"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
What is so sad is that people don't realize this. They have been brainwashed into thinking that all this is "for their own security", and that this is somehow protecting their freedom. A person is far more likely to die of cancer or a car accident than they are a terrorist attack, but somehow they still fear an attack more. If people can't see this, then I guess they deserve what is coming to them, sad as it is.
So...why not have the government own all the resources and let the companies fight over their implementations? I mean, wouldn't it make sense to have the government own the internet lines, phone lines, hydro, etc, and then have companies rent it from the goverment and sell the services from there to the people (I suppose this is done to some extent, but I'm talking larger scale)? That would fix the problem of having one company own all the resources of a particular industry, which effectively shuts out competition. It would also probably improve services to customers, because more local companies could operate, keeping the profits (and employees) locally.
Someone who's good with ecognomics, where am I wrong?
I am much older than most/.ers, when I was 26, I was married, busting my a$$ to pay the mortgage...
I'll give this much: people are growing up slower. It used to be that you'd be married right out of high school and go straight into the workforce. Now, after high school many more people are going into college, thus prolonging their entrance into the workforce. Being married, having a job, AND going to school would be one hell of a stressful time (we're talking undergrad here, in grad school you could work it out). In college, the things people have to do are still handed to them, much as they were in high school. The responsibilities of adulthood aren't forced onto them as they used to be.
Most 26 yo I see now live with mommy & daddy and stand in line buying xboxes and crap...
Who are these people? I don't know that many 26 year olds who are living with their parents. If they are, they're probably in college, even though most people I know won't stay at home even if their parents live in the same city as their college.
Could someone please explain to me why things like the Linux kernel and Enlightenment are written primarily in C? From what I get in the discussion the performance of GC depends largely on the algorithm used, so is it theoretically possible that a kernel written with GC could be as fast it is now? So, if buffer overflows are such a big deal for exploits, wouldn't this make more sense?
I don't know much about programming, but I am genuinely curious about this possibility. Could someone shed some light on this?
Could something explain to me how the QT and GTK are different from things like Enlightenment? I understand they make different themes and such, but how does application building work? Would GNUstep be compatible with something like enlightenment?
If so, then why is it that GPUs can theoretically process more than CPUs? I'm really getting confused with all this talk back and forth about what chips should be doing what job and so forth. Would it be better to code more stuff for the GPU, since it has a higher bandwith, or simply add more CPUs? Would it theoretically be faster to have a whole bunch of smaller faster chips (like CPUs) or fewer slower chips with higher bandwidth (like GPUs). I know the answer depends a lot on the type of application, but I'm curious anyway as to what would be ideal.
I jumped for a moment when I saw the headline. I thought they meant Open Source Design . Here I thought some company had decided to let the community design an mp3 player to their liking and they would build it instead of handing us a so-so player and asking us to make the interface all purdy.
Granted I've really wanted open source design to take off. With the amount of suggestions already out there for the ipod, I'm quite confident we could come up with something together that would best Apple's little machine.
Simple as it may seem, the scroll wheel is possibly the most ingenious user interface mechanism of the past 10 years....Apple's patent on this design virtually ensures that every "iPod killer" will end up as "roadkill".
It's not exactly Apple's patent to begin with, it's Synaptics.
Now I don't exactly know what deal they have with Apple as far as who else can use it, but seeing the amount of things with scrollwheels out there, I don't think apple as total control of the use of a scroll wheel.
I enjoy the challenge and I enjoy the OPEN ness of it.
Sometimes, it feels more like desktop linux is more an OPEN mess than anything. Granted, I like the challenge sometimes, but most of the time it's more of a pain in the ass.
Linux isn't easy and it's not a pretty shiny desktop OS. Let's just admit that. I mean heck, would we want it any other way?
Um, YES? I mean, do you really hate linux that much that you'd say "It's ok, I'd prefer it if you stay ugly and difficult."? I really want to see linux succeed on the desktop. I want to see it be as easy as OSX and Windows. So to be HONEST, yes, I want linux to be a pretty shiny desktop OS with the program support of Windows. The other distros can be challenging if they want to be, but I want AT LEAST ONE that could replace Windows or OSX.
Indeed, if there's one thing that we can learn from this whole OpenDocument debacle, it's that we should instead use LaTeX and plaintext.
And while were at it, let's all go back to doing everything from the command line! This whole WYSIWYG thing is waaay to complicated.
These new technologies seem to bring nothing but problems, especially when the existing formats work so well.
Which is exactly why I'm sticking to parchment and carrier pigeons. These new technologies mess up everything. Sure, instant messaging is a bitch, but at least there are no worries about different protocols!
Seriously, consider the fact that grandma has to use this.
Isn't the Xbox 360 going to have a Media Center Extender built in? Don't know exactly what the "extender" part entails, but the 360 definately has the cojones for the job.
Who the heck can function properly without sex for 30 months?
Monks, nuns, and slashdotters. Then again, you could always sidestep the whole sex thing and hibernate the crew for the majority of the trip. I would just be extra careful as to what kind of computer system was in charge of that...
Anyway, let's say people were to have sex in space, and, for the sake of argument, were to conceive (and there not be an abortion). Does anyone know what the effects zero gravity would have on gestation? Would the child even be able to return to and environment with gravity in it?
CmdrTaco would like all to know that the designers of the firm hired to
continue the design after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to
be known that they have just been
sacked.
Slashdot has been completed
in an entirely different style at great
expense and at the last minute.
It's going to happen very soon now, as Jack is getting loonier and loonier.
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is what scares me. That he has been allowed to continue to go on his insane tirades says a lot about the sanity of the rest of the country. To be concerned about young children playing violent video games is one thing, but to do what he has done is completely different. If the majority of the population can't see that this man isn't right in the head, that frightens me. I do not want these people voting. Maybe most people do see that he is insane, but won't do anything about it. Either way, the end result is the same: a loonie lawyer running around suing people.
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Well, at least he's well prepared should he need to, oh, hitchhike across the galaxy.
He submitted the story until you view it, at which point, he didn't.
Someone who's good with ecognomics, where am I wrong?
I'll give this much: people are growing up slower. It used to be that you'd be married right out of high school and go straight into the workforce. Now, after high school many more people are going into college, thus prolonging their entrance into the workforce. Being married, having a job, AND going to school would be one hell of a stressful time (we're talking undergrad here, in grad school you could work it out). In college, the things people have to do are still handed to them, much as they were in high school. The responsibilities of adulthood aren't forced onto them as they used to be.
Most 26 yo I see now live with mommy & daddy and stand in line buying xboxes and crap...
Who are these people? I don't know that many 26 year olds who are living with their parents. If they are, they're probably in college, even though most people I know won't stay at home even if their parents live in the same city as their college.
I don't know much about programming, but I am genuinely curious about this possibility. Could someone shed some light on this?
Speaking of the history of game consoles, Joystiq has an interesting article about the ~10 year dominance cycle of gaming consoles.
That's it! Doing drugs cures AIDS!!! Just wait till the word spreads; people will be trying to get AIDS just to get the treatment.
Could something explain to me how the QT and GTK are different from things like Enlightenment? I understand they make different themes and such, but how does application building work? Would GNUstep be compatible with something like enlightenment?
If so, then why is it that GPUs can theoretically process more than CPUs? I'm really getting confused with all this talk back and forth about what chips should be doing what job and so forth. Would it be better to code more stuff for the GPU, since it has a higher bandwith, or simply add more CPUs? Would it theoretically be faster to have a whole bunch of smaller faster chips (like CPUs) or fewer slower chips with higher bandwidth (like GPUs). I know the answer depends a lot on the type of application, but I'm curious anyway as to what would be ideal.
Granted I've really wanted open source design to take off. With the amount of suggestions already out there for the ipod, I'm quite confident we could come up with something together that would best Apple's little machine.
It's not exactly Apple's patent to begin with, it's Synaptics. Now I don't exactly know what deal they have with Apple as far as who else can use it, but seeing the amount of things with scroll wheels out there, I don't think apple as total control of the use of a scroll wheel.
Sometimes, it feels more like desktop linux is more an OPEN mess than anything. Granted, I like the challenge sometimes, but most of the time it's more of a pain in the ass.
Linux isn't easy and it's not a pretty shiny desktop OS. Let's just admit that. I mean heck, would we want it any other way?
Um, YES? I mean, do you really hate linux that much that you'd say "It's ok, I'd prefer it if you stay ugly and difficult."? I really want to see linux succeed on the desktop. I want to see it be as easy as OSX and Windows. So to be HONEST, yes, I want linux to be a pretty shiny desktop OS with the program support of Windows. The other distros can be challenging if they want to be, but I want AT LEAST ONE that could replace Windows or OSX.
And while were at it, let's all go back to doing everything from the command line! This whole WYSIWYG thing is waaay to complicated.
These new technologies seem to bring nothing but problems, especially when the existing formats work so well.
Which is exactly why I'm sticking to parchment and carrier pigeons. These new technologies mess up everything. Sure, instant messaging is a bitch, but at least there are no worries about different protocols!
Seriously, consider the fact that grandma has to use this.
Isn't the Xbox 360 going to have a Media Center Extender built in? Don't know exactly what the "extender" part entails, but the 360 definately has the cojones for the job.
Having lived in Wisconsin, I'd say Madison is about as alive as you get...
There's a prize awarded for this kind of research.
Monks, nuns, and slashdotters. Then again, you could always sidestep the whole sex thing and hibernate the crew for the majority of the trip. I would just be extra careful as to what kind of computer system was in charge of that...
Anyway, let's say people were to have sex in space, and, for the sake of argument, were to conceive (and there not be an abortion). Does anyone know what the effects zero gravity would have on gestation? Would the child even be able to return to and environment with gravity in it?
...transparent aluminium actually exists? I won't believe it till I see it!
Slashdot has been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.
CRAZY MEXICAN-STYLE SLASHDOT!
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is what scares me. That he has been allowed to continue to go on his insane tirades says a lot about the sanity of the rest of the country. To be concerned about young children playing violent video games is one thing, but to do what he has done is completely different. If the majority of the population can't see that this man isn't right in the head, that frightens me. I do not want these people voting. Maybe most people do see that he is insane, but won't do anything about it. Either way, the end result is the same: a loonie lawyer running around suing people.
Ya. It really does mess up how I do things. I mean, how is this supposed to work?
Step 1: Ditch Microsoft.
Steps 2 - 11: ????????
Step 12: Profit!!!
I mean, I'm used to one or two questionable steps, but 10? Come on, give me a break.