Some Sony engineer saw that episode, "The Human Factor" where Sally Kellerman switches minds with Harry Guardino using just this sort of kit, and decided to patent it.
Imagine what that guy will patent when the original Star Trek is shown in Japan!
... is to fight the threat *of* privacy to this nation, not the threat *to* privacy. As anyone from Gator will tell you, privacy is a threat to the very foundation of this country (i.e., making a profit). The very idea of privacy is subversive at best, and traitorous at worst.
The problem with Orwell (mentioned in this thread before) is that he didn't have the vision to see that technological surveilence would develop to the point of subtlety that it has today. You don't need cameras everywhere to track your every move, as in his book 1984. There are better ways.
Add this to the doublethink slogans from 1984: "Privacy is Terrorism"
Frankly, I think the Longhorn eye candy is pathetic, compared to what is available today from Stardock for Windows XP, 2000, and even 98/ME. Of course, *anything* is better than XP's default Fisher-Price interface.
The other big feature of Longhorn, File Searching, doesn't interest me, either. I'm smart enough to put my files in their place, so I don't have to go searching for them. It's my machine, after all, and if I put things in random places, I have no one to blame but myself.
All I'll get with Longhorn is the need to re-purchase all my programs and utilities because the ones I'm happy with right now on XP won't work. Not to mention the fact that you'll need a workstation-class machine (3 Ghz Pentium with a half-gig of memory? Sheesh!) to even run the thing!
And to top it all off, Microsoft wants to give the local machine the same Swiss Cheese security model that IE gives the Internet. Oh, joy! I can't wait.
One of the main causes of security problems in Windows is the ease in which Windows programs can interact with the operating system and each other on a low-level without the interference of proper security restrictions. Nothing about this "new" communications system leads me to believe it will be any different.
Windows will never be secure until and unless Microsoft changes its design philosophy to something a little more paranoid, and a lot less "let's all be friends".
Not that anyone cares anymore, but IIRC, the C64's joystick port was right next to the power switch, and that port, naturally, went right into the motherboard (as did the cartridge thing in the back). All it took was one touch of a static-laden finger while hitting the power switch, and bye-bye. I used to stick the plug from an old Atari 2600 joystick in the port to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
A comment I saw once in the source code for the C64's operating system: "Commodore engineers: designers of the finest semi-functional devices in the world". Ya gotta love it!
Everytime someone calls copyright infringement "stealing", all the 10-year-old Sea Lawyers come out of the woodwork. "But Mommy, I didn't really take anything, honest!"
Bah! Call it what you want, but you cannot justify immoral behavior by twisting words around your middle finger. If you're going to do this sort of thing, at least you can be honest about what it makes you, and don't complain when you get caught.
There is no privacy on the internet. Everything you do can and will be tracked by someone, somewhere. It makes Orwell look like a piker, doesn't it?
As an acredited member of the Royal Academy of Whatchamacalit, I object to your public insults against me and my robed fellows. Now, if you were referring to the Royal Academy of Doohickey I would concur, for they are indeed a bunch of pontificating rabble.
I remain, Sir Johnathan Gregory Pinchwith-Smythe Assistant Chief Pontificator Royal Academy of Whatchamacalit
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I can record two programs at once on my Direct-TV Tivo box, and it costs about $5 a month for the Tivo service.
And the Season Pass (automatically record new episodes of a show, no matter when they're broadcast)is a must-have feature.
As for saving a TV show, I have yet to see anything on television worth watching a second time. A few are even questionable the first time.
You have a huge supply of almost-free energy, a better vacuum than we can make here on earth, a very low gravity, and no environmental regulations.
The Moon might be a great place to build manufacturing plants for all sorts of energy-hungry and/or hazardous processes. The only thing you need ship back to Earth is the end product (high-profit-per-pound goods).
And, if something goes explosively wrong, we can always send in John Koenig to take care of it!
Or am I the only person in the world who knows just where I put everything on my computer? You come up with an organized system, and follow it. It's not Rocket Science -- it's more like Computer Science.
Those Colleges and Universities that haven't agreed to pay tribute to the RIAA by forcing all students to participate in things like the new Napster (participate = include the fee in the student's tuition) will be "strongly urged" to do so at the point of the RIAA's legal gun.
Oh, well, at least it's a good education in the way the outside world "works".
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...Microsoft should be able to reach into everyone's hard drives and delete the offensive images, right?
Some Sony engineer saw that episode, "The Human Factor" where Sally Kellerman switches minds with Harry Guardino using just this sort of kit, and decided to patent it.
Imagine what that guy will patent when the original Star Trek is shown in Japan!
... is to fight the threat *of* privacy to this nation, not the threat *to* privacy. As anyone from Gator will tell you, privacy is a threat to the very foundation of this country (i.e., making a profit). The very idea of privacy is subversive at best, and traitorous at worst.
The problem with Orwell (mentioned in this thread before) is that he didn't have the vision to see that technological surveilence would develop to the point of subtlety that it has today. You don't need cameras everywhere to track your every move, as in his book 1984. There are better ways.
Add this to the doublethink slogans from 1984: "Privacy is Terrorism"
That would simplify the whole thing.
...will be in the next version (with appologies to Dilbert).
Frankly, I think the Longhorn eye candy is pathetic, compared to what is available today from Stardock for Windows XP, 2000, and even 98/ME. Of course, *anything* is better than XP's default Fisher-Price interface.
The other big feature of Longhorn, File Searching, doesn't interest me, either. I'm smart enough to put my files in their place, so I don't have to go searching for them. It's my machine, after all, and if I put things in random places, I have no one to blame but myself.
All I'll get with Longhorn is the need to re-purchase all my programs and utilities because the ones I'm happy with right now on XP won't work. Not to mention the fact that you'll need a workstation-class machine (3 Ghz Pentium with a half-gig of memory? Sheesh!) to even run the thing!
And to top it all off, Microsoft wants to give the local machine the same Swiss Cheese security model that IE gives the Internet. Oh, joy! I can't wait.
It would be funny if aliens considered reruns of I Love Lucy and the Honeymooners as pr0n, don't you think?
If that's the case, we'll only hear from them if we stop broadcasting the shows!
One of the main causes of security problems in Windows is the ease in which Windows programs can interact with the operating system and each other on a low-level without the interference of proper security restrictions. Nothing about this "new" communications system leads me to believe it will be any different.
Windows will never be secure until and unless Microsoft changes its design philosophy to something a little more paranoid, and a lot less "let's all be friends".
Umm...I don't get it. I usually have to pay for my beer. I mustn't go to the right bars.
is how I connect it to my VIC-20!
...so I wouldn't know about Sprite.
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So, what's the big deal?
Not that anyone cares anymore, but IIRC, the C64's joystick port was right next to the power switch, and that port, naturally, went right into the motherboard (as did the cartridge thing in the back). All it took was one touch of a static-laden finger while hitting the power switch, and bye-bye. I used to stick the plug from an old Atari 2600 joystick in the port to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
A comment I saw once in the source code for the C64's operating system: "Commodore engineers: designers of the finest semi-functional devices in the world". Ya gotta love it!
Everytime someone calls copyright infringement "stealing", all the 10-year-old Sea Lawyers come out of the woodwork. "But Mommy, I didn't really take anything, honest!"
Bah! Call it what you want, but you cannot justify immoral behavior by twisting words around your middle finger. If you're going to do this sort of thing, at least you can be honest about what it makes you, and don't complain when you get caught.
There is no privacy on the internet. Everything you do can and will be tracked by someone, somewhere. It makes Orwell look like a piker, doesn't it?
Microsoft has reserved this name for the Longhorn release.
As an acredited member of the Royal Academy of Whatchamacalit, I object to your public insults against me and my robed fellows. Now, if you were referring to the Royal Academy of Doohickey I would concur, for they are indeed a bunch of pontificating rabble.
I remain,
Sir Johnathan Gregory Pinchwith-Smythe
Assistant Chief Pontificator
Royal Academy of Whatchamacalit
I can record two programs at once on my Direct-TV Tivo box, and it costs about $5 a month for the Tivo service.
And the Season Pass (automatically record new episodes of a show, no matter when they're broadcast)is a must-have feature.
As for saving a TV show, I have yet to see anything on television worth watching a second time. A few are even questionable the first time.
...ever since Disco died! (Honey, where'd you put my white polyester suit and gold chains?)
...We'll strip-mine the other planets later.
You have a huge supply of almost-free energy, a better vacuum than we can make here on earth, a very low gravity, and no environmental regulations.
The Moon might be a great place to build manufacturing plants for all sorts of energy-hungry and/or hazardous processes. The only thing you need ship back to Earth is the end product (high-profit-per-pound goods).
And, if something goes explosively wrong, we can always send in John Koenig to take care of it!
An hour later they get the urge to sue another one.
Will be a virtual actor!
(insert insulting reference to your favorite politician here)
Or am I the only person in the world who knows just where I put everything on my computer? You come up with an organized system, and follow it. It's not Rocket Science -- it's more like Computer Science.
Those Colleges and Universities that haven't agreed to pay tribute to the RIAA by forcing all students to participate in things like the new Napster (participate = include the fee in the student's tuition) will be "strongly urged" to do so at the point of the RIAA's legal gun.
Oh, well, at least it's a good education in the way the outside world "works".