The argument for patents is always that they will foster innovation. I propose that the U.S. would be much farther ahead technologically if it had no restrictions on ideas. Companies would come up with new ideas by paying inventors/scientists/researchers to tackle a problem. Several companies could pay one research group because it would be more beneficial that way since the idea would help all of them. Instead we live in fear of lawsuits and we don't have the freedom to actually USE ideas for 20 years at time. The more people there are in the world, the more patent laws need to be pushed back or done away with completely because the more it holds back people from being able to invent, use ideas, and build upon them, and the more "obvious" ideas are going to be because there's more people putting 1 + 2 together. Thank you U.S. for restricting the advancement of technology and helping to create a small handful of selfish people that monopolize the marketplace, stifle innovation, and have way too much money. If the government wanted to come half way to a solution it could charge a small invention tax in order to reward that random inventor, but giving them an absolute monopoly on the idea is insane and unfair and only hinders society.
I'm actually surprised this isn't talked about more. Is anyone going to fork SuSE 10.1 which was supposedly out before any of this started going on? Or maybe there are other distributions that are just better, so who needs a fork?:)
"There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products. People can't stop discussing it - and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into direct competition with Microsoft, by releasing an operating system. However Google refuses such claims and even makes fun of this kind of buzz."
Dear Slashdot: Thank you for helping perpetuate rumors and theories. Fun to theorize, sure, but no substance here, move along pplz.
"it's important to know exactly what we're getting into when Vista rolls out"
Who says we're going to get into it, Zonk? What I find amusing is that Microsoft tries to say it will be better/faster/stronger/smarter. Faster? Definitely not. If you want to run games on it, you'll be running the game AND Aeros. I heard something about Vista possibly disabling Aeros while you're playing a game. Um, no. I'd like to play online games while windowed so I can do other things too, and that would require both to be fully running. Just because they want to cram DRM into the kernel so it can monitor me means I need to run out and buy a box with 2 gigs RAM and a 256 meg graphics card to support their bloated OS? Pass.
Programmers are going to have to start making games for Linux if they want my money, I'm done with Microshaft.
Boston Teaparty, anyone? It's called revolution, and believe it or not, it is sometimes a good thing. To reject an entity that is stealing freedoms that you wish to have can send a powerful signal to that entity.
There will be a decrease in net heat output and power consumption, but you're right, it will make them hotter than just the CPU or GPU by itself. Maybe water cooling will be really needed at that point for the fastest CPU/GPU combos.
I wouldn't be surprised if he works for a PR company. While it certainly could be genuine, and he does make some points that I think are very much true, ending the article with the tone that "stuff online is true" was a bad thing to do. Is this an ancient article? He says he thinks bloggers will be their next target. News flash: Lots of bloggers work for PR firms now. Lots of people are paid to "work at home to make money$$$$$!!!" and many of those jobs are "infiltration" jobs for forums and other things, or to just set up slanted blogs.
..regresses even further backwards by trying to generate hype about the release of hype. Those crazy market strategists, what will they think up next? Only on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, hot new news about the upcoming news release about the conference about the article about the announcement of the new upcoming thing-a-ma-bob that will stun, shock, and amaze you...eventually! Why did I even click on reply? I think my life has been cheapened by this news and the time wasted writing this.:)
That's not something you're going to research and find online if they were. Bush is all about big oil, WMDs was a lie, first it was to get the people supposedly responsible for 9-11 and then it turned into "saving a country" and forcing them to have their own revolution, something which you can't do which was extremely hypocritical coming from the U.S., and finally, all countries involved in the U.N. should have worked out what to do about Iraq if indeed those things were going on, not just the U.S. and some "friends". Yes, that was a single sentence, so sue me.:)
So if companies come up with ways for consumers to give them money, you're willingly going to step forward with your wads of cash and give it to them, but if they don't, then copying it is no problem. Wow, companies LOVE people like you. BTW copying/repeating information != stealing. Yes, I will continue to share my games with all my friends, since it's my civic duty to share.
With all the hackers out there, and Linux being open sourced and viewable, it won't be hard to make the two talk to each other and won't be too long before you see Wii Media Center and PS3 Media Center available for each, would be my guess.
Because then you'd have Linux on it. Linux can do things. A plethora of things. Good things. Linux + other stuff = more stuff.:) If you have what is basically a small computer, why not unlock it's full potential?
To require the one making the claim to provide proof or otherwise pay a penalty would mean everyone who says George Bush took the US to war so oil companies could get their hands on Iraq would have to either prove it or get fined. It's what I think has happened, but to try to force me to prove it under law is absurd. Everyone should have some legitimate reason to believe in things, but many times the proof isn't very obvious. If someone loses money or reputation due to name-calling or whatnot, that was the decision of those who listened to the name-calling and not the name caller. Why must the US get further into the vicious circle of accusing the one who made certain statements and not the fools who listened to them? Blame the guy who didn't make the "water can be dangerous" sign big enough, not the kid who fell into the pool or the mom who didn't watch them.
I think I'll use a copy of Windows instead of paying the $200 or whatever to buy it, or I'll run games in my OS of choice by using Wine or the like, or I will just not play them and wait for companies to make Linux games. For all those who want there to be more Linux games around, they should do the same. Buying Windows games sends the wrong message, buying Linux games sends the right one, if you want games to be made for Linux. If Zonk, who seems to be a complete sellout, thinks we're all going to run out and buy Windows and Windows games because he tells us all to "give up in waiting for Linux games", he's a moron. That is exactly what you SHOULD NOT DO IF YOU WANT LINUX GAMES. Gee, Slashdot even has M$ ads now, I wonder if Slashdot has been a target for their marketing. Maybe, maybe not, but this article sure doesn't help anything. It's good to point out facts, but the fact is I'm waiting for UT2007 to come out for Linux so I can run to the store, and that's going to help send these hopefully soon-to-be old-world game devo companies the message they want to hear, and in return the message Linux users want to hear: More games coming to Linux.
You want me to pay extra for ancient games? I'll stick with my emulators, thanks. I'm glad they are making it available though, and with 32 launch titles at least they aren't pulling a 360 (pun intended) by relying on arcade games to unfortunately keep some gamers interested in their sorry-ass overpriced system.
Does the U.S. government use fear as it's tactic to get everything done? Where's the "We're going to go further into space to explore it for the advancement of science and knowledge about our universe."? Everything has to be about war. Ridiculously immature. I thought the nations of the world were going to work together and put all the childish power-grabbing in the past, but apparently not..
Yes, rethink it, because with this kind of technology Vista might actually get responsive loading times. Oh, wait, there's still the DRM, user control, and general annoyances of using their bloated OS. Hmmmmm pass. Why anyone would want to use this stuff and be confined by all that garbage is beyond me. Personally, I like not having spyware on my computer, and I enjoy being able to do what I want without having a corporation's fucked up agendas about what I can and cannot do and use watching over me, making sure I'm "safe and protected" from those horrible freedoms.:) Ooooh, I did not just go there!
By default, at 100% page zoom, all gif/png/etc images apparently are actually being zoomed in on by 25% and look horrible by having lots of jagged edges. If you "zoom out" to 75% though it will make all the images look the way they are supposed to look, with smooth edges. If you compare them to the same page in Firefox, the size at 75% zoom in IE is the same as the size in Firefox at 100% zoom, confirming that 100% zoom in IE7 is indeed displaying the images 1/4th larger than they should be.
Or quite simply: police should require a warrant and have a GOOD reason to search something that is normally secure, otherwise the government has tremendous power and can use it how they see fit. The "Founding Fathers" and every other American at the time of the writing of the Constitution would be shitting themselves right now and grabbing guns to march to the capital.
Thanks for that information. I, for one, am now more willing than ever to protest against the Bush Administration in any way I can. That, and habeas corpus being taken is an insult to my freedom that is now even more theoretical than a reality. Not just the Bush Administration, but everyone we have elected as congressmen and senators are supposed to be representing us. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think they are. We have all these laws about "libel" and such? Well how about laws against using a barrage of straw man arguments like this one to take away our money and freedom, something that has been fought and died for by millions of lives. Of course, I'm not serious about making a law, but those who have tried to use the current war to do these things should be tried as a traitor for conspiring for more power by the abolishment of freedoms.
Actually, I think complaining about complainers has a point as well, even though ALL conversation on Slashdot probably doesn't much benefit many people all that often. Arguing "OMG this sucks!" could potentially be as "valid" as arguing "oh it's OK, just ignore it, stop complaining about it" (like they were doing) or "It's awesome!" so maybe it's you who shouldn't complain about complaints about complainers.;) Now I'm complaining about complaining about complaints about complainers! AAAAAH! *explodes*
But so far they are winning. In the U.S. we already allow software patents and M$ owns over 100,000 for example, and it's not just because they enjoy paying patent application fees. Unless consumers fight back against the government/company partnership in trying to force their monopoly markets on us instead of adapting to the Information Age I don't see things getting better. Thankfully some are trying to fight it, and sure, you can never stop information from being shared, but governments could theoretically set up such a Nazi regime that they force it underground. www.freenetproject.org any1?
Someone please tell me there are non-proprietary alternatives for larger storage on a "CD". Yeah, it's still a compact disc, no matter how much info it holds =P If HD and Blu-ray are both locked down, where's the user-friendly media that I can actually, you know, USE, that has a higher capacity than a DVD? Don't say hard drive, I'm talking about for backing stuff up or transporting stuff. Sure, thumbdrives can hold quite a bit, but not as much as a "CD" could hold. Maybe hard drives will just become even more portable though before such a technology comes out.
Children can be victims too?! Fuck, lock them up! We're not quite safe! Terrorism alert level red!
Don't you love it how when something bad *could* happen it justifies taking away additional freedoms in some people's minds? While you're at it, don't let your kids walk down sidewalks, they could still be hit by cars, or ride bikes, or exist outside their house, and no overly pointy objects, and label everything as being a possible choking and suffocation hazard...
Blue ray can die in a fire. It's expensive because it's proprietary crap. Wake me up when a technology comes out that is allowed by the U.S. government to have some competition with it instead of creating an "intellectual property" monopoly. Maybe after it's patent expires? Maybe in five years it will actually be an affordable alternative?
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The argument for patents is always that they will foster innovation. I propose that the U.S. would be much farther ahead technologically if it had no restrictions on ideas. Companies would come up with new ideas by paying inventors/scientists/researchers to tackle a problem. Several companies could pay one research group because it would be more beneficial that way since the idea would help all of them. Instead we live in fear of lawsuits and we don't have the freedom to actually USE ideas for 20 years at time. The more people there are in the world, the more patent laws need to be pushed back or done away with completely because the more it holds back people from being able to invent, use ideas, and build upon them, and the more "obvious" ideas are going to be because there's more people putting 1 + 2 together. Thank you U.S. for restricting the advancement of technology and helping to create a small handful of selfish people that monopolize the marketplace, stifle innovation, and have way too much money. If the government wanted to come half way to a solution it could charge a small invention tax in order to reward that random inventor, but giving them an absolute monopoly on the idea is insane and unfair and only hinders society.
I'm actually surprised this isn't talked about more. Is anyone going to fork SuSE 10.1 which was supposedly out before any of this started going on? Or maybe there are other distributions that are just better, so who needs a fork? :)
"There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products. People can't stop discussing it - and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into direct competition with Microsoft, by releasing an operating system. However Google refuses such claims and even makes fun of this kind of buzz."
Dear Slashdot: Thank you for helping perpetuate rumors and theories. Fun to theorize, sure, but no substance here, move along pplz.
"it's important to know exactly what we're getting into when Vista rolls out"
Who says we're going to get into it, Zonk? What I find amusing is that Microsoft tries to say it will be better/faster/stronger/smarter. Faster? Definitely not. If you want to run games on it, you'll be running the game AND Aeros. I heard something about Vista possibly disabling Aeros while you're playing a game. Um, no. I'd like to play online games while windowed so I can do other things too, and that would require both to be fully running. Just because they want to cram DRM into the kernel so it can monitor me means I need to run out and buy a box with 2 gigs RAM and a 256 meg graphics card to support their bloated OS? Pass.
Programmers are going to have to start making games for Linux if they want my money, I'm done with Microshaft.
Boston Teaparty, anyone? It's called revolution, and believe it or not, it is sometimes a good thing. To reject an entity that is stealing freedoms that you wish to have can send a powerful signal to that entity.
There will be a decrease in net heat output and power consumption, but you're right, it will make them hotter than just the CPU or GPU by itself. Maybe water cooling will be really needed at that point for the fastest CPU/GPU combos.
I wouldn't be surprised if he works for a PR company. While it certainly could be genuine, and he does make some points that I think are very much true, ending the article with the tone that "stuff online is true" was a bad thing to do. Is this an ancient article? He says he thinks bloggers will be their next target. News flash: Lots of bloggers work for PR firms now. Lots of people are paid to "work at home to make money$$$$$!!!" and many of those jobs are "infiltration" jobs for forums and other things, or to just set up slanted blogs.
..regresses even further backwards by trying to generate hype about the release of hype. Those crazy market strategists, what will they think up next? Only on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, hot new news about the upcoming news release about the conference about the article about the announcement of the new upcoming thing-a-ma-bob that will stun, shock, and amaze you...eventually! Why did I even click on reply? I think my life has been cheapened by this news and the time wasted writing this. :)
That's not something you're going to research and find online if they were. Bush is all about big oil, WMDs was a lie, first it was to get the people supposedly responsible for 9-11 and then it turned into "saving a country" and forcing them to have their own revolution, something which you can't do which was extremely hypocritical coming from the U.S., and finally, all countries involved in the U.N. should have worked out what to do about Iraq if indeed those things were going on, not just the U.S. and some "friends". Yes, that was a single sentence, so sue me. :)
So if companies come up with ways for consumers to give them money, you're willingly going to step forward with your wads of cash and give it to them, but if they don't, then copying it is no problem. Wow, companies LOVE people like you. BTW copying/repeating information != stealing. Yes, I will continue to share my games with all my friends, since it's my civic duty to share.
With all the hackers out there, and Linux being open sourced and viewable, it won't be hard to make the two talk to each other and won't be too long before you see Wii Media Center and PS3 Media Center available for each, would be my guess.
Because then you'd have Linux on it. Linux can do things. A plethora of things. Good things. Linux + other stuff = more stuff. :) If you have what is basically a small computer, why not unlock it's full potential?
To require the one making the claim to provide proof or otherwise pay a penalty would mean everyone who says George Bush took the US to war so oil companies could get their hands on Iraq would have to either prove it or get fined. It's what I think has happened, but to try to force me to prove it under law is absurd. Everyone should have some legitimate reason to believe in things, but many times the proof isn't very obvious. If someone loses money or reputation due to name-calling or whatnot, that was the decision of those who listened to the name-calling and not the name caller. Why must the US get further into the vicious circle of accusing the one who made certain statements and not the fools who listened to them? Blame the guy who didn't make the "water can be dangerous" sign big enough, not the kid who fell into the pool or the mom who didn't watch them.
I think I'll use a copy of Windows instead of paying the $200 or whatever to buy it, or I'll run games in my OS of choice by using Wine or the like, or I will just not play them and wait for companies to make Linux games. For all those who want there to be more Linux games around, they should do the same. Buying Windows games sends the wrong message, buying Linux games sends the right one, if you want games to be made for Linux. If Zonk, who seems to be a complete sellout, thinks we're all going to run out and buy Windows and Windows games because he tells us all to "give up in waiting for Linux games", he's a moron. That is exactly what you SHOULD NOT DO IF YOU WANT LINUX GAMES. Gee, Slashdot even has M$ ads now, I wonder if Slashdot has been a target for their marketing. Maybe, maybe not, but this article sure doesn't help anything. It's good to point out facts, but the fact is I'm waiting for UT2007 to come out for Linux so I can run to the store, and that's going to help send these hopefully soon-to-be old-world game devo companies the message they want to hear, and in return the message Linux users want to hear: More games coming to Linux.
You want me to pay extra for ancient games? I'll stick with my emulators, thanks. I'm glad they are making it available though, and with 32 launch titles at least they aren't pulling a 360 (pun intended) by relying on arcade games to unfortunately keep some gamers interested in their sorry-ass overpriced system.
Does the U.S. government use fear as it's tactic to get everything done? Where's the "We're going to go further into space to explore it for the advancement of science and knowledge about our universe."? Everything has to be about war. Ridiculously immature. I thought the nations of the world were going to work together and put all the childish power-grabbing in the past, but apparently not..
Yes, rethink it, because with this kind of technology Vista might actually get responsive loading times. Oh, wait, there's still the DRM, user control, and general annoyances of using their bloated OS. Hmmmmm pass. Why anyone would want to use this stuff and be confined by all that garbage is beyond me. Personally, I like not having spyware on my computer, and I enjoy being able to do what I want without having a corporation's fucked up agendas about what I can and cannot do and use watching over me, making sure I'm "safe and protected" from those horrible freedoms. :) Ooooh, I did not just go there!
By default, at 100% page zoom, all gif/png/etc images apparently are actually being zoomed in on by 25% and look horrible by having lots of jagged edges. If you "zoom out" to 75% though it will make all the images look the way they are supposed to look, with smooth edges. If you compare them to the same page in Firefox, the size at 75% zoom in IE is the same as the size in Firefox at 100% zoom, confirming that 100% zoom in IE7 is indeed displaying the images 1/4th larger than they should be.
Or quite simply: police should require a warrant and have a GOOD reason to search something that is normally secure, otherwise the government has tremendous power and can use it how they see fit. The "Founding Fathers" and every other American at the time of the writing of the Constitution would be shitting themselves right now and grabbing guns to march to the capital.
Thanks for that information. I, for one, am now more willing than ever to protest against the Bush Administration in any way I can. That, and habeas corpus being taken is an insult to my freedom that is now even more theoretical than a reality. Not just the Bush Administration, but everyone we have elected as congressmen and senators are supposed to be representing us. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't think they are. We have all these laws about "libel" and such? Well how about laws against using a barrage of straw man arguments like this one to take away our money and freedom, something that has been fought and died for by millions of lives. Of course, I'm not serious about making a law, but those who have tried to use the current war to do these things should be tried as a traitor for conspiring for more power by the abolishment of freedoms.
Actually, I think complaining about complainers has a point as well, even though ALL conversation on Slashdot probably doesn't much benefit many people all that often. Arguing "OMG this sucks!" could potentially be as "valid" as arguing "oh it's OK, just ignore it, stop complaining about it" (like they were doing) or "It's awesome!" so maybe it's you who shouldn't complain about complaints about complainers. ;) Now I'm complaining about complaining about complaints about complainers! AAAAAH! *explodes*
But so far they are winning. In the U.S. we already allow software patents and M$ owns over 100,000 for example, and it's not just because they enjoy paying patent application fees. Unless consumers fight back against the government/company partnership in trying to force their monopoly markets on us instead of adapting to the Information Age I don't see things getting better. Thankfully some are trying to fight it, and sure, you can never stop information from being shared, but governments could theoretically set up such a Nazi regime that they force it underground. www.freenetproject.org any1?
Someone please tell me there are non-proprietary alternatives for larger storage on a "CD". Yeah, it's still a compact disc, no matter how much info it holds =P If HD and Blu-ray are both locked down, where's the user-friendly media that I can actually, you know, USE, that has a higher capacity than a DVD? Don't say hard drive, I'm talking about for backing stuff up or transporting stuff. Sure, thumbdrives can hold quite a bit, but not as much as a "CD" could hold. Maybe hard drives will just become even more portable though before such a technology comes out.
Children can be victims too?! Fuck, lock them up! We're not quite safe! Terrorism alert level red!
Don't you love it how when something bad *could* happen it justifies taking away additional freedoms in some people's minds? While you're at it, don't let your kids walk down sidewalks, they could still be hit by cars, or ride bikes, or exist outside their house, and no overly pointy objects, and label everything as being a possible choking and suffocation hazard...
Blue ray can die in a fire. It's expensive because it's proprietary crap. Wake me up when a technology comes out that is allowed by the U.S. government to have some competition with it instead of creating an "intellectual property" monopoly. Maybe after it's patent expires? Maybe in five years it will actually be an affordable alternative?