On the other hand, this would go a long way towards pushing the whole internet appliance concept forward.
That is a bad thing. When you have everyone jumping ship to run one of those devices what happens to the cost of PCs and what about improvements? Basically you ruin the entire computer experience. WebTV has essentially not been a terrible success with it's approach and I don't think that internet appliances would be any better.
I really didn't like AOL in the first place however if you can do it on linux that would mean people like my grandparents would never even notice me replacing their windows box:)
Don't be so arrogant as to assume that nobody from Japan reads Slashdot. Some of us even care about things we will never own (mainframes, big unix boxen etc)- never mind only having to wait a few months. Some of us can't afford to buy a PC that will run the latest games, wheras a console is a much more economical option.
That's actually very strange considering that I hardly see any homeless Japanese people (hell even in Europe for that matter) and that Japan has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Technically you can order a nice new state of the art computer (PIII and all that) for less than $900 from pricewatch I would also hazard a guess that they have similar deals in Japan. Plus a PC can do so much more than a console can.
Have you seen the *IDOITIC* system requirements for PC games nowdays? Buying 1 $300-400 PlayStation 2 beats buying a $1000-2000 computer every 6 months kiddo....
Well I have stated similar concerns but people sweep them under the rug as rantings from a wacko and I get massarced. They are rediculous and could use some trimming down.
I however disagree with the price tag. Theoretically with new PCs upgradeability is something that can be more easily achieved without too much hassle.
I didn't find it fraudulent... I read the text file that concerned the version number... he said that he got tired of people asking why he wasn't running "Linux 6.1" It was all very open and (I thought) tongue-in-cheek.
Yes but that dosn't mean that it can't boggle the minds of people like me. Just because I have a program and get irritated at it dosn't mean I have to call it goddamnityoufuckingass.cpp or something like that why should version numbers change the same way?
It could have been fun, if it could have been open to ALL Linux developers.
I think that using Loki's API isn't going to make your program less useful or able to compete with say a game produced by Loki. People have games that are compiled for win32 and most likely use Visual C++ does that mean that Microsoft is winning in the game market? Hell no.
Instead Loki president attitude was near to go away and make your own things.
I assume you meant the possesive form of opinion attributed to Loki in that case you would use Loki's but that's for another day. It's really hard to interpret that statement.
I don't see them stopping you from using their API they will not break your fingers.
While everyone is on party of this big announcement, we are forced to choose between:
- Implement yet another 3d sound library - Follow Loki path, and hope to survive in the shadow of Loki - "Gold old stereo is enough!!!" - License a proprietary Windows library like Miles Sound System
I also assume you meant to say Loki's in the second point.
Also what is a Gold stero. Most of mine are usually grey or tan.
You could also use an already existing API for 3d sound if that's your cup of tea and make it better if you can't use it. I most likely don't have the technical expertice to code my own 3d sound API so I would probably use Loki's.
This is a good move by Loki and Creative, although Creatives involvement might put off other audio companies from wanting to use it - I bet the API is particularly suited towards Creative chipsets.
Well duh if you ran a company and you were working on a standard wouldn't you create one that your programmers and hardware technicians actually knew how to use?
Anyway, Open Audio Library will signal the beginning of a true cross platform 3D audio system. Hopefully it provides more functionality than Microsofts proprietary single platfrom DirectAudio(?) system, otherwise it will be hard to get companies to switch over.
I don't see the benefit of doing something like that when you can just have standard sound from multiple speakers. Just take one speaker and put in on one side of the room and another and the other then you have sterophonic sound. Largely unless the sounds are intensely more complex your mind will associate the sound comming from different sources and allow for the "3d" effect.
John Carmack should love this, him being a fan of cross-platform APIs and OpenGL etc.
I think that making anything a standard that involves massive cpu computations or involves games in general would be a bad idea. Imagine if the standards for C++ were designed by a group of PC game peddlers I really don't think your would like that very much.
Apples audio libraries probably aren't available for Linux, only Macs and Windows at the moment, and I don't know much about the Mac Sprockets or whatever they are called libraries, but I thought I should mention them so that it didn't look like I only thought that DirectAudio was the only competitor.
I thought that there were already various libraries and systems to support ear poping sound on linux someting called ALSA or the like but I wouldn't know because my computer never has been able to say a word to me (I think it's mute)
Now to wait the three years for the Amigas Audio system, AHI, to support this:-)
To my understanding this company was about as dead as a coffin nail (according to the Dickens phrase). So why do people persist in talking about them?
No, you're right - in the past, people just sat back and took it when buggy consoles were released. I mean, the first wave of PSX were just awful.
That's why you try to get what is called a refund it works wonders and a nice little complaint letter is also good.
On the other hand, systems have become incredibly more durable. I can count on one finger the number of post-NES console systems that I have seen with problems caused by wear. Pretty good compared to the old "Jiggle the power cable, it'll come on eventually" days. Or the "Yeah, it's like that - blow on the cartridge and stick it back in. Oh, yeah, there's a trick to getting the cartridge slot to stay down. Let me get that..." days.
I don't know about that. Consider that apparently people don't like the concept of cartriges and that little various forms of disk like media are being more and more popular. Eventually the little spinning parts will break. I want you to try this little experiment for me. Take a computer anyone even an old one like a 386 or a 486 and set it to work doing something trivial or maybe boring like doing rc5 or seti@home. Now leave the thing on 24/7/365 until it dies. Eventually the first thing that will die is the little spinning fan on the back that is in the power supply. That will go because of all the constant spinning that goes on. Not a pretty picture and not something that I would especially like.
Even the GameBoy is a lot better than when it first came out - I have one that's almost two years old, now, and every single pixel still works. Compare that to the old ones, where after you'd had it for a month, at least one column was guaranteed to go out.
You actually have one? I really can't get worked up over a small hand held (read easily dropped and easily broken) device that has a very, very small screen and also would have a limited style of game due to hardware limitations. Even if they add color it dosn't do that much. I probably have more processing power in a 486 than that gameboy. Plus isn't it illegal to market a defective piece of machinery knowingly? Can you get a refund?
All the more reason to stick with my PC! Maybe once these bugs get worked out I'll add one to my enternainment center. But until then, my PC-DVD works great, I can play all the games just as good if not better...
I have always thought of a console system as a poor man's means of keeping up with gaming. For a little money you can buy the console and then get the game without the need for constant and costly upgrading. That and not all games are avaible for the PC that are on console systems.
This also makes me wonder what Nintendo is coming up with.... It might be worth while to wait a little and see before plunking down the $$'s.
Nintendo had it's day with the NES and the SNES with the introduction of the N64 we have a plethora of crappy cartoon oriented games that leave me with the chills. They have almost completely eliminated the concept of cheat codes and all their games require an additional "expansion pack" (well you don't need it but prepare for the characters to look the wooden dolls). Other console makers (namely with the Playstation have attracted more developers and have not had to as easily pander to the needs of children). Plus I would rather not spend all my time trying to beat one of those games that Nintendo makes falling in lava, getting shot from 10 directions at once or having the evil elves kill me without warning are all symptoms of this problem.
Looks like Sony is taking a page from Microsoft's marketing playbook. Pretty box, but..no thanks. Time to buy a Dreamcast.:)
Well considering that even if I wanted to get a PS2 I couldn't because they only sell them in Japan and you cannot legally export them. Plus I would rather not have all the technical manuals writen in Japanese characters.
On a related note I have looked at the selection of games for the Dreamcast and all I can say is it's mostly eye candy. I really don't care that I can see realistic interpretations of people kicking and punching the shit out of others. I like the fact that square is releasing at least 2 titles in the Final Fantasy series and other RPGs for the PS2. Until Dreamcast has anything but games that seem to be like crappy copies of their earlier titles with better graphics rendering I won't care. take it for what it's worth but I want a good and very viable reason to buy something (yes $200 is a big deal for me so I like to get all the facts you compare apples and oranges with an already existing product with a partially avaible one).
Privacy, the one thing valued most yet attained the least. Don't bother reading 1984, it's inaccurate. All we need to do is get some control on how data is transfered, and encrypt more. As for personal privacy, just pay attention and watch your own ass. *shrugs*
Tell me why it is inaccurate? Theoretically a police state could be created and enforced with various forms of mind control. However it takes people really good at those things and we don't really have such individuals in the US today.
Make the law so Joe Citizen can understand it... otherwise, your law is poorly written and needs to be rewritten until it is understandable to the layman. Part of the reason so many laws are broken is that they are confusing, contradictory, or just plain unknown to the citizen. Even the cops who will arrest you don't know the law until they're told by others to arrest you for whatever. Go to a police station and ask then to appraise you of all new laws passed this year so you can stay up to date. They'll laugh you out of the office.
These are good points but you fail to realize that even though they are hard to understand you still have to understand them because ignorance of the law is no excuse for a violation of the law. Today I have probably done some small infraction of the law that no one would even know about unless someone were to actually get me for violating.
When the laws are all secret and no one will tell you what they are, how can one be expected to follow them?
You literally live in constant fear unless you want to accept a small risk. Like I have said you most likely violate a whole slew of laws every day and don't realize it. If you did know all the laws you would have a mighty long list and not a whole lot of sanity left.
Even more to the point. There are so many laws today with so many new ones coming on the books constantly, that I do not believe it is humanly possible for a single person to know them all. If so, how *can* one ever hope to comply?
Well I don't know how exactly lawyers do it but I would imagine that since laws are divided into classes and such. Laws for murder, rape, speeding, etc. You just look at the laws covering the class of something that you do. When you get your driver's liscence you are looking at a class of laws that are made for driving. Now I don't know exactly how close I can park to a railroad track anymore (never had to do it) but I can pretty much look at the big ones and follow them.
Gee... if I take this little gun and shot him I can be tried for murder and potentially spend the rest of my life in jail. Usually you go from the most obvious to the specific. Look at the facts and then act on those facts.
Unfortunately this makes law one of those professions that is usually concerned with after the fact matters.
When you buy a CD, you buy ONE copy of the contents, you can lend it (for free) to other people, you can even sell it, when you're bored with it. You CANNOT profit in anyway from it. Giving away copies to whoever counts as profit, as they now have a copy of the song.
Well what if I get a CD from a store for a really good price (discounted crappy country music CD or something like that) then I turn around and sell it for a small price hike say if the original CD cost $10.00 and I sell it for $10.01 then I have made profit not a hell of a lot but enough to make it really count.
Mr sterling eat one more lead laden paint chip than he should have. This guy could generate one of the biggest grandaddy flames of my entire net life in that little piece but I will try to restrain myself. The concept that the stock market can be adequately mapped and predicted for starters is not even removely close to being accurate. For many, many, many, years our most brilliant mathmeticians and physicists have attempted to use chaos theory int predicting the stock market and while there is some rudimentary ability to predict what it will do it is an open system not a closed one. This is not something that could be done even if technology could advance to the level on Star Trek. As an investment community grows the community changes and is prevented from doing the kinds of things he mentions. Secondly on all of his so called social knowledge and government I would also have to agree. If anything we have seen policies that have increased the ability of one to be liberal we have seen in just say 40 years: fair and equal traetment of minorities (at least better than what it was before), sexual orientation (some problems but generally ok), focusing the moral compass (we at least see the people who are getting murdered instead of them getting glossed over). Another assumption is that this individual is a "regular joe" that sounds foolish considering that the whole concept of being able to do an analysis of your own cuture and doing logical considerations about all related life isn't something that can easily be attained (I really can't accurately do it and I doubt that anyone else can either not even nobel prize winners). Another concept which is wrong is that people will gradually turn into the type that you would find in Fahrenheight(sp) 451 is also absurd. Even the development of the evil television hasn't really killed anyone just allowed for more choices. I think that we have seen a remarkable increase in the ability to gain knowledge and facts and to generally educate one another. The concept of a one world government by 2035 isn't even reasonable at all. Think of it if I am rather bad off or I have different opinions than you do you really think that I will willingly join your little government and give up all my rights? Well guess what I see is a rather large country with over 1,000,000,000 people in it who really dosn't want to be conquered add to that the concept that most of our recently developed nuclear delivery and guidance systems are now in their hands I think that at least a third world war will have to be fought in order to get that kind of thing. Also we see the development of suposedly having a large crash of the stock market and a resulting 1930's era depression occuring. I have had relatives that lived then (they are still alive) and from what they have told me and what I have read that is a little impossible. Organizations like the SEC and the Treasury department prevent all sorts of nastiness from happening. Add to that the problem with his idea of refugees. There is no way in hell that if you have to leave your home like the Oakies (as he so fondly referred to and the "Grapes of Wrath" boy was that a mistake on his part!) People who have nothing will not be able to have the finacial resources to have cellular phones, laptops, and web pages. I just think that the mix of Bradburry and Orwell in this guy's rants is a little extreme and unfounded because there are not a single citation or future prediction in the entire piece. This is more like reading a good piece of poreachy science fiction or perhaps anything by Orwell or Bradburry.
Ich wirklich denke nicht daß deutsche Stoffe groß, weil die meisten relvent Fällen in der Welt in den US geschehen. Ein Land ohne eine militärische Struktur ist im Allgemeinen unbrauchbar.
Well I ran the demo on an NT machine (upper end pentium PII 400 and it just crawled in just the menu I never even got past the opening screen. And even the turning logo was slow not to mention the lighting effects. What exactly did I do wrong here?
Well at least in the figurative sense. Space games have always been favorites of mine from trek in the BSD games category to others I think this will be rather cool. Too bad my linux machine really can't take the strain, but I do have this little old useless NT machine here I can inflict with much punishment.
Not only that but you can be put in to forced labor (the draft)because you are an adult, at 18... are old enough to decide the fate of your country (vote)because you are an adult, at 18... Are no longer allowed to have sex with your 1 year younger girlfriend (statutory rape) because you are now an adult, at 18... but you can't have a simple beer 'til you are 21.
What you are forgetting is that in many countries there is compulsary miliatary service which is not optional and not just a chance with the draft. Unlike my father who almost had to serve in Vietnam because of the draft I do not (although I did register but hey at least it's convienent and can be done over the internet:))
Galileo has given us invaluable data about our solar system: it's formation, history, what planets are made of and what they look like up close. Pretty much everything we know about our solar system outside of Earth can be attributed to this little space craft. It's well worth $1.5 billion for this knowledge.
I thought that the Voyager probes I and II did more than Galileo did. Do you have some references?
The original Voyager probe is actually still transmitting data to stations back on earth and giving some interesting data about solar wind dynamics and the structure of deep space.
"That's one small step for men, one giant kick in the groin for corporations."
I would hardly say that just because they can legally get the information or even if they can't get it can't just screw you almost any other way.
Yeah, there's just one problem... the score is still 162-1.:(
Well I wasn't keeping score but I think that you could say in some way that for some that score is much less or greater depending on who you are. If you are one of the stockholders of the company in question you may be thinking differently.
Oh, you mean like that 6 year old kid, at that elementary school?
Schools are safer than they were say 20 years ago and your are almost more likely to win the lottery than to even get shot in school.
Or the guy that got killed in that recent shooting spree?
Shooting sprees are not terribly common. They are just usually isolated cases of things going wrong. Odds are that if you go out and spend your whole life going to work and doing normal things you are not very likely to be even scraped by the wanton acts of another in the US.
Not to mention the very large number of "disappearances" that happen in the US, every year.
Could you elaborate? I would be very interested in knowing exactly what this means.
If you mean that people are kidnapped in the US then that may be a possibility but consider that the US is very large country and that also there are things like that happening everywhere. Don't tell me that say in China no one ever "dissapears" or in Russia or even Canada.
For all that that is (allegedly) very dry humour, the problem is that the US -would- be a great deal better if it had better privacy, more respect for life, and greater accountability at personal, corporate and government levels.
Like the British who are considering to enact draconian measures that would violate our constitutional rights here in the USA.
Like the law that forces them to give over their crypto private keys.
Like the fact that right now most likely Some British secret agent is scanning all the packets that come out of my machine and archiving them for later.
Singapore where you can be jailed for spitting on the ground or eating too much in a resteraunt (no lie)
China [sarcasm]where it's really groovy with the government if you speak your mind[/sarcasm]
Much Ruanda where the entire country is practally gripped in civil war.
Russia where eating food is considered a luxry and where gangs of criminals and the Maffia run the country.
Shall I go on? Which country should the United States emulate?
Indeed. All those meetings of the C Standards committee that the GCC maintainers ignore and/or boycott... It just wouldn't do to waste time at meetings when there's embracing and extending of the C language to be working on. (non compatible 'features' of GCC, that aren't even reported with the 'ansi' and 'pedantic' switches on, which causes programmers to write C code for GCC that won't build on any other compiler)
I am currently working on programming projects for C++ could you show me an example of code that will pass gcc/g++ that will not pass any other compiler.
And the Bash shell... which purports to be backwards compatible with the POSIX standard for/bin/sh.... Thank goodness the Bash maintainer is on record as not having access to a copy of the POSIX standard....
Unfortunately on linux systems sh is a symlink to bash so even a programmer can't tell the difference.
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On the other hand, this would go a long way towards pushing the whole internet appliance concept forward.
That is a bad thing. When you have everyone jumping ship to run one of those devices what happens to the cost of PCs and what about improvements? Basically you ruin the entire computer experience. WebTV has essentially not been a terrible success with it's approach and I don't think that internet appliances would be any better.
Sounds like good stuff
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I really didn't like AOL in the first place however if you can do it on linux that would mean people like my grandparents would never even notice me replacing their windows box
Don't be so arrogant as to assume that nobody from Japan reads Slashdot.
Some of us even care about things we will never own (mainframes, big unix boxen etc)- never mind only having to wait a few months.
Some of us can't afford to buy a PC that will run the latest games, wheras a console is a much more economical option.
That's actually very strange considering that I hardly see any homeless Japanese people (hell even in Europe for that matter) and that Japan has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world. Technically you can order a nice new state of the art computer (PIII and all that) for less than $900 from pricewatch I would also hazard a guess that they have similar deals in Japan. Plus a PC can do so much more than a console can.
Have you seen the *IDOITIC* system requirements for PC games nowdays? Buying 1 $300-400 PlayStation 2 beats buying a $1000-2000 computer every 6 months kiddo....
Well I have stated similar concerns but people sweep them under the rug as rantings from a wacko and I get massarced. They are rediculous and could use some trimming down.
I however disagree with the price tag. Theoretically with new PCs upgradeability is something that can be more easily achieved without too much hassle.
I didn't find it fraudulent... I read the text file that concerned the version number... he said that he got tired of people asking why he wasn't running "Linux 6.1" It was all very open and (I thought) tongue-in-cheek.
Yes but that dosn't mean that it can't boggle the minds of people like me. Just because I have a program and get irritated at it dosn't mean I have to call it goddamnityoufuckingass.cpp or something like that why should version numbers change the same way?
It could have been fun, if it could have been open to ALL Linux developers.
I think that using Loki's API isn't going to make your program less useful or able to compete with say a game produced by Loki. People have games that are compiled for win32 and most likely use Visual C++ does that mean that Microsoft is winning in the game market? Hell no.
Instead Loki president attitude was near to go away and make your own things.
I assume you meant the possesive form of opinion attributed to Loki in that case you would use Loki's but that's for another day. It's really hard to interpret that statement.
I don't see them stopping you from using their API they will not break your fingers.
While everyone is on party of this big announcement, we are forced to choose between:
- Implement yet another 3d sound library
- Follow Loki path, and hope to survive in the shadow of Loki
- "Gold old stereo is enough!!!"
- License a proprietary Windows library like Miles Sound System
I also assume you meant to say Loki's in the second point.
Also what is a Gold stero. Most of mine are usually grey or tan.
You could also use an already existing API for 3d sound if that's your cup of tea and make it better if you can't use it. I most likely don't have the technical expertice to code my own 3d sound API so I would probably use Loki's.
This is a good move by Loki and Creative, although Creatives involvement might put off other audio companies from wanting to use it - I bet the API is particularly suited towards Creative chipsets.
:-)
Well duh if you ran a company and you were working on a standard wouldn't you create one that your programmers and hardware technicians actually knew how to use?
Anyway, Open Audio Library will signal the beginning of a true cross platform 3D audio system. Hopefully it provides more functionality than Microsofts proprietary single platfrom DirectAudio(?) system, otherwise it will be hard
to get companies to switch over.
I don't see the benefit of doing something like that when you can just have standard sound from multiple speakers. Just take one speaker and put in on one side of the room and another and the other then you have sterophonic sound. Largely unless the sounds are intensely more complex your mind will associate the sound comming from different sources and allow for the "3d" effect.
John Carmack should love this, him being a fan of cross-platform APIs and OpenGL etc.
I think that making anything a standard that involves massive cpu computations or involves games in general would be a bad idea. Imagine if the standards for C++ were designed by a group of PC game peddlers I really don't think your would like that very much.
Apples audio libraries probably aren't available for Linux, only Macs and Windows at the moment, and I don't know much about the Mac Sprockets or whatever they are called libraries, but I thought I should mention them so that it
didn't look like I only thought that DirectAudio was the only competitor.
I thought that there were already various libraries and systems to support ear poping sound on linux someting called ALSA or the like but I wouldn't know because my computer never has been able to say a word to me (I think it's mute)
Now to wait the three years for the Amigas Audio system, AHI, to support this
To my understanding this company was about as dead as a coffin nail (according to the Dickens phrase). So why do people persist in talking about them?
No, you're right - in the past, people just sat back and took it when buggy consoles were released. I mean, the first wave of PSX were just awful.
That's why you try to get what is called a refund it works wonders and a nice little complaint letter is also good.
On the other hand, systems have become incredibly more durable. I can count on one finger the number of post-NES console systems that I have seen with problems caused by wear. Pretty good compared to the old "Jiggle the power
cable, it'll come on eventually" days. Or the "Yeah, it's like that - blow on the cartridge and stick it back in. Oh, yeah, there's a trick to getting the cartridge slot to stay down. Let me get that..." days.
I don't know about that. Consider that apparently people don't like the concept of cartriges and that little various forms of disk like media are being more and more popular. Eventually the little spinning parts will break. I want you to try this little experiment for me. Take a computer anyone even an old one like a 386 or a 486 and set it to work doing something trivial or maybe boring like doing rc5 or seti@home. Now leave the thing on 24/7/365 until it dies. Eventually the first thing that will die is the little spinning fan on the back that is in the power supply. That will go because of all the constant spinning that goes on. Not a pretty picture and not something that I would especially like.
Even the GameBoy is a lot better than when it first came out - I have one that's almost two years old, now, and every single pixel still works. Compare that to the old ones, where after you'd had it for a month, at least one column
was guaranteed to go out.
You actually have one? I really can't get worked up over a small hand held (read easily dropped and easily broken) device that has a very, very small screen and also would have a limited style of game due to hardware limitations. Even if they add color it dosn't do that much. I probably have more processing power in a 486 than that gameboy. Plus isn't it illegal to market a defective piece of machinery knowingly? Can you get a refund?
All the more reason to stick with my PC! Maybe once these bugs get worked out I'll add one to my enternainment center. But until then, my PC-DVD works great, I can play all the games just as good if not better...
I have always thought of a console system as a poor man's means of keeping up with gaming. For a little money you can buy the console and then get the game without the need for constant and costly upgrading. That and not all games are avaible for the PC that are on console systems.
This also makes me wonder what Nintendo is coming up with.... It might be worth while to wait a little and see before plunking down the $$'s.
Nintendo had it's day with the NES and the SNES with the introduction of the N64 we have a plethora of crappy cartoon oriented games that leave me with the chills. They have almost completely eliminated the concept of cheat codes and all their games require an additional "expansion pack" (well you don't need it but prepare for the characters to look the wooden dolls). Other console makers (namely with the Playstation have attracted more developers and have not had to as easily pander to the needs of children). Plus I would rather not spend all my time trying to beat one of those games that Nintendo makes falling in lava, getting shot from 10 directions at once or having the evil elves kill me without warning are all symptoms of this problem.
Looks like Sony is taking a page from Microsoft's marketing playbook. Pretty box, but..no thanks. Time to buy a Dreamcast. :)
Well considering that even if I wanted to get a PS2 I couldn't because they only sell them in Japan and you cannot legally export them. Plus I would rather not have all the technical manuals writen in Japanese characters.
On a related note I have looked at the selection of games for the Dreamcast and all I can say is it's mostly eye candy. I really don't care that I can see realistic interpretations of people kicking and punching the shit out of others. I like the fact that square is releasing at least 2 titles in the Final Fantasy series and other RPGs for the PS2. Until Dreamcast has anything but games that seem to be like crappy copies of their earlier titles with better graphics rendering I won't care. take it for what it's worth but I want a good and very viable reason to buy something (yes $200 is a big deal for me so I like to get all the facts you compare apples and oranges with an already existing product with a partially avaible one).
Privacy, the one thing valued most yet attained the least. Don't bother reading 1984, it's inaccurate. All we need to do is get some control on how data is transfered, and encrypt more. As for personal privacy, just pay attention and
watch your own ass. *shrugs*
Tell me why it is inaccurate? Theoretically a police state could be created and enforced with various forms of mind control. However it takes people really good at those things and we don't really have such individuals in the US today.
Make the law so Joe Citizen can understand it... otherwise, your law is poorly written and needs to be rewritten until it is understandable to the layman. Part of the reason so many laws are broken is that they are confusing,
contradictory, or just plain unknown to the citizen. Even the cops who will arrest you don't know the law until they're told by others to arrest you for whatever. Go to a police station and ask then to appraise you of all new laws
passed this year so you can stay up to date. They'll laugh you out of the office.
These are good points but you fail to realize that even though they are hard to understand you still have to understand them because ignorance of the law is no excuse for a violation of the law. Today I have probably done some small infraction of the law that no one would even know about unless someone were to actually get me for violating.
When the laws are all secret and no one will tell you what they are, how can one be expected to follow them?
You literally live in constant fear unless you want to accept a small risk. Like I have said you most likely violate a whole slew of laws every day and don't realize it. If you did know all the laws you would have a mighty long list and not a whole lot of sanity left.
Even more to the point. There are so many laws today with so many new ones coming on the books constantly, that I do not believe it is humanly possible for a single person to know them all. If so, how *can* one
ever hope to comply?
Well I don't know how exactly lawyers do it but I would imagine that since laws are divided into classes and such. Laws for murder, rape, speeding, etc. You just look at the laws covering the class of something that you do. When you get your driver's liscence you are looking at a class of laws that are made for driving. Now I don't know exactly how close I can park to a railroad track anymore (never had to do it) but I can pretty much look at the big ones and follow them.
Gee... if I take this little gun and shot him I can be tried for murder and potentially spend the rest of my life in jail. Usually you go from the most obvious to the specific. Look at the facts and then act on those facts.
Unfortunately this makes law one of those professions that is usually concerned with after the fact matters.
When you buy a CD, you buy ONE copy of the contents, you can lend it (for free) to other people, you can even sell it, when you're bored with it. You CANNOT profit in anyway from it. Giving away copies to whoever counts as
profit, as they now have a copy of the song.
Well what if I get a CD from a store for a really good price (discounted crappy country music CD or something like that) then I turn around and sell it for a small price hike say if the original CD cost $10.00 and I sell it for $10.01 then I have made profit not a hell of a lot but enough to make it really count.
Mr sterling eat one more lead laden paint chip than he should have. This guy could generate one of the biggest grandaddy flames of my entire net life in that little piece but I will try to restrain myself.
The concept that the stock market can be adequately mapped and predicted for starters is not even removely close to being accurate. For many, many, many, years our most brilliant mathmeticians and physicists have attempted to use chaos theory int predicting the stock market and while there is some rudimentary ability to predict what it will do it is an open system not a closed one. This is not something that could be done even if technology could advance to the level on Star Trek. As an investment community grows the community changes and is prevented from doing the kinds of things he mentions.
Secondly on all of his so called social knowledge and government I would also have to agree. If anything we have seen policies that have increased the ability of one to be liberal we have seen in just say 40 years: fair and equal traetment of minorities (at least better than what it was before), sexual orientation (some problems but generally ok), focusing the moral compass (we at least see the people who are getting murdered instead of them getting glossed over). Another assumption is that this individual is a "regular joe" that sounds foolish considering that the whole concept of being able to do an analysis of your own cuture and doing logical considerations about all related life isn't something that can easily be attained (I really can't accurately do it and I doubt that anyone else can either not even nobel prize winners). Another concept which is wrong is that people will gradually turn into the type that you would find in Fahrenheight(sp) 451 is also absurd. Even the development of the evil
television hasn't really killed anyone just allowed for more choices. I think that we have seen a remarkable increase in the ability to gain knowledge and facts and to generally educate one another. The concept of a one world government by 2035 isn't even reasonable at all. Think of it if I am rather bad off or I have different opinions than you do you really think that I will willingly join your little government and give up all my rights? Well guess what I see is a rather large country with over 1,000,000,000 people in it who really dosn't want to be conquered add to that the concept that most of our recently developed nuclear delivery and guidance systems are now in their hands I think that at least a third world war will have to be fought in order to get that kind of thing. Also we see the development of suposedly having a large crash of the stock market and a resulting 1930's era depression occuring. I have had relatives that lived then (they are still alive) and from what they have told me and what I
have read that is a little impossible. Organizations like the SEC and the Treasury department prevent all sorts of nastiness from happening. Add to that the problem with his idea of refugees. There is no way in hell that if you have to leave your home like the Oakies (as he so fondly referred to and the "Grapes of Wrath" boy was that a mistake on his part!)
People who have nothing will not be able to have the finacial resources to have cellular phones, laptops, and web pages.
I just think that the mix of Bradburry and Orwell in this guy's rants is a little extreme and unfounded because there are not a single citation or future prediction in the entire piece. This is more like reading a good piece of poreachy science fiction or perhaps anything by Orwell or Bradburry.
Ich wirklich denke nicht daß deutsche Stoffe groß, weil die meisten relvent Fällen in der Welt in den US geschehen. Ein
Land ohne eine militärische Struktur ist im Allgemeinen unbrauchbar.
Can the raid controller also give the same functionality as the ATA66 because the components are so similar?
Well I ran the demo on an NT machine (upper end pentium PII 400 and it just crawled in just the menu I never even got past the opening screen. And even the turning logo was slow not to mention the lighting effects. What exactly did I do wrong here?
Hell yes....every day before I left for elementary school I'd manage to get a good 15 minutes of TI-99/4A Parsec in.
I honestly have no Idea what you are talking about could someone please explain.
Well at least in the figurative sense. Space games have always been favorites of mine from trek in the BSD games category to others I think this will be rather cool. Too bad my linux machine really can't take the strain, but I do have this little old useless NT machine here I can inflict with much punishment.
Not only that but you can be put in to forced labor (the draft)because you are an adult, at 18...
:))
are old enough to decide the fate of your country (vote)because you are an adult, at 18...
Are no longer allowed to have sex with your 1 year younger girlfriend (statutory rape) because you are now an adult, at 18...
but you can't have a simple beer 'til you are 21.
What you are forgetting is that in many countries there is compulsary miliatary service which is not optional and not just a chance with the draft. Unlike my father who almost had to serve in Vietnam because of the draft I do not (although I did register but hey at least it's convienent and can be done over the internet
Galileo has given us invaluable data about our solar system: it's formation, history, what planets are made of and what they look like up close. Pretty much everything we know about our solar system outside of Earth can be attributed
to this little space craft. It's well worth $1.5 billion for this knowledge.
I thought that the Voyager probes I and II did more than Galileo did. Do you have some references?
The original Voyager probe is actually still transmitting data to stations back on earth and giving some interesting data about solar wind dynamics and the structure of deep space.
"That's one small step for men, one giant kick in the groin for corporations."
:(
I would hardly say that just because they can legally get the information or even if they can't get it can't just screw you almost any other way.
Yeah, there's just one problem... the score is still 162-1.
Well I wasn't keeping score but I think that you could say in some way that for some that score is much less or greater depending on who you are. If you are one of the stockholders of the company in question you may be thinking differently.
Let's look at these one at a time.
Oh, you mean like that 6 year old kid, at that elementary school?
Schools are safer than they were say 20 years ago and your are almost more likely to win the lottery than to even get shot in school.
Or the guy that got killed in that recent shooting spree?
Shooting sprees are not terribly common. They are just usually isolated cases of things going wrong. Odds are that if you go out and spend your whole life going to work and doing normal things you are not very likely to be even scraped by the wanton acts of another in the US.
Not to mention the very large number of "disappearances" that happen in the US, every year.
Could you elaborate? I would be very interested in knowing exactly what this means.
If you mean that people are kidnapped in the US then that may be a possibility but consider that the US is very large country and that also there are things like that happening everywhere. Don't tell me that say in China no one ever "dissapears" or in Russia or even Canada.
For all that that is (allegedly) very dry humour, the problem is that the US -would- be a great deal better if it had better privacy, more respect for life, and greater accountability at personal, corporate and government levels.
Like the British who are considering to enact draconian measures that would violate our constitutional rights here in the USA.
Like the law that forces them to give over their crypto private keys.
Like the fact that right now most likely Some British secret agent is scanning all the packets that come out of my machine and archiving them for later.
Singapore where you can be jailed for spitting on the ground or eating too much in a resteraunt (no lie)
China [sarcasm]where it's really groovy with the government if you speak your mind[/sarcasm]
Much Ruanda where the entire country is practally gripped in civil war.
Russia where eating food is considered a luxry and where gangs of criminals and the Maffia run the country.
Shall I go on? Which country should the United States emulate?
Indeed. All those meetings of the C Standards committee that the GCC maintainers ignore and/or boycott... It just wouldn't do to waste time at meetings when there's embracing and extending of the C language to be working on.
/bin/sh.... Thank goodness the Bash maintainer is on record as not having access to a copy of the POSIX standard....
(non compatible 'features' of GCC, that aren't even reported with the 'ansi' and 'pedantic' switches on, which causes programmers to write C code for GCC that won't build on any other compiler)
I am currently working on programming projects for C++ could you show me an example of code that will pass gcc/g++ that will not pass any other compiler.
And the Bash shell... which purports to be backwards compatible with the POSIX standard for
Unfortunately on linux systems sh is a symlink to bash so even a programmer can't tell the difference.