By limiting yourself to the 50 web sites produced by trusted large firms, you're missing out on 99%+ of the internet. It's like listening to Clear Channel but only on the timeslots where the particular DJ comes personally recommended to you by a Justice of the Peace. Then again, some trusted firms are known for doing not-entirely-squeaky-clean things too. Sony rootkit anyone?
Do you also forego antivirus on you computer on the grounds that you only visit non-shitty websites and you're smart enough to not open attachments?
Life is full of uncertainty. To say that you'll never visit a shitty site is like saying you'll never walk down a street where you'll get mugged or you'll never sleep with a person that has an STD. Street lights, mace, vaccine and condoms are parts of a broad set of tools that we have to protect our person in meatspace. Tools like a decent browser, antivirus, firewall and script blocker are just parts of a broad set of tools that we have to protect us in cyberspace.
After 20 years in computing, I like to think that I'm one of the people "that know what they're doing" but never the less, I practice safe computing. I've never been hit by a virus or identity theft to the best of my knowledge. Is that because of my good habits or my precautions? I don't know but I don't claim to be perfect so I'm glad I have these helper apps.
I believe the remark by AC was not poking fun at spectrum disorders but rather the tendancy of some people to be too quick to offer a diagnosis.
I work in a medical practice where we assist children and parents with a broad range of issues including autism so I'm well aware of how serious the condition can be and what an impact it can have on people's lives. Despite that or possibly because of that, I feel it's important to be able rise above our personal pain to have a joke lest we spend our lives in tears.
As an earlier commenter observed, MS' core business is selling software, not services. Thus FLOSS (and to a lesser degree OSS) is the antithesis of their business model. For MS to now be courting the OSS world, it means they can smell money in sizable quantities.
I suspect it's a ploy. False acceptance if you will. Any offering they make will have some gotcha. Perhaps their contributions to OSS will be offered under a MSOSS licence instead of a GPL. Or they'll offer technologies and promise to not enforce the patents then hold off long enough to let the techniques become entrenched then renig on the offer.
Gross inefficiency.
No I don't think they'd use 10b2 but I do think they'd use a proprietary technology to make life difficult for competitors. For evidence I submit the original cable modems. It wasn't for many years until they moved to a recognised standard.
If it was left to Telstra (as I believe is Abbot's plan), they'll just roll out 10b2 down every street. Guaranteed 10Mb to every home.
I wonder what the contention rate will be like?
My astigmatism is in the retina. Apparently it could've been corrected had I been given glasses as a child but now as an adult it's not correctable. I do wear glasses which compensates slightly but it's far from perfect.
1. That you say you don't have to wear special glasses for 3D and yet you seem to be referencing technologies that are not ready for the big screen.
2. That I have a minor vision impairment which I fear *may* interfere with such technologies. I never said the tech would not work nor should not be developed. I simply expressed concern that the technology if widely adopted might disadvantage a non-trivial group of potential customers. I believe that the number of cinema-goers globally with imperfect vision are not such a small number as to be totally disregarded.
Your question ignores the first and seems hostile to the second. It seems that you're saying "you minority folk don't count". That's an attitude we've been trying to get rid of for the last 60 years.
Now I'm generally not that keen on lip piercings but I reckon I'd swoon over a girl with a resistor piercing:) Hmmm... using a GaAs diode would even make it gemlike! Quickly! To the patent office o/
Are any of the technologies you cite suitable for use in a cinema environment? The wikipedia article refers to flat panel displays which are much smaller than a cinema screen, lenticular lenses and the like which are very dependent on head and eye position. If not, your argument is undermined by faulty logic:-)
Also, I have an astigmatism in my right eye. It doesn't impede me in normal life, it just makes everything a little bit blurry in that eye; my left eye compensates just fine with rare exception. The rare exceptions include any kind of "magic eye" picture which requires balanced stereoscopic vision. No matter how much I try, I just can't see the dolphin jump out of that picture. How well will these technologies work for the substantial percentage of ordinary folk with minor vision impairment?
I agree with your motivation but I still don't think it would be practical. Many vehicles are particularly tall or wide which means that the power infrastructure would need to be spaced far enough from the lane to not get bumped. Multi-lane roads would cause an extra challenge too. Rolling out the infrastructure would also cost an absolute bomb too with the obvious question "who is going to pay for it?" City folk aren't going to want to subsidise the rollout of roadpower to Hicksvilles across the globe and can you imagine how much power theft would happen?
I think people working on improved batteries and fuel cells have the right idea. As soon as that tech is compact, relatively efficient and simple enough for grandma to use, there will be a dramatic and rapid shift as the world moves to it propelled by green credentials and soaring petroleum prices.
Overhead lines are practical for fixed, regular routes such that trams travel but are impractical for anything else, like turning into your driveway, going into a basement carpark or heading into a forest on holidays.
What a great idea! I think I'll create a new distro specialised for creating home porn server!
I shall call it PornOS. The default desktop wallapper will be leopard skin naugahyde and the default screensaver will be a slideshow of screenshots from Boogie Nights. The keyboard mapping will be optimised for one-handed typing and when you click things with a mouse it'll make "chicka-bow-chicka-bow" type noises.
I shall not rename the admin account. I think 'root' already has that covered.
Slashdot Mirror
That is all.
That may be so, but the British govt are less likely to hijack a plane and fly it into a landmark.
Woosh indeed :-)
Tread lightly around this one. He doesn't realise how many steps are required for an unintentional pun.
The motorised ones do 5k-30k rpm. Common pneumatic high speed drills do 400k rpm.
Now who's feeling superior?
By limiting yourself to the 50 web sites produced by trusted large firms, you're missing out on 99%+ of the internet. It's like listening to Clear Channel but only on the timeslots where the particular DJ comes personally recommended to you by a Justice of the Peace. Then again, some trusted firms are known for doing not-entirely-squeaky-clean things too. Sony rootkit anyone?
Do you also forego antivirus on you computer on the grounds that you only visit non-shitty websites and you're smart enough to not open attachments?
Life is full of uncertainty. To say that you'll never visit a shitty site is like saying you'll never walk down a street where you'll get mugged or you'll never sleep with a person that has an STD. Street lights, mace, vaccine and condoms are parts of a broad set of tools that we have to protect our person in meatspace. Tools like a decent browser, antivirus, firewall and script blocker are just parts of a broad set of tools that we have to protect us in cyberspace.
After 20 years in computing, I like to think that I'm one of the people "that know what they're doing" but never the less, I practice safe computing. I've never been hit by a virus or identity theft to the best of my knowledge. Is that because of my good habits or my precautions? I don't know but I don't claim to be perfect so I'm glad I have these helper apps.
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...
I believe the remark by AC was not poking fun at spectrum disorders but rather the tendancy of some people to be too quick to offer a diagnosis. I work in a medical practice where we assist children and parents with a broad range of issues including autism so I'm well aware of how serious the condition can be and what an impact it can have on people's lives. Despite that or possibly because of that, I feel it's important to be able rise above our personal pain to have a joke lest we spend our lives in tears.
I took the post to be an humourous remark.
As an earlier commenter observed, MS' core business is selling software, not services. Thus FLOSS (and to a lesser degree OSS) is the antithesis of their business model. For MS to now be courting the OSS world, it means they can smell money in sizable quantities. I suspect it's a ploy. False acceptance if you will. Any offering they make will have some gotcha. Perhaps their contributions to OSS will be offered under a MSOSS licence instead of a GPL. Or they'll offer technologies and promise to not enforce the patents then hold off long enough to let the techniques become entrenched then renig on the offer.
Gross inefficiency. No I don't think they'd use 10b2 but I do think they'd use a proprietary technology to make life difficult for competitors. For evidence I submit the original cable modems. It wasn't for many years until they moved to a recognised standard.
hmmm, I think I'll find out which polling boothes are in my electorate and drive around looking to see which one has the best sex party volunteers :)
If it was left to Telstra (as I believe is Abbot's plan), they'll just roll out 10b2 down every street. Guaranteed 10Mb to every home. I wonder what the contention rate will be like?
My astigmatism is in the retina. Apparently it could've been corrected had I been given glasses as a child but now as an adult it's not correctable. I do wear glasses which compensates slightly but it's far from perfect.
I voiced two concerns.
1. That you say you don't have to wear special glasses for 3D and yet you seem to be referencing technologies that are not ready for the big screen.
2. That I have a minor vision impairment which I fear *may* interfere with such technologies. I never said the tech would not work nor should not be developed. I simply expressed concern that the technology if widely adopted might disadvantage a non-trivial group of potential customers. I believe that the number of cinema-goers globally with imperfect vision are not such a small number as to be totally disregarded.
Your question ignores the first and seems hostile to the second. It seems that you're saying "you minority folk don't count". That's an attitude we've been trying to get rid of for the last 60 years.
Now I'm generally not that keen on lip piercings but I reckon I'd swoon over a girl with a resistor piercing :) Hmmm... using a GaAs diode would even make it gemlike! Quickly! To the patent office o/
I hope someone rectifies this situation soon.
uh... I think slashfap might encourage and even more niche market...
I read the Jar Jar comment as being facetious :-)
Are any of the technologies you cite suitable for use in a cinema environment? The wikipedia article refers to flat panel displays which are much smaller than a cinema screen, lenticular lenses and the like which are very dependent on head and eye position. If not, your argument is undermined by faulty logic :-)
Also, I have an astigmatism in my right eye. It doesn't impede me in normal life, it just makes everything a little bit blurry in that eye; my left eye compensates just fine with rare exception. The rare exceptions include any kind of "magic eye" picture which requires balanced stereoscopic vision. No matter how much I try, I just can't see the dolphin jump out of that picture. How well will these technologies work for the substantial percentage of ordinary folk with minor vision impairment?
Google tells me it's a BBC comedy spoof of educational films called... Look Around You
Poe's Law? Whenever someone says whooosh, an elder god awakens?
I agree with your motivation but I still don't think it would be practical. Many vehicles are particularly tall or wide which means that the power infrastructure would need to be spaced far enough from the lane to not get bumped. Multi-lane roads would cause an extra challenge too. Rolling out the infrastructure would also cost an absolute bomb too with the obvious question "who is going to pay for it?" City folk aren't going to want to subsidise the rollout of roadpower to Hicksvilles across the globe and can you imagine how much power theft would happen?
I think people working on improved batteries and fuel cells have the right idea. As soon as that tech is compact, relatively efficient and simple enough for grandma to use, there will be a dramatic and rapid shift as the world moves to it propelled by green credentials and soaring petroleum prices.
Overhead lines are practical for fixed, regular routes such that trams travel but are impractical for anything else, like turning into your driveway, going into a basement carpark or heading into a forest on holidays.
*chuckle*
What a great idea! I think I'll create a new distro specialised for creating home porn server!
I shall call it PornOS. The default desktop wallapper will be leopard skin naugahyde and the default screensaver will be a slideshow of screenshots from Boogie Nights. The keyboard mapping will be optimised for one-handed typing and when you click things with a mouse it'll make "chicka-bow-chicka-bow" type noises.
I shall not rename the admin account. I think 'root' already has that covered.
I wonder if pornos.org is still available...