In an ironic duality: We as a nation no longer have a manned space program because it's too high and we may fall and hurt ourselves. This kinda thinking is pervasive on all levels and taking over our society. Play it safe - play it safe. We have forgotten how to take risks in this country. Taking risks is vital for our future, and is what made this a great country. Instead we have become a fearful bunch of whiners and pussies.
"The public has the same right, no matter what laws they try to create or enforce to prevent you from taping them."
Yes if you want to end up in jail for a few days, have your apartment searched, have you equipment taken, and have to pay a lawyer; after all that you probably will have all the charges dropped.(unless they find something else in the search - And they will..) But do you really want to cross that bridge? Not to mention having your name on the cops or some government shit list.
Intimidation by those with power is a powerful .
With that said, Imagine the costs, headaches and risks to convert over an institution as large as a medical center that rely on thees mission-critical machines. Is Microsoft going to foot the bill? I think not. It's too bad M.S. does not understand that with its success comes responsibility to cater to, and not to cause headaches for, their customers they had for 20 years. Forcing people to change what works because they want to make money on a new OS has repercussions for others. Making older, but perfectly functioning hardware obsolete because the next new O.S. wont run on gets expensive. If it not broken, don't fix it. Hospitals and other institutions have better things to do than to play with the next cool O.S. like a home user can. Oh yea, btw, windows 7 sucks.
My father went to the hospital last month to our local medical center. I was rather suprized at something:
It's a rather high tech hospital, computers with large screens plastered everywhere. From the 6 large screen systems in the emergency room with patient data, to the Thinkpads hospital personnel roll around for patient intake, to the front desk and the nurses station computers and thin clients..
Every one of them was running Windows XP Pro. In all those computers, I did not see a single Vista or windows 7 system anywhere.
Does that tell you something?
(BTW my father is ok:) )
I worked as a technician for several computer stores in the past before I opened my own consulting company. 3 out of 4 were run by "Business men" or "Sales people" that had absolutely positively no clue how a computer worked or how to build or fix a computer, or to even use a computer. They were more clueless than most of our customers. One guy was a shoe salesman before he opened his computer shop. Yet another was a vacuum cleaner salesman. It was always funny to watch them stew in their own juices when a customer asked them a technical question.
But under the strict 'two-party notification' laws in Massachusetts, it's a crime to 'secretly record' audio communications unless 'all parties to such communication' have given their consent.
So the cops are (ab)using this law, however if I'm reading this correctly then I have the right to have anyone arrested recording me in public. Anyone could make a citizens arrest if they see they are being recorded under this law as well. (Including cops dash cams:) ) I wonder how that would stand up in court?
In the future we will be under such control from the devices people buy and the companies that still OWN AND CONTROL them that we won't be able to take a shit without proper permission.
"switch the alloy between a crystalline and amorphous state"
Interesting, this is similar how cd/dvd-rw works, where they use a laser to do the state change.
Reminds me of the Star Trek NG episode with the traveler:
"You do understand, don't you, that thought is the basis of all reality. The energy of thought, to put in your terms, is very powerful. "
I wonder if a rocky planet like Earth with the right conditions for life or with life, could ever have significant rings. What a sight that would be living on that planet.
"There should be a new category of software (unless someone's already described it) called Tempware, which describes software that only works if some other shit completely outside of your control works with it."
This has been one of Microsoft's goals for years. It will be coming to a cloud near you..
"find ways to guarantee that items bought are permanently owned even without a physical copy."
Well that's exactly what they don't want. It's more profitable to dismantle servers after a while and obsolete games so you buy new ones.
I think games are going to actually be more online dependent to support this business model. To the game maker it has many benefits:
Strong enforcement of DRM with constant patches, etc. ala Sony
Ability to add new content or tiers in which you must pay extra for.
To kill a game when they want your to buy something new.
With this new paradigm you will permanently own nothing.
It makes perfect sense.
Just another example of companies having control over things you purchase after the fact.
Slashdot Mirror
Then encryption and VPN's will be made illegal, like in India. They control the strings. They are the Puppet Masters.
Would this be similar to a polygon flood fill algorithm?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill
Nothing interrupts my daily dose of Slashdot.. Nothing
This is not too bad: http://www.sciencedaily.com/
In an ironic duality: We as a nation no longer have a manned space program because it's too high and we may fall and hurt ourselves. This kinda thinking is pervasive on all levels and taking over our society. Play it safe - play it safe. We have forgotten how to take risks in this country. Taking risks is vital for our future, and is what made this a great country. Instead we have become a fearful bunch of whiners and pussies.
I love this idea!
Not to mention proprietary hardware raid drivers. I agree, I use pure software raid, for my needs the overhead is negligible.
"The public has the same right, no matter what laws they try to create or enforce to prevent you from taping them."
Yes if you want to end up in jail for a few days, have your apartment searched, have you equipment taken, and have to pay a lawyer; after all that you probably will have all the charges dropped.(unless they find something else in the search - And they will..) But do you really want to cross that bridge? Not to mention having your name on the cops or some government shit list. Intimidation by those with power is a powerful .
You forgot something:
Large corporations = Evil!
Then you have:
Large corporations + large government = Biggest Evil Of All ^ 2!
With that said, Imagine the costs, headaches and risks to convert over an institution as large as a medical center that rely on thees mission-critical machines. Is Microsoft going to foot the bill? I think not. It's too bad M.S. does not understand that with its success comes responsibility to cater to, and not to cause headaches for, their customers they had for 20 years. Forcing people to change what works because they want to make money on a new OS has repercussions for others. Making older, but perfectly functioning hardware obsolete because the next new O.S. wont run on gets expensive. If it not broken, don't fix it. Hospitals and other institutions have better things to do than to play with the next cool O.S. like a home user can. Oh yea, btw, windows 7 sucks.
My father went to the hospital last month to our local medical center. I was rather suprized at something:
:) )
It's a rather high tech hospital, computers with large screens plastered everywhere. From the 6 large screen systems in the emergency room with patient data, to the Thinkpads hospital personnel roll around for patient intake, to the front desk and the nurses station computers and thin clients..
Every one of them was running Windows XP Pro. In all those computers, I did not see a single Vista or windows 7 system anywhere.
Does that tell you something?
(BTW my father is ok
I worked as a technician for several computer stores in the past before I opened my own consulting company. 3 out of 4 were run by "Business men" or "Sales people" that had absolutely positively no clue how a computer worked or how to build or fix a computer, or to even use a computer. They were more clueless than most of our customers. One guy was a shoe salesman before he opened his computer shop. Yet another was a vacuum cleaner salesman. It was always funny to watch them stew in their own juices when a customer asked them a technical question.
But under the strict 'two-party notification' laws in Massachusetts, it's a crime to 'secretly record' audio communications unless 'all parties to such communication' have given their consent.
:) )
So the cops are (ab)using this law, however if I'm reading this correctly then I have the right to have anyone arrested recording me in public. Anyone could make a citizens arrest if they see they are being recorded under this law as well. (Including cops dash cams
I wonder how that would stand up in court?
In the future we will be under such control from the devices people buy and the companies that still OWN AND CONTROL them that we won't be able to take a shit without proper permission.
"switch the alloy between a crystalline and amorphous state"
Interesting, this is similar how cd/dvd-rw works, where they use a laser to do the state change.
Reminds me of the Star Trek NG episode with the traveler:
"You do understand, don't you, that thought is the basis of all reality. The energy of thought, to put in your terms, is very powerful. "
Serves them right for buying an evil product from and evil company.
You reap what you sow.
You underestimate the level of which some people get "addicted" to games.. Some say it worse the quitting smoking or quitting heroin.
I have an HP notebook, its fast and reliable but the glossy screen is real bad. ;)
Perhaps if I sand blast the screen it will make it more matte.
Because telcom lobbyist will have made it illegal.
I guess i'm guilty before the fact.. Must be a bunch of mind readers in Canada.
I wonder if a rocky planet like Earth with the right conditions for life or with life, could ever have significant rings. What a sight that would be living on that planet.
"There should be a new category of software (unless someone's already described it) called Tempware, which describes software that only works if some other shit completely outside of your control works with it."
This has been one of Microsoft's goals for years. It will be coming to a cloud near you..
"find ways to guarantee that items bought are permanently owned even without a physical copy."
Well that's exactly what they don't want. It's more profitable to dismantle servers after a while and obsolete games so you buy new ones.
I think games are going to actually be more online dependent to support this business model. To the game maker it has many benefits:
Strong enforcement of DRM with constant patches, etc. ala Sony
Ability to add new content or tiers in which you must pay extra for.
To kill a game when they want your to buy something new.
With this new paradigm you will permanently own nothing.
It makes perfect sense.
Just another example of companies having control over things you purchase after the fact.
I play Americas Army 3 and I'm noticing Sony PS3 people are popping up on AA now cause they have nothing else to play!