True, I've used both this and the Keyhole/Google Earth version and the NASA one is pretty inferior.
Now, it's perfectly acceptable for freeware, don't get me wrong, but the Google one is much better (more responsive, smoother, better controls, better bounder handling, integrating with Google maps, and location searches, plus the ability to integrate other people's location sets. It's also virtually free, less than $20/yr.
So save the NASA servers and splurge. If you have kids, I don't think there is anything better you could spend $20/year on.
Open source is probably more creative than corporations--they can explore their desires without worrying about profits at the end.
None of the Bit Torrent/P2P stuff was corporate.
Firefox, was Open Source and is pretty damn creative.
Apache????
ARggggg this guy really has some good weed... SHARE!
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I had a lot of trouble when I was first learning to type. I looked at my fingers all the time, couldn't resist it.
I failed a typing class in school because my speed was so poor.
Eventually I got one of those typing tutor programs and it helped a LOT, but I still looked too often (if you ever have to look, it's too often, it breaks your concentration, even for symbols!).
Anyway, the solution was 3 days of typing tutor with a towel over my hand. It tripled my speed (I can type about 100 wpm if I'm copying from a document and not creating the content myself--in that case my hands are faster than my head anyway)
Give it a try. Don't bother buying a blank keyboard unless you like the cool look and want to piss your friends off (if you REALLY enjoy that, learn dvorak and use the blank keyboard!). Just throw a towel over your hands for a week and you'll find a significant improvement.
If you haven't checked out http://www.keyhole.com/ I really suggest it. There is a seven day free demo, and after that if you wish to buy it it's somewhere around $20/year.
This is a full 3-d map of everywhere. Kind of like nasa's free world wind program, but MUCH better including an improved GUI and the ability to overlay google maps and see businesses and any level/combination of user bookmarks.
The ability to change perspective on the 3-d engine means you can look at mountains from the side, or see what the view looks like driving up the I-5 in California.
I hate to sound like an add, I really haven't even paid for a subscription (mostly because I was wasting too much time at work playing with it!), but Microsoft is once again a day late and a dollar short.
I'm not a huge book fan or anything, I actually love computers, but come on!
I like the fact that I don't have to worry about a book running out of batteries or recharging it.
The display never gives me a headache (reading small, lit displays in the dark sometimes does)
If I'm on a page that I know I will want to get back to, I can stick my finger between the sheets. For longer storage, I can place the bookmark there.
If I want to reference a previous event, I can usually flip to it within seconds.
I have a great indexing system called a bookshelf. I don't have to remember which CD I put it on or if canceling my audible account will make that book go away for the rest of my life (Well, that's for audible books, but I'm sure the same applies to any DRM controled media).
I can set it down on it's face to save the place if I have to jump up, and if I don't get to come back for a few days, it'll still be there.
None of these break me out of the character I'm living through the book.
You know, honestly, this excersize is kind of pointless because I can't come up with a single reason to read a book online. I even print out source code to read when I really want to think about it/mark it up. Why would I do that if paper wasn't a superior medium?
Just to confirm your post, I read something within the past few days saying that America (the government, not the people) is getting pissed that China has its currency tied directly to the US dollar.
It's getting serious enough that we are threatening action.
This seems to have two effects. It keeps the Yen lower in value and the US Dollar Higher in value.
Why is this a problem?
The only reason I can imagine is that it is stopping our plan of devaluating the dollar to reduce our debt--apparently our version of international debt reduction.
If anyone knows another reason why we have our panties in a bunch over this issue, please let me know.
Totally offtopic, but I think this thing has scrolled enough that it won't be modded.
There has been a culture of greed that sprung up sometime from the mid-80's. The concept is that you can do anything you want as long as it makes you money, and if everyone is selfish like that the world will be perfect.
This is treated as a religion (strangely these same people tend to reject religion strenuously, but accept this unproven belief in selfishness as fact)
I think that it's just getting to the point where this attitude is really rolling into power, and it's part of why corporations are changing, and possibly part of what happened to our government.
It's very prevalent. I've met tens of people who treated this as a religion (it was the basis for everything they did), and a magnitude more that think that's correct but dont evangelize. It's gotten to the point where greed is synonymous with American.
Do you care, probably not, but your 8 years comment reminded me that we're getting into that period and that you're right, things really are changing--I also don't see it getting any better.
I agree that SCO was wrong, but if you buy stock in a company because you think it's profitable, spend a few weeks and look into it. See if it's actually being evil--is it worth your support?
Look on the web, perhaps, and see what people have to say it. If you don't, Well, I guess you deserve what you get.
Okay, on the off chance that this is not just flamebait, let me
I may be wrong, but I believe that copyright is supposed to be something we choose to give creaters for a "short" period (7 years), and it's only point/intention is to get more material into the public domain.
The differences between the paraphrase above and what we have now (100+ years and the concept that they are entitled to these rights by God or Nature or something) has been stolen from us by wealthy leaches who can't create a turd without hiring the work out--through bribes and other quasi-leagal activity.
If you need an example, The Disney corporation is the greatest current offender, buying their way through laws to line the pockets of shareholders with items they purchased or stole from the real artists. This mockery does NOTHING to help the works get into the public domain, and these people should be tried for treason against the constitution of their country and treason against the people of the world.
>So, I reiterate...exactly what crap am I being forced to run in my XP system that could be removed?
Well, if they are going to a terminal services based system, I'd start with:
- Direct-X and all the gaming video stuff - all the 3-d stuff - Many performance-related drivers - APIs related to getting applications to inter-operate - All generic APIs that aren't used for apps shipped with the OS, including legacy. - Any of the networking components not directly related to the shipped apps....
>Just curious, do you also turn a crank at the front of your motor to start your car?
If I was likely to need to do so (for instance if my dad drove one and that was sometimes the only car available) I would learn how to. Not that I would do it all the time.
You should know how to do all the things that you are likely to need. I realize that this is a quaint idea in these days of kids wanting everything done for them, but you never know when knowing Linux might come in handy.
I think there is a much higer chance that I will sit down to a computer loaded with Linux in the future than turn a hand crank to start a car, so I really don't understand your point.
What if you HAD to go online to save someones life and the only computer was a Linux machine. Could you use it? Bet ANY Linux user could switch to windows in no time.
In fact, could we take microsoft to court and sue them for all our antivirus fees for the past decade or so?
I'm being serious. Antivirus software is there, for the most part, to patch holes in microsoft products--period.
If Ford made a car with a keylock that allowed you to use any old stick to start the car, and they couldn't be bothered to fix it (hoping instead to sell you the next years model), wouldn't you expect to be able to sue them for the price of an aftermarket lock (or the price of your car when it's stolen and used to rob a bank, but let's start small)?
I kinda got used to the new Dr Who! It's pretty good! How am I supposed to get it in America now? I guess eventually DVDs MIGHT go on sale, and they MIGHT be playable in American DVDs...
You'd think the BBC could just open up all its content as bit torrents (I understand they have opened up quite a bit!) and just charge people to be able to decode the videos. Why not?
I used to keep a list of spam customers and refuse to patronize them. I still avoid them when I can, but have totally lost the ability to keep the list in my head. In my old age, about all I remember for sure is I'll never buy an x-10 camera thingy.
The cellphone manufactures charge for every little feature, and make devices restrictive enough to generally ensure that you can't go around their content.
Paying for a stupid ringtone or java applet should be put in the same category as buying products from SPAM email--just harmful to everyone.
The record album format will not be "defeated" in the sense of vanishing from the field as a music distribution format. Ever. They have achieved what is probably the most pervasive and addictive vendor lock-in situation in all of human history. An incredible amount of the music critical to entertaining our society is stored on, written for, and run by record players.
Remember, users will now INSIST on vinyl, because they want it/know it/are used to it. This is even better than making it a legal requirement to use records or threatening people (by whatever means) to use the album format or else. A vast number of addicts (the situation is surprisingly analogous) to music will DEMAND it in spite of anything else, becasue for them it makes life easier... Records are here to stay, in all cases where users choose stability/familiarity over music quality. There are, of course, areas of society (the richies) that might go with these new fangled CDs, where people are willing to put in the extra time and effort to learn something out of the ordinary. But those will always be the exceptions, and they will only serve as a minor annoyance for the 33 1/3 rpm vinyl industry. CDs only gets so much press because of their novelty of their quality and longevity. There is no such thing as an "up and coming" music format competitor. CDs are an infinitely better product, and their market share is fairly fixed. CDs are decimating commercial radio stations, but radio stations users are both more familiar with the new strange hardware and (of sheer necessity) more adaptable.... (You get the idea)
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True, I've used both this and the Keyhole/Google Earth version and the NASA one is pretty inferior.
Now, it's perfectly acceptable for freeware, don't get me wrong, but the Google one is much better (more responsive, smoother, better controls, better bounder handling, integrating with Google maps, and location searches, plus the ability to integrate other people's location sets. It's also virtually free, less than $20/yr.
So save the NASA servers and splurge. If you have kids, I don't think there is anything better you could spend $20/year on.
And just to match, I'll have to go out and get some solaris boxes at $...ummm, nevermind. Nobody buys Solaris any more.
>Honestly, what is this guy smoking?
That kinda sums up the whole article, doesn't it?
Open source is probably more creative than corporations--they can explore their desires without worrying about profits at the end.
None of the Bit Torrent/P2P stuff was corporate.
Firefox, was Open Source and is pretty damn creative.
Apache????
ARggggg this guy really has some good weed... SHARE!
I had a lot of trouble when I was first learning to type. I looked at my fingers all the time, couldn't resist it.
I failed a typing class in school because my speed was so poor.
Eventually I got one of those typing tutor programs and it helped a LOT, but I still looked too often (if you ever have to look, it's too often, it breaks your concentration, even for symbols!).
Anyway, the solution was 3 days of typing tutor with a towel over my hand. It tripled my speed (I can type about 100 wpm if I'm copying from a document and not creating the content myself--in that case my hands are faster than my head anyway)
Give it a try. Don't bother buying a blank keyboard unless you like the cool look and want to piss your friends off (if you REALLY enjoy that, learn dvorak and use the blank keyboard!). Just throw a towel over your hands for a week and you'll find a significant improvement.
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Too many steps. 3 is always profit!!!
My trs-80 model 100 had pretty much everything you'd need but the size. It was also fully programmable.
It didn't have a tonne of memory, but it was all text base. You could type for a month straight and still not fill it up.
I agree, why can't this be reduced to a tiny format and sold for $39.95/ea. Hell, put a wireless adapter inside and Lynx and you're set.
If you haven't checked out http://www.keyhole.com/ I really suggest it. There is a seven day free demo, and after that if you wish to buy it it's somewhere around $20/year.
This is a full 3-d map of everywhere. Kind of like nasa's free world wind program, but MUCH better including an improved GUI and the ability to overlay google maps and see businesses and any level/combination of user bookmarks.
The ability to change perspective on the 3-d engine means you can look at mountains from the side, or see what the view looks like driving up the I-5 in California.
I hate to sound like an add, I really haven't even paid for a subscription (mostly because I was wasting too much time at work playing with it!), but Microsoft is once again a day late and a dollar short.
I'm not a huge book fan or anything, I actually love computers, but come on!
I like the fact that I don't have to worry about a book running out of batteries or recharging it.
The display never gives me a headache (reading small, lit displays in the dark sometimes does)
If I'm on a page that I know I will want to get back to, I can stick my finger between the sheets. For longer storage, I can place the bookmark there.
If I want to reference a previous event, I can usually flip to it within seconds.
I have a great indexing system called a bookshelf. I don't have to remember which CD I put it on or if canceling my audible account will make that book go away for the rest of my life (Well, that's for audible books, but I'm sure the same applies to any DRM controled media).
I can set it down on it's face to save the place if I have to jump up, and if I don't get to come back for a few days, it'll still be there.
None of these break me out of the character I'm living through the book.
You know, honestly, this excersize is kind of pointless because I can't come up with a single reason to read a book online. I even print out source code to read when I really want to think about it/mark it up. Why would I do that if paper wasn't a superior medium?
Just to confirm your post, I read something within the past few days saying that America (the government, not the people) is getting pissed that China has its currency tied directly to the US dollar.
It's getting serious enough that we are threatening action.
This seems to have two effects. It keeps the Yen lower in value and the US Dollar Higher in value.
Why is this a problem?
The only reason I can imagine is that it is stopping our plan of devaluating the dollar to reduce our debt--apparently our version of international debt reduction.
If anyone knows another reason why we have our panties in a bunch over this issue, please let me know.
Totally offtopic, but I think this thing has scrolled enough that it won't be modded.
There has been a culture of greed that sprung up sometime from the mid-80's. The concept is that you can do anything you want as long as it makes you money, and if everyone is selfish like that the world will be perfect.
This is treated as a religion (strangely these same people tend to reject religion strenuously, but accept this unproven belief in selfishness as fact)
I think that it's just getting to the point where this attitude is really rolling into power, and it's part of why corporations are changing, and possibly part of what happened to our government.
It's very prevalent. I've met tens of people who treated this as a religion (it was the basis for everything they did), and a magnitude more that think that's correct but dont evangelize. It's gotten to the point where greed is synonymous with American.
Do you care, probably not, but your 8 years comment reminded me that we're getting into that period and that you're right, things really are changing--I also don't see it getting any better.
I agree that SCO was wrong, but if you buy stock in a company because you think it's profitable, spend a few weeks and look into it. See if it's actually being evil--is it worth your support?
Look on the web, perhaps, and see what people have to say it. If you don't, Well, I guess you deserve what you get.
Hear that Wallmart shareholders? Exxon?
Okay, on the off chance that this is not just flamebait, let me
I may be wrong, but I believe that copyright is supposed to be something we choose to give creaters for a "short" period (7 years), and it's only point/intention is to get more material into the public domain.
The differences between the paraphrase above and what we have now (100+ years and the concept that they are entitled to these rights by God or Nature or something) has been stolen from us by wealthy leaches who can't create a turd without hiring the work out--through bribes and other quasi-leagal activity.
If you need an example, The Disney corporation is the greatest current offender, buying their way through laws to line the pockets of shareholders with items they purchased or stole from the real artists. This mockery does NOTHING to help the works get into the public domain, and these people should be tried for treason against the constitution of their country and treason against the people of the world.
>So, I reiterate...exactly what crap am I being forced to run in my XP system that could be removed?
...
Well, if they are going to a terminal services based system, I'd start with:
- Direct-X and all the gaming video stuff
- all the 3-d stuff
- Many performance-related drivers
- APIs related to getting applications to inter-operate
- All generic APIs that aren't used for apps shipped with the OS, including legacy.
- Any of the networking components not directly related to the shipped apps.
Son of a BITCH! How did I miss the idea of shorting SCO. Damn I feel stupid.
Although I agree with everything you said, I have no pity whatsoever with anyone who fell for that "Trick" and invested in SCO.
If you were too ignorant to figure that one out, you don't deserve to be deciding how to spend your money--taking it away is best for society.
It's comments like this that make you wish there was a +6
Look at all those lovely planes flying out there.
Oh yeah, I read about that. They are a cluster--here is their web site.
Cool, this is amazing. Hang on while I post it to Slashdot.
[sound of planes falling from the sky follows]
>>Learn to drive on a standard, not an automatic.
>Just curious, do you also turn a crank at the front of your motor to start your car?
If I was likely to need to do so (for instance if my dad drove one and that was sometimes the only car available) I would learn how to. Not that I would do it all the time.
You should know how to do all the things that you are likely to need. I realize that this is a quaint idea in these days of kids wanting everything done for them, but you never know when knowing Linux might come in handy.
I think there is a much higer chance that I will sit down to a computer loaded with Linux in the future than turn a hand crank to start a car, so I really don't understand your point.
Learn to drive on a standard, not an automatic.
What if you HAD to go online to save someones life and the only computer was a Linux machine. Could you use it? Bet ANY Linux user could switch to windows in no time.
I completely agree.
In fact, could we take microsoft to court and sue them for all our antivirus fees for the past decade or so?
I'm being serious. Antivirus software is there, for the most part, to patch holes in microsoft products--period.
If Ford made a car with a keylock that allowed you to use any old stick to start the car, and they couldn't be bothered to fix it (hoping instead to sell you the next years model), wouldn't you expect to be able to sue them for the price of an aftermarket lock (or the price of your car when it's stolen and used to rob a bank, but let's start small)?
I kinda got used to the new Dr Who! It's pretty good! How am I supposed to get it in America now? I guess eventually DVDs MIGHT go on sale, and they MIGHT be playable in American DVDs...
You'd think the BBC could just open up all its content as bit torrents (I understand they have opened up quite a bit!) and just charge people to be able to decode the videos. Why not?
Someone figured that out on a post yesterday. I think I can combine them...
1. Use our stuff to create your stuff
2. Sell to Google
3. Profit!!!
I used to keep a list of spam customers and refuse to patronize them. I still avoid them when I can, but have totally lost the ability to keep the list in my head. In my old age, about all I remember for sure is I'll never buy an x-10 camera thingy.
You forgot 3. PROFIT!
The cellphone manufactures charge for every little feature, and make devices restrictive enough to generally ensure that you can't go around their content.
Paying for a stupid ringtone or java applet should be put in the same category as buying products from SPAM email--just harmful to everyone.
Same guy circa 1982
.. ... (You get the idea)
The record album format will not be "defeated" in the sense of vanishing from the field as a music distribution format. Ever. They have achieved what is probably the most pervasive and addictive vendor lock-in situation in all of human history. An incredible amount of the music critical to entertaining our society is stored on, written for, and run by record players.
Remember, users will now INSIST on vinyl, because they want it/know it/are used to it. This is even better than making it a legal requirement to use records or threatening people (by whatever means) to use the album format or else. A vast number of addicts (the situation is surprisingly analogous) to music will DEMAND it in spite of anything else, becasue for them it makes life easier.
Records are here to stay, in all cases where users choose stability/familiarity over music quality. There are, of course, areas of society (the richies) that might go with these new fangled CDs, where people are willing to put in the extra time and effort to learn something out of the ordinary. But those will always be the exceptions, and they will only serve as a minor annoyance for the 33 1/3 rpm vinyl industry. CDs only gets so much press because of their novelty of their quality and longevity. There is no such thing as an "up and coming" music format competitor. CDs are an infinitely better product, and their market share is fairly fixed. CDs are decimating commercial radio stations, but radio stations users are both more familiar with the new strange hardware and (of sheer necessity) more adaptable.