The very fact that Microsoft as an organization cannot see that an "instant on" operating system would be a really, really major boon for them (my god, its so obvious my CAT is nodding) casts the entire company in a very, very bleak light.
1. Every time Woz predicts something, everyone gets all excited because you know, it's Woz---the symbol of a smaller, more friendly Apple that people could really relate to. Think of it, "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood had just been banned forever from MTV, Berkeley Breathed was drawing the very first (and since, only) black hacker in mainstream media, accompanied by his pal the "Banana Jr." It was suddenly ok to wear T-Shirts under sport coats, and if your zipper went straight from neck to navel you just weren't cool.
The problem is that despite his coolness and the era he represents, his predictions come in two forms: 1. the old standby "predict a thing so nebulous and definite that it must happen" and 2. wrong. This is the former. Of course the iPhone is going to ultimately fall out of favor, just as the Sony Walkman did, just as the IBM PC did, just like the Ford Model T did. This prediction is always an absolute when enough time has passed to make it so.
2. Android is still an unknown. No one has any idea what it ultimately means yet, and no one knows how it's going to affect the market or the iPhone share. As usual, there's ten times more pretense to knowledge than there is knowledge itself in this regard, and it's silly.
1. Yes, there is commercial software that allows you to copy/rip DVDs, and quite a lot of it. Here's one example:
http://www.imtoo.com/
Their stuff is pretty good actually, frightfully easy to use as well. They've been around for quite a while, and I'd hardly call them shady.
2. I've been notifying both the MPAA and the RIAA in detail of my antics regarding not only the ripping of every DVD I own, but many that I don't own as well--for nearly six years now, to prove a point to a friend of mine who also believes that they'll sue anyone who tells them they're being naughty. No, they won't, plainly.
It also never ceases to amaze me why slashdot comment scores go up in the presence of this sort of comment. I can tell by your nickname "veganboyjosh" that you're probably pretty angry about your perception of giant, "evil" entities pushing around the "little guy", telling him or her what he or she wants, thinks, believes, et cetera.
In no case is it that clear cut. You and your lot who appear to enjoy thinking in terms of "perpetrator" and "victim" fail to take into account the fact that these giant and wild entities like Google are made up of individual people who, at every level, are more or less just like everybody else.
They too buy things and are susceptible to marketing, and they too are largely driven by their desire to spread their seed (literal and figurative) as far and wide as possible, and convert as many people around them to their way of thinking.
It of course has stood to the reason of much greater men than me that the state of an adult's perception and desire is ultimately the responsibility of the adult in question. If someone rolls over when told what to buy, even in the most subtle marketing terms, it's entirely their own fault.
How many people are genuinely surprised every time Google does anything to arouse suspicion (at least six times per day) or downright confirm (at least twice per week) that one of the major points to their monolithic presence in world--and not just the tech world--is data mining?
I honestly don't understand. It's been quite clear for a number of years that Google has no problem selling jewels from their data mines to marketing clients who want them, mostly in the form of "targeted advertising".
Of course Google is profiling social network users. Someone has to figure out what they want to buy.
Actually, the FSF can suck it on this one, and many of them (that ive gone drinking with) support me on this. GPLed software is always open source, but open source software is not always GPL. I understand the FSF would like very much for everyone to see it differently, but those of us who depend on the far less fascistic FreeBSD licensing scheme would very much appreciate it if everyone stopped trying to re-name everything and confuse everyone.
I remember the days when Notes ran with no memory protection and on only four megabytes of RAM. It did what every other program did in those days: It crashed a lot and brought the whole system down with it, every time.
I'd thought for some reason the article had made mention of the (a) thick client for the iPhone, but re-reading it, it appears I gleaned that from some other source which unfortunately isn't springing to mind at the moment.
Lotus is a suite of applications, much like Microsoft Office Super Deluxe Expenz-0-pro 2011 isn't just a word processor.
So while in one case a piece of software was written that had identical functionality as the mail app on the iphone, the other is a leviathan of "one stop computing" functionality, done up only as IBM can. Additionally, since Lotus can use its own proprietary method of communication between nodes, it's entirely expected that this app won't know what the hell IMAP is. Nor does it need to, since it's not a functional clone of Apple mail on any platform.
Unfortunately the App Store debacle has grown to ridiculous proportions, almost entirely by the users themselves, each clamoring for a better view of the Pocket Protector Revolution, where right-thinking geeks everywhere will suddenly rise up, tear away the chains of their oppressors, and insure that everyone enjoys free (as in beer) tea, cake, and quality software forever.
Ah yes. "Only the philosophy to which I subscribe is good"
I'm a registered democrat, and I think I have a pretty good grasp of what it is to be "willing to live free", at least in the sense that I understand that "living free" is dangerous and backbreaking, and that it takes 50 seconds of effort in this minute to insure that ten seconds in the next can be devoted to "living free".
Stop that. Firing you for being a jerk has nothing to do with whether or not someone installing a keylogger on my computer is alright. It of course is not alright--but it is also not murder for pete's sake. It really is ok to sit down with someone who's in the process of turning into a black hat and having a personal and profound conversation with them about their future, instead of putting them in prison immediately.
I don't care who you are, everyone deserves that conversation at least once.
"Maybe, just maybe, this will encourage the students who might think of doing such a thing to actually go through the right channels and present this as a project with proper controls and safeguards."
This *never* happens. Negative reinforcement of ethics is always a slippery slope, particularly for those not caught yet. Lets take the most extreme example and turn it into a question:
If capital punishment were the deterrent it is claimed to be by its proponents, then why does it still exist?
I was about to say the same thing about wireless being omnidirectional and "free space" optics being single point source and directional.
It occurs to me however that this is not new technology. Back in Chicago in the mid 90s, I did some interesting work at a very well funded mom-and-pop ISP that was playing with some "line of sight" (RF and optical) T-1 equivalents. The "free space optic" portion of the circuit died completely every time it rained, so it wasn't too terribly useful for anything outdoors, like shooting a high speed line across town by aiming a couple of transceivers out some open windows.
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The very fact that Microsoft as an organization cannot see that an "instant on" operating system would be a really, really major boon for them (my god, its so obvious my CAT is nodding) casts the entire company in a very, very bleak light.
A couple of things:
1. Every time Woz predicts something, everyone gets all excited because you know, it's Woz---the symbol of a smaller, more friendly Apple that people could really relate to. Think of it, "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood had just been banned forever from MTV, Berkeley Breathed was drawing the very first (and since, only) black hacker in mainstream media, accompanied by his pal the "Banana Jr." It was suddenly ok to wear T-Shirts under sport coats, and if your zipper went straight from neck to navel you just weren't cool.
The problem is that despite his coolness and the era he represents, his predictions come in two forms: 1. the old standby "predict a thing so nebulous and definite that it must happen" and 2. wrong. This is the former. Of course the iPhone is going to ultimately fall out of favor, just as the Sony Walkman did, just as the IBM PC did, just like the Ford Model T did. This prediction is always an absolute when enough time has passed to make it so.
2. Android is still an unknown. No one has any idea what it ultimately means yet, and no one knows how it's going to affect the market or the iPhone share. As usual, there's ten times more pretense to knowledge than there is knowledge itself in this regard, and it's silly.
And Wozniak should know better by now.
Enumerated:
1. Yes, there is commercial software that allows you to copy/rip DVDs, and quite a lot of it. Here's one example:
http://www.imtoo.com/
Their stuff is pretty good actually, frightfully easy to use as well. They've been around for quite a while, and I'd hardly call them shady.
2. I've been notifying both the MPAA and the RIAA in detail of my antics regarding not only the ripping of every DVD I own, but many that I don't own as well--for nearly six years now, to prove a point to a friend of mine who also believes that they'll sue anyone who tells them they're being naughty. No, they won't, plainly.
It also never ceases to amaze me why slashdot comment scores go up in the presence of this sort of comment. I can tell by your nickname "veganboyjosh" that you're probably pretty angry about your perception of giant, "evil" entities pushing around the "little guy", telling him or her what he or she wants, thinks, believes, et cetera.
In no case is it that clear cut. You and your lot who appear to enjoy thinking in terms of "perpetrator" and "victim" fail to take into account the fact that these giant and wild entities like Google are made up of individual people who, at every level, are more or less just like everybody else.
They too buy things and are susceptible to marketing, and they too are largely driven by their desire to spread their seed (literal and figurative) as far and wide as possible, and convert as many people around them to their way of thinking.
It of course has stood to the reason of much greater men than me that the state of an adult's perception and desire is ultimately the responsibility of the adult in question. If someone rolls over when told what to buy, even in the most subtle marketing terms, it's entirely their own fault.
How many people are genuinely surprised every time Google does anything to arouse suspicion (at least six times per day) or downright confirm (at least twice per week) that one of the major points to their monolithic presence in world--and not just the tech world--is data mining?
I honestly don't understand. It's been quite clear for a number of years that Google has no problem selling jewels from their data mines to marketing clients who want them, mostly in the form of "targeted advertising".
Of course Google is profiling social network users. Someone has to figure out what they want to buy.
There's only one question you need to ask yourself:
Does is the idea of being an outcast more or less palatable than the idea of doing interesting programming?
There is no other question here but that.
Actually, the FSF can suck it on this one, and many of them (that ive gone drinking with) support me on this. GPLed software is always open source, but open source software is not always GPL. I understand the FSF would like very much for everyone to see it differently, but those of us who depend on the far less fascistic FreeBSD licensing scheme would very much appreciate it if everyone stopped trying to re-name everything and confuse everyone.
Open source does not mean open platform, case closed.
You've not purchased a Mac in the last five years.
...as elderly gamers probably spend very little time in their cars.
It also has nothing to do with macbooks, but mac pros. Thanks for the accuracy again CmdrTaco!
I remember the days when Notes ran with no memory protection and on only four megabytes of RAM. It did what every other program did in those days: It crashed a lot and brought the whole system down with it, every time.
I'd thought for some reason the article had made mention of the (a) thick client for the iPhone, but re-reading it, it appears I gleaned that from some other source which unfortunately isn't springing to mind at the moment.
Lotus is a suite of applications, much like Microsoft Office Super Deluxe Expenz-0-pro 2011 isn't just a word processor.
So while in one case a piece of software was written that had identical functionality as the mail app on the iphone, the other is a leviathan of "one stop computing" functionality, done up only as IBM can. Additionally, since Lotus can use its own proprietary method of communication between nodes, it's entirely expected that this app won't know what the hell IMAP is. Nor does it need to, since it's not a functional clone of Apple mail on any platform.
Unfortunately the App Store debacle has grown to ridiculous proportions, almost entirely by the users themselves, each clamoring for a better view of the Pocket Protector Revolution, where right-thinking geeks everywhere will suddenly rise up, tear away the chains of their oppressors, and insure that everyone enjoys free (as in beer) tea, cake, and quality software forever.
I'd much rather see a political party pander to poor people than ignore them completely and leave them to rot.
Ah yes. "Only the philosophy to which I subscribe is good"
I'm a registered democrat, and I think I have a pretty good grasp of what it is to be "willing to live free", at least in the sense that I understand that "living free" is dangerous and backbreaking, and that it takes 50 seconds of effort in this minute to insure that ten seconds in the next can be devoted to "living free".
Republicans by a wide margin across all age, gender, income and education levels also lie a lot more than Democrats and Independents.
So you do the math.
Why is this paranoid, warmongering post that has exactly nothing at all to do with the article modded up? I mean seriously, with lines like this:
"The [sic] didn't call it the Wild West due to the women"
Please.
The letters would be better sent to the RIAA. What Ray is really going to need, and soon, is cash.
I know you're trying to be helpful, but the boys at Microsoft gave the same reason for "NT Technology" not being redundant.
But rest easy, dear reader. The comedy isn't in the redundancy, it's in the repetition.
NINTEEN Computer Aided Design Designs? We should have never approved that New Technology Technology.
Stop that. Firing you for being a jerk has nothing to do with whether or not someone installing a keylogger on my computer is alright. It of course is not alright--but it is also not murder for pete's sake. It really is ok to sit down with someone who's in the process of turning into a black hat and having a personal and profound conversation with them about their future, instead of putting them in prison immediately.
I don't care who you are, everyone deserves that conversation at least once.
See, you're exactly the kind of person I would fire on the spot.
"Maybe, just maybe, this will encourage the students who might think of doing such a thing to actually go through the right channels and present this as a project with proper controls and safeguards."
This *never* happens. Negative reinforcement of ethics is always a slippery slope, particularly for those not caught yet. Lets take the most extreme example and turn it into a question:
If capital punishment were the deterrent it is claimed to be by its proponents, then why does it still exist?
I was about to say the same thing about wireless being omnidirectional and "free space" optics being single point source and directional.
It occurs to me however that this is not new technology. Back in Chicago in the mid 90s, I did some interesting work at a very well funded mom-and-pop ISP that was playing with some "line of sight" (RF and optical) T-1 equivalents. The "free space optic" portion of the circuit died completely every time it rained, so it wasn't too terribly useful for anything outdoors, like shooting a high speed line across town by aiming a couple of transceivers out some open windows.
Like a burglar alarm that would have gone off if the guy with the key didn't have the code as well?
I agree whole heartedly.