In the comic, a guy has a 40+inches computer display showing a network of viruses in virtualized Windows installs, as an alternative to an aquarium. What is most interesting is the alternate text. It says:
Viruses so far have been really disappointing on the 'disable the internet' front, and time is running out. When Linux/Mac win in a decade or so the game will be over.
if SEO's are allowed to thumb up down their competitors' websites, we're in trouble. Now a feature i'd love to see, is a "This is spam" button for search results. But then again, who's modding the mods?
And perhaps this is the very reason why it may never see the public light.
The point I was making was that they don't have any convictions. They may know about it, and say they care, and say they think it's terrible, but they keep on buying the music. That's very hypocritical.
At the conclusion of the contest, contestants will receive a t-shirt and certificate for completing at least one task (maximum of one shirt & certificate per contestant) and 100 USD for every three tasks completed (maximum 500 USD per contestant).
The point isn't whether people shouldn't puncture their cellphones, but that the cellphone should have some kind of protection for when these accidents happen. Sigh, I remember the old times when the worst thing that happened was that you got an acid burn in your skin...
Because it is possible to have a better security model that doesnt spawn off another process.
As long as the other process isn't spawn with greater privileges, there's no problem, right? Oh... you're talking about Windows, where EVERYONE logs in with root privileges...
I don't consider myself a Linux fanboi, so I won't throw balls of tar covered in flames at you. Instead, I'll tell you why I won't install Vista on my machine.
1. I've had troubles reading DVD's from other regions... in XP. "You can only change your DVD region code only 4 more times". If things go as I've read, Vista won't be any better.Perhaps you don't have trouble because all your DVDs are Region 1, but that's not the case with the rest of the world.
2. Have you actually tried to *back up* your DVDs? (because that's where you'll most probably find any problem - not that I've actually tried, btw)
3. Remember the recent Vista blackout regarding product activation and genuine advantage?
4. The point with Vista is not whether it ACTUALLY prevents you from watching DVD's. The point is that it can in the future, and that you won't be able to do ANYTHING about it. Vista is taking all the decisions for you, and where you'd like to be asked "Cancel, or Allow?" regarding updates-from and reports-to Microsoft, you won't be. If Redmond decides to install a rootkit on your vista, you won't even notice!
Actually I read about newer X-ray machines a few months ago. The point was that matter changed the PHASE of the X-rays - this allowed for much more precision than traditional X-Ray machines.
I've been watching these documentaries since weeks ago... (note that I live in Mexico).
They're fabulous. I watch them and fondly remember the old times. I specially liked the chapter about hobbyists who made games for the Commodore 64, and I remember the Compute! and RUN magazines.
Those discovery documentaries are an eye-opener which shows you the social causes and effects of videogames (generational breachs, the influence of the WWII and the Cold war in the first videogames).
What can I say? I liked them all. From the first hobbyists and pong, to the walks of Miyamoto in the japanese forests reflected in Zelda and Mario, to the rise of FPS and games with protagonists.
Shareware was made by programmers when the terms "open source" or "free/libre software" were unknown. There was no such thing as the Internet, or e-mail. Programmers coded for a living, and sold programs for a living. I remember the times where all PC computers were 386, ran MS-DOS, had 32MBytes of RAM. Programming was mostly considered a hobby except for large enterprises (i.e. Lotus, Borland, Microsoft, and such). Most hobbyists didn't pay for programming languages - they were pirated because they were too expensive.
You logged into BBS's whose phone numbers you found on specialized magazines. Meetings were held with the 5 or 10 people in your area, and paid-for software was seen as a valuable treasure. Owners of that software would share it with their friends, and the original discs were treated as some kind of ancient artifact which belonged in a museum.
That's how you learned to program back then. You pirated the language, and eventually you began producing stuff worth selling. Then you bought your first legitimate copy of the language.
That's how things were done those days. It was rough, primitive, but fun at the same time. It was the way of the Old West.
In the files sections, you downloaded all these utility programs (hard disk optimizers, text editors, quit-smoking organizers and such) that expired in around 30 days, and you could register them for 5 or 20 bucks. It was cheap, and reasonable.
These small-scale programmers were defenseless against crackers and pirates, who didn't retribute them for their effort. So they turned to the BSA to help them punish the thieves who just stole their software.
It was how business was done back then. Getting organized at a national level to make good software for free was unthinkable. You had to charge for your code, and it was OK. To program, you had to actually buy software. I remember how expensive was to purchase a copy of Borland/C++ or Turbo Pascal (with Turbo Vision!) so you could make decent programs. It may sound like heresy in the G++ times of today, but that's how it was.
It was rough, primitive, but fun at the same time. It was the way of the Old West.
But times have changed.
We have GNU and the Free Software/Open Source licenses now - and software is being developed by teams of independent programmers working for a common goal: Freedom (I'm relatively new to GNU/Linux, and I was awed at the amount of Free/Libre Open Source Software for Linux). I compare my GNU/Linux box to my close friends' windows boxes - often filled with "freeware" and paid-for/cracked shareware developed in Visual Basic most of the time, and I can't even start to describe the difference. It's all chaotic and primitive in the Windows world.
When I go to a webpage and see a Windows app for say, transferring your ipod files to your computer, or ripping/burning a CD, I see the price tag and think: "Are they kidding me? They charge for THIS STUFF?"
The BSA and old software business models (just like the RIAA and MPAA's) are going the way of the dodo bird. They have no place in the open world of today.
One idea from a mexican friend of mine, was giving "extra votes" to people who have a college degree or a certain degree of education. i.e. phD's get 3, people who got to high school get 2, the rest get only 1. This way educated people will have more weight in the elections than uneducated masses who are easier to manipulate.
I was 10 when I watched The Return of the Jedi, and I liked the ewoks. Specially funny was the part when Luke used the Force because C3PO refused to impersonate a deity.
I also loved how the Ewoks managed to defeat the imperial forces with lo tech. That was a big plus for me, and in the end, Luke defeated the dark side and rescued dad.
And what's wrong with selling toys? I loved the Jedi action figures and the little two legged transports.
In my opinion, the movie was perfect. Now let me tell you, it was Ep 1 that jumped the shark. Midichlorians, no father, and let's not forget the new adventures of R2D2 and C3PO!
Ep2 was less awful, but Ep3 really screwed it. Even I could have come up with a better plot! I was hoping to see Anakin's corruption and how he began desiring power and destroying cities all along. Big disappointment.
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In the comic, a guy has a 40+inches computer display showing a network of viruses in virtualized Windows installs, as an alternative to an aquarium. What is most interesting is the alternate text. It says:
This is why I keep around 4 or 5 independent personalities online, each for a distinct forum/social network site.
This is only one of them.
if SEO's are allowed to thumb up down their competitors' websites, we're in trouble. Now a feature i'd love to see, is a "This is spam" button for search results. But then again, who's modding the mods?
And perhaps this is the very reason why it may never see the public light.
Displaying ads in the excel file that you sent via yahoo mail?
It's hard to expect the developers to write a feature they haven't been asked about, and/or don't even know it exists.
In other words, what features do you use in MS products that you haven't found in the free/open source applications?
Sir, you're now welcome to my friends list!
You're welcome to establish your home here in Mexico, where we don't have *ANY* DMCA.
Oh dear, all that "it wasn't my fault" crap just to avoid saying "you were right, we screwed up. It was another Vietnam, after all".
Whee, money!
It probably was a lithium battery.
The point isn't whether people shouldn't puncture their cellphones, but that the cellphone should have some kind of protection for when these accidents happen. Sigh, I remember the old times when the worst thing that happened was that you got an acid burn in your skin...
No good deed goes unpunished.
As long as the other process isn't spawn with greater privileges, there's no problem, right? Oh... you're talking about Windows, where EVERYONE logs in with root privileges...
Never mind then.
So that makes us meteorite-aminoacid-derived-dna-carrying people aliens?
Waiting to be ashamed publicly, specially in front of all the filesharers... priceless.
wikipedia it.
I don't consider myself a Linux fanboi, so I won't throw balls of tar covered in flames at you. Instead, I'll tell you why I won't install Vista on my machine.
1. I've had troubles reading DVD's from other regions... in XP. "You can only change your DVD region code only 4 more times". If things go as I've read, Vista won't be any better.Perhaps you don't have trouble because all your DVDs are Region 1, but that's not the case with the rest of the world.
2. Have you actually tried to *back up* your DVDs? (because that's where you'll most probably find any problem - not that I've actually tried, btw)
3. Remember the recent Vista blackout regarding product activation and genuine advantage?
4. The point with Vista is not whether it ACTUALLY prevents you from watching DVD's. The point is that it can in the future, and that you won't be able to do ANYTHING about it. Vista is taking all the decisions for you, and where you'd like to be asked "Cancel, or Allow?" regarding updates-from and reports-to Microsoft, you won't be. If Redmond decides to install a rootkit on your vista, you won't even notice!
Actually I read about newer X-ray machines a few months ago. The point was that matter changed the PHASE of the X-rays - this allowed for much more precision than traditional X-Ray machines.
I've been watching these documentaries since weeks ago... (note that I live in Mexico).
They're fabulous. I watch them and fondly remember the old times. I specially liked the chapter about hobbyists who made games for the Commodore 64, and I remember the Compute! and RUN magazines.
Those discovery documentaries are an eye-opener which shows you the social causes and effects of videogames (generational breachs, the influence of the WWII and the Cold war in the first videogames).
What can I say? I liked them all. From the first hobbyists and pong, to the walks of Miyamoto in the japanese forests reflected in Zelda and Mario, to the rise of FPS and games with protagonists.
I really recommend that show to everyone.
Shareware was made by programmers when the terms "open source" or "free/libre software" were unknown. There was no such thing as the Internet, or e-mail. Programmers coded for a living, and sold programs for a living. I remember the times where all PC computers were 386, ran MS-DOS, had 32MBytes of RAM. Programming was mostly considered a hobby except for large enterprises (i.e. Lotus, Borland, Microsoft, and such). Most hobbyists didn't pay for programming languages - they were pirated because they were too expensive.
You logged into BBS's whose phone numbers you found on specialized magazines. Meetings were held with the 5 or 10 people in your area, and paid-for software was seen as a valuable treasure. Owners of that software would share it with their friends, and the original discs were treated as some kind of ancient artifact which belonged in a museum.
That's how you learned to program back then. You pirated the language, and eventually you began producing stuff worth selling. Then you bought your first legitimate copy of the language.
That's how things were done those days. It was rough, primitive, but fun at the same time. It was the way of the Old West.
In the files sections, you downloaded all these utility programs (hard disk optimizers, text editors, quit-smoking organizers and such) that expired in around 30 days, and you could register them for 5 or 20 bucks. It was cheap, and reasonable.
These small-scale programmers were defenseless against crackers and pirates, who didn't retribute them for their effort. So they turned to the BSA to help them punish the thieves who just stole their software.
It was how business was done back then. Getting organized at a national level to make good software for free was unthinkable. You had to charge for your code, and it was OK. To program, you had to actually buy software. I remember how expensive was to purchase a copy of Borland/C++ or Turbo Pascal (with Turbo Vision!) so you could make decent programs. It may sound like heresy in the G++ times of today, but that's how it was.
It was rough, primitive, but fun at the same time. It was the way of the Old West.
But times have changed.
We have GNU and the Free Software/Open Source licenses now - and software is being developed by teams of independent programmers working for a common goal: Freedom (I'm relatively new to GNU/Linux, and I was awed at the amount of Free/Libre Open Source Software for Linux). I compare my GNU/Linux box to my close friends' windows boxes - often filled with "freeware" and paid-for/cracked shareware developed in Visual Basic most of the time, and I can't even start to describe the difference. It's all chaotic and primitive in the Windows world.
When I go to a webpage and see a Windows app for say, transferring your ipod files to your computer, or ripping/burning a CD, I see the price tag and think: "Are they kidding me? They charge for THIS STUFF?"
The BSA and old software business models (just like the RIAA and MPAA's) are going the way of the dodo bird. They have no place in the open world of today.
Whoever wins, we lose
Most of them involves democratic elections.
One idea from a mexican friend of mine, was giving "extra votes" to people who have a college degree or a certain degree of education. i.e. phD's get 3, people who got to high school get 2, the rest get only 1. This way educated people will have more weight in the elections than uneducated masses who are easier to manipulate.
Even less while imprisoned.
They said the same about Nelson Mandela...
I was 10 when I watched The Return of the Jedi, and I liked the ewoks. Specially funny was the part when Luke used the Force because C3PO refused to impersonate a deity.
I also loved how the Ewoks managed to defeat the imperial forces with lo tech. That was a big plus for me, and in the end, Luke defeated the dark side and rescued dad.
And what's wrong with selling toys? I loved the Jedi action figures and the little two legged transports.
In my opinion, the movie was perfect. Now let me tell you, it was Ep 1 that jumped the shark. Midichlorians, no father, and let's not forget the new adventures of R2D2 and C3PO!
Ep2 was less awful, but Ep3 really screwed it. Even I could have come up with a better plot! I was hoping to see Anakin's corruption and how he began desiring power and destroying cities all along. Big disappointment.
that was so lame. at least he should have used MP3chlorians! Hmm... now that I think of it, does the Light side of the Force use OGGchlorians instead?
I hope this applies to paying taxes too.
Good point. Perhaps i should clarify. MAFIAA prices are insanely high. You don't expect consumers to just sit there and buy obediently, right?