He speaks of a bookscanner that are automatic but expensive and humanturned pages which are actually cheaper if pageturner is on minimum wage or from India. Coincidentally the Indian government has agreed to scan any books send to them be the internetarchive (Which Brewster is a founding member of.)
Go listen to his speech. It is really fascinating.
Well that was how it was supposed to be, but someway along the lines several courts decided that corporations were requiered "by law" to only concern itself with the bottomline.
By the way, here's more analysis of the Corporation:
http://www.thecorporation.com/
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Fair enough
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Every developer should have his own key and release with it. Then he alone bears the responsibility and there is no trouble deciding who did what and all.
For the major releases it would probably be sound to have a single key that the 10 must influential developers had acces to but only used in agrement with each other.
1. It is the same with all other kinds of games. I don't think my father or mother would stand a chance against me in a CS match, but certain other games maybe?
There is always a learning curve and if you actually learn something other than moving your mouse and get excercise then that would be great.
2. My point is that i find character development pointless and tiresome. I would rather that YOU, the player, developed and bettered yuorself rather than some computercharacter.
Of course you wouldn't want to play a game for 10 years in a row but just think about how long time you have been playing basketball and other sports.
3. It would of course be the game developers that balanced the game so that it was both fun and challenging. Not all games are for everybody just like not all sports are for everybody.
In singleplayer games people could choose wether to choose regular control or the enhanced version.
In multiplayer games it would be a little more diffcult to find a compromise because one of the ways of controlling the games are bound to be better than the other, and that could lead to allegations of "cheating".
you make some good points and raise some questions.
I like the idea of total immersion, maybe so much that you don't actually move irl. But that is probably far of yet.
The idea of running around, jumping and kicking would allow for nerds to actually exercise while having fun and actually learning something other than moving the mouse. I think it would also solve the problem i see with rpg that you arre building a character and making IT better not yourself. I would like more games to depend on my skill not my characters skill. I you would actually tire when kicking and running in games we would also have solved the bunnyjumping problem in cs along with other things.
Of course that comes with the problems you mention of joints and muscles being damages because of shadowboxing and other things, but hopefully that could be resolved.
You right that games can help us be something that we are normally not or do something that we cannot. For example I would like to fly like a bird and feel the wind below me and the g's when i dive and all that. It is quite hard to do without VR.
I think it is because Office does not have the same problems as IE with popups, viruses and other malware. The reason why people have been embracing Firefox is the problems with IE not the features of Firefox. It is the features of Firefox that make them stay though.
Chirac is not that popular. The only reason he is still president is to avoid corruption charges.
Besides the people of France had him and Le Penn to choose from. Talk about the lesser of two evils.
"Le Raciste ou la criminelle"
Excuse my French:-)
I can understand why Chirac says he thinks they have a lot in common, they are both criminals...
This is why such essential things as research of medicine and biology should not be left to the corporations, but should be a job for government. We can't have people dying of a disease that can be cured but they can't afford the overpriced medicine.
Well, MS Office has quite a good head start of them. Innovation will come when they have catched up on the other areas. This is the way it is with most open source software.
But when you look at the rate that they are developing that is amazing.
I have the same problem with the font size, but it is also a problem for MS Office. I accidentally stumbled upen a solution: Right click the paragraph you are working on and select "Edit Paragraph style" there you just select whatever font and font size you like and that will be the font used when you press your right arrow.
So I guess now you almost have to use OO.o
Thats weird. For me it was the other way round. When i switched to OpenOffice I actually starting being more productive and I began to actually use all the fancy(?) features like footnotes, automatic indexing, and all that and I found that they were intuitive, but also that my primary problem with office, the automation doing things that's just weird and that I dont know how to turn of, was not a problem in OO.o. It was like all the features i needed was there when i wanted them and not at any other time.
Now we just need some better support for wordperfect and other files so we only need one office suite installed. My dad has Lotus, Office, OpenOffice and Wordperfect just to be able to read the files people send to him.
Let's hope that all theese new features will give OO.o the momentum it needs to topple the king and enforce openstandards and help them spread to other areas of software. I think we only need to find a weak point in MS's monopoly and then they will be gone in a matter of years, or at least be reduced to a small market share where they won't hurt anything and might actually begin to innovate again.
Ah so that was what you were referring to. You had me confused there.
Euroscepticism has unfortunately declined here recently...
Somehow people are just inclined to like softwarepatents, buearcracy(?), agriculturalsubsidies and the like.
Slashdot Mirror
Brewster Kahle has some insights to this and other things in this speech he gave a while ago:m l
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail400.ht
He speaks of a bookscanner that are automatic but expensive and humanturned pages which are actually cheaper if pageturner is on minimum wage or from India. Coincidentally the Indian government has agreed to scan any books send to them be the internetarchive (Which Brewster is a founding member of.) Go listen to his speech. It is really fascinating.
Well that was how it was supposed to be, but someway along the lines several courts decided that corporations were requiered "by law" to only concern itself with the bottomline. By the way, here's more analysis of the Corporation: http://www.thecorporation.com/
"some other sick bastards might have that problem."
Duh...
I if had any mod points I would mod you Interesting... no wait, the other thing... Tedious.
Hmm, and where would that be?
I thought that wikipedia was always slashdotted...
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(i) that would require a payment of royalties by Microsoft to unaffiliated third parties;
Fair enough
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Means no more OpenOffice or any other wordprocessor
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Which means that converting to another file format is illegal. So you're pretty much stuck with MS once you've begun using it. Unless of course you buy the whole Office suite.
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Microsoft reserves the righ
well... DUH...
Every developer should have his own key and release with it. Then he alone bears the responsibility and there is no trouble deciding who did what and all.
For the major releases it would probably be sound to have a single key that the 10 must influential developers had acces to but only used in agrement with each other.
1. It is the same with all other kinds of games. I don't think my father or mother would stand a chance against me in a CS match, but certain other games maybe?
There is always a learning curve and if you actually learn something other than moving your mouse and get excercise then that would be great.
2. My point is that i find character development pointless and tiresome. I would rather that YOU, the player, developed and bettered yuorself rather than some computercharacter.
Of course you wouldn't want to play a game for 10 years in a row but just think about how long time you have been playing basketball and other sports.
3. It would of course be the game developers that balanced the game so that it was both fun and challenging. Not all games are for everybody just like not all sports are for everybody.
In singleplayer games people could choose wether to choose regular control or the enhanced version. In multiplayer games it would be a little more diffcult to find a compromise because one of the ways of controlling the games are bound to be better than the other, and that could lead to allegations of "cheating".
you make some good points and raise some questions. I like the idea of total immersion, maybe so much that you don't actually move irl. But that is probably far of yet. The idea of running around, jumping and kicking would allow for nerds to actually exercise while having fun and actually learning something other than moving the mouse. I think it would also solve the problem i see with rpg that you arre building a character and making IT better not yourself. I would like more games to depend on my skill not my characters skill. I you would actually tire when kicking and running in games we would also have solved the bunnyjumping problem in cs along with other things. Of course that comes with the problems you mention of joints and muscles being damages because of shadowboxing and other things, but hopefully that could be resolved. You right that games can help us be something that we are normally not or do something that we cannot. For example I would like to fly like a bird and feel the wind below me and the g's when i dive and all that. It is quite hard to do without VR.
I think it is because Office does not have the same problems as IE with popups, viruses and other malware. The reason why people have been embracing Firefox is the problems with IE not the features of Firefox. It is the features of Firefox that make them stay though.
It is the new trend now the developers pay you for using their technology....
"people who use metric" You do know that that is about everyone expect in the US...
Only Old Korean people have Broadband connections. Also in North Korea the Media distributes you!
Chirac is not that popular. The only reason he is still president is to avoid corruption charges. Besides the people of France had him and Le Penn to choose from. Talk about the lesser of two evils. "Le Raciste ou la criminelle" Excuse my French :-)
I can understand why Chirac says he thinks they have a lot in common, they are both criminals...
"So far, iTunes has been a big success, so apparently a lot of consumers have no problem with DRM and online legal music-downloading." http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19991114
This is why such essential things as research of medicine and biology should not be left to the corporations, but should be a job for government. We can't have people dying of a disease that can be cured but they can't afford the overpriced medicine.
Well, MS Office has quite a good head start of them. Innovation will come when they have catched up on the other areas. This is the way it is with most open source software. But when you look at the rate that they are developing that is amazing.
I have the same problem with the font size, but it is also a problem for MS Office. I accidentally stumbled upen a solution: Right click the paragraph you are working on and select "Edit Paragraph style" there you just select whatever font and font size you like and that will be the font used when you press your right arrow. So I guess now you almost have to use OO.o
Thats weird. For me it was the other way round. When i switched to OpenOffice I actually starting being more productive and I began to actually use all the fancy(?) features like footnotes, automatic indexing, and all that and I found that they were intuitive, but also that my primary problem with office, the automation doing things that's just weird and that I dont know how to turn of, was not a problem in OO.o. It was like all the features i needed was there when i wanted them and not at any other time. Now we just need some better support for wordperfect and other files so we only need one office suite installed. My dad has Lotus, Office, OpenOffice and Wordperfect just to be able to read the files people send to him.
Let's hope that all theese new features will give OO.o the momentum it needs to topple the king and enforce openstandards and help them spread to other areas of software. I think we only need to find a weak point in MS's monopoly and then they will be gone in a matter of years, or at least be reduced to a small market share where they won't hurt anything and might actually begin to innovate again.
Ah so that was what you were referring to. You had me confused there. Euroscepticism has unfortunately declined here recently... Somehow people are just inclined to like softwarepatents, buearcracy(?), agriculturalsubsidies and the like.
Actually i'm from Denmark...
yes, but will it run Linux?