices. Even more relevent; because Intel isn't "developing" the architecture they can finally start offering high-end new-age processors at ajusted prices. If anything can be seen it's that Intel may still come out on top, because AMD seems to be short sighted......of course in the end it always seems to be the end user who is short sighted.
from inlaid article:
Would it sense a stair to avoid a tragic fall?
Nope.
Can it bring a chair to relieve walking fatigue?
Uh, no.
What century is it going to be before futuristic versions of household help are actually in someone's home?
This one.
I would much rather help my mother out myself or hire in home help....not only is it much cheeper but at least she would be dealing with real people. Instead she'd be getting:
"Hell..o young madam how may i assist you?"
"quick get me a chair, a phone, a glass of water, anything to help me"
"Negative, i am unable to decrypt your off-topic request"
"god damnit your a helper-bot, what can you do?"
"i can dance, dance, dance if i want to" "and leave this world behind"
This is no scientific mission, or experiment. This is comming from the same place where people tried to sell their virginity and collect money for an IPO on themselves in order to get through college. Basically it's the home of the insane, mundane, over-priced...EeeBaaY!
BTW who the hell would want to colonize the moon, the very most that I would want to do is put a few missle launchers on the moon to insure our security as a nation....personally I don't think the missle launchers would care, I doubt they'll throw a fit when they land.
The moon is the perfect example of a solar system junk yard, because of it's gravitational pulls and pushes. It's because of the moon's ability to suck in small astroids that in the future small cities like New York might survive, and quite possibly it may be why life survived here in the first place.
At the same time because of its lack of an atmosphere in any noticable sense there is very much a reason to trash it up, it would actually further human "colonization" by providing work for people in the "trash" business.
I do agree with you that there are problems that deffinately need to be worked out, personally I've come to the realization that I would much rather have my ballot printed out and that used for voting purposes....
You can still have your real time voting stats,
It will still be easy to use as hell
And people such as you won't go all crazy like Al "Florida hates me" Gore.
On a side note, please stay away from me if Bush wins the national elections, i really don't want a person screaming in my ear that he rigged it any more than the democratic party would.
Democins and Republicrats, their both apples and both oranges, neither one really makes a difference; gass won't go down in price, the world won't stop rotating, i'll still vote republican, and no matter which party we have in office neither one is REALLY better (good, moral, nice, cute, truthful, real.....)
Peh, alcohol is indeed a major problem, but America and the rest of the world have had such a long relationship with distilled beverages that it won't pass to quickly. Sadly abuse of any substance, from pizza to meth is part of a deep rooted psycological problem under the basic addiction to said substance.
As for in response to agressiveness, it can't be logically put forth that Americans are agressive and repressed based on our culture. Evidence has shown us in the past few months that the most violent and agressive culture comes from a particular religion that outlaws violence and carnal behavior.
I think the headline released with this video is distasteful, the person who wrote that should be sued for damages or put to community service. Unfortunately this has turned into a racial slur as well, objectivity is the key.
WITHIN this situation we can see that the young man wanted to be a rapper. EVEN more interesting; the fact that he shot himself because of falling short of his goal shows us that this rap culture is short sighted, failing, and pointless. Every person that I have known, heard of, or talked to in this business has an agrandized view of themselves, often is an egocentric person who does not care for anyone other than theirselves, and 90 percent of the time they are violent. Clearly it is the subculture here that lead to his death, Not American Culture, not violence in movies, not the legalization of alcohol and the absence of legal marijuana, and certainly not repression of graphic sexual conotation.
I'm really tired of people bashing microsoft on a daily basis...let's just get a few things in the open.
If you want to run a server or "secure" software Windows is not the answer
If you want to run graphics or games, support is better and they run on a wider range of platforms as of now on windows
Even though open source is better for finding and controlling bugs, there is a common misconception that it has less bugs. Look at the ammount of bugs that come out in each revision or each nightly release of the main linux distrobutions.
If you look at the numbers you can see that YES a open source community can jump on a problem and fix it quickly, much more quickly than closed source MS, but in fact you have a much better track record and more obscure system when using the closed source windows.
BTW the DIEBOLD voting system runs on a varriant of Windows CE, so i would rather have the people who built the god damn OS review the program....
it's very much time for us, the open source community, to rise above petty arguing and just develop software that SHOWS we can do better. Instead we have people who prefer to show nothing of their efforts and debase a companies efforts to appease the open source community.
Truth that time travel causes insanity, 2007 would mark the year before the end of his first term, if by chance he was to be elected (crossing my fingers hoping the american people aren't stupid and vote for him).
This is like saying that 5 minutes of DVD commentary from the Simpsons DVD Season 4 has been released.....anyone who shows a vested interest in George Lucas bragging about his "space" movie truely has stepped over to the "Dark Side"
Technically my gulibility tends to shore up at noon on april fools day....you have to get me with a joke at 6am since i've been reading slashdot for a while now.
" your comment is short-sighted and plainly idiotic "
My comment is not short sighted and it is not plainly idiotic. My comments are based on my beliefs after working in the peace corps in Affrica for a while, after seeing all factors available to me and examining the information i recieved, that is how i arrived at my "plainly idiotic" comment.
I'm Surpised you were modded up, unless a friend modderated for you, your obviously a person who reads propaganda in circles all day and doesn't absorb unbiased information. And at the same time you fight with words like Yank, Idiotic and Short-sighted, showing your 5th grade propensity to resort to simple name calling because you YOURSELF can't bring a better argument with proof to the table, you can only suppose or guess as to the validity of your sources.
As to your referance to the TRIPS + agreements you should also understand that while it is all fun and games to offer aid to other countries and unbiased support, I don't see you jumping up and running to help people in third world countries, and I deffinately don't see anyone in Britain supporting better treatment of these G8 countries if it comes out of their check book. In Fact in 1999 ENGLAND said, and I QUOTE: South Africa "must patent biotech inventions; highest international standards; must undertake to go beyond TRIPS"
PS: if you want to take your childish arguing out of this forum i'm sure everyone in the thread will appreciate it.
The reasons Americans would do something like this is because most leaders in Affrica would rather get money instead of American drugs from the United States. So they spit out propaganda that AIDS was a construct of American Scientists in the first place developed to kill Affricans, and that AIDS is contained in the vacinations and drugs that are used to prevent other more simplistic problems.
There is no "negative, hateful policy" but rather a wish to see the PEOPLE of affrica helped not the rulers. Constantly we see the rulers of the poor nations of Affrica taking food, drugs, and resources donated by other countries and selling them to their people.....the next best thing?: "Just hand money over to them."
Bringing this around back to the Affrican open source issue: I say all the more power to them, the last thing they need is An SCO or Microsoft running around claiming people of the world need to watch out for the mischevious Affricans and their Open Source Software!
playing "DA" (not district attorney) here.
You have to admit, even in the midst of a legal issue, taking on two monumental giants (open source community, and IBM), and spitting out propaganda they are smart to continue on their quest. They somehow still have time and intelligence to sew their seed in foreign countries. This looks like the group is just using legislation as a smoke-screen, everything they are doing stems from intellectual property which they bought up. Since they bought up the IP and they're not distributing anything new I'm not worrying. They can go around till doomsday distributing "licenses" all they want, still doesn't mean i have to buy one now! US and most common International law states that an individual can't be charged retroactively for a crime committed before a law was created (how does he know it's wrong)...
"I'm not really sure who owns the base code anymore, it's just too confusing your honor. If you'd be so kind as to point to the party who does own the code i will apologize and be on my way."
This is sort of a stretch, but SCO's shelf life is wanning, and i for one don't see myself switching over to UNIX anytime soon.....
using nano tubes in construction and electronics is different, gladly we've learned about the problems that can be caused by implimentation of these products into "nature". This is fortunate because we did not have that opportunity with CFC's.
I can't say don't worry about all this -because of the way corperations, and every god damn person on earth, go about distributing waste- but I can say i'm not going to start swallowing handfuls of carbon nano tubes and buckyballs any time soon. Hopefully it doesn't impact my children and the world too badly.
And hopefully carbon tubes and buckyballs will find many greater uses, other than killing or retarding fish.
The only problem is that MSOffice is like using a 18 wheeler to get you around the city when clearly a fuel efficient VW bug will do....heck it even parks easier, just doesn't start up quite as fast.
-hopefully you can get past my complicated analogies and simply see that OO.org is FREE, MSOffice is 3 times more expensive than it needs be.
Needless to say the Office division at MS should be rolling out cheeper, smaller, more educational based versions. Instead they've made one huge clunker of a program and cut off non-essential pieces to sell in 3-4 smaller less "professional" programs.
I could also write a thesis on how MS charges more and more each year for the "business" portions of the program: Access, Powerpoint, and Publisher.....needless to say those parts are quickly becomming outdated, i wouldn't use PowerPoint if someone payed me minimum wage to do so, and i wouldn't touch publisher with a twenty foot pole.
Their MSRP's are horribly high, they cost as much as a small computer in most cases. I would love to own one of their left handed 3D manipulators for use in MAYA.....it gets wierd using a keyboard when my artistic background involves sculpting and pottery. I just see some of those products being worth 400 dollars for a mouse, or even 600-700 in their higher end models. Seems to me they are priced for companies who have money to blow in the wrong places.
"they've changed my perception--why did data storage just get more expensive?"
-and complicated (obviously not for the likes of us, but needless to say the likes of us can figure something less expensive and far more useful out.)
I fail to understand why the industry is trying to decentralize the elements of computers and electronics. At the same time it's still just as easy and less expensive to put it in a computer or share a hard drive on the network.
EVEN plugging an existing external hard drive into a computer with wireless capabilities is probably simpler and cheeper.
Anyone who gets sued by the RIAA through their use of Kazaa, can in very sound theory sue Kazaa for damages. Because Kazaa has failed to protect the privacy of each of these users in each and every case. Again because they are not cooperating with the authorities directly this theory can not be contradicted by the EULA of Kazaa. Kazaa doesn't suddenly release the idents of certain users to whett the RIAA's mouth. They have failed to protect their users from identification and the only way that the RIAA has been able to figure out who is who is through their use of Kazaa and the "criminal's" use of Kazaa.
I do understand how totally useless it is to Sue Kazaa given their past legal/logistical history
I hereby disown myself, and remove myself from any comments I may or may not have made above... have fun with that.
My brilliant physics teacher was booted out of school, after almost 40 years of teaching highschool students, a few years back. He simply told an upstart, bossy, socialite that using her skimpy dress and snobby attitude wouldn't get her far in his class. He told her this in front of the entire class, and everyone nearly agreed with him to the point that she looked silly trying to yell at a man who'd been through Vietnam to teach us PHYSICS....he was forced out of the school, and his retirement taken from him.
i know it's off topic, you don't need to tell me by wasting your mod-points on me
Underclocking-----'nuff said there
Besdies insulating foam and aspestos isn't wood right up there with keeping heat in?
"That second worker points to the appropriate line on the address list, and the PCM operator sees which party to program a ballot for - with the party name never said aloud."
- that's funny the poll workers at the National Guard Armory in El Cajon made it a point to spit my party name "Republican" or as she said "REP!" across the table to another woman who entered that into her workstation.
The two ladies acted like it was insulting to their mouths to have to pass the word through it...launching it with a weighted hatred.
Actually i've yet to make money using rights to my work...just what I provide free of strings to my clients. for a one time charge.
But instead of assuming that my change from lack interest/support of copy rights to a strong stance in support of producers/copyrights is based on my new found production, it should instead be pointed out I came to this realization when I'm still in college throwing money down the public drain.
I'm not simply saying that because producers produce things that they should support copyrights, I'm saying it is childish, and meglothymic for people to download something that they didn't or don't have rights to.
I indeed have uses for the benefits of a RIAA and MPAA free world. I do feel that some things should be shared....such as information and public source. But what i can not condone even if i was a blue collar laborer is the theft of creative reproduction.
Tell me it's not true that what filesharers do is purely the reasoning of their Thymos instead of their MORALS.