You have an 8 lane crowded highway and you want to transfer a ton of small packets over it. Why use a big convoy of trucks and wait like 98% of idiots out there? Didn't you notice something strange... those motorists that are laughing at your face and passing you by all the time? Why not use them as the means of transport? Maybe because they are expensive in real world, but in digital that's not the case...
I use them. I use software like ReGet that doesn't put out one connection for a truckload of data. It creates in my case by default minimal of 32 (or in serious congestions even 64 and 100+) connections and downloads them all at the same time. It's like a ton of motorists transferring your data around slow moving trucks. I never get less than 100% of my 2Mbit downlink downloading this way.
Why blame anyone for not doing the stuff to help the non-idiot computer users? It's not where the money is. Remember... it's called software development - and when there is money involved there are idiots involved. Smart people don't pay for 1s and 0s.
For intelligent users all there is needed is some kind of "outcrap emulator" that will simulate running outlook spyware & spam sucing software on your computer and you're all set - the sync software will think of you as an idiot outlook (l)user and will not complain. It will simply sync with an emulator, the emulator will take care of the rest and make exportable data files or even integrate with superior products out there.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
This "feature" is the supposed "trusted" applications thing.
All I can do is laugh at the extreme stupidity of this TotalCrap that will never be used in normal computers of normal developers (those with brains that don't buy everything embedded).
If the TotalCrap paradigm is based on copy/paste-ing the executables in some stupid folder and then adding a couple of xml ascii files... how many minutes do you think will take, for some experienced cracker to make the life of all experienced users easier? I guess not much.
Insta_TotalCrapUncrap.exe here we come. I hope it will come as a daemon and run transparently.;)
No-one forced people to upgrade their music libraries from cassettes to CDs, they did it because they wanted better sound quality. Soon enough, iTunes AACs will be superceded with something worthy of a switch, and we'll all buy our libraries again.
You only need to download an mp3 once, and that's for free.
160kbps is more than enough for any non-mobile-phone-based-dumb-fancy-schmancy overrated home surround system. Hello? Anyone with brains here? How much quality do you need for a pair of 1$ in-ear headphones that work with any (normal and decent) portable player or phone?
If you're an audiophile and are stupid enough to throw away a few 100 dozens of 100$ bills (1000$ for a stupid wire? Now THAT's retarded.) you're even stupid enough to buy new drm'ed media every week, only god can help people that dumb.
For all the 99,99% other normal people out there the situation is different: we have 2 ears that can hear only limited range of frequencies, 2 channels and current mp3 frequency range is enough for us; even enough for whales, bats and dogs, thank you and fuck you, DRM moneysucking psychos. We don't need your crap, P2P is free and BETTER.
MP3 is de-facto for "Digital Music" and people understand that when they buy "digital music player" that they want "mp3 player". And what does an "mp3 player" plays? MP3!
That's it. People with good computer-based collections of music have it in MP3 format because it "just works". WindowsMandatoryAudio or some apple's crappy format, who cares? Trans-code it to MP3 format, put it on the P2P network and the music will continue to spread, as it was meant to, in the "digital music format" that does not include crappy drm overheads and similar nonsense reserved for idiot buyers.
Just a matter of time before this application gets it's brother: "the simulator".
It uses the same algorithms in a slightly different way: instead of checking for the signs of forgery it finds the tell-tale signs of modification and then reverse-modifies them to "what-should-be-there" to make an "original" modified image.
The result will be an image that is ofcourse different only from mathematical standpoint - visual information will be the same. If that wouldn't be true I would love to have an application that "unblurs" or "unblackouts" the censored parts of some pictures.
Image will have after processing the properties of an "original" because the signs of "not-original" will be detected and "fixed". Way to go...:D
WineGUI for the linux platform would be an excellent idea.
If it would be distributed with a simple to install linux distro and it would enable users to simply run WineGUI, select a windows installer file/zip with it and run it to install the win32 application on the linux box... you know where I'm going with this.
If a distribution like this would exist the single reason people stil use winblowz would be eliminated: simplicity of installing win32 applications. On windows most applications "just work". With WineGUI they could be made to "just work" also on a linux machine.
And the best of this would be: The only unsupported applications that wouldn't work would be spyware ridden bloatware and badly written freeware crap that all users would have to replace. Replace with what? Free and better alternatives from the WineGUI database of good quality applications.
If it is universal in a sense that it reads numerous.pdf and.chm e-books (not to mention.txt and offline copies of web pages) that you can google for and download right now it could be a succsess. If you can only read overpaied crappy sony books, they will fail as usual on the inteligent buyers market and get only supported by idiots (as all DRM schemes were and are).
Copy-right,left,up or down, consumers don't care what the DRM whiners and sony-virus installers are yapping, we are only interested in the minimum investment and maximum return.
E-books are all free (some only on p2p networks but with sizes of couple of megs who cares where you get it from), only the "player" is the payable part and the player should play everything we users throw at it. If it doesn't guess what? Competitior's player WILL and we will buy their product and ignore sony's crap.
Remember the (not true, but still proves the point) anecdote about space pen that NASA supposedly invested millions in its development? Guess what was the miracle cure to write in space that Russians used? A pencil.
History repeats itself once again... you throw rubber camera balls at us and they all turn their focus the wrong way. We use a mirror and see where to run.
What about the linking to search engine like Google? Google, for example, offers direct searching of copyrighted files with simple filetype:mp3 and even simpler searches for other illegal stuff.
So I can get sued on court for any of the following offenses of providing people access to:
child pornography
materials for terrorist activity
copyrighted software
copyrighted music
and more...
only because I provided people with a single search box on my home page where you can enter your query and get any of the results from the list above because Google indexes such sites? Remember, all you had to do, to go directly from my site to hardcore-illegal site, was entering some text and one click on "I feel lucky" button on my home page.
Is it only me or does this sound absurd but plausible at the same time?
I am using this baby for quite some time now with my Centrino and the only problem that I'm getting is the interference while there is heavy network traffic. The cursor starts skipping and is not so smooth anymore. But that's only when there is 100% congestion on b-type connection. And because laptop is not my dedicated tero-torrent-ized machine in my network that is not a big deal.
As well that's nothing that a quick LAN cable to router couldn't fix for those 5 minutes of copying files. Make that 1 minute as LAN is 100Mbit and WLAN-b is only 10.;)
I've been using it with my live teaching lessions in class flawlessly and I can walk 15 meters across the class and still show with mouse pointer on the big screen everything I want my students to see.
One kind of pheromones makes a woman more attracted to you by the "more trust" and not "more macho" factor (androstenone). This stuff has remarkably similar effects.
Are we looking at new "secret" pick-up cologne ingredient?
My old keyboards were "crunchy" as hell and very hairy to say the least (not to mention the constant high powered whamming when computer didn't do what it should do). But my laptop keyboard is still clean and reactive as new... guess I don't even dare to think of something spilling or hitting a laptop keyboard.
Destroyed too many keyboards? Solution: Get a laptop.
It'll be interesting to see some theories about the early universe shattered to pieces.
Don't forget that this is not a window but a blurry keyhole. You won't see much trough it. Maybe a few blurry spots with not a lot of meaning (try driving a car looking trough a keyhole while wearing fogged up glasses).
If you have the answer to this question you have the answer to the question why it DOESN'T matter if MS copies from Mac. It's on a different platform so you're comparing apples to oranges.
How about some worker that comes in the office to drop-off some sensitive data that he collected on the field, and just takes his Handheld in his hand, puts his finger on fingerprint reader and after authorization transfers his data into the system and get new data on Handheld from mainframe with one simple "touch of a fingerprint-reader button".
No cards, no IDs, no security holes, just connect and transfer. Fingerprint is your password and body is your medium. Now this is what I call the future.
There is a simple reason why you wouldn't want to remove IE from the system: You install windows and want to download firefox from the internet. Now give me one good way that doesn't request user to have 5 years of experience with dos, ftp or similar utility to do that? Remember: bundling something like lynx with Windows is the same as bundling IE... so what can a newbie with only a brand new computer & Windows CD do now?
The usual "If modem doesn't work download new driver from the internet." problem.;)
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You have an 8 lane crowded highway and you want to transfer a ton of small packets over it. Why use a big convoy of trucks and wait like 98% of idiots out there? Didn't you notice something strange... those motorists that are laughing at your face and passing you by all the time? Why not use them as the means of transport? Maybe because they are expensive in real world, but in digital that's not the case...
I use them. I use software like ReGet that doesn't put out one connection for a truckload of data. It creates in my case by default minimal of 32 (or in serious congestions even 64 and 100+) connections and downloads them all at the same time. It's like a ton of motorists transferring your data around slow moving trucks. I never get less than 100% of my 2Mbit downlink downloading this way.
And not one answer... the search tells us that there are about 1,690,000,000 results for query 42
Let's try to sum them all up and use deep thought to answer us what number we get.
Why blame anyone for not doing the stuff to help the non-idiot computer users? It's not where the money is. Remember... it's called software development - and when there is money involved there are idiots involved. Smart people don't pay for 1s and 0s.
For intelligent users all there is needed is some kind of "outcrap emulator" that will simulate running outlook spyware & spam sucing software on your computer and you're all set - the sync software will think of you as an idiot outlook (l)user and will not complain. It will simply sync with an emulator, the emulator will take care of the rest and make exportable data files or even integrate with superior products out there.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
;)
This "feature" is the supposed "trusted" applications thing.
All I can do is laugh at the extreme stupidity of this TotalCrap that will never be used in normal computers of normal developers (those with brains that don't buy everything embedded).
If the TotalCrap paradigm is based on copy/paste-ing the executables in some stupid folder and then adding a couple of xml ascii files... how many minutes do you think will take, for some experienced cracker to make the life of all experienced users easier? I guess not much.
Insta_TotalCrapUncrap.exe here we come. I hope it will come as a daemon and run transparently.
No-one forced people to upgrade their music libraries from cassettes to CDs, they did it because they wanted better sound quality. Soon enough, iTunes AACs will be superceded with something worthy of a switch, and we'll all buy our libraries again.
You only need to download an mp3 once, and that's for free.
160kbps is more than enough for any non-mobile-phone-based-dumb-fancy-schmancy overrated home surround system. Hello? Anyone with brains here? How much quality do you need for a pair of 1$ in-ear headphones that work with any (normal and decent) portable player or phone?
If you're an audiophile and are stupid enough to throw away a few 100 dozens of 100$ bills (1000$ for a stupid wire? Now THAT's retarded.) you're even stupid enough to buy new drm'ed media every week, only god can help people that dumb.
For all the 99,99% other normal people out there the situation is different: we have 2 ears that can hear only limited range of frequencies, 2 channels and current mp3 frequency range is enough for us; even enough for whales, bats and dogs, thank you and fuck you, DRM moneysucking psychos. We don't need your crap, P2P is free and BETTER.
MP3 is de-facto for "Digital Music" and people understand that when they buy "digital music player" that they want "mp3 player". And what does an "mp3 player" plays? MP3!
That's it. People with good computer-based collections of music have it in MP3 format because it "just works". WindowsMandatoryAudio or some apple's crappy format, who cares? Trans-code it to MP3 format, put it on the P2P network and the music will continue to spread, as it was meant to, in the "digital music format" that does not include crappy drm overheads and similar nonsense reserved for idiot buyers.
Just a matter of time before this application gets it's brother: "the simulator".
:D
It uses the same algorithms in a slightly different way: instead of checking for the signs of forgery it finds the tell-tale signs of modification and then reverse-modifies them to "what-should-be-there" to make an "original" modified image.
The result will be an image that is ofcourse different only from mathematical standpoint - visual information will be the same. If that wouldn't be true I would love to have an application that "unblurs" or "unblackouts" the censored parts of some pictures.
Image will have after processing the properties of an "original" because the signs of "not-original" will be detected and "fixed". Way to go...
WineGUI for the linux platform would be an excellent idea.
If it would be distributed with a simple to install linux distro and it would enable users to simply run WineGUI, select a windows installer file/zip with it and run it to install the win32 application on the linux box... you know where I'm going with this.
If a distribution like this would exist the single reason people stil use winblowz would be eliminated: simplicity of installing win32 applications. On windows most applications "just work". With WineGUI they could be made to "just work" also on a linux machine.
And the best of this would be: The only unsupported applications that wouldn't work would be spyware ridden bloatware and badly written freeware crap that all users would have to replace. Replace with what? Free and better alternatives from the WineGUI database of good quality applications.
AdBlock is effective even against such banners. I couldn't see the banner until I disabled my filtering.
If it is universal in a sense that it reads numerous .pdf and .chm e-books (not to mention .txt and offline copies of web pages) that you can google for and download right now it could be a succsess. If you can only read overpaied crappy sony books, they will fail as usual on the inteligent buyers market and get only supported by idiots (as all DRM schemes were and are).
Copy-right,left,up or down, consumers don't care what the DRM whiners and sony-virus installers are yapping, we are only interested in the minimum investment and maximum return.
E-books are all free (some only on p2p networks but with sizes of couple of megs who cares where you get it from), only the "player" is the payable part and the player should play everything we users throw at it. If it doesn't guess what? Competitior's player WILL and we will buy their product and ignore sony's crap.
Remember the (not true, but still proves the point) anecdote about space pen that NASA supposedly invested millions in its development? Guess what was the miracle cure to write in space that Russians used? A pencil.
History repeats itself once again... you throw rubber camera balls at us and they all turn their focus the wrong way. We use a mirror and see where to run.
Do you think that bosses know how to check e-mail headers? 90% of them only know how to start Outlook if the icon is sitting directly on the desktop.
So I can get sued on court for any of the following offenses of providing people access to:
- child pornography
- materials for terrorist activity
- copyrighted software
- copyrighted music
- and more...
only because I provided people with a single search box on my home page where you can enter your query and get any of the results from the list above because Google indexes such sites? Remember, all you had to do, to go directly from my site to hardcore-illegal site, was entering some text and one click on "I feel lucky" button on my home page.Is it only me or does this sound absurd but plausible at the same time?
I am using this baby for quite some time now with my Centrino and the only problem that I'm getting is the interference while there is heavy network traffic. The cursor starts skipping and is not so smooth anymore. But that's only when there is 100% congestion on b-type connection. And because laptop is not my dedicated tero-torrent-ized machine in my network that is not a big deal.
;)
As well that's nothing that a quick LAN cable to router couldn't fix for those 5 minutes of copying files. Make that 1 minute as LAN is 100Mbit and WLAN-b is only 10.
I've been using it with my live teaching lessions in class flawlessly and I can walk 15 meters across the class and still show with mouse pointer on the big screen everything I want my students to see.
One kind of pheromones makes a woman more attracted to you by the "more trust" and not "more macho" factor (androstenone). This stuff has remarkably similar effects.
Are we looking at new "secret" pick-up cologne ingredient?
My old keyboards were "crunchy" as hell and very hairy to say the least (not to mention the constant high powered whamming when computer didn't do what it should do). But my laptop keyboard is still clean and reactive as new... guess I don't even dare to think of something spilling or hitting a laptop keyboard.
Destroyed too many keyboards? Solution: Get a laptop.
The MATRIX!
Sell your sleep for power... anyone interested?
It'll be interesting to see some theories about the early universe shattered to pieces.
Don't forget that this is not a window but a blurry keyhole. You won't see much trough it. Maybe a few blurry spots with not a lot of meaning (try driving a car looking trough a keyhole while wearing fogged up glasses).
If you have the answer to this question you have the answer to the question why it DOESN'T matter if MS copies from Mac. It's on a different platform so you're comparing apples to oranges.
It's not enough to have software that won't work without authentication through the net (HL2), now e-books also?
Doesn't anyone care about us, who do most of our reading offline on a laptop in public transport?
I wouldn't want to even go into debate about embeded tracking ID's from online stores, that sue people if their copy get copied on the p2p networks...
How about some worker that comes in the office to drop-off some sensitive data that he collected on the field, and just takes his Handheld in his hand, puts his finger on fingerprint reader and after authorization transfers his data into the system and get new data on Handheld from mainframe with one simple "touch of a fingerprint-reader button".
No cards, no IDs, no security holes, just connect and transfer. Fingerprint is your password and body is your medium. Now this is what I call the future.
There is a simple reason why you wouldn't want to remove IE from the system: You install windows and want to download firefox from the internet. Now give me one good way that doesn't request user to have 5 years of experience with dos, ftp or similar utility to do that? Remember: bundling something like lynx with Windows is the same as bundling IE... so what can a newbie with only a brand new computer & Windows CD do now?
;)
The usual "If modem doesn't work download new driver from the internet." problem.
Will Microsoft open the Windows source code and if not, why not?
...with your pink bunny slippers on. Didn't your driving instructor told you to re-boot before you drive?
You mean the three of them ?
Only two now...