I can assure you that while OpenOffice will extend the ODF format in a documented way, with an eye on interoperability and trying to add the extensions into the next version of the standard, If MS does it, it will be in a undocumented way, with the spirit of breaking interoperability and make it windows/office centric.
"No reasonable person would argue that the hoods of all cars should be welded shut and only openable by the manufacturer"
Right now, you are allowed to sell a car where the hood is welded shut, but police wouldn't stop people from opening it. On the other hand, with DRM if you manage to open it up, the RIAA will call the police, and at the expense of taxpayers, police will come and take you to jail. I don't have anything against DRM except the police enforcement. If they can come up with a technological measure that stops me from making a copy of digital information, so be it. The less of my worries will be music or movies. But if they don't, I don't know why the goverment has to protect them and not me.
With all the cheating going on (scrappers, link farms, google bombing, etc...), maybe they push the bar so much because Google needs some extra information apart from links to build their pagerank results, and they get it from statistics gathered from googlebar users.
I guess they want to solve the problem where microsoft changes its format overnight and everybodys application stops reading the documents created with the new version until they either pay for a new version of office, or wait until openoffice catches up.
Its funny that when people talks about net neutrality, they are talking about the web.
There are plenty of ISPs around the globe throttling things like the edonkey network, bittorrent network, skype, vonage, etc...
They are filtering and throtling by application, and that to me is not net neutrality.
Also there are lots of people behind NATted ADSLs with five times less upstream bandwith that downstream bandwith, and without the ability (by contract) of running servers.
I would say that the Telcos are already exerting far too much control about what we do with the bandwith we buy.
I want my government back, I want my news to be written by real journalists, not PR staff angling for a press hit, I want my privacy back and I want to own the data about me. Why is that asking so much?
The Data about you will not own. Free data wants to be...
Agreed. It seems DRM is killing sony. It killed their walkman mp3 line replaced by the ipod when they tried to impose their propietary DRM format onto people.
Now, their only advantage over the XBox lies onto a DRM emcumbered market. Lets see what happens. Sony could be the first company being killed by ther fucking up people with DRM.
Is the only solution. People writing new internet applications should encrypt all traffic, and make it look like a vpn, ssl or ssh. This way the ISPs will only have one source of information, the IP address. That would make it more difficult to filter by application. And in the process the free internet would be saved. This would also kill the provisions for QoS in the IP protocol, but if the service providers are willing to use this provisions to highjack the internet, then I can live without them.
Also, the google people can write an application to go into their google bar called "google accelerator" or something like that, that intercepts requests to google and redirects them to a different proxy every hour.
If you encrypt all your traffic, they cant shape or block it. I guess every app will have to move to encrypt traffic, not only for security reasons, but for performance, specially p2p. If this applications set up encrypted connections looking like VPNs or https with their peers, they will not be blocked, because the ISPs won't risk blocking corporate traffic.
The problem with your idea is conflict of interest. People will not try to achieve the best for society, but the best for _them_, and an educated and critical thinking person will make the _wrong_ choice for society if it benefits _him_. That is human nature. That is the reason why fools are allowed to vote, so they can defend their best interest, instead of trusting the choices of "smarter" people. I rather make my own choices than allowing other people's agenda on the loop, even if that person is smarter than me. Specially so.
The internet is TCP/IP. That is, a numbering system for nodes and routing rules so you can send small packets of information from A to B.
Because it is so simple and basic, it is very close to the very definition of communication, and in order to stop it from working it would be neccesary to stop communication at all. I mean, you can inplement TCP/IP over pigeon transport or whatever means of communication is available to you (telephone , radio, messengers, snail mail, etc)
At the minimum, this days bussiness need to be able to communicate _encrypted_ information with eachother and with foreign bussiness, even in dictatorships, in order to be able to run even a basic economy, so I don't think anybody would be able to stop you from communicating. You just have to register as a bussiness.
I think people is mistaking the web for the internet.
Commercial dvd's are alright, if you take care of them. On the other hand, recordable dvds are too easily scratched. My experience with them is appaling.
Hard drives come in cases, so you don't have the scratch problem. Of course if you drop them they will break but that is a different problem.
He is right in his view that the MPAA will back blue ray because of the anticonsumer copy protection in the format. He is also right when he says that people is increasingly storing stuff in hard drives because they are competitive on the price per dollar side and they are much more reliable than the easily scratched current recordable DVDs.
He is mostly wrong about a lot of other stuff, but I have to give him this one.
Even if they don't support writing OpenDocument, _you_ will be able to use OpenOffice and send them documents that they can read. This would be a biggie. Right now, most people in business require a.doc document. If you send them something that word will open without problems, they will accept it, and you will be able to ditch ms-office for a free and Free alternative.
Would it be possible to include the linux executable in the distribution as well, so if you are in a windows machine you run the windows.exe and if you are in a linux machine you run the linux binary, but both access the same data?
That would be great. Now you are Machine _and_ operating system independent!
Life expectancy is longer for every generation due to science and economics. And the law of accelerated returns applies to this as well, so it is quite safe to say that life expectancy will increase faster in the future.
Only thing I need now is life expectancy growing more than 10 years every decade.:-)
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So we will be getting more and more "breakthroughs" measured by last century's scientific performance, every day.
Here for a description of the Technological Singularity in Wikipedia.
a) "spellcheck" the chromosome copying, and b) prevent the telomeres
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b) is easy, you can shut off telomerase for a while(http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articleren
I can assure you that while OpenOffice will extend the ODF format in a documented way, with an eye on interoperability and trying to add the extensions into the next version of the standard, If MS does it, it will be in a undocumented way, with the spirit of breaking interoperability and make it windows/office centric.
Don't you remember java?
"No reasonable person would argue that the hoods of all cars should be welded shut and only openable by the manufacturer"
Right now, you are allowed to sell a car where the hood is welded shut, but police wouldn't stop people from opening it.
On the other hand, with DRM if you manage to open it up, the RIAA will call the police, and at the expense of taxpayers, police will come and take you to jail.
I don't have anything against DRM except the police enforcement. If they can come up with a technological measure that stops me from making a copy of digital information, so be it. The less of my worries will be music or movies. But if they don't, I don't know why the goverment has to protect them and not me.
With all the cheating going on (scrappers, link farms, google bombing, etc...), maybe they push the bar so much because Google needs some extra information apart from links to build their pagerank results, and they get it from statistics gathered from googlebar users.
I guess they want to solve the problem where microsoft changes its format overnight and everybodys application stops reading the documents created with the new version until they either pay for a new version of office, or wait until openoffice catches up.
Its funny that when people talks about net neutrality, they are talking about the web.
There are plenty of ISPs around the globe throttling things like the edonkey network, bittorrent network, skype, vonage, etc...
They are filtering and throtling by application, and that to me is not net neutrality.
Also there are lots of people behind NATted ADSLs with five times less upstream bandwith that downstream bandwith, and without the ability (by contract) of running servers.
I would say that the Telcos are already exerting far too much control about what we do with the bandwith we buy.
I want my government back, I want my news to be written by real journalists, not PR staff angling for a press hit, I want my privacy back and I want to own the data about me. Why is that asking so much?
The Data about you will not own. Free data wants to be...
Yoda said.
So is Moore's law still holding?
Agreed.
It seems DRM is killing sony.
It killed their walkman mp3 line replaced by the ipod when they tried to impose their propietary DRM format onto people.
Now, their only advantage over the XBox lies onto a DRM emcumbered market. Lets see what happens.
Sony could be the first company being killed by ther fucking up people with DRM.
Is the only solution.
People writing new internet applications should encrypt all traffic, and make it look like a vpn, ssl or ssh. This way the ISPs will only have one source of information, the IP address.
That would make it more difficult to filter by application. And in the process the free internet would be saved. This would also kill the provisions for QoS in the IP protocol, but if the service providers are willing to use this provisions to highjack the internet, then I can live without them.
Also, the google people can write an application to go into their google bar called "google accelerator" or something like that, that intercepts requests to google and redirects them to a different proxy every hour.
Just make it imprac
Encrypt!!!
If you encrypt all your traffic, they cant shape or block it. I guess every app will have to move to encrypt traffic, not only for security reasons, but for performance, specially p2p. If this applications set up encrypted connections looking like VPNs or https with their peers, they will not be blocked, because the ISPs won't risk blocking corporate traffic.
The poor islamic terrorists are not very frightening. China is much better. It is already catching up as the enemy in the public minds.
So you are not very far off
The problem with your idea is conflict of interest. People will not try to achieve the best for society, but the best for _them_, and an educated and critical thinking person will make the _wrong_ choice for society if it benefits _him_. That is human nature.
That is the reason why fools are allowed to vote, so they can defend their best interest, instead of trusting the choices of "smarter" people.
I rather make my own choices than allowing other people's agenda on the loop, even if that person is smarter than me. Specially so.
The internet is TCP/IP. That is, a numbering system for nodes and routing rules so you can send small packets of information from A to B.
Because it is so simple and basic, it is very close to the very definition of communication, and in order to stop it from working it would be neccesary to stop communication at all. I mean, you can inplement TCP/IP over pigeon transport or whatever means of communication is available to you (telephone , radio, messengers, snail mail, etc)
At the minimum, this days bussiness need to be able to communicate _encrypted_ information with eachother and with foreign bussiness, even in dictatorships, in order to be able to run even a basic economy, so I don't think anybody would be able to stop you from communicating. You just have to register as a bussiness.
I think people is mistaking the web for the internet.
static key of 0x1234...
:-)
That is actually the default password (1234) for half of the spanish adsl routers from Telefonica (the incumbent phone company in Spain).
And most people will never change it.
And they are accesible from both the internet and wifi (most of them are wifi enabled).
so go laugh out loud
Beatiful countries full of sun and sand and opportunity (not to mention amazing food and cofee).
:-)
You must have been in south europe (Itali, Spain, Portugal) where the best quality of life can be found...
I've yet to have one commercial dvd or cd "fail"
Commercial dvd's are alright, if you take care of them.
On the other hand, recordable dvds are too easily scratched. My experience with them is appaling.
Hard drives come in cases, so you don't have the scratch problem. Of course if you drop them they will break but that is a different problem.
He is right in his view that the MPAA will back blue ray because of the anticonsumer copy protection in the format.
He is also right when he says that people is increasingly storing stuff in hard drives because they are competitive on the price per dollar side and they are much more reliable than the easily scratched current recordable DVDs.
He is mostly wrong about a lot of other stuff, but I have to give him this one.
Even if they don't support writing OpenDocument, _you_ will be able to use OpenOffice and send them documents that they can read. This would be a biggie. .doc document. If you send them something that word will open without problems, they will accept it, and you will be able to ditch ms-office for a free and Free alternative.
Right now, most people in business require a
Would it be possible to include the linux executable in the distribution as well, so if you are in a windows machine you run the windows .exe and if you are in a linux machine you run the linux binary, but both access the same data?
That would be great. Now you are Machine _and_ operating system independent!
Just curiosity, what do you need this big ass cards for? I can't think of anything except proffesional gaming.
Like a story from the simpsons.
This time, I guess, Miguel de Icaza should be worried about this patent, if granted, indeed does affect the core of the mono project...
Life expectancy is longer for every generation due to science and economics. And the law of accelerated returns applies to this as well, so it is quite safe to say that life expectancy will increase faster in the future.
:-)
Only thing I need now is life expectancy growing more than 10 years every decade.