Well, it may be advantageous to try to think of this technology away from the perspective of a comfortable middle-class American or European lifestyle. More significant than the context in which you frame this concept, is the possible effect on computing costs.
For instance, imagine such a technology emerging in a country whose citizens can afford neither software, nor hardware, nor bandwidth. Public terminals with a high level of user ownership (of data/configuration) change utterly the nature of private property. Of course, those of us who already own computers will have little or less reason to use this technology, perhaps because we would desire greater performance, more customization, or just because of our socialized attachment to private property.
Ultimately, though, this technology can go a long way to alleviating the problem of private property in general. Consider: the problems of poverty cannot be solved within the paradigm of our current social construction, because poverty is a direct result of that construction's heritage. This is true in the sense that, at one point in human history (around mid-late Neolithic), private property was non-existent. It had to be claimed. Claiming, as the history of western expansion and religious imperialism shows, is a lot like theft. So essentially, what you have, is the claiming or theft of Natural property by the stronger, from the weaker, and a systematic establishment of heirarchy and law to prevent the reclamation of that property. For that reason, it is nearly impossible, and certainly against design of the state, for an impoverished person to rise up in any fashion, either property, education, or otherwise.
What's significant about the net, and what is so empowering about information in general, is that it is a platonic capital. In other words, and like ESR has talked about, it's a capital resource that exists on a plane untouchable and unrestrictable by forces with an existing heritage of domination(government and business, aka rich white people). We're about to find out how far this analogy goes, whether it will hold up, vis. SCO vs IBM, et al. At any rate, my whole point is that this technology is amazing for the disadvantaged, in whatever country, because it further dissolves the disjunct of time and space; it allows our world to be even more deeply non-local, in Bell's sense; in short, it can allow anyone to rise up despite any disadvantages they have by birth. Information transcends matter.
From the Article: "The MPAA estimates that the industry loses about $3 billion to non-Internet piracy per year."
So that's what, 15 or 16 DVD's? Maybe if the MPAA weren't charging an inordinate amount for DVD's, people wouldn't be so interested in pirating them. Keep in mind that I am not condoning piracy, but if the MPAA is truly interested in preventing piracy, the only way it will ever do so, without huge losses of freedoms for the law-abiding citizens, is to lower prices.
gateway also had a knockoff of the original imac, built-in monitor and all. i think it may have been called the solo or something. the thing to remember here, however, is that this is not aimed at the mac user, it's aimed at grandpa who sees that the imac is $1,799, but shucks ma', good old fashioned american company gateway has the "same thing" for a scant $1,699. in a market where total cost is the only thing that matters to ignorant users, can anyone blame gateway?
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...populating the background of sci-fi movies. that's all, though.
I'm guessing that this is less of a business plan for Apple, than it is a way to keep users happy. Apple wants to let its users who lack CD burning and/or DVD to know that they're working on it. If Apple didn't release anything for a 1-2 month period, its users would get anxious, even if the coming update promised both CDR and DVD capabilities. Progammers can only work so fast, but Apple wants to let its users know that they ARE working.
Wow, that sucks. I expected as much though. The service and login replies have been slowing to almost zero over the past two months. This certainly does show that a closed-source, corporately ownd and controlled, peer-to-peer file sharing service cannot last. Regardless of whether it is technically legal or not, peer-to-peer file sharing will always lose in the courts. The Reason(tm)? Money talks. But where do I go to get my porn now?
I seem to remember (read: I remember distictly), Lars saying that "It's the principle...", and that essentially, this lawsuit has nothing to do with the profit cuts that Napster "will be causing." However, as an answer to question #9, Mr. Ulrich states that "Of course we have[traded illegally reproduced copyrighted audio recordings], ok?" He goes on to list statistics of the dramatic size and scope of copyright infringement on Napster, making it quite clear that this is an issue of profits. $16 for a CD! FSCK!
My school implemented laptops for students 6-12th grade, T1 connection, and school-wide lan last year. Overall, it has been quite negative, for the following reasons: 1) Most(read "nearly all") teachers and students simply cannot implement their notebooks in a productive manner and just leave them at home. 2) They run windows(tm), and thus are always broken(except for mine, thanks Debian) amon others. In my opinion, to use computers for anything other than an internet terminal in schools, you would have to create a whole new school built around it. It would need properly trained staff, students who actually WORK BETTER with computers (most are just frustrated or distracted by them), and enough funding. Anyway, for more info, go here
at my private school, keith, almost everything that is visited too much (eg, takes up too much bandwidth) is banned. stuff like TCP/IP chat programs, winzip.com, quake games... its terrible. theoretically, everything that isn't "For Educational Purposes" should be banned(under the school's net doctrine). However, our admin (NT network... booooo!) is 26, and really doesnt care. He allows illegal MP3 download if he likes you. I run debian, so he thinks im cool and lets me do anything.
i'd like to see more schools adopting linux. i am personally attending a private middle/highschool with a lot of computers(every student has a laptop), and huge(to me) bandwidth(a T1). Unfortunately, it is NT. I am the only one with linux, but i get by. i'd like too see our server run apache. the school's page is here
I wonder what the fate of transmeta would have been without Torvalds. would anyone even had given them a second look without such a powerful name? They certainly appear to have a great product, but would we even be hearing about them if it weren't for him?
maybe this is off-topic (okay, definitely off-topic), but i would like the/. people to add the username if the moderator to the comments so, if bad, we can kill them, err.. politely speak with them...
i remember when i was in the 1st grade, and went to take the test for the "gifted program", an advanced placement system of my public school district. one of the tests that was not written, but rather one on one involved the usage and organization of legos. here is something about it so, some people have some faith in legos. although... it is an aol site...
i havent seen it, so maybe posing about it makes me an ass... but i think there is already too much damn football on TV anyway, let alone in movies.. i dont know. maybe its a good movie, maybe a great one, i just think football is stupid, especially when it goes into over-time, and i miss simpsons!
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Well, it may be advantageous to try to think of this technology away from the perspective of a comfortable middle-class American or European lifestyle. More significant than the context in which you frame this concept, is the possible effect on computing costs.
For instance, imagine such a technology emerging in a country whose citizens can afford neither software, nor hardware, nor bandwidth. Public terminals with a high level of user ownership (of data/configuration) change utterly the nature of private property. Of course, those of us who already own computers will have little or less reason to use this technology, perhaps because we would desire greater performance, more customization, or just because of our socialized attachment to private property.
Ultimately, though, this technology can go a long way to alleviating the problem of private property in general. Consider: the problems of poverty cannot be solved within the paradigm of our current social construction, because poverty is a direct result of that construction's heritage. This is true in the sense that, at one point in human history (around mid-late Neolithic), private property was non-existent. It had to be claimed. Claiming, as the history of western expansion and religious imperialism shows, is a lot like theft. So essentially, what you have, is the claiming or theft of Natural property by the stronger, from the weaker, and a systematic establishment of heirarchy and law to prevent the reclamation of that property. For that reason, it is nearly impossible, and certainly against design of the state, for an impoverished person to rise up in any fashion, either property, education, or otherwise.
What's significant about the net, and what is so empowering about information in general, is that it is a platonic capital. In other words, and like ESR has talked about, it's a capital resource that exists on a plane untouchable and unrestrictable by forces with an existing heritage of domination(government and business, aka rich white people). We're about to find out how far this analogy goes, whether it will hold up, vis. SCO vs IBM, et al. At any rate, my whole point is that this technology is amazing for the disadvantaged, in whatever country, because it further dissolves the disjunct of time and space; it allows our world to be even more deeply non-local, in Bell's sense; in short, it can allow anyone to rise up despite any disadvantages they have by birth. Information transcends matter.
you know what else might "save a lot of lives"? .. not going to a fucking war! how about that one?
From the Article: "The MPAA estimates that the industry loses about $3 billion to non-Internet piracy per year."
So that's what, 15 or 16 DVD's? Maybe if the MPAA weren't charging an inordinate amount for DVD's, people wouldn't be so interested in pirating them. Keep in mind that I am not condoning piracy, but if the MPAA is truly interested in preventing piracy, the only way it will ever do so, without huge losses of freedoms for the law-abiding citizens, is to lower prices.
gateway also had a knockoff of the original imac, built-in monitor and all. i think it may have been called the solo or something. the thing to remember here, however, is that this is not aimed at the mac user, it's aimed at grandpa who sees that the imac is $1,799, but shucks ma', good old fashioned american company gateway has the "same thing" for a scant $1,699. in a market where total cost is the only thing that matters to ignorant users, can anyone blame gateway?
...populating the background of sci-fi movies. that's all, though.
I'm guessing that this is less of a business plan for Apple, than it is a way to keep users happy. Apple wants to let its users who lack CD burning and/or DVD to know that they're working on it. If Apple didn't release anything for a 1-2 month period, its users would get anxious, even if the coming update promised both CDR and DVD capabilities. Progammers can only work so fast, but Apple wants to let its users know that they ARE working.
Wow, that sucks. I expected as much though. The service and login replies have been slowing to almost zero over the past two months. This certainly does show that a closed-source, corporately ownd and controlled, peer-to-peer file sharing service cannot last. Regardless of whether it is technically legal or not, peer-to-peer file sharing will always lose in the courts. The Reason(tm)? Money talks. But where do I go to get my porn now?
I seem to remember (read: I remember distictly), Lars saying that "It's the principle...", and that essentially, this lawsuit has nothing to do with the profit cuts that Napster "will be causing." However, as an answer to question #9, Mr. Ulrich states that "Of course we have[traded illegally reproduced copyrighted audio recordings], ok?" He goes on to list statistics of the dramatic size and scope of copyright infringement on Napster, making it quite clear that this is an issue of profits. $16 for a CD! FSCK!
My school implemented laptops for students 6-12th grade, T1 connection, and school-wide lan last year. Overall, it has been quite negative, for the following reasons: 1) Most(read "nearly all") teachers and students simply cannot implement their notebooks in a productive manner and just leave them at home. 2) They run windows(tm), and thus are always broken(except for mine, thanks Debian) amon others. In my opinion, to use computers for anything other than an internet terminal in schools, you would have to create a whole new school built around it. It would need properly trained staff, students who actually WORK BETTER with computers (most are just frustrated or distracted by them), and enough funding. Anyway, for more info, go here
at my private school, keith, almost everything that is visited too much (eg, takes up too much bandwidth) is banned. stuff like TCP/IP chat programs, winzip.com, quake games... its terrible. theoretically, everything that isn't "For Educational Purposes" should be banned(under the school's net doctrine). However, our admin (NT network... booooo!) is 26, and really doesnt care. He allows illegal MP3 download if he likes you. I run debian, so he thinks im cool and lets me do anything.
i'd like to see more schools adopting linux. i am personally attending a private middle/highschool with a lot of computers(every student has a laptop), and huge(to me) bandwidth(a T1). Unfortunately, it is NT. I am the only one with linux, but i get by. i'd like too see our server run apache. the school's page is here
...they may be fiery deathtraps, but they're AMERICAN-MADE fiery deathtraps!!
I wonder what the fate of transmeta would have been without Torvalds. would anyone even had given them a second look without such a powerful name? They certainly appear to have a great product, but would we even be hearing about them if it weren't for him?
maybe this is off-topic (okay, definitely off-topic), but i would like the /. people to add the username if the moderator to the comments so, if bad, we can kill them, err.. politely speak with them...
this site says that 89.4% of the 241 children "gifted children" tested "have facility with puzzles and legos"
i remember when i was in the 1st grade, and went to take the test for the "gifted program", an advanced placement system of my public school district. one of the tests that was not written, but rather one on one involved the usage and organization of legos. here is something about it so, some people have some faith in legos. although... it is an aol site...
dont do anything with one-click shopping
i only want to know one thing: can i play quake on it?, oh and one more, if so, can i network them and have quake-pda lanparties?
actually, the "new millenium" begins jan 1, 2001
does anyone know what kind of assm. this will take? is it mips? x86? something cooler? is it for pda's of notebooks?
you bastard!
did anyone read instinct (by: daniel quinn) then see the movie? what a total bastardization. OFF TOPIC!
i havent seen it, so maybe posing about it makes me an ass... but i think there is already too much damn football on TV anyway, let alone in movies.. i dont know. maybe its a good movie, maybe a great one, i just think football is stupid, especially when it goes into over-time, and i miss simpsons!