the next step is to build a fully humanoid version that's open source in both software and hardware."
You mean, one where the microcode for any processor included in it is published openly, and the masks used at the chip foundry are also openly published? Or if it's a FPGA 'Free Hardware' design, all design details of the FPGA silicon are disclosed, and all of the code for the FPGA development software is open source (good luck)?
You can hope. I suspect the security will be much more adaptable than anything seen before. Jonny Hack figures out an exploit. The firmware upgrade (or new FPGA config file) in next weeks movie release blocks it. Rinse, repeat.
As long as you change the requirements of speed, etc. a child's little red express wagon can get absolutely astounding gas mileage.
Look! It has been pulled 20 feet by hand by a flatulent beer drinker. One teaspoon full of ethanol (amount in bottle of beer) and only one litre of methane fumes!
The new hardware/software is being designed from the bottom up to be tighly secured. To a degree that nobody here will acknowledge. Anybody who thinks it's going to be 'cracked in a matter of days' is smokin' something. We wouldn't even have DVD encryption without a rather aggregious human error having been made by one of the licensees. The new hardware can ping back and forth from end to end for authentication, and likely will. The security will be in hardware, in ways that startups haven't been able to cobble together in the past. This ain't a situation where Microsoft gets someone to throw together stock PeeCee parts off the shelf, as it was with the XBox. The legacy of openness is over.
Frankly, I won't miss it, because I have enough cool hardware to fool around with to last my remaining decades, and the new 'content' is drivel from my point of view anyways. I am no longer the 'target demographic' for any of the new stuff coming out. The industry money will be in screwing the kids.
There's certainly no 'party' in a two or a 27 party 'system' whose candidate I want to win, based on which 'party' s/he belongs to.
Who said anything about a 'guarantee.' I just want there to be individuals in the election with or without party affiliations. That can happen within a two party system just as easily as a 27 party system. Even more so in two party systems, in some regards. For instance, there are counties and states where one party or the other (democrat or republican) totally dominates. So all the action happens in the primary. It sucks if you generally 'back' the non-dominant party, but in the election here this past week, the stuffed-shirt incumbent got booted out. A new guy will be elected (his opponent in the opposite party doesn't stand a chance). He's a worthy individual, imho, so it worked out pretty good.
Oh, come on, you know what he means. I, too, have a stack of Pentium III Dell Optiplexes in storage, and won't run out of 'conventional PeeCee' hardware for decades. But there won't be unencumbered 'composite video' content for me to record using my Dazzle Mpeg2 card indefinitely. In the not-distant future there will be lotsa content I won't be able to drag, even through my favorite 'analog hole.'
The same can apply to TV shows. Ever notice that an episode of Seinfeld is really only 22 minutes long? Have a "broadcast version" that is shorter, has advertisements on the bottom, etc.
Re-run Television programming already features such clipping of content. For instance, the reruns of The Simpsons that are rebroadcast several episodes daily in many localities have had several minutes of the episode 'clipped.' You have to buy the 'Season xx Episodes' DVD sets to get the complete unclipped episodes. And broadcasters already put gunk graphics on the bottom edge of many reruns shows, i.e. on the aforementioned reruns of The Simpsons.
We here have six cats, and two dogs. And I have multiple machines not even capable of running Windows (but I'd rather run NetBSD on most of my Windows-capable hardware anyways.) And my parents live in another state.
With twenty-seven parties you could vote and vote and vote and never have any of the people you voted for win.
if 40% of people vote for one party, 40% of the members from that party will be elected.
That would mean that all representatives would hold state-wide seats, as divvied up within each party. Whoops, there goes the idea that people in a particular locality should be represented by someone from that locality. Such a scheme can lead to deeply entrenched parties. If you're not a 'true Social-Democrat' you're not gonna be one of the people that party appoints to one of it's 24% of the seats. Such a scheme makes it HARDER for independent representatives to be elected.
Actually, AT&T faced anti-trust action and were forced to start allowing people to buy and install their own equipment. Before the anti-trust action, you had to have a telephone technician come to your site to connect a modem to the phone line. Every piece of telephone equipment was screwed down wires.
1600 bpi open reel tape. The order form also lists 1/4" Cartridges for Suns, but those are priced $175.
It's worth noting all the extras that you got on the GNU C tape. You also got "Bison, Gawk, the GNU Assembler, X windows (Version 11r2 complete), Flex, and object file utilites" on the tape.
(Interesting that they called it 'X windows' on the order form, all frenzy one hears about it being 'The X Window System' aside.)
Back in 1987 that all was a hell of a deal, though you could also get it all for free if you had means to churn off a copy yourself.
When I started reading the summary, I latched on the '$200' as an expensive video card. Which it is. Then to discover the article is talking about $300, rather than $500 video cards.
Uh....
It's similar to when you see a 'Save $17,000 on your next car purchase" advertisement, but you've never spent even $15,000 on a car.
Okay, I confess that I've spent more than $150 on a video card, once. It was an STB PCI card that had a daughterboard on it that gave it the extra 4 megs of RAM.
The idea that my 'gaming experience' would increase to the point where it would justify spending $500 on a video card is just bewildering. And I played through ALL the levels of Wolfenstein 3D back in it's time.
I guess gameplay is more important to me than gee-whiz graphics. I still buy games, but usually check to make sure my hardware meets the minimum requirement.
This whole 'subculture' reminds me of the culture of riced out cars, to be honest.
My March 1987 copy of the GNU Emacs Manual (Sixth Edition, Version 18) has a FSF order form in the back. The source code is avilable on tape for $150. The Gnu C Compiler on tape for $150. Gnu Emacs manuals for $15 each.
Why is there an 'outcry' about Stallman and his organization making some money to support their efforts? It's how movements based on ideals, not keeping 'the bottom line' number big, sustain their organizations and themselves.
You're dancing around the fact that at present, there are no cerified open source versions. Java has been around for many years now. Why the continued delay?
Agreed, I moved from a company that had a mix of Sun UNIX, OS/2, Netware, and Windows servers in the infrastructure, to a company that is one of Microsoft's bitches. It's unbelievable what kind of bullshit a $4billion multinational company will put up with and continue to stick with Microsoft's ill-designed servers.
I feel sorry for the IT staff who have to keep it going. But they're just third rate 'data janitors' so I guess it's no different than feeling sorry for the janitor when a toilet backs up...
I have a huge collection of Sun hardware here, within ten feet of where I type this, at home. Hundreds of pounds of great gear. The fact that I bought all of it for almost nothing at University surplus auctions should tell you that it's on the way out, though. (at the most recent auction, the only Sun gear was one Blade 100 which I snapped up- tons and tons of old Dell P3 boxes, though). Most of the Sun gear has been flushed out of most academic settings. Which I am really sad about, but it's the truth.
Microchip's 8-bit embedded controllers are 'part of the infrastucture I rely on', too. Along with carbon-film resistors, in both leaded and surface mount packages.
And steel. Steel nails are really important. Don't even get me going on the subject of steel rebar in poured cement structures....
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the next step is to build a fully humanoid version that's open source in both software and hardware."
You mean, one where the microcode for any processor included in it is published openly, and the masks used at the chip foundry are also openly published? Or if it's a FPGA 'Free Hardware' design, all design details of the FPGA silicon are disclosed, and all of the code for the FPGA development software is open source (good luck)?
You can hope. I suspect the security will be much more adaptable than anything seen before. Jonny Hack figures out an exploit. The firmware upgrade (or new FPGA config file) in next weeks movie release blocks it. Rinse, repeat.
As long as you change the requirements of speed, etc. a child's little red express wagon can get absolutely astounding gas mileage.
Look! It has been pulled 20 feet by hand by a flatulent beer drinker. One teaspoon full of ethanol (amount in bottle of beer) and only one litre of methane fumes!
No, they just have to radio in the street cleaning crew to pick up the debris around the roadblock.
The new hardware/software is being designed from the bottom up to be tighly secured. To a degree that nobody here will acknowledge. Anybody who thinks it's going to be 'cracked in a matter of days' is smokin' something. We wouldn't even have DVD encryption without a rather aggregious human error having been made by one of the licensees. The new hardware can ping back and forth from end to end for authentication, and likely will. The security will be in hardware, in ways that startups haven't been able to cobble together in the past. This ain't a situation where Microsoft gets someone to throw together stock PeeCee parts off the shelf, as it was with the XBox. The legacy of openness is over.
Frankly, I won't miss it, because I have enough cool hardware to fool around with to last my remaining decades, and the new 'content' is drivel from my point of view anyways. I am no longer the 'target demographic' for any of the new stuff coming out. The industry money will be in screwing the kids.
Sameasiteverwas.
Well, hunker down in the glow of your terminal and bear it, then, because you're NOT going to get to elect a representative from your chatroom.
There's certainly no 'party' in a two or a 27 party 'system' whose candidate I want to win, based on which 'party' s/he belongs to.
Who said anything about a 'guarantee.' I just want there to be individuals in the election with or without party affiliations. That can happen within a two party system just as easily as a 27 party system. Even more so in two party systems, in some regards. For instance, there are counties and states where one party or the other (democrat or republican) totally dominates. So all the action happens in the primary. It sucks if you generally 'back' the non-dominant party, but in the election here this past week, the stuffed-shirt incumbent got booted out. A new guy will be elected (his opponent in the opposite party doesn't stand a chance). He's a worthy individual, imho, so it worked out pretty good.
Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Actually, yes. You've figured it out.
No, I'm certainly not meaning to be sarcastic.
Oh, come on, you know what he means. I, too, have a stack of Pentium III Dell Optiplexes in storage, and won't run out of 'conventional PeeCee' hardware for decades. But there won't be unencumbered 'composite video' content for me to record using my Dazzle Mpeg2 card indefinitely. In the not-distant future there will be lotsa content I won't be able to drag, even through my favorite 'analog hole.'
The same can apply to TV shows. Ever notice that an episode of Seinfeld is really only 22 minutes long? Have a "broadcast version" that is shorter, has advertisements on the bottom, etc.
Re-run Television programming already features such clipping of content. For instance, the reruns of The Simpsons that are rebroadcast several episodes daily in many localities have had several minutes of the episode 'clipped.' You have to buy the 'Season xx Episodes' DVD sets to get the complete unclipped episodes. And broadcasters already put gunk graphics on the bottom edge of many reruns shows, i.e. on the aforementioned reruns of The Simpsons.
We here have six cats, and two dogs. And I have multiple machines not even capable of running Windows (but I'd rather run NetBSD on most of my Windows-capable hardware anyways.) And my parents live in another state.
With twenty-seven parties you could vote and vote and vote and never have any of the people you voted for win.
if 40% of people vote for one party, 40% of the members from that party will be elected.
That would mean that all representatives would hold state-wide seats, as divvied up within each party. Whoops, there goes the idea that people in a particular locality should be represented by someone from that locality. Such a scheme can lead to deeply entrenched parties. If you're not a 'true Social-Democrat' you're not gonna be one of the people that party appoints to one of it's 24% of the seats. Such a scheme makes it HARDER for independent representatives to be elected.
Actually, AT&T faced anti-trust action and were forced to start allowing people to buy and install their own equipment. Before the anti-trust action, you had to have a telephone technician come to your site to connect a modem to the phone line. Every piece of telephone equipment was screwed down wires.
Why is it that common sense and reality go out the window when a computer is involved (patent pending)?
Slashbots worship Google. Always have. Possibly they always will.
1600 bpi open reel tape. The order form also lists 1/4" Cartridges for Suns, but those are priced $175.
It's worth noting all the extras that you got on the GNU C tape. You also got "Bison, Gawk, the GNU Assembler, X windows (Version 11r2 complete), Flex, and object file utilites" on the tape.
(Interesting that they called it 'X windows' on the order form, all frenzy one hears about it being 'The X Window System' aside.)
Back in 1987 that all was a hell of a deal, though you could also get it all for free if you had means to churn off a copy yourself.
When I started reading the summary, I latched on the '$200' as an expensive video card. Which it is. Then to discover the article is talking about $300, rather than $500 video cards.
Uh....
It's similar to when you see a 'Save $17,000 on your next car purchase" advertisement, but you've never spent even $15,000 on a car.
Okay, I confess that I've spent more than $150 on a video card, once. It was an STB PCI card that had a daughterboard on it that gave it the extra 4 megs of RAM.
The idea that my 'gaming experience' would increase to the point where it would justify spending $500 on a video card is just bewildering. And I played through ALL the levels of Wolfenstein 3D back in it's time.
I guess gameplay is more important to me than gee-whiz graphics. I still buy games, but usually check to make sure my hardware meets the minimum requirement.
This whole 'subculture' reminds me of the culture of riced out cars, to be honest.
Richard would want the Macbook to be Free, as in free for him to maintain and update. Jobs would do the usual thing.
My March 1987 copy of the GNU Emacs Manual (Sixth Edition, Version 18) has a FSF order form in the back. The source code is avilable on tape for $150. The Gnu C Compiler on tape for $150. Gnu Emacs manuals for $15 each.
Why is there an 'outcry' about Stallman and his organization making some money to support their efforts? It's how movements based on ideals, not keeping 'the bottom line' number big, sustain their organizations and themselves.
You're dancing around the fact that at present, there are no cerified open source versions. Java has been around for many years now. Why the continued delay?
The 'S' in Sun stands for Stanford, not Berkley. They would be 'Bun Microsystems' if your version of history was accurate.
Sure, Berkeley Unix was an important component in the start of Sun. But let's not get carried away.
Agreed, I moved from a company that had a mix of Sun UNIX, OS/2, Netware, and Windows servers in the infrastructure, to a company that is one of Microsoft's bitches. It's unbelievable what kind of bullshit a $4billion multinational company will put up with and continue to stick with Microsoft's ill-designed servers.
I feel sorry for the IT staff who have to keep it going. But they're just third rate 'data janitors' so I guess it's no different than feeling sorry for the janitor when a toilet backs up...
Actimates(tm) Barney was exclusively a Microsoft(tm) product.
I never got one, though I do own the innards of two Actimates(tm) Teletubbies. Cool, cool LED display matrix in one of those...
I have a huge collection of Sun hardware here, within ten feet of where I type this, at home. Hundreds of pounds of great gear. The fact that I bought all of it for almost nothing at University surplus auctions should tell you that it's on the way out, though. (at the most recent auction, the only Sun gear was one Blade 100 which I snapped up- tons and tons of old Dell P3 boxes, though). Most of the Sun gear has been flushed out of most academic settings. Which I am really sad about, but it's the truth.
Microchip's 8-bit embedded controllers are 'part of the infrastucture I rely on', too. Along with carbon-film resistors, in both leaded and surface mount packages.
And steel. Steel nails are really important. Don't even get me going on the subject of steel rebar in poured cement structures....