Calling it a "terrabyte DVD recorder" is intentionally misleading. It is obviously meant to imply that it records terrabyte-sized DVDs. Good job, guys.
I am absolutely aghast at the quality of the posted (linked) "article". I can take issue with every single point listed, not that any are actually made.
Take, for instance, #6, "Our Disrespect for Spatialness", which apparently thinks that an interface takes a lot of thinking and doesn't allow the user to use it fluidly, comparing it to the lack of thought required to get a fork from the drawer. Retrieving an item within the computer, it says, is exponentially more difficult and mentally consuming that getting an item from the kitchen, which each step must be calculated and reflected by the user, putting to waste the human ability for spatial memory.
With shameless irony, this is listed after "OS GUI's are Designed for Beginners" which has just stated that the interface is indeed all too simple and is too quickly beneath the capabilities of the user!
Every Windows user knows how awkward and frustrating it is when desktop icons are randomly rearranged. We had them in our own peculiar order, or at least had gotten used to what it was, and when we need to go for the trash bin, we always know to look in the same place. Likewise with all our files and programs. We don't have to run a query every time we want to open a document. We remember where we saved it, we have our own systems.
But the "article" would have you believe this is not at all the case; that navigating a computer is all too unfamiliar compared to the ease with which one retrieves a fork or a spoon. You don't even have to think about it, you just get it, but with a computer -- those archaic things that nonetheless are a great font for forced farce -- you have to look and peer and think about what you're doing.
Yeah, right. Most people can't hit a toilet from one foot away, [i]and we do it every day until we die[/i].
I am aghast at the article and apalled that it was posted on Slashdot. It offers no insight, no humor, no actual grievances, no proof that the author can even use a computer -- absolutely no reason to read it or give it any attention at all. For shame.
"After all," the owner followed, "even if it were granted I'd have to pay some ridiculous, arbitrary fee. Now enjoy your meal, and after you ask for the check I'll automatically tack a 20% service gratuity to your bill."
The sad thing is not that a lot of people don't know what spyware or DRM are, or why they're bad. The sad thing is that a lot of people do, yet nothing is really accomplished. The cnet article is good because it raises many important points about the nature of Vista and trusted computing. And it will sit on that server with no fanfare. This will not be an important story to anyone, newspapers will not pick it up and nor will computing magazines.
We will get nowhere beyond this article, which takes no stand; makes only polite suggestions and queries.
``Something is fishy here. Should we be concerned?" A shallow question with hollow convictions and the full-bodied echo of defeat.
Trusted Computing is not about security. We know what it's really about, it's about IP. You don'tneed an unjustified mess to be secure. Security is just the excuse. It's about patents and trademarks and copyrights. It's not about security, because security benefits people. Trusted Computing benefits companies. It's about money and control. It's about their control over our money.
The article will sit there and rot and no one will take it further, because no one wants to risk offending the advertisers. No one wants to risk slowing a cashflow.
These kinds of things are vital, important issues. They concern our very rights as citizens and as human beings. The important part of Intellectual Property is not the latter, it's the former, it's about control of the former. Companies -- inhuman, non-being concepts on paper and ink -- subvert the rights of living people to think and explore.
We can do nothing. How do you adhere to your morals and convictions and fight something that will adhere to nothing? We are powerless to affect change and every day more restraints and ludicrous laws are passed on us and our rights are signed away for profit. For the benefit of people already in life's favor.
But it's not a big deal, right? When you're allowed to read a book is a not a big deal. What you're not allowed to say is not a big deal. What you're allowed to even think is not a big deal.
That's probably true.
Magic Wand works great as a password manager. It automatically fills in my id and password and that's all I really want from it. I've never used Roboform, so if it automatically fills in the address fields and stuff like that, then I don't think Opera can do that. It's one of those cases where I don't need it, so it doesn't affect me, but I can still see the usefulness of it.
Isn't it sad that that's a rare opinion? This whole page is all Opera vs Firefox, and indeed a lot of pages are Windows vs Linux, and whenever someone brings up something that the other side doesn't have, we always get a snide remark like "X doesn't have it, but that feature is stupid and we don't need it. Let Y keep it."
Sorry, no Roboform for Opera. Better off with Firefox, I guess.
"miniT (drag+indicator) 0.4 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox. (miniT (drag+indicator) 0.4 will only work with Firefox versions from 0.9 to 0.10)". Wicked awesome!
Actually, it does have those features. The userid/password saving is done with the magic wand, which will automatically ask if you want to save that info when you sign into a page, and personal information like name and address can be entered under the wand tab in preferences.
It's more than simply being divorced from your child's life, which is almost impossible to do completely. It's one thing to be disconnected, and another entirely to ignore.
The ratings exist for precisely the reason that parents have little interest in the games their children play. The rating labels exist so that a parent doesn't have to play the game or completely supervise to make a reasonable judgement about its appropriateness.
You have to know next to nothing to use a rating to your advantage. If little Johnny has trouble with graphic violence, the parent looks on the box and sees "graphic violence" in the little white rectangle and says "maybe next year, son".
Anything less is negligence, and in that case, the games aren't the issue.
If you want to shoot people with a gun you paid for and own, you can do that. But there is a penalty.
I have not said that responsibility is to be ignored.
FLAC does enjoy a reasonable following among audiophiles, but so does SH and APE. I would doubt that lossless music gets much trade on P2P networks, especially since (and you can verify this from anyone who supports mp3 over ogg vorbis) most downloaders are not audiophiles, and would sooner download the 40MB music video over the 40MB lossless track.
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I don't need to pay $15 a month to achieve that.
"Time investment"? Let's get serious, here. "Investment" implies some kind of productive return. Time sink is what it is.
Calling it a "terrabyte DVD recorder" is intentionally misleading. It is obviously meant to imply that it records terrabyte-sized DVDs. Good job, guys.
Take, for instance, #6, "Our Disrespect for Spatialness", which apparently thinks that an interface takes a lot of thinking and doesn't allow the user to use it fluidly, comparing it to the lack of thought required to get a fork from the drawer. Retrieving an item within the computer, it says, is exponentially more difficult and mentally consuming that getting an item from the kitchen, which each step must be calculated and reflected by the user, putting to waste the human ability for spatial memory.
With shameless irony, this is listed after "OS GUI's are Designed for Beginners" which has just stated that the interface is indeed all too simple and is too quickly beneath the capabilities of the user!
Every Windows user knows how awkward and frustrating it is when desktop icons are randomly rearranged. We had them in our own peculiar order, or at least had gotten used to what it was, and when we need to go for the trash bin, we always know to look in the same place. Likewise with all our files and programs. We don't have to run a query every time we want to open a document. We remember where we saved it, we have our own systems.
But the "article" would have you believe this is not at all the case; that navigating a computer is all too unfamiliar compared to the ease with which one retrieves a fork or a spoon. You don't even have to think about it, you just get it, but with a computer -- those archaic things that nonetheless are a great font for forced farce -- you have to look and peer and think about what you're doing.
Yeah, right. Most people can't hit a toilet from one foot away, [i]and we do it every day until we die[/i].
I am aghast at the article and apalled that it was posted on Slashdot. It offers no insight, no humor, no actual grievances, no proof that the author can even use a computer -- absolutely no reason to read it or give it any attention at all. For shame.
"After all," the owner followed, "even if it were granted I'd have to pay some ridiculous, arbitrary fee. Now enjoy your meal, and after you ask for the check I'll automatically tack a 20% service gratuity to your bill."
The sad thing is not that a lot of people don't know what spyware or DRM are, or why they're bad. The sad thing is that a lot of people do, yet nothing is really accomplished. The cnet article is good because it raises many important points about the nature of Vista and trusted computing. And it will sit on that server with no fanfare. This will not be an important story to anyone, newspapers will not pick it up and nor will computing magazines.
We will get nowhere beyond this article, which takes no stand; makes only polite suggestions and queries.
``Something is fishy here. Should we be concerned?" A shallow question with hollow convictions and the full-bodied echo of defeat.
Trusted Computing is not about security. We know what it's really about, it's about IP. You don't need an unjustified mess to be secure. Security is just the excuse. It's about patents and trademarks and copyrights. It's not about security, because security benefits people. Trusted Computing benefits companies. It's about money and control. It's about their control over our money.
The article will sit there and rot and no one will take it further, because no one wants to risk offending the advertisers. No one wants to risk slowing a cashflow.
These kinds of things are vital, important issues. They concern our very rights as citizens and as human beings. The important part of Intellectual Property is not the latter, it's the former, it's about control of the former. Companies -- inhuman, non-being concepts on paper and ink -- subvert the rights of living people to think and explore.
We can do nothing. How do you adhere to your morals and convictions and fight something that will adhere to nothing? We are powerless to affect change and every day more restraints and ludicrous laws are passed on us and our rights are signed away for profit. For the benefit of people already in life's favor.
But it's not a big deal, right? When you're allowed to read a book is a not a big deal. What you're not allowed to say is not a big deal. What you're allowed to even think is not a big deal.
It's so depressing.
It has shown to be debatable. Still wrong.
That is illegal and amoral.
That would be 1.0.6, thank you.
If it will have it, then that's great. It's practically ironic for a visual-delivery application to poorly apply its delivered visuals.
But how does something still in development help me out today? We might as well be arguing about the PS3 and the XBox360.
That's probably true. Magic Wand works great as a password manager. It automatically fills in my id and password and that's all I really want from it. I've never used Roboform, so if it automatically fills in the address fields and stuff like that, then I don't think Opera can do that. It's one of those cases where I don't need it, so it doesn't affect me, but I can still see the usefulness of it. Isn't it sad that that's a rare opinion? This whole page is all Opera vs Firefox, and indeed a lot of pages are Windows vs Linux, and whenever someone brings up something that the other side doesn't have, we always get a snide remark like "X doesn't have it, but that feature is stupid and we don't need it. Let Y keep it." Sorry, no Roboform for Opera. Better off with Firefox, I guess.
"miniT (drag+indicator) 0.4 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox. (miniT (drag+indicator) 0.4 will only work with Firefox versions from 0.9 to 0.10)". Wicked awesome!
Actually, it does have those features. The userid/password saving is done with the magic wand, which will automatically ask if you want to save that info when you sign into a page, and personal information like name and address can be entered under the wand tab in preferences.
Don't forget secure. It's not only the fastest, but the most secure.
Can I drag tab 1 to the right of tab 2, even with extensions? No? Fantastic.
How is the flat-out, undisputedly fastest browser in the world too bloated for you?
Yes, a vacuum of humor is precisely what we have.
No it's not.
It's just like "pwn" except 1/8 as hilarious.
The ratings exist for precisely the reason that parents have little interest in the games their children play. The rating labels exist so that a parent doesn't have to play the game or completely supervise to make a reasonable judgement about its appropriateness.
You have to know next to nothing to use a rating to your advantage. If little Johnny has trouble with graphic violence, the parent looks on the box and sees "graphic violence" in the little white rectangle and says "maybe next year, son".
Anything less is negligence, and in that case, the games aren't the issue.
You can give the CD to whomever you want. You can even resell it if you want. It's yours.
If you want to shoot people with a gun you paid for and own, you can do that. But there is a penalty. I have not said that responsibility is to be ignored.
That's because sheep lack the ability to speak and form coherent thought. Very keen observation, friend.
So what? Guilty until proven innocent are we?
What is morally wrong about doing whatever you want with something you paid for and own?
What's morally wrong is anyone arbitrarily dictating what you can and cannot do with your personal property.
FLAC does enjoy a reasonable following among audiophiles, but so does SH and APE. I would doubt that lossless music gets much trade on P2P networks, especially since (and you can verify this from anyone who supports mp3 over ogg vorbis) most downloaders are not audiophiles, and would sooner download the 40MB music video over the 40MB lossless track.