While I find your argument about the people being responsible for those they elect entirely agreeable I have to wonder how realistic you're being in saying that we are all responsible for any thing that any elected official does.
Are you really suggesting that we, as voters, can be held accountable for every single policy decided upon by our elected representatives?
Do you really expect (or want) to know what goes on for every minute of every day in each area of life which happens to be devolved? For each person of influence who is elected there will be thousands more who are not.
As an exercise, try standing for election under the banner "I'm gonna watch your kids' behaviour through their webcams even when they don't know I'm watching" against an hypothetical rival: "We're gonna make our educational system as safe as possible" blah blah - please do it,see how many votes you get.
YOU (I'm assuming you are an American, because you sound like one. Forgive me if I'm wrong) live in a democracy, YOU are responsible as anyone else.
IIRC 3.0 ports will be physically different than 2.0, so it should at least be possible to tell the difference just by looking at them
OK they may be round the back of the machine but in any case you'll need a visual just to plug something in.
There is nothing more important to modern business than money. Nothing. Not quality. Not human life. Not nature or the environment. All of that has been lost. It would be nice if that sort of morality could return, but I just can't imagine how. The story of how it was all lost would be an interesting story to hear. I just know we had some morality at some point and it was lost... I feel the loss.
Have you read 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn? It's a (fictional) book that attempts to explain how we got to be in the situation you describe.
If you are at all interested in the profit motive it's well worth a read.
Like most generalisations it has a grain of truth but in my experience there are plenty of 'live to work' types over here and they tend to be the ones running things.
Me, I view work as just that, work. My time is more valuable to me than the money I can get selling it on the open market.
People who actually give a shit about individual rights don't seek power over others. By trying to become a politician, he's just another Boromir who thinks he can do good by taking the One Ring.
Interesting point of view.
I personally think that anyone who is prepared to take on the system from within is engaged in a noble cause, whatever might happen to him inside.
I think that there are groups for whom usenet is still useful and in use but for me Google killed newsgroups. With apps like phpBB around nowadays dedicated forums are easy to setup but they require administration.
The beauty of usenet was that all it took to post was an e-mail address (IIRC). As a result usenet maintained the feel of a free and open forum.
The Marine's call that "stupid stubborn" and for your sake be glad your not in the Marines.
I'm quaking in my boots here.
Learn to monetize your offering
I admit I'm not quite sure what this means.
Education for users is what's needed here. The vast majority of web users don't know the difference between SSL and a CA's certificate or their arse and their elbow.
By demanding that every small shop on the web pays up for a cert you are pricing countless small businesses and startups out of the market. Is that really what you want?
By saying all domains are equal you are doing all businesses a disservice. You are effectively saying 'You can't exist as a business on the web unless you pay us this license money'.
I don't believe that and I don't believe for a minute that people won't swallow this whole 'green certificate' shite.
I'm amazed you have any customers at all... The fact you only make $200/year should give you a clue.
The fact that the poster makes $200/year is neither indicative of success or failure.
It seems that the moon doesn't orbit the earth around the equatorial plane but rather the ecliptic.
There's a description here and a nice diagram showing the planes here
Mine is running as a dumb terminal using XDMCP.
Limitations are the low resolution (1024x768x16bpp: only 2MB Vram) and no sound.
It's usable as a spare web client in the living room but I don't use it much to be honest. Most of the fun of it was setting it up.
I suppose that if we don't create games with truly intelligent beings, these moral questions cease to exist.
There may be a time when truly artificial AI exists on a par with humans in society but must we put them in our shoot 'em ups?
Games as we know them now should be sufficiently served by very advanced 'dumb AI' i.e. state machines.
If, however, you would like to pit yourself against the very best in artificial AI, that would be a very different game, maybe somewhat comparable to multiplayer games of today.
But a cat has rights, yes?
What happens when a cat turns feral and bites it's owner? The cat is destroyed for the good of the owner and everything else.
So we humans do put human rights above all others. So far so good.
However, lets suppose that an advanced AI has been developed. It doesn't even have to inhabit a human identical form as the grandparent suggests. A truly intelligent entity could conceivably exist entirely in software.
We humans are ill equipped to decide if 'AIs' are friendly or hostile, trustworthy or unreliable? The word that keeps coming to mind is government.
Eventually, you, flerchin are right, a sentient AI must be given rights which cannot and must not be bypassed, ignored or abused.
Bottom line is, You think things are difficult now? Wait a few years, things might get a lot more interesting!!!
It was on the news here yesterday. It doesn't sound that remarkable.
You can try the link here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
I'm not sure if it's available outside the UK.
So what's this talk of Vista being a "Consumer OS"?
Are we now consigned to an era where a populist OS is categorised as "Consumer".
An alternative might be "Alternative" and for the minority "OSX"? (only kidding).
Actually, come to think of it, maybe we already are with Microsoft's "Home", "Home Premium" "Home Professional", "Professional Professional" etc etc...
In the future I will use a "Connoisseur OS", whilst my lesser peers will use a "Consumer OS"
I take your point but the original poster never said anything at all about going professional. All he wants is a decent sequencer to use with his 'decent-ish' synths.
There is probably more than enough software available in Linux to start making music, a lot of which has already been mentioned.
For a lot of users the mastering tools available in Jamin http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html will be more than enough for their needs.
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While I find your argument about the people being responsible for those they elect entirely agreeable I have to wonder how realistic you're being in saying that we are all responsible for any thing that any elected official does.
Are you really suggesting that we, as voters, can be held accountable for every single policy decided upon by our elected representatives?
Do you really expect (or want) to know what goes on for every minute of every day in each area of life which happens to be devolved? For each person of influence who is elected there will be thousands more who are not.
As an exercise, try standing for election under the banner "I'm gonna watch your kids' behaviour through their webcams even when they don't know I'm watching"
against an hypothetical rival:
"We're gonna make our educational system as safe as possible" blah blah - please do it,see how many votes you get.
YOU (I'm assuming you are an American, because you sound like one. Forgive me if I'm wrong) live in a democracy, YOU are responsible as anyone else.
IIRC 3.0 ports will be physically different than 2.0, so it should at least be possible to tell the difference just by looking at them
OK they may be round the back of the machine but in any case you'll need a visual just to plug something in.
There is nothing more important to modern business than money. Nothing. Not quality. Not human life. Not nature or the environment. All of that has been lost. It would be nice if that sort of morality could return, but I just can't imagine how. The story of how it was all lost would be an interesting story to hear. I just know we had some morality at some point and it was lost... I feel the loss.
Have you read 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn? It's a (fictional) book that attempts to explain how we got to be in the situation you describe.
If you are at all interested in the profit motive it's well worth a read.
Like most generalisations it has a grain of truth but in my experience there are plenty of 'live to work' types over here and they tend to be the ones running things.
Me, I view work as just that, work.
My time is more valuable to me than the money I can get selling it on the open market.
Agreed, seeing as we were talking about politicians.
People who actually give a shit about individual rights don't seek power over others. By trying to become a politician, he's just another Boromir who thinks he can do good by taking the One Ring.
Interesting point of view.
I personally think that anyone who is prepared to take on the system from within is engaged in a noble cause, whatever might happen to him inside.
I think that there are groups for whom usenet is still useful and in use but for me Google killed newsgroups.
With apps like phpBB around nowadays dedicated forums are easy to setup but they require administration.
The beauty of usenet was that all it took to post was an e-mail address (IIRC). As a result usenet maintained the feel of a free and open forum.
The Marine's call that "stupid stubborn" and for your sake be glad your not in the Marines.
I'm quaking in my boots here.
Learn to monetize your offering
I admit I'm not quite sure what this means.
Education for users is what's needed here. The vast majority of web users don't know the difference between SSL and a CA's certificate or their arse and their elbow.
By demanding that every small shop on the web pays up for a cert you are pricing countless small businesses and startups out of the market. Is that really what you want?
By saying all domains are equal you are doing all businesses a disservice. You are effectively saying 'You can't exist as a business on the web unless you pay us this license money'.
I don't believe that and I don't believe for a minute that people won't swallow this whole 'green certificate' shite.
I'm amazed you have any customers at all... The fact you only make $200/year should give you a clue.
The fact that the poster makes $200/year is neither indicative of success or failure.
It seems that the moon doesn't orbit the earth around the equatorial plane but rather the ecliptic. There's a description here and a nice diagram showing the planes here
Thanks, posts like this are one of the reasons I read Slashdot in the first place.
"And some aliens could even be free from original sin, he speculates." - FTFA
In other words, maybe the aliens don't need saving.
Mine is running as a dumb terminal using XDMCP.
Limitations are the low resolution (1024x768x16bpp: only 2MB Vram) and no sound.
It's usable as a spare web client in the living room but I don't use it much to be honest. Most of the fun of it was setting it up.
User: Did I *really* send it to 'Inv'?
Me: Yes
User: Damn paper trays...I better print 2 more just to be sure.
If people are told to use it, they will.
That's because programs like Cubase/Cakewalk only render in 2D. 3D is planned for the next version, but only if you have DirectX 11^3
Ah but Scientology only has one crackpot theory. It covers *everything*
If I had any mod points, I'd mod the parent as funny :-)
There may be a time when truly artificial AI exists on a par with humans in society but must we put them in our shoot 'em ups?
Games as we know them now should be sufficiently served by very advanced 'dumb AI' i.e. state machines.
If, however, you would like to pit yourself against the very best in artificial AI, that would be a very different game, maybe somewhat comparable to multiplayer games of today.
What happens when a cat turns feral and bites it's owner? The cat is destroyed for the good of the owner and everything else.
So we humans do put human rights above all others. So far so good.
However, lets suppose that an advanced AI has been developed. It doesn't even have to inhabit a human identical form as the grandparent suggests. A truly intelligent entity could conceivably exist entirely in software.
We humans are ill equipped to decide if 'AIs' are friendly or hostile, trustworthy or unreliable? The word that keeps coming to mind is government.
Eventually, you, flerchin are right, a sentient AI must be given rights which cannot and must not be bypassed, ignored or abused.
Bottom line is, You think things are difficult now? Wait a few years, things might get a lot more interesting!!!
That makes sense.
What does banning altered consoles have to do with keeping online play 'fair and level'?
I thought that copies are identical to the originals.
It was on the news here yesterday. It doesn't sound that remarkable. You can try the link here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm I'm not sure if it's available outside the UK.
Easy! Just do both.
So what's this talk of Vista being a "Consumer OS"? Are we now consigned to an era where a populist OS is categorised as "Consumer". An alternative might be "Alternative" and for the minority "OSX"? (only kidding). Actually, come to think of it, maybe we already are with Microsoft's "Home", "Home Premium" "Home Professional", "Professional Professional" etc etc... In the future I will use a "Connoisseur OS", whilst my lesser peers will use a "Consumer OS"
I take your point but the original poster never said anything at all about going professional. All he wants is a decent sequencer to use with his 'decent-ish' synths. There is probably more than enough software available in Linux to start making music, a lot of which has already been mentioned. For a lot of users the mastering tools available in Jamin http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html will be more than enough for their needs.