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Re:Treaties
At least we actually do (for the most part) obey our treaties.
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media!The only reasons we seem to be surprised at how much we're hated out there is that we don't take the time to learn what our country has done over there, what past attitudes have been, past policies, past responses.
Right here, you've hit the root of the problem. And that is a media that is centrally controlled and top down, and run for capitalistic interests. The most important kind of activism right now is media activism, because people won't be motivated to change something if they don't know what's going on.
When I started reading slashdot, I felt very connected to the geek world, I felt like I knew exactly what was going on. So I started another slash site to cover a broader range of issues. It's starting to grow, but it's a snowball that's hard to get started.
Anyway, this site I've started is terradot, and I hope to see you all there.
cheers, Joshua
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soapbox"[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" The reason it took/is taking the web a long time to develop to the point where this is common and actually useful (geocities pages are not useful) is that you can't host a website with a dialup connection, and hell, you can't even host it on most cable lines and DSL (not all of course). And even if you do manage to have a DSL with a static-ip or a T1 available, server software is not yet set up to the point where the average non-geek to publish. This will happen, and it will be beautiful.
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I also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that I am using the internet in this way. It's young and not all that active yet, but I'm running a slash site called terradot , with a slogan of growing awareness, and it's got a very broad topic range. Please check it out. Also, there are many other good sites that are attempting to take back the power of propoganda and distribute it a little more evenly, instead of the wealthy having it all and the middle and lower classes having none. The internet has this potential, and all we need to do now is make it happen. As soon as I started reading
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cheers, ouroboros
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soapbox"[t]he Web was supposed to subvert corporate domination of culture by giving a global soapbox -- or printing press, or television station -- to anyone with a computer and a modem" The reason it took/is taking the web a long time to develop to the point where this is common and actually useful (geocities pages are not useful) is that you can't host a website with a dialup connection, and hell, you can't even host it on most cable lines and DSL (not all of course). And even if you do manage to have a DSL with a static-ip or a T1 available, server software is not yet set up to the point where the average non-geek to publish. This will happen, and it will be beautiful.
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I also wanted to take this opportunity to tell you that I am using the internet in this way. It's young and not all that active yet, but I'm running a slash site called terradot , with a slogan of growing awareness, and it's got a very broad topic range. Please check it out. Also, there are many other good sites that are attempting to take back the power of propoganda and distribute it a little more evenly, instead of the wealthy having it all and the middle and lower classes having none. The internet has this potential, and all we need to do now is make it happen. As soon as I started reading
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cheers, ouroboros
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No Corroborating EvidenceWe've already established that this theory had no primary source evidence (ie, hieroglyphs or other records of kite construction).
Add to that the fact that flying things, especially in the ancient world, would tend to cause a lot of commotion. The "Wondrous Flying Rocks of Egypt" would have become an international sensation. We certainly would have read about it from Herodotus, the Greek "Father of History" whose book details Egyptian culture fairly well.
Finally, the Egyptians did not have access to most fabrics. If they used kites, they were made of linen. In order to even suggest that kites built the pyramids, it would first be necessary to lift rocks using linen kites, not space-age materials.
I don't want to knock this demonstration; lifting a several-ton rock with a kite is damn cool regardless of historical significance. But proof of concept is only a small part of historical research, and these people seem to be basing their argument on evidence as ephemeral as the wind.
terradot - growing awareness
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Re:Harmful to children?What I was looking for was some more traditional evidence showing objective harm (psychological difficulties, increased likelihood of violence, etc.) when children are exposed to pornography.
Actually, evidence has been shown exactly to the contrary. I remember reading about a statistical study (lots of good thinks there too, I think) that studied thousands of cultures around the world, and it found a direct connection between the suppression of sexuality (I think in adults, and in children) and increased violence. Yes, unsurprisingly, in cultures that are repressed sexually, violence is more common. This doesn't bloody suprise me, how about you?
cheers, joshua
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trekie trekie shmeckie schmeckieI want to be begin with, I was a die hard, first generation series fan for a very long time before TNG came out. It felt to me like TNG was trying to replace instead of follow the original. But I wanted to be fair, so I watched TNG and to both my delight and my disapointment in my temporary bout with poor judgement, I found it to have quite a few redeming qualities which were enough to keep me wanting to watch for more.
Then! They introduced DS9 to us. What were they thinking? I just wasn't sure. What am I gonna do, I had to give it a looksee, it is part of the universe after all. Well, again to my shagrin, it certainly did have it's redeming qualities. They're not all equally strong, mind you, all these different branches of a series they came up with, but it seems as though, the stronger carry the weak while the weak supply many unexpected yet necessary intricacies(whew!) on which to feast your imagination. As well as I think they help to fill out a universe and give it reality.
Voyager... In spite of the fact that it was geared towards a style of sci-fi and space exploration/adventure which is more to my heart's content, whilst pining aboard DS9, I seemed to have found myself more resistant toward even the possibility of allowing myself to like yet another attempt at either perpetuating, salvaging or otherwise trying to manipulate the time-honored memory of a series that became a ground breaking, growth inspiring media in which to set free an otherwise culture/civilization and society shackled spirit we have all been oppressed amongst! However, yet again Voyager did prove to have what it takes to come into it's own and to take it's place there amongst the pantheon of successful Roddenbury(sp?)-inspired Star Trek series.
So... here are we are, the ragg'd'est bunch of 'please just give us yet another series, so we have something to feed our Star Trek addictions with!' (after all, we all do know, this is exactly what Roddenberry intended the entire time. "yes, yes, I'll just hook them with the first series, then I'll really start to blow their minds... sheep'... cattle'... the herd'... I know they'll do anything, once I have them. They're all so weak minded, they actually think that it's the addition of each new series and the possible positives and/or negatives it may carry with it that will hook them or drive them away, they think that's the hook... I'll tell me what, I think it's My mind that's going to be blown when they realize that the quintessential plan all along has been 'there shall be no end to the series... whatsoever.'") (... I think?)... so as I was saying before I was most rudely interupted by Gene... yes, there's going to be another series, and another after that, and who knows? Let's take the long shot, another after that! 'And you know what, we're all going to find things with each new series that we love, like, can stand, dislike and utterly abhor(sp?) (not that cows or their genetalia have anything to do with this) as the series grows and grows, our universe flows and flows, we enjoy it while it grows while it guides us in our growth. After all, there is something to be learned, liked, and loved in everything. This is all I have to say, aren't you relieved.
Slainte Mhath!, Dobhairsean Mac a' Bhalldruidh nan Tuatha de Mac a' Phearsain nan Tuatha de An'Chattan.
A'Thuatha Gu Bradh!And very relieved, this is Joshua typing, cheers.
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trekie trekie shmeckie schmeckieI want to be begin with, I was a die hard, first generation series fan for a very long time before TNG came out. It felt to me like TNG was trying to replace instead of follow the original. But I wanted to be fair, so I watched TNG and to both my delight and my disapointment in my temporary bout with poor judgement, I found it to have quite a few redeming qualities which were enough to keep me wanting to watch for more.
Then! They introduced DS9 to us. What were they thinking? I just wasn't sure. What am I gonna do, I had to give it a looksee, it is part of the universe after all. Well, again to my shagrin, it certainly did have it's redeming qualities. They're not all equally strong, mind you, all these different branches of a series they came up with, but it seems as though, the stronger carry the weak while the weak supply many unexpected yet necessary intricacies(whew!) on which to feast your imagination. As well as I think they help to fill out a universe and give it reality.
Voyager... In spite of the fact that it was geared towards a style of sci-fi and space exploration/adventure which is more to my heart's content, whilst pining aboard DS9, I seemed to have found myself more resistant toward even the possibility of allowing myself to like yet another attempt at either perpetuating, salvaging or otherwise trying to manipulate the time-honored memory of a series that became a ground breaking, growth inspiring media in which to set free an otherwise culture/civilization and society shackled spirit we have all been oppressed amongst! However, yet again Voyager did prove to have what it takes to come into it's own and to take it's place there amongst the pantheon of successful Roddenbury(sp?)-inspired Star Trek series.
So... here are we are, the ragg'd'est bunch of 'please just give us yet another series, so we have something to feed our Star Trek addictions with!' (after all, we all do know, this is exactly what Roddenberry intended the entire time. "yes, yes, I'll just hook them with the first series, then I'll really start to blow their minds... sheep'... cattle'... the herd'... I know they'll do anything, once I have them. They're all so weak minded, they actually think that it's the addition of each new series and the possible positives and/or negatives it may carry with it that will hook them or drive them away, they think that's the hook... I'll tell me what, I think it's My mind that's going to be blown when they realize that the quintessential plan all along has been 'there shall be no end to the series... whatsoever.'") (... I think?)... so as I was saying before I was most rudely interupted by Gene... yes, there's going to be another series, and another after that, and who knows? Let's take the long shot, another after that! 'And you know what, we're all going to find things with each new series that we love, like, can stand, dislike and utterly abhor(sp?) (not that cows or their genetalia have anything to do with this) as the series grows and grows, our universe flows and flows, we enjoy it while it grows while it guides us in our growth. After all, there is something to be learned, liked, and loved in everything. This is all I have to say, aren't you relieved.
Slainte Mhath!, Dobhairsean Mac a' Bhalldruidh nan Tuatha de Mac a' Phearsain nan Tuatha de An'Chattan.
A'Thuatha Gu Bradh!And very relieved, this is Joshua typing, cheers.
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My birthdayToday is also my birthday! I'm very glad to know that I share this date with such amazing monumental events.
cheers, joshua
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Re:This story is a CENTURY old!They've been doing it for over 100 years.
That's very true. Infact, when Rudolph Diesel premiered the diesel engine at the World's Fair in Paris in 1900, it ran on peanut oil.
cheers, joshuaos
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Re:It's only the Internet, not waterWe have become dependant on certain utilities such as water, electricity, gas, heating oil. And in those cases I would say that those utilities and the governement have a responsibility to be sure that even if they go out of business, you still have power, water, etc. But this is the Internet, it's not a utility, you can live just fine without it. No one, no matter how geeky needs the Internet.
The internet has become a utility to me, and to many others! Of course no one needs the internet. No one needs electricity either. Build a fucking fire, cook your food that way. You don't have to have that toaster or electric light, use a damn candle. You don't needs heating oil, build another fire, curl up with a cute girl. Except warmth, food and companionship, nothing is a necessity.
However, I think the ineternet is a very good thing. I think that having a global communications network is just as important (if not more so) of having a power network. The internet is becomming a way of life, it's becomming the way we interact with the world. I don't really watch television anymore, and rarely read dead tree newspapers. I get my news here, I watch The Simpsons here (sometimes), I listen to my music here, I interact with people, I express myself and I make my viewpoints known. That is the amazing thing about the internet. It allows everyone to make their voices heard.
I was a customer of Flashcom, then they went under and we got Telocity (which didn't work for months with that box just sitting there blinking), and now, last night, the DSL isn't working. I'm too tired to fiddle with it, but now I think I know why it wasn't working. I feel cut off from the world in my house without my internet connection.
cheers, joshua
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Re:It's only the Internet, not waterWe have become dependant on certain utilities such as water, electricity, gas, heating oil. And in those cases I would say that those utilities and the governement have a responsibility to be sure that even if they go out of business, you still have power, water, etc. But this is the Internet, it's not a utility, you can live just fine without it. No one, no matter how geeky needs the Internet.
The internet has become a utility to me, and to many others! Of course no one needs the internet. No one needs electricity either. Build a fucking fire, cook your food that way. You don't have to have that toaster or electric light, use a damn candle. You don't needs heating oil, build another fire, curl up with a cute girl. Except warmth, food and companionship, nothing is a necessity.
However, I think the ineternet is a very good thing. I think that having a global communications network is just as important (if not more so) of having a power network. The internet is becomming a way of life, it's becomming the way we interact with the world. I don't really watch television anymore, and rarely read dead tree newspapers. I get my news here, I watch The Simpsons here (sometimes), I listen to my music here, I interact with people, I express myself and I make my viewpoints known. That is the amazing thing about the internet. It allows everyone to make their voices heard.
I was a customer of Flashcom, then they went under and we got Telocity (which didn't work for months with that box just sitting there blinking), and now, last night, the DSL isn't working. I'm too tired to fiddle with it, but now I think I know why it wasn't working. I feel cut off from the world in my house without my internet connection.
cheers, joshua
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Re:familiarityI would personally buy a Palm and fully learn it, if I had a real world use for one (actually, I am beginning to think I do, what with all the information I keep, etc).
If I bought a palm, I would get the Fitaly Stamp for it.
cheers, joshua
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power and dataI was quite intrigued by the mention of this phibre being able to carry both power and data. It would be truely amazing if we could simply have a standard for all cables carrying any kind of anything, be it power or data, and perhaps even both travelling through the same wire at the same time. Imagine a peer to peer power network over the internet. Can you send power inside a packet? Granted, I'm thinking in the long term, but it's a lovely idea, eh? BTW, I have no idea what I'm talking about, this is just ideas.
cheers, joshua
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Re:Do scientists get more respect in Britain?We're always reading about cool inventions these Brits are making, do they get more respect than American scientists?
It's the tea, mate... It stimulates their brains.
cheers, joshua
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Re:Does New Media need journalism training?I'm not sure what will happen, but it seems to me that even though anyone can now say anything, since anyone can do that, then we will get more points of view. If I'm at an event, and I write a story about that event that has some untruths, half-truths or rumors in it, other people who were at that event can get their say, and say "Hey, I saw something different!" The point is that being a journalist, is not the only thing someone does. We're all living, and we're all seeing things happen in our world. Every time I post a comment or an article on here or on my website, I'm a journalist, reporting my world. If other people think I'm not reporting my world acurately, by all means, lets talk about it and get the story straight! Journalists can't be expected to be right about everything all the time.
cheers, joshua
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Re:Does New Media need journalism training?I'm not sure what will happen, but it seems to me that even though anyone can now say anything, since anyone can do that, then we will get more points of view. If I'm at an event, and I write a story about that event that has some untruths, half-truths or rumors in it, other people who were at that event can get their say, and say "Hey, I saw something different!" The point is that being a journalist, is not the only thing someone does. We're all living, and we're all seeing things happen in our world. Every time I post a comment or an article on here or on my website, I'm a journalist, reporting my world. If other people think I'm not reporting my world acurately, by all means, lets talk about it and get the story straight! Journalists can't be expected to be right about everything all the time.
cheers, joshua
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Internet IS important for kidsAll the comments I've read so far seem to be very critical of Jon's opinion on this, and everyone has been kind enough to point out other causes that you all feel are more important. I will certainly not deny that there are a lot of problems in this world, of all sorts, but the fact is that the internet is slowly (or even not-so-slowly) the political sphere, the place where we find out what's happening in the world. I've learned more about politics since I've gotten back into computers and gotten lots of bandwidth than I ever had learned before. I now feel infinitly more connected to the rest of the world, and the ability to find out information has lead me in directions that I suspect I never would have gone in before. I've been around computers all my life, and I think they are very very positive in children's development. I refer much more to the internet connection than to the computer itself, as a computer without a connection to the net is really not all that terribly useful to me. So maybe everyone ease up on Jon here a little bit, eh?
Joshua
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Re:Unwhackable...Just out of interest, why would anyone view porn in a Library anyway... It's not like you could do anything with it.
Finally, someone brings up a good point! I mean, is this really a problem? Has there been a sudden surge in the amount of porn viewed in public places, hell, I feel kinda awkward reading a porn magazine in public, I've never looked at porn on a public library computer (I've never even really looked at porn at work, just at home). I mean, if this was something that was becomming common, and people were seriously getting upset (Why they would, though, who knows?), then maybe something should be done about it (I doubt it, actually). If this is not a problem, then we certainly don't need any new god damn laws.
Joshua
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Re:Use != Install/ConfigureOnce Linux is installed and configured, it tends to be at least as easy to use as anything else out there...
Yeah, until you have to install a program. I think a lot of linux users have a huge delusion about what non-geeks call "easy to use". Quite a few programs come as source, and don't forget that to people who aren't programmers, compiling the source is a very tough and confusing thing to do. And RPMs? A bunch of arcane names and errors with dependencies is certainly not "user-friendly" or "easy". Not to a whole lot of people at least.
Joshua
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Re:interesting but dangerousI think the point is that what we need to do is open up the standards. I wouldn't be quite so unhappy with micro$oft if all the standards they used were open and published, then competition would be much easier. If the government could force M$ to open up all their standards and publish specifications, I think that would go a long way.
Just a thought...
Joshua
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Re:Why on earth has /. gone downhill?Okay, this may be off-topic, but since there really isn't a good place to have meta discussions on slashdot (a meta section, anyone?), I think it's okay. I think Anonymous Cowards are absolutely essential, and I would not want to see them go away. This has to be a place where anyone can speak their minds without fear of reprisals. The purpose of the moderation system is to deal with abuse of the system. I think the moderation system simply needs to be tweaked. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with it, but I am an active member of
I feel that the system is good in concept, but needs to be tweaked, and I think that we should really have a meta section to discuss moderation and the system in general. I have just started a slash site myself infact, and am very interested in the concept of online communities. My site is called Terradot, but is down right now thanks to my DSL provider cutting me off (should be back up in a few days if all goes acording to plan!). Anyway, sorry for the obligatory plug, but I'm done now.
Cheers, Joshua
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Re:Why on earth has /. gone downhill?Okay, this may be off-topic, but since there really isn't a good place to have meta discussions on slashdot (a meta section, anyone?), I think it's okay. I think Anonymous Cowards are absolutely essential, and I would not want to see them go away. This has to be a place where anyone can speak their minds without fear of reprisals. The purpose of the moderation system is to deal with abuse of the system. I think the moderation system simply needs to be tweaked. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with it, but I am an active member of
I feel that the system is good in concept, but needs to be tweaked, and I think that we should really have a meta section to discuss moderation and the system in general. I have just started a slash site myself infact, and am very interested in the concept of online communities. My site is called Terradot, but is down right now thanks to my DSL provider cutting me off (should be back up in a few days if all goes acording to plan!). Anyway, sorry for the obligatory plug, but I'm done now.
Cheers, Joshua
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Re:What are you listening to?as a 16 year old, i'd say you are for the most part right
I simply have to agree with you on this. I am currently 19 years old, and never managed to get into the whole modern pop-music scene. I listen to the classics including the Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, and a bit of the more modern stuff including Phish, Nine Inch Nails. As well as lots and lots of other stuff too numerous to list here of course.
The point is that I think there has been a real decline in the quality of music. Now, people think that all they have to do is get up on stage and look pretty and have something catchy and they'll be popular. Most new "bands" now don't even play their own instruments. I think this is greatly in part to a bloated music industry creating a market for shite. This is something I think the internet will help with. I think Napster, filesharing, and the loss of copyright (I don't think that can be helped anymore) will decrease the quantity of music, but increase the quality.
Joshua
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Re:Dear God I'm old.
Yeah, it was the Numb Thumb Club; god damn my pathetic ass to the fiery pits of the lowest plane of hell for knowing that after all this time.
Deo
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Re:SKIP the industrial revolutionThis project isn't about turning the average Ghanaian into a happy websurfer. It's about giving the average Ghanaian a chance at a decent job, or his business a chance at success.
In my mind it's more about giving the average Ghanian a window to the world outside Ghana, about giving them a voice in the global communications network of this planet. This is an important thing, I think. I'd never heard of Geekcorps before, but I find myself rather excited and intrigued by the idea.
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Re:Isn't the Ghana 'expedition' a waste of resourcThere is indeed a very good reason for getting third world countries on the internet. The internet is becomming our global communications network, and every human on this planet should be able to communicate, and know what's going on in their world. On the internet, I can make my opinions known. In a rainforest in Ghana, with no communications equipment whatsoever, I have no chance to contribue to a world bigger than the one I live in, with trees and rain and animals and the few people around me. This isn't inherently bad, and many people I'm sure are happy this way, but many people have so much more to contribute to the world, and have a calling other than that. What about all those undiscovered geeks down there? Anyway, that was rather rant, but I'm very excited about what geekcorps is doing. The internet will be less and less about money and commercialism in the near future, and will become more about communication and media, but that only really works if we can get more of the world on it! Go geekcorps, and I'll be applying in a few weeks, count on it!
Joshua
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Re:What legislators never specify: Who decides?Kids shoulc be learning the BASICS at this level of school. And you don't need the net for that.
As soon as they're old enough to understand anything, our kids should have free access to as much information as possible about what's happening in the world, they should be able to study any subject in whatever depth they want. The basics you say, like who the president of our country is, like what's happening right now in the middle east, like our history, and yes, if they want, even what's happening in the computer world. Kids should be learning what interests them, and the internet is an amazing resource for that!, but not if you can't access any useful sites thanks to censorware.
Joshua
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Re:Censoware installed 12/20 8:00am. Bypassed 8:01I want my kids to be connected to the internet! They will be at home, and if I had any intention of sending them to public schools, I would damn well want them to have access to it there too. I don't want the government telling me what is and what is not appropriate for my children. I'll make that decision.
Joshua
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That's it.That's it, this is the last bloody straw, copyright is dead. Copyright has degenerated to the point where it is unenforcable, and people are trying to use it in the greediest and stupidest of ways. Fuck BT, fuck the MPAA, fuck the RIAA, and fuck Stephen King. There is no copyright.
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Commercialism on the WebTeachers report their students are getting bored with the Web. Print publishers are closing down their Web sites. Online content companies are producing print publications to increase their advertising revenues.
You know, when I read that article, I could totally see where he's coming from, but indeed I think he's wrong. He's talking about the commercialization of the internet slowing. People are starting to realize that you can't make huge amounts of money off the internet forever. Eventually, the internet will not be a money-making thing, it will just be a medium through which all world communcation (except the face to face kind) happen. I think the real strengths of the internet are just starting to peek up their heads. Slashdot, for instance is an amazing example of what is possible on the internet. I know a lot of you will flame me and talk about how downhill you think
Joshua
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Re:Hmmm.....I know that they will (hopefully) test this a good bit before unleashing it on us.
Who the fuck are they and why would they unleash anything on anyone? You won't catch me taking or recieving or whatever it is "they" plan to produce from this research, I don't trust the bastards.
I do, however, think there is a huge corilation(sp?) between diet and lifespan. There's lots of interesting websites and books out there about Natural Heigine and Breatharianism and the like.
Cheers! Joshua
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Re:Works for me
But I reserve the right to tell my computers not to talk to yours.
And to tell all of your customers computers not to talk to them as well. Unless, of course, you are some insanely rich guy that has a pipe directly into a backbone and doesn't pay for it by taking money from other people in exchange for Internet access, in which case I revoke my last statement. Ain't it great being an end user in these techie pissing contests; you just never know what the fuck you'll be able to access because the people that you pay for service have a personal agenda.
I hate spammers more than anyone I know, and would love to execute every one of them personally, but the RBL is just a tool for ISPs to screw their customer base as a means of making a statement. Its using a shotgun to treat an parasite; sure, the parasite's dead, but the patient is severely fucked as well. Being a tech support puke for an ISP myself, the people I feel most sorry for are the support folk at the ISPs who are RBL members once this shit hits the mainstream press, considering the fit that customers will throw just because their access to some sites is slower than others. When they find that they're being cut off from huge numbers of websites because MAPS decided to start playing dick size games with web hosting services... *shudder* The end and the means, blah, blah, blah.
Deo
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Re:Bloody BT.All true, I admit it, but damn I miss Britian. I was there for almost a year, and I came back to America (where I grew up) and felt a serious lack of tea. I mean, I feel like I'm the only one in this damn country that drinks at least one cup of tea everyday (usually more), and damnit, where the hell are the electric kettles? I really need to get one, and a teapot too, which seem to be in short supply here.
Anyway, both countries have their issues, but I do love those wee islands.
Joshua
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Re:Kernel panics and AMDTaco & Co post what they feel like.
That's indeed very true, and I hear it all the time from people here on
The most important thing though, is that you are totally free to post any viewpoint that you want, and people are free to read it, mod it up, or mod it down depending on how they personally feel. Taco and crew don't do the moderating, we do! (actually, I haven't moderated yet, but that's beside the point, cause in theory it's us). Nothing is stopping people from making pro-M$ comments and pro-Intel comments... that's just not the sort we've ended up with here.
Joshua
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Re:Kernel panics and AMDWonder how long these claims would last if Windows users didn't get their software preinstalled...
Okay, I can very much see where you're coming from, but the difference, even when you consider the fact that most users don't install their OSes, linux is still a hell of a lot harder to get running, and linux apps are a hell of a lot harder to get installed than windoze and windoze apps. Not that it is impossible of course! Certainly I'm a linux newbie, but I'm making the effort, but forget not that it is indeed an effort. I'm not a fan of windoze, but I can admit that it is a hell of a lot more intuative than linux.
Joshua
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Re:Kernel panics and AMDand uhm... passing a parameter to the kernel at boot should not be THAT hard...
It is for a total linux newbie like myself! This, I think is the real problem with any *nix getting really mainstream and in any way competing with windoze/mac... linux users have trouble remembering how steep the linux learning curve really is, and how hard it is to get going. I got through it cause I have plenty of computer knowledge, and plenty of friends to ask, but someone who isn't as knowledgable as me simply couldn't get linux running without help, and that is what needs to change before linux can really get bigger.
Joshua
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Re:Kernel panics and AMDlilo: linux x86_serial_nr=1
That is indeed how I finally got the bugger to boot, thanks to some very similar (and helpful advice from DJBongHit on IRC, after trying to install RedHat7.0, which was so screwed up that the install program barely worked, and the screen didn't redraw properly. It booted, but it was whack.
Unfortunately, I'm still a bit of a newbie, and haven't braved the compiling of the kernel yet, but I willdo soon, I'm sure.
Cheers, Joshua
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Kernel panics and AMDIt seems that the linux kernel has more problems than just the Pentium IV. I recently bought a brand new machine (piece by piece), with an AMD Thunderbird 800Mhz processor, and when I installed RedHat 6.2, the installation went fine, but as soon as I tried to boot, it tried to disable the CPUID and kernel panics and goes into a hard lock every time. I managed to pass a parameter to the kernel at boot, but it's rather rediculous that the kernel seems to have this problem fairly often.
Joshua
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Re:woohoo!
Bwahaha! A refreshing bit of irony in a sea of zealotry; thank you, my friend.
Deo
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Re:Don't blame deregulation, its the greens..Sorry, if your state's growth stagnates because lack of resources they ain't going to have the cash to help the environment either.
And if we didn't spend so much money destroying the environment, we wouldn't need cash to help it either.
Joshua
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Re:Professional musiciansThese days, it seems that virtually no professional musicians actually make a decent living.
Actually, it may be hard but there are thousands of musicians out there making a decent living off their music. Now, I don't mean they're getting filthy rich and collecting massive royalties, but they're actually playing music, which is a concept I think people are forgetting about. Digital music will not stop people from paying musicians for live performances, and I daresay that will never stop. Phish, TMBG (?), DMB, and a slew of other artists who make their money primarily from touring are not hurt by napster (et, al.) in the slightest, and I won't cry for the losses of Britney Spears and S Club 7. I think the internet will eventually improve the quality of music in general.
Joshua
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Alternative Power SourcesThis sounds to me like a clear indication of the need to put serious effort and research into alternative power sources. Solarhost is managing to do pretty well, and that Cambodian village is now on the internet with solar and satelite dishes. There are lots of examples of people applying alternative power technologies, and many possible technologies, some with potential that need some serious research efforts. I hope that this incident will help spark on those kinds of efforts.
Joshua
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Re:Ah, Dragon World...What is it with BBSers and Denny's in the wee hours of the night!?
Quite simple, really... nothing else is open.
Joshua
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Copyright?Do you think the concept of copyright will survive the presence of a global internet? If so, how do you see it being inforced and to what degree, and if not, what do you see replacing it?
Joshua