Consider having the flu, feeling miserable, not wanting to piss to save your life, not wanting to eat, and not wanting to get in the shower to perk up the spirits.
Well, tho I've been told that showering while having the flu could kill me, I don't give a damn. I just CAN'T be in bed filthy, salty and sticky from sweating my ass off from the flu. I drink water like mad, eat Vietnamese chicken noodle/veggie soup if I can (and not campbells-- that shit makes me even sicker just tasting and not even swallowing it...even in the 60s when I was sick I'd throw up the campbells soup my mome forcefed to me..). And, I make the pissing continue, take zinc, Vitamin C and try not to feel too down. When I do it right, I am over the flu symptoms (the worst of them, at least) in under 3 days WITHOUT TAKING MEDS.
I once had a massive headache, probably like a migraine. I've never to my knowledge had migraines, but about 3 times about 6 months apart I had mind-busting headaches. I though my skull would explode ANY minute. It probably was due to not drinking enough water, eating too much junk food, and having bad enough luck to catch some strain of flu that didn't give flu symptoms. I just wanted to DIE. I couldn't even use the bathroom-- I had no indications or "sensations" to go. I thought I would die. But, I didn't go to the hospital. I suffered thru it and drank water, juices and kept warm and peed out what I could.
Now, think of those shipwrecked people who are about to be rescued. Often they could have been marooned at sea for day. It doesn't HAVE to be hot weather to dehydrate a person. Being in cold water for a few days (especially sea water which generally is (salty and therefore) unfit for human consumption unless crudely but sufficiently filtered).
By the time the rescuers arrive, these poor souls have been struggling to stay afloat, burning up energy, starving, and borderline or fully hallucinogenic to the point that sometimes the Coast Guard rescuers end up being drowned by delirious, flailing, and dangerous victims. Sometimes, the rescuers, recalling prior shipmates or rescuers who drowned, end up having to let the flailing victims succumb to the sea.
Now, for all the coders who sit in a chair all day and munch on candy, chips, pizza, and drink sugar-loaded or "beverages" that have more to do with junk than actual water (coffee, diet drinks, regular soda drinks, power drinks and so on...), be careful. It is necessary to keep that sugar intake low, or at least get plenty of water, walking, exercise, and so on to keep things in balance.
Just recall years ago when the Los Angeles plan to remove soda machines from school campuses sent the soda and sugar drinks industry into piss-hot, venomous backlash. All kinds of anecdotal and measured evidence was there against the selling of soda to kids:
--The kids drank way too many (more than 3 or 4 drinks a day (I alone drank 3 or 4 Dr. Peppers in the 8th grade, in 1979 FOR BREAKFAST and had 2 or 3 accompanying 3 Musketeers...)
--The kids' vision was progressively worsening (in some cases)
--The kids were in some cases hyperactive, inattentive, unhealthy, tired, and exhibited other things
--Kids were spending more money on JUNK FOOD and soda pop and skipping out on (debateably tasty) lunches....
In the end, rather than lose the money and machine locations, the pop sellers put in more water and fruit drinks and such.
But, cutting out natural water for sugar water in the absence of exercise and a balanced diet surely can lead to brain disorders...
(OK, that last sentence definitely is leaving me wide open to attack...hmmm, took about 16 minutues... ummm, minutes to type this out...)
Google is making a proof of concept here. They design an LTPS-like desktop that can be remotely managed. This could appeal to companies or organizations that need to continue using legacy (cheap, good, working, no-need-to-upgrade) hardware.
If Google can pull off a GoogLTSP coup, then they could do sort of what Slashcode does for people wanting to use their own internal user service.
If Google provides web-enabled copies or services of OpenOffice.org and other office tools, then it will be a matter of time for ms to see the writing on the wall and start writhing.
LOOSENING ms hegemonic, emperial grip on the software market, thereby creating and opportunity of release and fresh air for Google AND others to create service-based product or income streams.
Would be quite a relief for MANY innumerable entities I am sure.
I read that and got a headache just LOOKING at all that syntax. I'm a simpleton, relatively speaking. I have used ms access years ago, mostly in the query mode, and after having use Lotus Approach, it was was, to be charitable, quite a damn maddening experience to have even clicked around in access. I was having abscesses on my brain. I cannot even bear to touch ms access, and when I try, I get anxiety attacks. (Yeh, I know there is version 12 or so coming soon, but I am not a programmer; I am a relative simpleton.)
I USED to try to use Borland Paradox v4 & v5 years ago, but that went away when my Paradox-using Beta Programs manager introduced me to Lotus Approach. Approach is, for many, an underwhelming, not-too-powerful (and in my heart and mind, a woefully under-used) "relational" database application.
I am building a screenplay/dialog tracking system in it. I built an assets/inventory app when I was trying to start an Internet Cafe (In 2001/2002, I wrote the plan, filed papers, but never got space or loans, so it was a good exercise in 'rolling my own' database application...), and I wanted every last detail in customized layout. I had many dozends of fields for capturing data.
One thing I cannot stand in Approach is the cobbled-on "Net-It-Now" thingy which is an attempt to make HTML pages. At least that's what I take from it.
I wish IBM would open-source the code they OWN within Approach and let the community use it as a front end to databases. I wish they'd let us make or extend our Approach-based interfaces and expand them. Approach probably doesn't need XML and other stuff, but being able to roll back transactions without some of the convoluted steps necessary would be nice. The Open Source community (with user-experience from myself and other Approach users) could enhance:
-- the Create Joins dialog (make it flexible/collapsible/editable) -- the Import Records so that the destination fields' names could be edited or added to leave the existing fields untouched -- the repeating panels by adding a horizontal slider to the panel -- enable conditional text formatting/coloring -- enable the form letters to have italicized text within the form box -- the user security -- the user experience by allowing a stand-alone executable -- the query view by recording and exporting and saving on a form or a hidden/callable form the queries the user created (not just record them in the power-click/title bar area -- charting tool to make it possible to edit more aspects of the charts, like being able to specifically enlarge one pie chart in a series, but manually shrink an adjacent chart -- charting tool by making it possible to move the charts themselves, not just radio-reposition the ancillary text -- the form view by allowing chart components to be placed on the chart (IMAGINE the query forms showing charting information; yes, I know the reports can be turned into repeating panel reports and that a chart can be embedded on the panel, but it's quite limited...)
and more.
It has been a long time since Approach has seen any awards. It's nice to know it's an "Award-Winning Relational Database Application for Professionals....", but its tragic and almost a travesty to see that in a Lotus Notes environment (where I contract) that Lotus SmartSuite cannot even be introduced to and gain traction here. Lotus Approach on top of Notes, and Lotus Approach and Word Pro would KILL the dizzying xls-pervasion. It's disheartening to see so many spreadsheets being used with all the little cute coloring when the information should be persistent (kept) and used in DATABASES that the end-users can conquer, rather than in damned excel sheets that keep getting butchered and hammered into least-capable-user-understanding. Having excel sheets flurry back and forth is annoying when transactions could be done in the database.
I think I'm going to create myself a book on the Approach-based projects I've done for myself.
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I can go BOOM on the toilet, and still be under control due to steadier sitting.
The last bubble was like hyperinflation of an insidious liquid. This time, it's probably going to be insidious wand-waving to "spread the love".... lots of colors and pretty floaty bubbles. Some people I talk to suggest the next boom will have to be based on REVOlutionary developments, not the same old stuff gone into slightly increased consumption.
What I'D like to see is a laptop that has TWO mobos: one that is X86 architecture and the other that supports a mix of h/w and s/w emulation of the Mac. This would be at the instruction set, memory, and such level. BUT, the peripherals hardware would generic. And, the othe crucial, common things such as the display would be key-switched or switched into by a physical switch on the laptop.
I would think that miniaturization could take care of about 60% of this problem. Then, no need for dual booting. With 500 MB or 1GB of RAM for each OS, and say 16MB to 64 MB, it would be possible for devs and gamers to do a lot more than be limited to hot-swapping.
I was operating under the assumption that the bsa might come after companies that are found to be using multiple copies of the software, and during the audit, there will be found to be a 1:1 relationship between software boxes and computers.
But, some software companies might ignore small, single users but think that they can "go after" companies because there's more money to be made there. So, under that theory, a company which is not interested in saving $$ on multi-copy reductions, but instead thinks it can operate "fairly anonymously". Or, let's say it's an association or practice where many individuals use their own copy (in a mixed home/practice environment, but they never share their laptops' images and don't permit remote multi-user connections...)
Now, this is where I'm hazy. Does the bsa try to hammer or ring up companies for $$$ when the company or association of users say "To heck with bothering with licenses; I'll just buy it at XYZ store and install it."?
Is licensing more than about offering discounts and instead more about tracking for marketshare and trying to entice users to be entrapped and unable to migrate? Then, if such users be 'contemptable' by not "falling for it", does the bsa and the software company try to ring them up.
(And, OK, let's assume I'm just trying to be a non-conformist by not pleasing the software company, but I at least don't use pirated copies, and I don't mind wasting $40 to $100...)
Probably by SAVING some of it. Far too many of us have been raised to "part with our wallets" in that by consume far too much. Some will argue that our rampant consumption is a GOOD THING, since it creates jobs.
Well, at some point, the status quo will buckle when people either can't or WON'T succumb to buying little knick-knacks, snacks and bs they can live with out. Sure, it'll damage the economy and possibly get the economists seething and out for blood, but an individual's FIRST duty is to survive, not buy trinkets and junk just to please the kids or some theme park. If they go under, their product wasn't so critical after all.
If you're WEALTHY, not much of what I have to say will impress you-- might quite actually incense you. But, the wealth possessed by MANY directly comes off the backs of consumers who pay for markups that while theoretically "what the market will bear" amount to greed, or misplaced public perception that two items A & B are differentiated more by sticker price than other considerations, aside from obvious defects in workmanship or immediate utility.
Discovering reality can be "cute", but can also be demoralizing. At some point, those Weekly Reader pages of the 70's will become more true when even MORE employees decide to do SOMETHING to be less dependent upon traditional employment. Less beholden to employers. Well, until population growth displaces those unwilling to be "trapped" by traditional employer practices.
Problem is, not many of us can come up with extraordinary, MUST-HAVE, instant-riches products, so we gradually slide back into regular jobs, only to be hit by endless spam about winning international lotteries, offers from MLMs, and the usual tribal war survivor seeking a foreigner with a bank account...
(This isn't FLAMEBAIT... this is a pointed, scathing wakeup!)
and arrogant. In that "winning the cold war" was included a large dose of LUCK, and a number of mis-steps by other countries along the way. Also, a LOT of thievery and counter-counter-espionage on both sides, too.
And, I guess our tax dollars righteously went to training, arming, and then DUMPING insurgents who then got slaughtered by their governments when the US back out when the political winds changed. I am SURE you're smart enough to know of various cartels, juntas and more that got TOWs, Stingers, LAWs, Claymores and MORE, only to turn on the very entity that once pumped them up and left them deflated. Now when crap comes home to roost, patriotism, not a clean-up job, are the watch-word of the day... Short-term memory effect can be a bitch, especially when the rest of the world will KILL us if they could get away with it, but in the meantime take the fruits of tech, money, and entertainment. Myopia will be our undoing. Ah, but, well, NOOOO 'merkun presidential candidate ever runs on the promise making 'meriku Number Two.
As for evil dictators who "used chemical weapons on" their "own people". Point out where in THIS country such things haven't been done to minorities and Natives! The most "enlightened, technologically-advanced country on the planet" (however militarily "restrained") and we have still to get through institutionalized marketing racism, mistreatment or neglect of veterans, corrupt police departments (not all, but enough of them), companies that place donations in the "necessary evil" department, tainted water supplies, inner-city blight, side-walk pissers, misplaced national and international policies.... Yeh, we work hard at stressing the hell out of the very populace that is paying taxes and are so worn out we neglect to reign in STUPID policy makers and their related peripheral brethren.
No matter WHICH country you hail from, I believe in your right to sink ANY sub that is tapping your cables. If you choose not to sink it, then at least force it to surface-- then film it and demand the surrender of the crew under every legal trick in the books. If the ship/boat/sub STILL refuses, then mortar it until it's out of your water.
Sheesh. The world is FAR bigger than and FAR more important than JUST the good 'ole US of A. It's only a matter of time before things come back full-circle. As just ONE example: China, a few hundred years ago, COULD have been in charge of this land if hegemony rather than tribute system had been their goal. And, don't spout bullshit about "if we woulda lost da wor we'da been speekin' (pick a language)". It would have been a MOOT POINT in many cases, had a LOT of luck not just brute-tech-knowhow had not fallen into the US' lap. Go back and read your history books, not the crap spewed out by the govt marketing machine.
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Introducing "Gargle" and "Googerine". We're better than Yahoo! and Google. We take in your request, we rinse, and then regurgitate it back to you. It's probably going to have some garbage, but it'll be a lot cleaner with less "data plaque"...
When I buy a boxed/retail set of software, and I buy a one-for-one matching to the hardware, why do I further need to obtain a license?
Let's suppose I (for sake of argument, but I don't foresee a need for me to) buy 15 expensive, legit retail copies of ms office to run them in (a legit copy of) VMWare or Win4Lin, which would run on Mandriva (or, pick your distro if this scenario can apply to you).
Now, suppose either ms or their henchmen/women at the bsa get wind and they want to shake me down. Can they? Can they tell or compel me to order up copies of licenses? Or, is the licensing just to get me discounts, cause me to be registered in their marketing and support databases...?
But, for larger companies that purchase large volumes of desktops and laptops... why aren't they already legitimately registered to ms or whomever that this/that product ID/serial number went to company a/b/c...? If the end-user dumps their license or loses it, then a software vendor with honesty and integrity will have less impetus to harangue a company in the name of shaking the dollar tree.
But, if I choose to deploy large numbers of legit copies of software via a large contract, and I don't call in for licensing and don't register the stuff, but I keep my invoices, product serials, what is licensing for?
So, I'll ask again, as a non-designer, WHAT happened to the "chip simulators"? Are they so fallible or so under-used that even more than FIVE bugs make it into the alpha/beta chip/dies? Is the software failing at measuring heat/energy dissipation, FLOPS, and so on?
What's the explanation, besides, "Well, it's a huge complexity..."?
What wast the (newsworthy or not) bug per CPU per release count BEFORE switching to Intel? What happened to all that new-fangled "chip simulation" stuff? Seems if this erratta is not just typos and such, then the SIMulation needs some STIMulation to be more useful.
I wonder if AppTel did a "test design" before the Apple side of the house went to market. As for "finding the bugs faster", I am wondering if Apple found them and told Intel, "fixem or we go back to IBM, even if IBM charges more money to come back-but you can be sure we won't pay YOU over flaws we specced to be avoided...", assuming Apple could foresee and document what to avoid.
As for Intel being "more honest", heck, I am willing to assume Apple has a better branding position than Intel, and Apple is not going to stand for Intel using it's mammoth inventory and factory count to roll over people. Any heavy computer user-- particularly Mac users who make money by USING their computers in small businesses-- will not tolerate Intel chips if things don't turn around.
And, finally, I imagine Jobs will do a war-dance job in Intel if they think ONE bug fix is all that's required or if they think they can get away with fixing only ONE bug. But, if they are firm on fixing only ONE "BUG", then maybe they have refunds, refurbs, exchanges, chip-swaps... and/or a new chip in the pipeline...
I didn't read the FA, but how will they ensure it's ONLY MUSIC being uploaded? Do they have some algorithm running to sample the files? How do they encrypt the music or tag it with a token to ensure that YOU and ONLY YOU, the "storer/licensee" of the music tracks aren't going to get Oboe to blow their own oboe like a hobo on the sidewalk?
They'd better cover their butts nicely to keep the riaa and the others from strokin' too close to them, salivating, waiting to bust into uploaders and downloaders. They'd better REALLY careful if they don't want riaa to rip that oboe of their hands and ram it where it won't play too well.
Anyway, with all that horrific hardware-mapping code ms was uses to prevent users from moving 'their' windoze OS from hardware to hardware (or, to keep it from running on extensively upgraded systems), maybe Oboe should do something similar, except make the token map the device (assuming some sort of logic or board code is identifiable in the device), place tokens on the device and in the file, and then let at least give the appearance and some attempt to keep the files from being wildly deployed.
The other side of the swrod, umm, sword tho, is that the riaa could sue for the "tokens" and then try to plant them across media routers to track the users and nail them where ever they go...
(NO, I haven't read Catcher in the Rye since 1983 or so...AND for this post, I selected "No Karma Bonus"...)
You'd end up with FrankenTop, hucking and bucking on the table... A laptop one electrode short. You might damage your laptop, too.
But, for those who are into pr0table Pr0n, I've got some regenerative gripping pads that you can frantically rub while you discharge your shorting probe. You just have to stroke the laptop a bit faster so you can keep up the differential to the battery recharge circuit. Just make sure you don't short-circuit your laptop in the process. No warranties provided. Order in the NEXT FIVE MINUTES to get your FREE re-purposed dental dams to to to to enhance protection of your laptop display.
And, if you act NOW, we'll even show you how to convert your member into a Tesla coil so you and Frankentop can GET IT ONNN!!! Listen to Al Green whyle u go GANGreen... If you follow our instructions, your static discharges may come so exceed those of the Flies Erectr0nix in Fremont, CA store. With our coil, you can REALLy blast your caps, all three of them... Get our customized jzzzhhh... jzzzhhh... jzzzhhhhh... jzzzzhhhhzzzzzh ring tones for 1/2 off and get a free defibulator, too.
And, if you REALLY act now, we'll send you the Sizzler Amplifier and a pair of pink earmuffs and accessorized mickey-mouse-ears with rifles painted on the left and a bazooka on the right ear.
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Consider having the flu, feeling miserable, not wanting to piss to save your life, not wanting to eat, and not wanting to get in the shower to perk up the spirits.
Well, tho I've been told that showering while having the flu could kill me, I don't give a damn. I just CAN'T be in bed filthy, salty and sticky from sweating my ass off from the flu. I drink water like mad, eat Vietnamese chicken noodle/veggie soup if I can (and not campbells-- that shit makes me even sicker just tasting and not even swallowing it...even in the 60s when I was sick I'd throw up the campbells soup my mome forcefed to me..). And, I make the pissing continue, take zinc, Vitamin C and try not to feel too down. When I do it right, I am over the flu symptoms (the worst of them, at least) in under 3 days WITHOUT TAKING MEDS.
I once had a massive headache, probably like a migraine. I've never to my knowledge had migraines, but about 3 times about 6 months apart I had mind-busting headaches. I though my skull would explode ANY minute. It probably was due to not drinking enough water, eating too much junk food, and having bad enough luck to catch some strain of flu that didn't give flu symptoms. I just wanted to DIE. I couldn't even use the bathroom-- I had no indications or "sensations" to go. I thought I would die. But, I didn't go to the hospital. I suffered thru it and drank water, juices and kept warm and peed out what I could.
Now, think of those shipwrecked people who are about to be rescued. Often they could have been marooned at sea for day. It doesn't HAVE to be hot weather to dehydrate a person. Being in cold water for a few days (especially sea water which generally is (salty and therefore) unfit for human consumption unless crudely but sufficiently filtered).
By the time the rescuers arrive, these poor souls have been struggling to stay afloat, burning up energy, starving, and borderline or fully hallucinogenic to the point that sometimes the Coast Guard rescuers end up being drowned by delirious, flailing, and dangerous victims. Sometimes, the rescuers, recalling prior shipmates or rescuers who drowned, end up having to let the flailing victims succumb to the sea.
Now, for all the coders who sit in a chair all day and munch on candy, chips, pizza, and drink sugar-loaded or "beverages" that have more to do with junk than actual water (coffee, diet drinks, regular soda drinks, power drinks and so on...), be careful. It is necessary to keep that sugar intake low, or at least get plenty of water, walking, exercise, and so on to keep things in balance.
Just recall years ago when the Los Angeles plan to remove soda machines from school campuses sent the soda and sugar drinks industry into piss-hot, venomous backlash. All kinds of anecdotal and measured evidence was there against the selling of soda to kids:
--The kids drank way too many (more than 3 or 4 drinks a day (I alone drank 3 or 4 Dr. Peppers in the 8th grade, in 1979 FOR BREAKFAST and had 2 or 3 accompanying 3 Musketeers...)
--The kids' vision was progressively worsening (in some cases)
--The kids were in some cases hyperactive, inattentive, unhealthy, tired, and exhibited other things
--Kids were spending more money on JUNK FOOD and soda pop and skipping out on (debateably tasty) lunches....
In the end, rather than lose the money and machine locations, the pop sellers put in more water and fruit drinks and such.
But, cutting out natural water for sugar water in the absence of exercise and a balanced diet surely can lead to brain disorders...
(OK, that last sentence definitely is leaving me wide open to attack...hmmm, took about 16 minutues... ummm, minutes to type this out...)
Maybe they should call it "Banshee", and let the name survive release. It indeed would be a hell ride for mshaft...
Google is making a proof of concept here. They design an LTPS-like desktop that can be remotely managed. This could appeal to companies or organizations that need to continue using legacy (cheap, good, working, no-need-to-upgrade) hardware.
If Google can pull off a GoogLTSP coup, then they could do sort of what Slashcode does for people wanting to use their own internal user service.
If Google provides web-enabled copies or services of OpenOffice.org and other office tools, then it will be a matter of time for ms to see the writing on the wall and start writhing.
LOOSENING ms hegemonic, emperial grip on the software market, thereby creating and opportunity of release and fresh air for Google AND others to create service-based product or income streams.
Would be quite a relief for MANY innumerable entities I am sure.
I read that and got a headache just LOOKING at all that syntax. I'm a simpleton, relatively speaking. I have used ms access years ago, mostly in the query mode, and after having use Lotus Approach, it was was, to be charitable, quite a damn maddening experience to have even clicked around in access. I was having abscesses on my brain. I cannot even bear to touch ms access, and when I try, I get anxiety attacks. (Yeh, I know there is version 12 or so coming soon, but I am not a programmer; I am a relative simpleton.)
I USED to try to use Borland Paradox v4 & v5 years ago, but that went away when my Paradox-using Beta Programs manager introduced me to Lotus Approach. Approach is, for many, an underwhelming, not-too-powerful (and in my heart and mind, a woefully under-used) "relational" database application.
I am building a screenplay/dialog tracking system in it. I built an assets/inventory app when I was trying to start an Internet Cafe (In 2001/2002, I wrote the plan, filed papers, but never got space or loans, so it was a good exercise in 'rolling my own' database application...), and I wanted every last detail in customized layout. I had many dozends of fields for capturing data.
One thing I cannot stand in Approach is the cobbled-on "Net-It-Now" thingy which is an attempt to make HTML pages. At least that's what I take from it.
I wish IBM would open-source the code they OWN within Approach and let the community use it as a front end to databases. I wish they'd let us make or extend our Approach-based interfaces and expand them. Approach probably doesn't need XML and other stuff, but being able to roll back transactions without some of the convoluted steps necessary would be nice. The Open Source community (with user-experience from myself and other Approach users) could enhance:
-- the Create Joins dialog (make it flexible/collapsible/editable)
-- the Import Records so that the destination fields' names could be edited or added to leave the existing fields untouched
-- the repeating panels by adding a horizontal slider to the panel
-- enable conditional text formatting/coloring
-- enable the form letters to have italicized text within the form box
-- the user security
-- the user experience by allowing a stand-alone executable
-- the query view by recording and exporting and saving on a form or a hidden/callable form the queries the user created (not just record them in the power-click/title bar area
-- charting tool to make it possible to edit more aspects of the charts, like being able to specifically enlarge one pie chart in a series, but manually shrink an adjacent chart
-- charting tool by making it possible to move the charts themselves, not just radio-reposition the ancillary text
-- the form view by allowing chart components to be placed on the chart (IMAGINE the query forms showing charting information; yes, I know the reports can be turned into repeating panel reports and that a chart can be embedded on the panel, but it's quite limited...)
and more.
It has been a long time since Approach has seen any awards. It's nice to know it's an "Award-Winning Relational Database Application for Professionals....", but its tragic and almost a travesty to see that in a Lotus Notes environment (where I contract) that Lotus SmartSuite cannot even be introduced to and gain traction here. Lotus Approach on top of Notes, and Lotus Approach and Word Pro would KILL the dizzying xls-pervasion. It's disheartening to see so many spreadsheets being used with all the little cute coloring when the information should be persistent (kept) and used in DATABASES that the end-users can conquer, rather than in damned excel sheets that keep getting butchered and hammered into least-capable-user-understanding. Having excel sheets flurry back and forth is annoying when transactions could be done in the database.
I think I'm going to create myself a book on the Approach-based projects I've done for myself.
-- Screenplay
-- Trouble-ticket
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It could just be a coalescing, muliti-colored, creeping, effervescent OOZE..
(image word: incense...)
I can go BOOM on the toilet, and still be under control due to steadier sitting.
The last bubble was like hyperinflation of an insidious liquid. This time, it's probably going to be insidious wand-waving to "spread the love".... lots of colors and pretty floaty bubbles. Some people I talk to suggest the next boom will have to be based on REVOlutionary developments, not the same old stuff gone into slightly increased consumption.
What I'D like to see is a laptop that has TWO mobos: one that is X86 architecture and the other that supports a mix of h/w and s/w emulation of the Mac. This would be at the instruction set, memory, and such level. BUT, the peripherals hardware would generic. And, the othe crucial, common things such as the display would be key-switched or switched into by a physical switch on the laptop.
I would think that miniaturization could take care of about 60% of this problem. Then, no need for dual booting. With 500 MB or 1GB of RAM for each OS, and say 16MB to 64 MB, it would be possible for devs and gamers to do a lot more than be limited to hot-swapping.
I was operating under the assumption that the bsa might come after companies that are found to be using multiple copies of the software, and during the audit, there will be found to be a 1:1 relationship between software boxes and computers.
But, some software companies might ignore small, single users but think that they can "go after" companies because there's more money to be made there. So, under that theory, a company which is not interested in saving $$ on multi-copy reductions, but instead thinks it can operate "fairly anonymously". Or, let's say it's an association or practice where many individuals use their own copy (in a mixed home/practice environment, but they never share their laptops' images and don't permit remote multi-user connections...)
Now, this is where I'm hazy. Does the bsa try to hammer or ring up companies for $$$ when the company or association of users say "To heck with bothering with licenses; I'll just buy it at XYZ store and install it."?
Is licensing more than about offering discounts and instead more about tracking for marketshare and trying to entice users to be entrapped and unable to migrate? Then, if such users be 'contemptable' by not "falling for it", does the bsa and the software company try to ring them up.
(And, OK, let's assume I'm just trying to be a non-conformist by not pleasing the software company, but I at least don't use pirated copies, and I don't mind wasting $40 to $100...)
Ahh, in the grand scheme of things.... such SMALL minds....
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Probably by SAVING some of it. Far too many of us have been raised to "part with our wallets" in that by consume far too much. Some will argue that our rampant consumption is a GOOD THING, since it creates jobs.
Well, at some point, the status quo will buckle when people either can't or WON'T succumb to buying little knick-knacks, snacks and bs they can live with out. Sure, it'll damage the economy and possibly get the economists seething and out for blood, but an individual's FIRST duty is to survive, not buy trinkets and junk just to please the kids or some theme park. If they go under, their product wasn't so critical after all.
If you're WEALTHY, not much of what I have to say will impress you-- might quite actually incense you. But, the wealth possessed by MANY directly comes off the backs of consumers who pay for markups that while theoretically "what the market will bear" amount to greed, or misplaced public perception that two items A & B are differentiated more by sticker price than other considerations, aside from obvious defects in workmanship or immediate utility.
Discovering reality can be "cute", but can also be demoralizing. At some point, those Weekly Reader pages of the 70's will become more true when even MORE employees decide to do SOMETHING to be less dependent upon traditional employment. Less beholden to employers. Well, until population growth displaces those unwilling to be "trapped" by traditional employer practices.
Problem is, not many of us can come up with extraordinary, MUST-HAVE, instant-riches products, so we gradually slide back into regular jobs, only to be hit by endless spam about winning international lotteries, offers from MLMs, and the usual tribal war survivor seeking a foreigner with a bank account...
Maybe sparkle will fizzle and will be a flash in the pan...
We DON'T need no STINKIN' Closed Standars-based tools.
(This isn't FLAMEBAIT... this is a pointed, scathing wakeup!)
and arrogant. In that "winning the cold war" was included a large dose of LUCK, and a number of mis-steps by other countries along the way. Also, a LOT of thievery and counter-counter-espionage on both sides, too.
And, I guess our tax dollars righteously went to training, arming, and then DUMPING insurgents who then got slaughtered by their governments when the US back out when the political winds changed. I am SURE you're smart enough to know of various cartels, juntas and more that got TOWs, Stingers, LAWs, Claymores and MORE, only to turn on the very entity that once pumped them up and left them deflated. Now when crap comes home to roost, patriotism, not a clean-up job, are the watch-word of the day... Short-term memory effect can be a bitch, especially when the rest of the world will KILL us if they could get away with it, but in the meantime take the fruits of tech, money, and entertainment. Myopia will be our undoing. Ah, but, well, NOOOO 'merkun presidential candidate ever runs on the promise making 'meriku Number Two.
As for evil dictators who "used chemical weapons on" their "own people". Point out where in THIS country such things haven't been done to minorities and Natives! The most "enlightened, technologically-advanced country on the planet" (however militarily "restrained") and we have still to get through institutionalized marketing racism, mistreatment or neglect of veterans, corrupt police departments (not all, but enough of them), companies that place donations in the "necessary evil" department, tainted water supplies, inner-city blight, side-walk pissers, misplaced national and international policies.... Yeh, we work hard at stressing the hell out of the very populace that is paying taxes and are so worn out we neglect to reign in STUPID policy makers and their related peripheral brethren.
No matter WHICH country you hail from, I believe in your right to sink ANY sub that is tapping your cables. If you choose not to sink it, then at least force it to surface-- then film it and demand the surrender of the crew under every legal trick in the books. If the ship/boat/sub STILL refuses, then mortar it until it's out of your water.
Sheesh. The world is FAR bigger than and FAR more important than JUST the good 'ole US of A. It's only a matter of time before things come back full-circle. As just ONE example: China, a few hundred years ago, COULD have been in charge of this land if hegemony rather than tribute system had been their goal. And, don't spout bullshit about "if we woulda lost da wor we'da been speekin' (pick a language)". It would have been a MOOT POINT in many cases, had a LOT of luck not just brute-tech-knowhow had not fallen into the US' lap. Go back and read your history books, not the crap spewed out by the govt marketing machine.
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Flags and territorialism are incompatible with legitimate higher causes...
Thanks, Be-Fan.
I appreciate and like your response. Actually, it exercised my brain to other ideas.
Thanks.
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I'm hazy on this...Someone please remind me...
When I buy a boxed/retail set of software, and I buy a one-for-one matching to the hardware, why do I further need to obtain a license?
Let's suppose I (for sake of argument, but I don't foresee a need for me to) buy 15 expensive, legit retail copies of ms office to run them in (a legit copy of) VMWare or Win4Lin, which would run on Mandriva (or, pick your distro if this scenario can apply to you).
Now, suppose either ms or their henchmen/women at the bsa get wind and they want to shake me down. Can they? Can they tell or compel me to order up copies of licenses? Or, is the licensing just to get me discounts, cause me to be registered in their marketing and support databases...?
But, for larger companies that purchase large volumes of desktops and laptops... why aren't they already legitimately registered to ms or whomever that this/that product ID/serial number went to company a/b/c...? If the end-user dumps their license or loses it, then a software vendor with honesty and integrity will have less impetus to harangue a company in the name of shaking the dollar tree.
But, if I choose to deploy large numbers of legit copies of software via a large contract, and I don't call in for licensing and don't register the stuff, but I keep my invoices, product serials, what is licensing for?
But, what happened between the intersection of the HR/marketing domain and the Quality Domain. QA obviously needs:
1- heads rolling
2- headcount increased
3- better software
4- better hadrware/software domain intersection
No, they have it "brickwards"...
But, yeh, now your laptop can experience compulsory kamasalila and saspanda.... (Yeh, these two words are in the realm of Kama Sutra...)
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Well, in the bigger scheme of things, these could be "bricklets"...
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So, I'll ask again, as a non-designer, WHAT happened to the "chip simulators"? Are they so fallible or so under-used that even more than FIVE bugs make it into the alpha/beta chip/dies? Is the software failing at measuring heat/energy dissipation, FLOPS, and so on?
What's the explanation, besides, "Well, it's a huge complexity..."?
Hmmmm....
What wast the (newsworthy or not) bug per CPU per release count BEFORE switching to Intel? What happened to all that new-fangled "chip simulation" stuff? Seems if this erratta is not just typos and such, then the SIMulation needs some STIMulation to be more useful.
I wonder if AppTel did a "test design" before the Apple side of the house went to market. As for "finding the bugs faster", I am wondering if Apple found them and told Intel, "fixem or we go back to IBM, even if IBM charges more money to come back-but you can be sure we won't pay YOU over flaws we specced to be avoided...", assuming Apple could foresee and document what to avoid.
As for Intel being "more honest", heck, I am willing to assume Apple has a better branding position than Intel, and Apple is not going to stand for Intel using it's mammoth inventory and factory count to roll over people. Any heavy computer user-- particularly Mac users who make money by USING their computers in small businesses-- will not tolerate Intel chips if things don't turn around.
And, finally, I imagine Jobs will do a war-dance job in Intel if they think ONE bug fix is all that's required or if they think they can get away with fixing only ONE bug. But, if they are firm on fixing only ONE "BUG", then maybe they have refunds, refurbs, exchanges, chip-swaps... and/or a new chip in the pipeline...
I didn't read the FA, but how will they ensure it's ONLY MUSIC being uploaded? Do they have some algorithm running to sample the files? How do they encrypt the music or tag it with a token to ensure that YOU and ONLY YOU, the "storer/licensee" of the music tracks aren't going to get Oboe to blow their own oboe like a hobo on the sidewalk?
They'd better cover their butts nicely to keep the riaa and the others from strokin' too close to them, salivating, waiting to bust into uploaders and downloaders. They'd better REALLY careful if they don't want riaa to rip that oboe of their hands and ram it where it won't play too well.
Anyway, with all that horrific hardware-mapping code ms was uses to prevent users from moving 'their' windoze OS from hardware to hardware (or, to keep it from running on extensively upgraded systems), maybe Oboe should do something similar, except make the token map the device (assuming some sort of logic or board code is identifiable in the device), place tokens on the device and in the file, and then let at least give the appearance and some attempt to keep the files from being wildly deployed.
The other side of the swrod, umm, sword tho, is that the riaa could sue for the "tokens" and then try to plant them across media routers to track the users and nail them where ever they go...
(NO, I haven't read Catcher in the Rye since 1983 or so...AND for this post, I selected "No Karma Bonus"...)
You'd end up with FrankenTop, hucking and bucking on the table... A laptop one electrode short. You might damage your laptop, too.
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Pandora with an OBOE in her box...
I wonder how much of Evan Brown's (unixguru) brain Alcatel is bringing or helping being brought to that O/S table...
Please, don't slash unixguru's site; instead, visit alcatel for any apologies they MAY have posted about him....