The biggest advances in internet technology are made because of porn, file-sharing, P2P, search engines, image formats (more porn per mb), movie encryption etc.
But there is one thing I don't believe, Porn isn't going to stop piracy, it created it! (One of the best things on the web!)
If porn proves to be the key in stopping piracy, then I truly think porn will create world peace...
And... why burn on DVD for personal use...???
Isn't porn something you only watch once, you know the whole story and get bored? Isn't that the whole reason we watch porn, because the same woman every night bores us!?
Please allow me to jump into all this Java discussion. In my opinion Java is becomming more and more cluthered and obese. Every new version they put in a lot of new functions but also want complete backwards compatibility. Another major problem is those JVM's that are drifting away from eachother, some applications need their own special JVM.
In the +/- 16 years of development you can't just keep adding stuff, it just becomes to big/large. The concept is (imho) very good, and they are moving in the right direction. The thing we need is a major company (like Sun) that takes the risk of dropping all backwards compatibility and make a whole new version with good straight forward rules and syntax.
When that happens, with a good VM and JIT, people will start using it..
I can really recommend it. It describes how everything got started, from pinball machines to arcade machines to the first home entertainment systems. Also very nice to read how all of the Atari developers where smoking drugs all day long, and how their annoyed managers hated that:)
Another plan that is doomed to fail.. All audioplayer have a small buffer in them, is that illegal too then?
Just like the email-tax the EU wants to propose, its just impossible. Sending mail using SMTP servers can be done in numerous ways, even without a client, how is that server going to charge me for it? Not..
The only thing they can do it that case is disable SMTP connection except for known users which will cost them a lot of money. And still, how many users want to pay money for email? Non! So they'll just communicate in a different way, different port or something. Then we just go back to IRC, or leave offline messages in our IM-client..! Impossible to block I say.
I'm just trying to look at things from a objective point. I'm actually a Windows user.. I've tried Linux for a while, but because of some work-software stuff I'm forced to stick with Windows.
Of course people who use Linux like Linux better, but that doesn't mean everybody needs to jump onto the Linux-train right away.
After some time (if companies are intrested) there will be more and more Linux software available and more people are intrested in Linux. But in business almost all companies use Windows, so thats what people at home like to use.
And all those Windows-Linux flames are so useless. When people say I'm stupid for using Windows while I have no choice, and I've been using it without much trouble for a long time, it only makes me dislike them.. It makes the jump to Linux much less attractive.
This article looks only in one direction. Mark Golden has years and years of Microsoft experience, working with Windows is just what he knows. Its just never easy to swap to a whole different operating system.
But what if you take somebody who has been working with Linux non-stop for 10 years, and has never worked on a Windows machine. Place him before a empty computer with a Windows CD. How easy would that go..?
(Anybody willing to test...? Probably not...)
The switch itself might be hard, but it says nothing about how easy working on Windows or Linux is, just a matter of what they've learned to work with.
Last Christmas I got this The Ultimate History of Video Games book. And I can really recommend it. It describes how everything got started, from pinball machines to arcade machines to the first home entertainment systems.
Also very nice to read how all of the Atari developers where smoking drugs all day long, and how their annoyed managers hated that:)
Agreed... if some idiot wants to make the barcode-reader-backend execute sql code, then I can write a barcode virus too.
If they would just 'read' the RFID tag instead of putting code on it.. the only real problem they face is that the information could overflow. But that isn't so hard to counter.
Do we really want to have gamers as a political force..? IMHO the gamers and developers will always have a good connection, what players like they sell.
Active gamers will follow the game news and await good new titles (I can't wait for Spore!!) so the thing we need is good media that keeps gamers up-to-date with good reviews, not reviews/previews written like a commercial by the developers.
Looks really good this new Google Mars thing, hopefully the new project Google does will be Jupiter, then we can really explore the storms and the new Red Jr.
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OMG.. lol, that really made my day :)
The biggest advances in internet technology are made because of porn, file-sharing, P2P, search engines, image formats (more porn per mb), movie encryption etc.
But there is one thing I don't believe, Porn isn't going to stop piracy, it created it! (One of the best things on the web!)
If porn proves to be the key in stopping piracy, then I truly think porn will create world peace...
And... why burn on DVD for personal use...???
Isn't porn something you only watch once, you know the whole story and get bored? Isn't that the whole reason we watch porn, because the same woman every night bores us!?
Please allow me to jump into all this Java discussion. In my opinion Java is becomming more and more cluthered and obese. Every new version they put in a lot of new functions but also want complete backwards compatibility. Another major problem is those JVM's that are drifting away from eachother, some applications need their own special JVM.
In the +/- 16 years of development you can't just keep adding stuff, it just becomes to big/large. The concept is (imho) very good, and they are moving in the right direction. The thing we need is a major company (like Sun) that takes the risk of dropping all backwards compatibility and make a whole new version with good straight forward rules and syntax.
When that happens, with a good VM and JIT, people will start using it..
If you want to read about the rise of Nintendo you should really check out this book:
:)
The Ultimate History of Video Games
I can really recommend it. It describes how everything got started, from pinball machines to arcade machines to the first home entertainment systems. Also very nice to read how all of the Atari developers where smoking drugs all day long, and how their annoyed managers hated that
Another plan that is doomed to fail.. All audioplayer have a small buffer in them, is that illegal too then? Just like the email-tax the EU wants to propose, its just impossible. Sending mail using SMTP servers can be done in numerous ways, even without a client, how is that server going to charge me for it? Not.. The only thing they can do it that case is disable SMTP connection except for known users which will cost them a lot of money. And still, how many users want to pay money for email? Non! So they'll just communicate in a different way, different port or something. Then we just go back to IRC, or leave offline messages in our IM-client..! Impossible to block I say.
I'm just trying to look at things from a objective point. I'm actually a Windows user.. I've tried Linux for a while, but because of some work-software stuff I'm forced to stick with Windows. Of course people who use Linux like Linux better, but that doesn't mean everybody needs to jump onto the Linux-train right away. After some time (if companies are intrested) there will be more and more Linux software available and more people are intrested in Linux. But in business almost all companies use Windows, so thats what people at home like to use. And all those Windows-Linux flames are so useless. When people say I'm stupid for using Windows while I have no choice, and I've been using it without much trouble for a long time, it only makes me dislike them.. It makes the jump to Linux much less attractive.
This article looks only in one direction. Mark Golden has years and years of Microsoft experience, working with Windows is just what he knows. Its just never easy to swap to a whole different operating system.
But what if you take somebody who has been working with Linux non-stop for 10 years, and has never worked on a Windows machine. Place him before a empty computer with a Windows CD. How easy would that go..?
(Anybody willing to test...? Probably not...)
The switch itself might be hard, but it says nothing about how easy working on Windows or Linux is, just a matter of what they've learned to work with.
Link with intresting discussion:
http://sig9.com/node/269/
Last Christmas I got this The Ultimate History of Video Games book. And I can really recommend it. It describes how everything got started, from pinball machines to arcade machines to the first home entertainment systems. Also very nice to read how all of the Atari developers where smoking drugs all day long, and how their annoyed managers hated that :)
Agreed... if some idiot wants to make the barcode-reader-backend execute sql code, then I can write a barcode virus too.
If they would just 'read' the RFID tag instead of putting code on it.. the only real problem they face is that the information could overflow. But that isn't so hard to counter.
Do we really want to have gamers as a political force..? IMHO the gamers and developers will always have a good connection, what players like they sell. Active gamers will follow the game news and await good new titles (I can't wait for Spore!!) so the thing we need is good media that keeps gamers up-to-date with good reviews, not reviews/previews written like a commercial by the developers.
Looks really good this new Google Mars thing, hopefully the new project Google does will be Jupiter, then we can really explore the storms and the new Red Jr.