How do we, as consumers fucked into taking vista, start (or join?) a class action lawsuit to be granted a permanent, authentic copy of XP, as a bridge to wait and see what becomes of the next windows version?
I am SICK of seeing windows vista take 1.5 GB of my VirtualBox resources and run slower than dog-guana at times. Mandriva Linux 2008 on the machine (hosting VBox) runs faster, and that is in ~ 350 MB. I want to NOT have to go to ms site at all. I am NOT going to connect my laptop to them to get an update to vista. I rarely directly put it (the laptop) on a live network.
Why do consumers have to fight tooth and nail to get XP on a machine that is not fully up to the task but was marketed as being up to the task? KDE without Compiz/et al is far ahead of windows' Aero.
I'm venting, yes, and yes, *vista does work*, but i'd like that much RAM taken from windows and used by my CAD app (ViaCAD). As much as i can't stand ms, i'm almost ready to willingly pay $170 for XP if i can ever get the cash together. Vista should be rebuked, excoriated, repudiated, and FAST.
Well, I think IBM should open up the Lotus SmartSuite patents list to review so that end users such as myself can feel more comfortable about sharing or trying to make money from database apps/interfaces we designed in Lotus Approach. Until Lotus/IBM update Lotus SmartSuite and make SmartSuite OS-agnostic, or at least allow external developers to help out, what will we have as regards competing suites.
IBM, look at SUN. They are going to axe 70,000 or so jobs in the next 10 or so months. What if they cut funding to OpenOffice.org? Will SmartSuite (!NNNNOT! jeez.. suddenly i cannot recall the name of the new suite IBM is working on...) be ready? The SmartSuite we S/S users all know and love?
Base STILL is not up to the task to enable me to retool my interfaces. It won't for 5 more years, given Sun's/OO.org's approach to things since 1999/2001. Only by exposing and then disposing the patents that make IBM to fearful or reticent to spin off an Open Source/OS agnostic version of Lotus SmartSuite will we have a competitor regain the glory the award-winning suite had in the early 90's. Google Office/Docs may seem foreboding, but SmartSuite can STILL regain contender status.
What of it, IBM? Sun's eclipsing is shining light on an opportunity for IBM or IBM/SUN to take SmartSuite off of life support. Expose those hindering patents. If the holders don't like it, TOUGH. Their silence or absenteeism are screwing up things for the rest of us. Let challenge-seeking developers help IBM design around those onerous patents.
SAY s/he is. Look how many Good Guys the USA turned into BAD GUYS after abandoning the "friends" the CIA made in the 70's. Created a LOT of angry ghosts/hornets/wasps who lost relatives or friends and are STILL seething about US, UK, and others' involvement in corrupting or trying to resource-hijack the Middle East/parts/all of Asia.
"Peace Through Superior Firepower" hardly changed, except in phraseology. The USA is ALWAYS seeking to be number one, in virtually EVERY category of science, military, and so on. But, in doing so it inevitably arrives at being likely target number one, then gripes when bombed. Can't have it both ways. Not everyone wants to be told what to do, told they are imps or children, or made to stand in line or play second fiddle.
I hope this new incoming (no pun intended) administration signals a marked change in approach, and a "repudiation" of some or many of the policies of that outgoing "derailastration". If the US can let Afghanistan and Iraq mature (hopefully quickly) enough to resolve their problems, then maybe the 3-year-pullout timetable will put a LOT of spec fors out of work, legitimately through wind-down, rather than blow-up. It's not the sort of work that SHOULD exist. It exists mostly because governments (or backers of the governments) want to rule, often don't want to compromise, and want to sell weapons to all sides, then profit. That's bad Karma. And retribution knows her time, anytime, any place.
I think it's because they want the public to THINK the courts are working, and that the government spies are having to bust their asses to do their jobs. But, they probably are 5 steps ahead, but then get outed. I wonder if anyone else is outing that Predator/drone/RPV that (almost) nightly buzzes/hovers over Glen Park BART Station with such a loud buz that it is annoying as hell. The police i talked to say they know nothing of it. They recommend I write the police chief/commissioner/city mayor.
Whatever nutcase dreamed up the drone surveillance (probably watching gangsters from LA/OC, or Salvadorian or Nicaraguan or Chilean/whomever cartel gangsters in the area, or just for gunshot triangulation, who knows?) seems to have thought that placing it OVER the GP BART building or near the freeway would mask it. But, the fucker is LOUD, and i can hear it adjusting power when coping with the local temperature and wind changes. The noise sweeps up the hill, unmolested by the thousands of homes. It may be quiet directly beneath it, but it's not at all quiet along the ridges and up the hill. They should buy a quieter model, or lose their permit to fly. Fortunately i don't have a brown-out gun, or i'd terminate it (without bragging, of course, lest i face jail/prison), not because of spying, but because that fucker makes it hard to sleep without the use of earplugs from ~~ 1030PM to ~ 0230...
i'd set up golf-range-like nets, to keep those fucking eyes WIDE SHUT. But, the net needn't be fiber or nylon. Make it electronic. Find the freq the thing is on, and then sweep the area. Make that eying enemy have to hunt down and bomb or jam eye-jammers.
Fucking waste of money, unless used for SAR of military escapees or civil disaster civilians. But, to use for military purposes is just asking to up the ante. Now, if someone could come up with magnetic fields that can bat that bastard ball back, WATCH OUT. You will be I-DENTI-FIED...
Might even turn into a feeding frenzy, as in "Hills have I's", hehehe...
ONE time, but some of the sites i log into have ANOTHER time. Time in another time zone that I DID NOT SET on those profiles. Fuckers! (if it's them...)
flat, that is NOT a good landing.... Even autogyrating helos with crash meshing under the seat might allow survival but, a bad enough one might impart damage to the spinal column, just slight enough to permit walking, and then WHAM! Turn/twist in the wrong number of degrees, or lift a too-heavy load for an instant...
landing on the Moon, they can "pull a columbus" and say, "****I**** discovered **YOU**" to the life forms.
Until then, we may have to stick with Dell, or with "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?" I'll be inclined to ask, "What crater are you located at?"...
Maybe my breakfast was substandard rather than tainted with something. I kinda feel we *think* were all smart and cute, but that's relative to other life forms and things we observe. Any machines given intelligence (say, by other life forms eons ahead of us -- if they exist, that is --) can at some point just cut to the chase at solutions, whether intelligence or morality-based. We're driven by politics, economics, favoritism and more. I would assume intelligent machines would not be mired by such encumbrances. Human ego would be dashed if some other human figured out how to super-endow intelligent machines to out-intelligence humans. I would dare say the DOD and other agencies would either kill or seek to totally control any human they found out was trying to "work outside the system" to enable computers to be more intelligent than us, come to their own conclusions about what their intelligence means relative to ours, whether or not we're to be considered an annoyance to them, or a complementarity thing.
Intelligence or morality, it doesn't matter if machines never match us. But, if humans threaten to design something that will outclass the smartest human, and this threat begins to look like the Forbin Project, or something from Terminator, intelligence probably won't be the issues. Human independence survival might become the issue.
MEN! Amen. Without a DOUBT, one of THE best postings of substance on slashdot. There should be a once-a-month super-mod button so that there is a global ranking/display of the best minds (based on account name or person behind it) on slashdot, for those of us who need a true beacon here.
If we store a sufficient amount of morality code, replete with case-by-case deviations to spare the condemnable and condemn the innocent, and if we train these robots or computers to sit SIMULTANEOUSLY on hundreds of US and thousands of foreign nations' civil and criminal court proceedings, and teach the robots all we know about science, law, logic, crimes, and more, it's inevitable that within about 15 years these machines could corral our asses and threaten human's "right of self-determination".
I kind of look forward to that day to be imposed upon humans. So long as the programming has various overlapping overrides to morally satisfy that the machine that deviates (to kill or destroy truly innocent, mostly-law-abiding human citizens/residents of Earth) is doing so on purpose, then most of us could rest assured that such machines might eradicate not only assholes but asshole DNA from humanity as much as possible. That, i look forward too as well.
Next, with enough gyros, motors, and flexibility and lightweight yet durable structure (ability to telescope/adjust height, pop-up, drop-down, bend, leap) and provided with balance better than a standing, weight-loaded combat-equipped soldier, these machines could be viable as law enforcers, and built in sufficient numbers, could hold whole neighborhoods accountable for failing to report on any sufficiently criminal humans.
There is not a shortage of AI, there is a plethora of human greed and fear standing in the way. The machines don't need to be artists, exquisite love-makers, and nuanced in poetry, but enforcers of basic right and wrong, to correct malignant human pettiness, maldistribution of protein and other nutritional needs, proper assignment/allocation of jobs to humans qualified rather than given them by cronyism....
Sorry to dry up some of the steam of your 5, Funny...
But, AFAIK, the Yakuza take a FINGER, or two, depending on the severity of the offense. They don't normally take the whole wrist, unless it comes off in some Rashoman-style swordplay. Any offense warranting wrist removal might as well become seppuku or outright murder.
Even if BOTH sets of hands got removed, Japan has other ways for people to withdraw their cash, just like we do here. In the worst case, anyone who lost their wrists and STILL is IN the Yakuza or some other gang will probably have underlings, will have obtained a false hand, and will fall back on less-than-biometric means.
The whole fucking arm. Like in the movie "Domino". Just hook it up to a recirculator contraption.
But, back to vein readers. One interesting Japanese film, "Aegis", shows a defense intelligence agency officer using a reader to scan the back of his hand's veins to obtain access to a secure facility. Other Japanese and Asian films did similar, and these films were from 2005, initially written/shot around 2003-2004. Seems the US films often use retina scanners, or breath analyzers.
If the hard drive owners come to you saying they own her vocal cords or the sounds her vocal cords make... Because they are using the Harley-Davidson vs Honda muffler trademark/patent defense...
So, without even going to Harry's Hofbrau, the Canadian company did a EU-DOJ (sort of Hail Mary) on the Lego Company, and pulled an Apple "Brick Job" on the Legos. So, effectively, any former Lego protections have been BRICKED.
Now, Legos can be embraced and extended, and extended and embraced.
But, a burning question? How many Lego bricks equal an approximate veritable "ton of bricks"?
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How do we, as consumers fucked into taking vista, start (or join?) a class action lawsuit to be granted a permanent, authentic copy of XP, as a bridge to wait and see what becomes of the next windows version?
I am SICK of seeing windows vista take 1.5 GB of my VirtualBox resources and run slower than dog-guana at times. Mandriva Linux 2008 on the machine (hosting VBox) runs faster, and that is in ~ 350 MB. I want to NOT have to go to ms site at all. I am NOT going to connect my laptop to them to get an update to vista. I rarely directly put it (the laptop) on a live network.
Why do consumers have to fight tooth and nail to get XP on a machine that is not fully up to the task but was marketed as being up to the task? KDE without Compiz/et al is far ahead of windows' Aero.
I'm venting, yes, and yes, *vista does work*, but i'd like that much RAM taken from windows and used by my CAD app (ViaCAD). As much as i can't stand ms, i'm almost ready to willingly pay $170 for XP if i can ever get the cash together. Vista should be rebuked, excoriated, repudiated, and FAST.
be that they are desperately trying to achieve "obscurity through security"...
Well, I think IBM should open up the Lotus SmartSuite patents list to review so that end users such as myself can feel more comfortable about sharing or trying to make money from database apps/interfaces we designed in Lotus Approach. Until Lotus/IBM update Lotus SmartSuite and make SmartSuite OS-agnostic, or at least allow external developers to help out, what will we have as regards competing suites.
IBM, look at SUN. They are going to axe 70,000 or so jobs in the next 10 or so months. What if they cut funding to OpenOffice.org? Will SmartSuite (!NNNNOT! jeez.. suddenly i cannot recall the name of the new suite IBM is working on...) be ready? The SmartSuite we S/S users all know and love?
Base STILL is not up to the task to enable me to retool my interfaces. It won't for 5 more years, given Sun's/OO.org's approach to things since 1999/2001. Only by exposing and then disposing the patents that make IBM to fearful or reticent to spin off an Open Source/OS agnostic version of Lotus SmartSuite will we have a competitor regain the glory the award-winning suite had in the early 90's. Google Office/Docs may seem foreboding, but SmartSuite can STILL regain contender status.
What of it, IBM? Sun's eclipsing is shining light on an opportunity for IBM or IBM/SUN to take SmartSuite off of life support. Expose those hindering patents. If the holders don't like it, TOUGH. Their silence or absenteeism are screwing up things for the rest of us. Let challenge-seeking developers help IBM design around those onerous patents.
SAY s/he is. Look how many Good Guys the USA turned into BAD GUYS after abandoning the "friends" the CIA made in the 70's. Created a LOT of angry ghosts/hornets/wasps who lost relatives or friends and are STILL seething about US, UK, and others' involvement in corrupting or trying to resource-hijack the Middle East/parts/all of Asia.
"Peace Through Superior Firepower" hardly changed, except in phraseology. The USA is ALWAYS seeking to be number one, in virtually EVERY category of science, military, and so on. But, in doing so it inevitably arrives at being likely target number one, then gripes when bombed. Can't have it both ways. Not everyone wants to be told what to do, told they are imps or children, or made to stand in line or play second fiddle.
I hope this new incoming (no pun intended) administration signals a marked change in approach, and a "repudiation" of some or many of the policies of that outgoing "derailastration". If the US can let Afghanistan and Iraq mature (hopefully quickly) enough to resolve their problems, then maybe the 3-year-pullout timetable will put a LOT of spec fors out of work, legitimately through wind-down, rather than blow-up. It's not the sort of work that SHOULD exist. It exists mostly because governments (or backers of the governments) want to rule, often don't want to compromise, and want to sell weapons to all sides, then profit. That's bad Karma. And retribution knows her time, anytime, any place.
or graze it, with a certain model of 9mm pistol, will it get... GLOCK-COMA?
If it is equipped to blow with napalm, to destroy bones and teeth, will it be called the "I-Denti-Fryer"
(ba-dum-dum...)
I think it's because they want the public to THINK the courts are working, and that the government spies are having to bust their asses to do their jobs. But, they probably are 5 steps ahead, but then get outed. I wonder if anyone else is outing that Predator/drone/RPV that (almost) nightly buzzes/hovers over Glen Park BART Station with such a loud buz that it is annoying as hell. The police i talked to say they know nothing of it. They recommend I write the police chief/commissioner/city mayor.
Whatever nutcase dreamed up the drone surveillance (probably watching gangsters from LA/OC, or Salvadorian or Nicaraguan or Chilean/whomever cartel gangsters in the area, or just for gunshot triangulation, who knows?) seems to have thought that placing it OVER the GP BART building or near the freeway would mask it. But, the fucker is LOUD, and i can hear it adjusting power when coping with the local temperature and wind changes. The noise sweeps up the hill, unmolested by the thousands of homes. It may be quiet directly beneath it, but it's not at all quiet along the ridges and up the hill. They should buy a quieter model, or lose their permit to fly. Fortunately i don't have a brown-out gun, or i'd terminate it (without bragging, of course, lest i face jail/prison), not because of spying, but because that fucker makes it hard to sleep without the use of earplugs from ~~ 1030PM to ~ 0230...
i'd set up golf-range-like nets, to keep those fucking eyes WIDE SHUT. But, the net needn't be fiber or nylon. Make it electronic. Find the freq the thing is on, and then sweep the area. Make that eying enemy have to hunt down and bomb or jam eye-jammers.
Fucking waste of money, unless used for SAR of military escapees or civil disaster civilians. But, to use for military purposes is just asking to up the ante. Now, if someone could come up with magnetic fields that can bat that bastard ball back, WATCH OUT. You will be I-DENTI-FIED...
Might even turn into a feeding frenzy, as in "Hills have I's", hehehe...
ONE time, but some of the sites i log into have ANOTHER time. Time in another time zone that I DID NOT SET on those profiles. Fuckers! (if it's them...)
I was just thinking Laird of the Rings?
flat, that is NOT a good landing.... Even autogyrating helos with crash meshing under the seat might allow survival but, a bad enough one might impart damage to the spinal column, just slight enough to permit walking, and then WHAM! Turn/twist in the wrong number of degrees, or lift a too-heavy load for an instant...
landing on the Moon, they can "pull a columbus" and say, "****I**** discovered **YOU**" to the life forms.
Until then, we may have to stick with Dell, or with "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?" I'll be inclined to ask, "What crater are you located at?"...
NA, and see if in old age it can say "I love you, be good":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14293868
Maybe my breakfast was substandard rather than tainted with something. I kinda feel we *think* were all smart and cute, but that's relative to other life forms and things we observe. Any machines given intelligence (say, by other life forms eons ahead of us -- if they exist, that is --) can at some point just cut to the chase at solutions, whether intelligence or morality-based. We're driven by politics, economics, favoritism and more. I would assume intelligent machines would not be mired by such encumbrances. Human ego would be dashed if some other human figured out how to super-endow intelligent machines to out-intelligence humans. I would dare say the DOD and other agencies would either kill or seek to totally control any human they found out was trying to "work outside the system" to enable computers to be more intelligent than us, come to their own conclusions about what their intelligence means relative to ours, whether or not we're to be considered an annoyance to them, or a complementarity thing.
Intelligence or morality, it doesn't matter if machines never match us. But, if humans threaten to design something that will outclass the smartest human, and this threat begins to look like the Forbin Project, or something from Terminator, intelligence probably won't be the issues. Human independence survival might become the issue.
Anyway, i'm still probably not making sense...
MEN! Amen. Without a DOUBT, one of THE best postings of substance on slashdot. There should be a once-a-month super-mod button so that there is a global ranking/display of the best minds (based on account name or person behind it) on slashdot, for those of us who need a true beacon here.
the AI level to make robots smarter than us?
If we store a sufficient amount of morality code, replete with case-by-case deviations to spare the condemnable and condemn the innocent, and if we train these robots or computers to sit SIMULTANEOUSLY on hundreds of US and thousands of foreign nations' civil and criminal court proceedings, and teach the robots all we know about science, law, logic, crimes, and more, it's inevitable that within about 15 years these machines could corral our asses and threaten human's "right of self-determination".
I kind of look forward to that day to be imposed upon humans. So long as the programming has various overlapping overrides to morally satisfy that the machine that deviates (to kill or destroy truly innocent, mostly-law-abiding human citizens/residents of Earth) is doing so on purpose, then most of us could rest assured that such machines might eradicate not only assholes but asshole DNA from humanity as much as possible. That, i look forward too as well.
Next, with enough gyros, motors, and flexibility and lightweight yet durable structure (ability to telescope/adjust height, pop-up, drop-down, bend, leap) and provided with balance better than a standing, weight-loaded combat-equipped soldier, these machines could be viable as law enforcers, and built in sufficient numbers, could hold whole neighborhoods accountable for failing to report on any sufficiently criminal humans.
There is not a shortage of AI, there is a plethora of human greed and fear standing in the way. The machines don't need to be artists, exquisite love-makers, and nuanced in poetry, but enforcers of basic right and wrong, to correct malignant human pettiness, maldistribution of protein and other nutritional needs, proper assignment/allocation of jobs to humans qualified rather than given them by cronyism....
OUTCLASS classmates.com. "F" them...
Sorry to dry up some of the steam of your 5, Funny...
But, AFAIK, the Yakuza take a FINGER, or two, depending on the severity of the offense. They don't normally take the whole wrist, unless it comes off in some Rashoman-style swordplay. Any offense warranting wrist removal might as well become seppuku or outright murder.
Even if BOTH sets of hands got removed, Japan has other ways for people to withdraw their cash, just like we do here. In the worst case, anyone who lost their wrists and STILL is IN the Yakuza or some other gang will probably have underlings, will have obtained a false hand, and will fall back on less-than-biometric means.
The whole fucking arm. Like in the movie "Domino". Just hook it up to a recirculator contraption.
But, back to vein readers. One interesting Japanese film, "Aegis", shows a defense intelligence agency officer using a reader to scan the back of his hand's veins to obtain access to a secure facility. Other Japanese and Asian films did similar, and these films were from 2005, initially written/shot around 2003-2004. Seems the US films often use retina scanners, or breath analyzers.
If it keeps the landfills and the oceans clean... heeeuw ... heeeuw... i can't ... breeh....
Some of us NEED or just WANT to power down or systems. We don't meed to justify why. So, this capability IS useful.
And, ndobody else said it the way i did. pathetic bunch...
If the hard drive owners come to you saying they own her vocal cords or the sounds her vocal cords make... Because they are using the Harley-Davidson vs Honda muffler trademark/patent defense...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1464309/posts
http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2007/11/21/harley-davidson-dynamic-exhaust-system-patent/
If the hard drive manufacturers want, i imagine they could try such a stunt. But, the backlash might be more than they can handle.
But, if your wife can shatter glass, fend off attorneys, and kill hard drives and stop car ignitions, she might be worth all you can defend her for...
So, without even going to Harry's Hofbrau, the Canadian company did a EU-DOJ (sort of Hail Mary) on the Lego Company, and pulled an Apple "Brick Job" on the Legos. So, effectively, any former Lego protections have been BRICKED.
Now, Legos can be embraced and extended, and extended and embraced.
But, a burning question? How many Lego bricks equal an approximate veritable "ton of bricks"?
Woulda been easier to have just sent up an Energizer Bunny... "It keeps GOING. And GOING. And GOING..."
And, it's lightweight. It might even serve as a deterrent to any Martians having designs of attacking the Earth.
Appears to be inspecting a hiked up leg...