Because Microsoft want you to copy Vista. More pirated copies of Vista mean a larger installed base of Vista, and that's good for MS because it spurs adoption of their new O.S offering and helps it achieve critical mass. XP's day's are numbered and to MS a pirated copy of Vista means one less copy of Linux or anything else for that matter, from there services can be onsold.
I'll put an idea out there, what about a virus that does a stronger validation check than MS and disables it if it is a pirated copy.
unless you are one of those people that believes that Barack Obama is going to magically change everything for the better
It's hard to believe that the race for president is anything more than who will be the CEO of America Inc. America has enviable legal structures to protect the citizenry, but even Benjamin Franklin (basically) said that the constitution would not save America from despotism forever.
Participation in democracy should be the DUTY of every person who lives in it, not floating around a feeble 20% of the population, how can democracy even function with so few people participating. The saddest thing is, so few people even care. Freedom is a fragile thing and has to be maintained.
It is time that we stood up to the government and said that we are not going live like scared rabbits....drop the BS and let us live like free people.
Fixed that for you.
It's the government people are afraid of and whilst the people are afraid of the government the government has the power to implement these procedures. In ALL western democracies the government should be afraid of the people and until that day happens get used to long lines at the airport and da man with latex glove.
Fuck the tewworists, fuck security, I'll take my chances being blown up by some dick-head rather than live on my knees. Freedom isn't for the meek, it's for people who take ownership of their rights. The electorate can choose either complacency or vigilance but the result is the electorate gets the type of government the electorate deserves.
What Google deserves is the market leader position (they are currently in). But not a monopoly. Monopoly means abusing the market and destroying competition.
Well put, if Google grows large enough to offset Microsoft's position of control of the technology market because monopoly has also stifled innovation.
Microsoft have got to be getting pretty close to the other side of that bell curve by now and, if they can adapt, how do we know the I.T industry wouldn't be bigger without a monopoly of any kind?
And worst of all, monopoly has made the IT Industry boring.
I know some Koori's, that's how first Australian's (the politically correct term in Australia for Aboriginals) refer to themselves. If you want to see what some of there cultural stories look like check this site out .
So this is simply a website with user management. Not everybody is allowed to see everything.
Exactly. I think that if there is an off-line aspect to it then either a custom application that only allows those verified to access/download images OR gpg and a ring of trust as a solution more analogous to their actual requirements. I know it can be a bit convoluted, but surely making gpg easier for the Koori elders to use would be a good thing for everyone, even us whitey's!!! The main problem I see is that their culture is not one that uses writing and shares their stories by telling and by viewing them. There is evidence of their culture all around Australia and I have had personal experiences visiting their physical sites, some are quite beautiful (aside from the natural beauty of the surroundings).
I don't know who sold them on the idea of DRM, if the Koori's understood the philosophy from which it came from (i.e. that which tries to own the community - or land - instead of the land - or community - owning it) is being placed in control of their culture, I am certain they would be horrified as this belief is core to their being, male female, boy girl across the many Koori tribal lands. I think whoever has said "DRM' is the answer is not being true to the Koori's they are advising by not understanding this issue. GPG and the GPL is definitely more in line with the traditional cultural ideals that I know of.
Now the only question is how to make gpg easy for a visually oriented culture to use, especially the elders, which in this case will drive adoption.
One other thing, I think there is a bit of a thin edge of the wedge going on here, as in the advocates of DRM trying to find a cultural fit as a justification to use DRM somewhere, to force adoption by the wider community.
Nuclear power is not the only source of radiation released because of human activity.
Accumulation of radioactive isotopes concentrates in the food chain. They mimic elements the body require and are deposited in the body by the food eaten. Depending on the radioactivity it emits and where it's absorbed the medical effects occur. i.e, strontium 90, calcium analogue, bone cancers.
Radioactive isotopes should collected and stored no matter what industry they come from.
Given Micro$oft's track record that means if they say it's going to be out in 2009, it's on track for release in late 2010 or 2011. Nice to know that it's on schedule.
Mod parent up, this is a succinct description of the release history of all of Microsoft's O.S offerings, despite the necessary sarcasm.
Yes, necessary sarcasm because Microsoft treat the industry with disdain. Given their existing track record how can this even be taken seriously? I think a more appropriate name would be "Windows - Real Soon, Now!" because thats what is available.
All I'm getting at though is if public perception has to be manipulated to give more funding to space research, there are obvious ways. At the very least NASA's patent earnings could be returned to them so they wouldn't have to be at the mercy of budgetary review as there sole source of funding.
But they also had William Proxmire, architect of what is arguably the most stupid decision in the history of mankind: the turn back from pioneering space.
Was that the Golden Fleece thing? I would have liked to do the "measured the length of airline hostess's buttock" project, I mean whoever thought of the project *SHOULD* be the president, what an absolute legend of an idea - sheer genius.
Without people pressuring the politicians to fulfill NASA's funding requests, NASA begins to fail at its mission. Why keep a failure?
What about assigning Nasa's patent royalty earnings as a supplement to their budget and offset some projects onto the military, that way the military gets it's cake and eat's it too.
I think what we need is some politicians with imagination, the will and enthusiasm to inspire Joe Public OR you could just scare the shit out of them by getting them to imagine China dropping a mass onto New York from orbit, wouldn't even need to be a nuke.
I mean it doesn't take a genius to realise the military application of space, hasn't the DoD announced their plan to dominate space in a document released with the benefits. I'm sure I have seen it discussed here.
I doubt the Australians were doing nothing after the USA got their scramjet tests in,
Dood, I am Australian, I love this country - but lets be realistic, we are hardly in the space race. I have little doubt that the CSIRO scramjet research was contributed under some trade agreement to the U.S. We did a lot of rocket development here (a little known fact that Australia has/had the largest Air Force base in the world, something like 5000kms) for the Brit's and the U.S but that's about all. I'd love it if we had a NASA, but alas...
Yes, you want things safe, but they're not even doing that very well. Fuel tank readings faulty for several missions before they bother to hold things back and fault-trace?!
I read C.A.I.B, there are lot's of lesson's there, but what I'm thinking is, as long as the foundations are laid carefully (and maybe somewhat outside of NASA's budget) bankable progress could be made. DOE is looking to space based solar, nano-ribbon buildings (like a bridge over the Atlantic for example) could pave the way for what the 21st century should look like. A heavy lift (i.e 100K+ tons) to L.E.O and beyond should'nt be that far behind.
Results are what get the citizenry interested, and interested citizens are what it takes to get Congessional funding.
No disagreement there, but I think it's all a product of C grade politicians, we need A grade politicians and I'm afraid that the words "World Leader" really means "Status Quo Maintainer" in today's world. Australia has a position made for a Space elevator just outside of Perth and our countries have always been good friends...
Ok, I just dreaming, but we can't stay down here forever.
At the risk of being seen as a fan bouy, what about Space elevators? Surely research into solving the materials issues to make this happen should be a priority, I'm specifically referring to the creation of funding for nano-fibre ribbon research.
At the very least will this generation of launchers facilitate construction of an S.E. Will the heavy lift vehicles be able to carry enough into L.E.O for the initial spool segment. I mean realistically without S.E technology is there any point to building chemical based rockets to to moon base and mars landings?
Wouldn't it be more logical to build a S.E as the first stage out of L.E.O and use Nuclear powered craft outside our gravity well for exploration? Surely then we could have re-usable 'capital ships' in space with centrifugal gravity, to take care of the crew, and existing S.E's to make a landing and crew return. With a nano-ribbon landing onto mars you could just lower the initial base to the surface, and travel back up by a ribbon car.
I read the NIAC study, it makes a compelling cost case, 40 Billion for the entire structure. But even a couple of Billion investment for ribbon research from the D.O.I of the D.O.E is something that could be done at the same time. Aside from them being cool, isn't it time we thought about making rocket launches obsolete and structured our current generation of launch vehicles to achieve that goal?
, don't you think the army would be the first line of defense.
Nope, the army's job is war, not rescue. If it was the reaction to Hurricane Katrina would have been a lot different, but then that's conjecture, I don't think we are going to see a 100 meter tall monster ripping apart our cities any time soon.
I thought 'meh' it was ok, but your right on about Sony's new camera's, where can I get one.
I'm sick of the whole; RPGs, machine guns, tanks, fighter jets and bombers... cant stop this thing. Its cheesy, its over done, we saw King Kong
The whole "use the army to rescue us" is a hang over from post world war II movies, time for something new there, although it's does make me wonder if the army has been trained to deal with 100 meter tall monsters. My initial thought's were, "Hey, it's Double 0 Godzilla, with alien like stuff", it's not bad - but it's not good either, or for that matter original. It borrows from Godzilla(King Kong), Aliens and Blare Witch(with less annoying camera)".
I lust after a truly engaging Sci Fi, and REAL Sci Fi WITH BALLS(tm). Star Trek and Star Wars aren't Sci Fi to me - they are sci fantasy. Alien(s) was so good it was both sci fi and horror. Blade Runner yes, Abyss yes --- 2001 - Benchmark, but movies aren't made for you and me, they're made for the kids, who haven't seen this before so they can go "WHOO HOO krad - that's wicked". Maybe A.C.Clarke will make a Rama or Fountains, I heard rumors...
It's been a long time, what with remakes and redo's and sequels, since Hollywood has come up with anything interesting. Mainly because movie making is no longer a craft, it's a product that has to minimise risk to produce a return. Not so good that it fucks your head and you HAVE to go back and see it 37 times, but good enough so that you won't pass over it in the video store because your girlfriend hasn't seen it at the movies and you think 'why not - it was ok'.
And of course the latency. User's have enough of a hard time with an applications latency on a local machine, let's chuck a network into it as well and really piss them off.
Carr is talks from the perspective of a user - not a technologist so when I see an article by someone qualified to make such predictions I'll pay more attention. He talks about distributed applications like google apps which have their place for casual users who realise they can get in trouble for copying proprietary software. I don't see any business trusting their sensitive business data to anyone outside their own fire walls and applications like Sales-force are already revealing the weakness in their business models wrt what can be done with the data, and limitations on the volume of data. Distributed app's within a corporate intranet, yes - outside no.
Open source applications (i.e Open Office) are already being employed to negate licensing fees of internal and utility applications and Nick want's be to believe he has a crystal ball that tells him how the I.T industry will look before these new models of developing applications start to dominate, I'm dubious. Sun's recent investment in MySQL tells me that there is a bright future ahead for the I.T industry expanding, if anything as the more complicated the view of the world we have, the more complicated our information systems are to make sense of it.
Presuming no immediate failure of our world systems that sustain us, I predict that widespread use of nano-technology AND genetic engineering will increase the demand for programmers, and I haven't even started analysing the need for control systems to address global warming and energy efficiency initiatives that will probably become government requirements in the near future.
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I'll put an idea out there, what about a virus that does a stronger validation check than MS and disables it if it is a pirated copy.
Participation in democracy should be the DUTY of every person who lives in it, not floating around a feeble 20% of the population, how can democracy even function with so few people participating. The saddest thing is, so few people even care. Freedom is a fragile thing and has to be maintained.
Fixed that for you.
It's the government people are afraid of and whilst the people are afraid of the government the government has the power to implement these procedures. In ALL western democracies the government should be afraid of the people and until that day happens get used to long lines at the airport and da man with latex glove.
Fuck the tewworists, fuck security, I'll take my chances being blown up by some dick-head rather than live on my knees. Freedom isn't for the meek, it's for people who take ownership of their rights. The electorate can choose either complacency or vigilance but the result is the electorate gets the type of government the electorate deserves.
Microsoft have got to be getting pretty close to the other side of that bell curve by now and, if they can adapt, how do we know the I.T industry wouldn't be bigger without a monopoly of any kind?
And worst of all, monopoly has made the IT Industry boring.
They are brokers for someone else's rights that they don't want to pay for.
They are brokers for someone else's rights that they don't want to pay for.
I don't know who sold them on the idea of DRM, if the Koori's understood the philosophy from which it came from (i.e. that which tries to own the community - or land - instead of the land - or community - owning it) is being placed in control of their culture, I am certain they would be horrified as this belief is core to their being, male female, boy girl across the many Koori tribal lands. I think whoever has said "DRM' is the answer is not being true to the Koori's they are advising by not understanding this issue. GPG and the GPL is definitely more in line with the traditional cultural ideals that I know of.
Now the only question is how to make gpg easy for a visually oriented culture to use, especially the elders, which in this case will drive adoption.
One other thing, I think there is a bit of a thin edge of the wedge going on here, as in the advocates of DRM trying to find a cultural fit as a justification to use DRM somewhere, to force adoption by the wider community.
Radioactive isotopes should collected and stored no matter what industry they come from.
Q. How many product failures does it take to kill microsoft?
A. Seven?
*ducks*
Mod parent up, this is a succinct description of the release history of all of Microsoft's O.S offerings, despite the necessary sarcasm.
Yes, necessary sarcasm because Microsoft treat the industry with disdain. Given their existing track record how can this even be taken seriously? I think a more appropriate name would be "Windows - Real Soon, Now!" because thats what is available.
All I'm getting at though is if public perception has to be manipulated to give more funding to space research, there are obvious ways. At the very least NASA's patent earnings could be returned to them so they wouldn't have to be at the mercy of budgetary review as there sole source of funding.
I think what we need is some politicians with imagination, the will and enthusiasm to inspire Joe Public OR you could just scare the shit out of them by getting them to imagine China dropping a mass onto New York from orbit, wouldn't even need to be a nuke.
I mean it doesn't take a genius to realise the military application of space, hasn't the DoD announced their plan to dominate space in a document released with the benefits. I'm sure I have seen it discussed here.
Ok, I just dreaming, but we can't stay down here forever.
Indeed, The National Guard would seem like a logical choice, with the army called in to back them up.
At the very least will this generation of launchers facilitate construction of an S.E. Will the heavy lift vehicles be able to carry enough into L.E.O for the initial spool segment. I mean realistically without S.E technology is there any point to building chemical based rockets to to moon base and mars landings?
Wouldn't it be more logical to build a S.E as the first stage out of L.E.O and use Nuclear powered craft outside our gravity well for exploration? Surely then we could have re-usable 'capital ships' in space with centrifugal gravity, to take care of the crew, and existing S.E's to make a landing and crew return. With a nano-ribbon landing onto mars you could just lower the initial base to the surface, and travel back up by a ribbon car.
I read the NIAC study, it makes a compelling cost case, 40 Billion for the entire structure. But even a couple of Billion investment for ribbon research from the D.O.I of the D.O.E is something that could be done at the same time. Aside from them being cool, isn't it time we thought about making rocket launches obsolete and structured our current generation of launch vehicles to achieve that goal?
ergo, laser guided ordinance.
Nope, the army's job is war, not rescue. If it was the reaction to Hurricane Katrina would have been a lot different, but then that's conjecture, I don't think we are going to see a 100 meter tall monster ripping apart our cities any time soon.Touch wood.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/is-space-exploration-worth-the-cost-a-freakonomics-quorum/
Sounds like an advertisement for colonic irrigation.
Saw III?
I lust after a truly engaging Sci Fi, and REAL Sci Fi WITH BALLS(tm). Star Trek and Star Wars aren't Sci Fi to me - they are sci fantasy. Alien(s) was so good it was both sci fi and horror. Blade Runner yes, Abyss yes --- 2001 - Benchmark, but movies aren't made for you and me, they're made for the kids, who haven't seen this before so they can go "WHOO HOO krad - that's wicked". Maybe A.C.Clarke will make a Rama or Fountains, I heard rumors...
It's been a long time, what with remakes and redo's and sequels, since Hollywood has come up with anything interesting. Mainly because movie making is no longer a craft, it's a product that has to minimise risk to produce a return. Not so good that it fucks your head and you HAVE to go back and see it 37 times, but good enough so that you won't pass over it in the video store because your girlfriend hasn't seen it at the movies and you think 'why not - it was ok'.
no-one ever says Reykjavik in a song.
Carr is talks from the perspective of a user - not a technologist so when I see an article by someone qualified to make such predictions I'll pay more attention. He talks about distributed applications like google apps which have their place for casual users who realise they can get in trouble for copying proprietary software. I don't see any business trusting their sensitive business data to anyone outside their own fire walls and applications like Sales-force are already revealing the weakness in their business models wrt what can be done with the data, and limitations on the volume of data. Distributed app's within a corporate intranet, yes - outside no.
Open source applications (i.e Open Office) are already being employed to negate licensing fees of internal and utility applications and Nick want's be to believe he has a crystal ball that tells him how the I.T industry will look before these new models of developing applications start to dominate, I'm dubious. Sun's recent investment in MySQL tells me that there is a bright future ahead for the I.T industry expanding, if anything as the more complicated the view of the world we have, the more complicated our information systems are to make sense of it.
Presuming no immediate failure of our world systems that sustain us, I predict that widespread use of nano-technology AND genetic engineering will increase the demand for programmers, and I haven't even started analysing the need for control systems to address global warming and energy efficiency initiatives that will probably become government requirements in the near future.