SINCE I HAVE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF SIAMILAR EMAILS BEFORE, I CAN GIVE YOU A FEW POINTERS TO MAKE IT MORE CONVINCNG.
YOUR EMAIL SHOULD BE IN ALL CAPS, FOR ALL THE EMALS I'VE RECEIVED ALL SEEM TO BE NI THIS FORMAT!
A FEW EXCLA1MATION MARKS WOULDN'T HURT EITHER!!
ALSO YOU SEEM TO RUN A SPELLCHECKOR, THIS IS VERY BAD, SINCE THESE EMAILS ARE USUALLY WRITTEN WHILE FLEEING THE COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO SPEELLCHECK!
WHEN YOU ARE SUCCESSFULL PLEASE WRITE TO ME MY FRIEND, FOR I HAVE $45 MILLION DOLLARS (US) IN GOLD IN A DEPOSIT IN IRAQ, AND I NEED SOME MONEY TO BRIBE THE CUSTOM OFFICIALS. I CAN GIVE YOU 15%!!!
I tried Open Office a few times, but all I do personally can be done in plain old ASCII (UltraEdit!).
I did look into Open Office for my workplace where long manuals are written in MS Word, but the.DOC import filters screw up too much, rendering Open Office unusable.:(
And get this, I was applying for a job as a 'LINUX software engineer' and I was told my resume in plain text looked too ugly, if I wanted to redo it in Word because it looked better! *gagh*
In short, Word is going to stay for now... *sniff*
Say what you want about P2P programs and movie leeching. One of the most notable effects for me was that we don't have to wait half a year anymore in the rest of the world before we get to see a good movie!
The best example is Star Wars I. When this movie was released there were actually people in Europe that FLEW OVER TO THE USA to watch that movie. Can you believe the insanity?
That was also the movie that really rocked the internet for being on the internet _before_ it was released officially.
I downloaded SW1 two days after the USA release and watched it in the public computer room at my university where I drew a huge crowd. Including 2 guys who _had_ tickets already to fly over. (I thought SW1 sucked though. I'm happy I didn't spend money on tickets)
I'm pretty happy P2P movie leeching happened so that I was able to see LOTR in the theater right away. I did buy tickets for that one, and enjoyed it a lot.
I haven't downloaded the new Matrix film nor did I get it on the net. I'm pretty sure the internet version is of low quality so that doesn't tempt me too much. I don't have the need to go to the theater because I think it's probably going to be pretty mediocre if you don't count the fighting scene, so I'll just wait for a DVD release at the movie rental.
I've got a complete set of tools I use. One of the best uses I have for them, is installing a computer that does not have internet access. I'll highlight a few good ones.
- Install CD's for WinXP, Win98 and Linux. These are always usefull, since a lot of them also boot from CD.
- DirectX9 and the WinXP SP1 (137MB, not the net installer)
- Extra DLL's like mfc42, vb6setup and cygwin1.dll
- SFX-Bootdisks. You can use WinImage to create a self-formatting.EXE file of a bootdisk. Make bootdisks of ALL major OS's. (http://www.winimage.com/download.htm)
- DOS programs: the latest Symantec Ghost, Norton Commander 4.0, ZIP, RAR, ACE. Bzip2 and gzip for DOS or Win32 won't hurt either.
- WinACE supports a lot of compression formats natively. It's really good. If you work in a mixed Win/Mac enviroment, get a copy of StuffIt for Windows.
- Drivers.. Hard to choose for 'generic' use, but a recent set of ATI and NVIDIA reference drivers never hurt. Also don't forget 'Via 4-in-1' and generic NE2000 and PPPoE drivers. ASPI drivers for cd-rom drives or writers are good too.
- For graphics ACDsee is king. For editing a copy of Paintshop Pro is useful.
- Compile a complete set of internet tools. These are some that are very useful:
Mozilla, ofcourse. That way you have a mail client too:) Don't forget to download an install version of the latest Java JRE (http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html)
Agent (NNTP) http://www.forteinc.com/
PCMacLAN (Let Mac and PC share files and printers on the network)
Ethereal, really good free sniffer program http://www.ethereal.com/ http://netgroup -serv.polito.it/winpcap/
ICQ, latest version (www.icq.com)
Mirc (IRC) (www.mirc.com)
Gonna use SSH or telnet? Putty! (free) (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
If you want to remotely contol a PC, check out Radmin. I like this a lot better then PCanywhere. (http://www.radmin.com/)
- Movies Codecs are important, try using codec packs like Nimo or klcodec. Bring a copy of VirtualDub too. Don't forget Quicktime, PowerDVD and such. RealPlayer won't work well since it cannot install without contacting the internet:( (damn sypware)
- Sound Winamp, Lame, CoolEdit
- CD stuff Nero CD writing software (www.ahead.de), Daemon-tools allows you to mount CD images right from the harddisk (www.daemon-tools.com)
- Harddisk R-studio can recover both NTFS, FAT32 and EXT2 files, Ext2FS will let you mount an EXT2 drive under Windows.
- Misc Norton anti-virus, Adobe Acrobat reader, UltraEdit. Microsofts free Word and Excel viewers.
- If you're going to code some small programs, you might want to bring a copy of CygWin (www.cygwin.com) or a Borland compiler (the old ones are free) useful to make a small tool to do some repetitive task for example.
- For the real hardcore debuggers: SoftIce (http://www.compuware.com/products/numega/index.ht m), OllyDbg (free) (http://home.t-online.de/home/Ollydbg/), Ida Pro (http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/). You might want to take along a set of password crackers for the various populair programs too, in case a user forgot his password.
*sniff* This should've been posted a lot earlier.. You had to confirm that you would be coming and 4 or 5 had to confirm or the meetup would be cancelled. I RSVP'd right away, but from our lot (Rotterdam, Netherlands) I was the only one. Only 1 other confirmed just before the deadline so the thing was cancelled:(
I was looking forward to wearing my Slashdot tshirt that I bought at Thinkgeek too.. *sniff*
Undoubtably, this is the HIGH QUALITY CONTENT that we want to copy over the internet:)Protect the TV industry or we won't be able to get 24/7 shopping channels!
I'm gonna get make myself a TV in/out passthrough from cable to computer to TV and I'm installing myself an ad-remover.
You know, I was really hoping this was going to take off. The only reason why I still have Windows on my computer is for games. Everything else I can do under Linux or Wine.
It's true that Transgaming was making a huge contribution to Linux, in an area where Linux was very poor. They were not that expensive with what they asked for their efforts. (Subscription based; $5 per month, $50 for a year)
However, they stated on their website that after 20.000 people became a member they will GPL all their code. Now Wine is LGPL they complain that it is too restrictive, while LGPL is less restrictive then GPL.
Another thing, the place where they mentioned the 20.000 people limit (Business Model), has suddenly been changed in the past 2 days. I know because I was looking into subscribing to them. I was even planning on mailing them to ask them how many people they already had. So is it a lie? Were they ever going to GPL their code? We had only that statement that disappeared without a trace.
So presumably no. Why? Because in their CEO's rant about Wine's license change to GPL, he states that it is impossible due to DMCA issues with the copyright protection they implemented. Also, they would for some reason be 'locked' into supporting Wine even if their business model would not pay what they want it to pay.
I can agree a little with the copy protection bit. However their claim that it contains highly sensitive information is nonsense. Advanced copy protections like SafeDisc and Securom have been reversed completely. Look up any reverser's webboard and you'll be smacked around the ears with all the little tricks that they use. With that you could even easily emulate the protection (which is already done in programs like Daemon-Tools).
So that can't be it. Did I mention that programs like InstallShield and Wise have been completely reversed too? Again, with this info around that can be found on any reversers board, anyone could write his own InstallShield installer. The DMCA threat is overrated, although the DMCA has been abused for more ridiculous things already.
Then secondly, being locked in for support. I write some crappy OpenSource tools. I do this under an Artistic License. But with this, or even the GPL, there is NO obligation mentioned anywhere that I have to give support on it. Better still, it is explicitly stated that NO LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY is given with this software.
So what do they complain about? Maybe they claim that they have to keep up to date with the Wine tree? Also not true. They can take any copy of Wine, and work on it, as long as they publish their changes. No other obligation then that.
So where does this leave us? Remember SSH? The original author (Klonen if I recall correctly) had SSH as a GPL package, but later on changed it to a pay-for-commercial license. A group of people took the last GPL'd version and coded on it until they got OpenSSH, which is a perfectly fine SSH client and 100% GPL. This is a GOOD thing.
Now Transgaming is pushing Rewind, which is pretty much the same coupe as OpenSSH, except they do it so that the X11 license can be kept. Now you can argue that Transgaming deserves money for the work they do. Well I agree with that, but how far should we support that? Is Transgaming just putting up a friendly OpenSource front so they can get people to work for them for free? Or is it to get people to like them?
In short, by pushing the Rewind branch, they take away time and resources from the main Wine tree. This hurts us normal users. They put up a false front to attract coders and clients. If they were honest about their work, and it would help the Linux community then I'd gladly pay them for their efforts, but now I'm pretty much disillusioned.
I wonder when we'll see Microsoft putting up an Anti-MS FUD page...:) Poor M$, I guess turn-about is not fair play to them..
But to be honest, if I was in a government, I'd be _very_ suspicious of M$ products with all their secret NSA keys installed. I mean it's enough everybody is being listened into by Echelon, no need to give the spooks direct access to your PC through Windows
I found it dissapointing :(
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I didn't find it that great in the end, I bought it, and it has a lot of bugs in it. Now I found out that in the meantime the makers haven't been fixing bug, but been working on a bonus disc that you _only_ get when you get somebody else to buy the game too.
I find it rather insulting for me to buy a game, and then not get support, or extra's. Also to be honest I find the copy protection rather stupid.. A black sheet with black numbers printed on it.
All in all, the game is too short, lot of bugs, no support, you don't get cool stuff when you actually bought the game and the network support we were promised is still nowhere in sight..
Globalisation - The effect of modern technologies that in effect make the world 'smaller'. This means that things like TV, internet, phones, satelites and a whole host of things, like Japanese cartoons, to Brazilian coffee make subtles changes to our life. Small on their own, but huge when you add it all up. But it goes in reverse too, since I have a phone I can make a difference on the other side of the world by talking to somebody.
Globalisation is mostly used when thinking of evil corperations raping the earth for the almighty dollar. This is just an effect of globalisation not a cause. The fact that they _can_ have an effect on the other side of the world means that they will because they have a driving force to do so (money)
It can be good too though, scientist are able to work together on diseases and other fields using the internet, making progress more quickly.
More and more it will become a thing in our lives, because more and more we are effected and
effect ourselves all over the world.
So to define globalisation I would say "The phenomenon of increase in the interconectedness of an individual with the rest of the world, both material and interpesonal"
Is all this not just the next step in evolution? With the caveman the darwinistic survival of the fittest stopped for humans, and nowadays everybody stays alive. I'm not saying this is ethically bad, but from a biological standpoint it is. So without our genetic make-up becoming stronger due to natural selection, why not take the road that will enable us to better ourselves through genetic engineering? It's impossible to stop the knowledge or the technology to do this. I'm not saying that it won't create any problems, afterall, the more power we humans get, the more trouble we stir up (think of biological weapons) and the the difference between have's and have not's will be huge if we as a society don't try to distribute everything. But in the end the path will go there, and there is nobody that can stop it. We as the people of this world will just have to try and use our brains every step of the way.
As a sidenote, humankind has allready done a lot of risky things. For example the atombomb was thought to ignite the sky, and burn up the whole earth. Still they detonated it. Humankind has the damnest luck, and I just hope it holds out with this too.
Book recommendation: Woodsman, a book in a world where everything is genetically engineered, and everything is bio-based. Cars are just fast animals. Hamburgers come from plants. Nice to read.
If you are profiled as a potentional murderer, then I'm pretty sure they won't solve the problem by showering the subject with love and such. I think they'd sooner want to get rid of the risk and throw you out of their school! Besides, the methods they use for profiling are just _wrong_, it's inacurate and ethically wrong. Besides murdering school kids are not the problem, they are the result of _other_ problems. When is america finally going to understand that the whole 'elite', 'jocks' and 'nerds' culture is going to create these murderers because of the stress this is going to put on children. It's wrong damnit! *gagh* Why won't the US government and parents start out with using common sense. I can understand fully that a worried parent is going to demand action, but it just doesn't work like that. You cannot fix these things without going to the source..
What do you people think this case will do for the future, thinking for example of Intel who is trying hard to rid themselves of AMD. If you read the Athlon Motherboard review on Tom's Hardware Guide, then you'll read about Asus, designing and producing an Athlon motherboard, but not mentioning it _anywhere_ on their site. It sounds a lot like the 'MSIE as prefered browser' deal that Microsoft did with the ISP's.
Also do you agree with the fact that the government is reluctent to let Microsoft be hurt to badly, because it is still the leader in the American IT sector?
I am in favor of such regulations, however it doesn't really work for something as global as domain registration. Afterall a lot of Americans still think that if they pass a law regarding the internet, that it is valid for the whole world. But regardless of that, I think they are not going far enough. How about people who buy up sites, in the hope they can make a profit later, even if it is not related to specific company name? Ever been to www.arj.com recently? I mean we have enough junk on the net as it is. Also names that have been bought, but no (web)sites are ever set up for them. I just think the internet is cluttering up much to fast (think usenet and spam) and it would be good to have some type off weed-out mechanism for domain names. Maybe restructure the whole thing, make it geographically sound, only giving companies _1_ domain name, giving people a free url like myname.people.us and such. 'Cause the longer you wait with such things, the harder it gets to change (640Kb is enough for everybody!)
Slashdot Mirror
That already exists for marketing speak ;) Check here
DEAR DARL,
I HOPE I REACH YOU IN GOOD HEALTH.
SINCE I HAVE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF SIAMILAR EMAILS BEFORE, I CAN GIVE YOU A FEW POINTERS TO MAKE IT MORE CONVINCNG.
YOUR EMAIL SHOULD BE IN ALL CAPS, FOR ALL THE EMALS I'VE RECEIVED ALL SEEM TO BE NI THIS FORMAT!
A FEW EXCLA1MATION MARKS WOULDN'T HURT EITHER!!
ALSO YOU SEEM TO RUN A SPELLCHECKOR, THIS IS VERY BAD, SINCE THESE EMAILS ARE USUALLY WRITTEN WHILE FLEEING THE COUNTRY, YOU DO NOT HAVE TIME TO SPEELLCHECK!
WHEN YOU ARE SUCCESSFULL PLEASE WRITE TO ME MY FRIEND, FOR I HAVE $45 MILLION DOLLARS (US) IN GOLD IN A DEPOSIT IN IRAQ, AND I NEED SOME MONEY TO BRIBE THE CUSTOM OFFICIALS. I CAN GIVE YOU 15%!!!
KIND REGARDS FROM YOUR FRIEND
Heh, I got those creditcard sized recordable cd's even! And I'm already a Linux software engineer for over six years now.
But when sending out your resume, I'd rather be sure somebody who can't find his own ass has a good chance of actually reading my resume.
You've got to appreciate the irony of somebody going for a Linux job being asked to send his resume in Word...
I tried Open Office a few times, but all I do personally can be done in plain old ASCII (UltraEdit!).
.DOC import filters screw up too much, rendering Open Office unusable. :(
I did look into Open Office for my workplace where long manuals are written in MS Word, but the
And get this, I was applying for a job as a 'LINUX software engineer' and I was told my resume in plain text looked too ugly, if I wanted to redo it in Word because it looked better! *gagh*
In short, Word is going to stay for now... *sniff*
Say what you want about P2P programs and movie leeching. One of the most notable effects for me was that we don't have to wait half a year anymore in the rest of the world before we get to see a good movie!
The best example is Star Wars I. When this movie was released there were actually people in Europe that FLEW OVER TO THE USA to watch that movie. Can you believe the insanity?
That was also the movie that really rocked the internet for being on the internet _before_ it was released officially.
I downloaded SW1 two days after the USA release and watched it in the public computer room at my university where I drew a huge crowd. Including 2 guys who _had_ tickets already to fly over. (I thought SW1 sucked though. I'm happy I didn't spend money on tickets)
I'm pretty happy P2P movie leeching happened so that I was able to see LOTR in the theater right away. I did buy tickets for that one, and enjoyed it a lot.
I haven't downloaded the new Matrix film nor did I get it on the net. I'm pretty sure the internet version is of low quality so that doesn't tempt me too much. I don't have the need to go to the theater because I think it's probably going to be pretty mediocre if you don't count the fighting scene, so I'll just wait for a DVD release at the movie rental.
Hi, I need a serial for the latest Linux kernel, version 2.4.20, the old serial doesn't work anymore. I'd prefer a keygen over a crack.. TIA!!
:)
*now waits for the obligatory 'Me too!!' posts*
I've got a complete set of tools I use. One of the best uses I have for them, is installing a computer that does not have internet access. I'll highlight a few good ones.
.EXE file of a bootdisk. Make bootdisks of ALL major OS's. (http://www.winimage.com/download.htm)
:) Don't forget to download an install version of the latest Java JRE (http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html)
p -serv.polito.it/winpcap/
y /)
:( (damn sypware)
t m), OllyDbg (free) (http://home.t-online.de/home/Ollydbg/), Ida Pro (http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/). You might want to take along a set of password crackers for the various populair programs too, in case a user forgot his password.
- Install CD's for WinXP, Win98 and Linux. These are always usefull, since a lot of them also boot from CD.
- DirectX9 and the WinXP SP1 (137MB, not the net installer)
- Extra DLL's like mfc42, vb6setup and cygwin1.dll
- SFX-Bootdisks. You can use WinImage to create a self-formatting
- DOS programs: the latest Symantec Ghost, Norton Commander 4.0, ZIP, RAR, ACE. Bzip2 and gzip for DOS or Win32 won't hurt either.
- WinACE supports a lot of compression formats natively. It's really good. If you work in a mixed Win/Mac enviroment, get a copy of StuffIt for Windows.
- Drivers.. Hard to choose for 'generic' use, but a recent set of ATI and NVIDIA reference drivers never hurt. Also don't forget 'Via 4-in-1' and generic NE2000 and PPPoE drivers. ASPI drivers for cd-rom drives or writers are good too.
- For graphics ACDsee is king. For editing a copy of Paintshop Pro is useful.
- Compile a complete set of internet tools. These are some that are very useful:
Mozilla, ofcourse. That way you have a mail client too
Agent (NNTP) http://www.forteinc.com/
PCMacLAN (Let Mac and PC share files and printers on the network)
Ethereal, really good free sniffer program
http://www.ethereal.com/
http://netgrou
ICQ, latest version (www.icq.com)
Mirc (IRC) (www.mirc.com)
Gonna use SSH or telnet? Putty! (free) (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putt
If you want to remotely contol a PC, check out Radmin. I like this a lot better then PCanywhere. (http://www.radmin.com/)
- Movies
Codecs are important, try using codec packs like Nimo or klcodec. Bring a copy of VirtualDub too. Don't forget Quicktime, PowerDVD and such. RealPlayer won't work well since it cannot install without contacting the internet
- Sound
Winamp, Lame, CoolEdit
- CD stuff
Nero CD writing software (www.ahead.de), Daemon-tools allows you to mount CD images right from the harddisk (www.daemon-tools.com)
- Harddisk
R-studio can recover both NTFS, FAT32 and EXT2 files, Ext2FS will let you mount an EXT2 drive under Windows.
- Misc
Norton anti-virus, Adobe Acrobat reader, UltraEdit. Microsofts free Word and Excel viewers.
- If you're going to code some small programs, you might want to bring a copy of CygWin (www.cygwin.com) or a Borland compiler (the old ones are free) useful to make a small tool to do some repetitive task for example.
- For the real hardcore debuggers: SoftIce (http://www.compuware.com/products/numega/index.h
I usually use a thumper to call Shai-Hulud.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Ancient Fremen Saying
Yet another way to make your computer look way cool! :) Black on the outside, neon lights on the inside..
It's one of those OpenGL Windows 95 screensavers! :) Why didn't you just say so?
*sniff* This should've been posted a lot earlier.. You had to confirm that you would be coming and 4 or 5 had to confirm or the meetup would be cancelled. I RSVP'd right away, but from our lot (Rotterdam, Netherlands) I was the only one. Only 1 other confirmed just before the deadline so the thing was cancelled :(
I was looking forward to wearing my Slashdot tshirt that I bought at Thinkgeek too.. *sniff*
Give those people a DivX player!! :) Oh and a fast internet connection, and whatever is the latest in P2P technology ;)
Undoubtably, this is the HIGH QUALITY CONTENT that we want to copy over the internet :)Protect the TV industry or we won't be able to get 24/7 shopping channels!
I'm gonna get make myself a TV in/out passthrough from cable to computer to TV and I'm installing myself an ad-remover.
You know, I was really hoping this was going to take off. The only reason why I still have Windows on my computer is for games. Everything else I can do under Linux or Wine.
It's true that Transgaming was making a huge contribution to Linux, in an area where Linux was very poor. They were not that expensive with what they asked for their efforts. (Subscription based; $5 per month, $50 for a year)
However, they stated on their website that after 20.000 people became a member they will GPL all their code. Now Wine is LGPL they complain that it is too restrictive, while LGPL is less restrictive then GPL.
Another thing, the place where they mentioned the 20.000 people limit (Business Model), has suddenly been changed in the past 2 days. I know because I was looking into subscribing to them. I was even planning on mailing them to ask them how many people they already had. So is it a lie? Were they ever going to GPL their code? We had only that statement that disappeared without a trace.
So presumably no. Why? Because in their CEO's rant about Wine's license change to GPL, he states that it is impossible due to DMCA issues with the copyright protection they implemented. Also, they would for some reason be 'locked' into supporting Wine even if their business model would not pay what they want it to pay.
I can agree a little with the copy protection bit. However their claim that it contains highly sensitive information is nonsense. Advanced copy protections like SafeDisc and Securom have been reversed completely. Look up any reverser's webboard and you'll be smacked around the ears with all the little tricks that they use. With that you could even easily emulate the protection (which is already done in programs like Daemon-Tools).
So that can't be it. Did I mention that programs like InstallShield and Wise have been completely reversed too? Again, with this info around that can be found on any reversers board, anyone could write his own InstallShield installer.
The DMCA threat is overrated, although the DMCA has been abused for more ridiculous things already.
Then secondly, being locked in for support. I write some crappy OpenSource tools. I do this under an Artistic License. But with this, or even the GPL, there is NO obligation mentioned anywhere that I have to give support on it. Better still, it is explicitly stated that NO LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY is given with this software.
So what do they complain about? Maybe they claim that they have to keep up to date with the Wine tree? Also not true. They can take any copy of Wine, and work on it, as long as they publish their changes. No other obligation then that.
So where does this leave us? Remember SSH? The original author (Klonen if I recall correctly) had SSH as a GPL package, but later on changed it to a pay-for-commercial license. A group of people took the last GPL'd version and coded on it until they got OpenSSH, which is a perfectly fine SSH client and 100% GPL. This is a GOOD thing.
Now Transgaming is pushing Rewind, which is pretty much the same coupe as OpenSSH, except they do it so that the X11 license can be kept. Now you can argue that Transgaming deserves money for the work they do. Well I agree with that, but how far should we support that? Is Transgaming just putting up a friendly OpenSource front so they can get people to work for them for free? Or is it to get people to like them?
In short, by pushing the Rewind branch, they take away time and resources from the main Wine tree. This hurts us normal users. They put up a false front to attract coders and clients. If they were honest about their work, and it would help the Linux community then I'd gladly pay them for their efforts, but now I'm pretty much disillusioned.
I wonder when we'll see Microsoft putting up an Anti-MS FUD page... :) Poor M$, I guess turn-about is not fair play to them..
But to be honest, if I was in a government, I'd be _very_ suspicious of M$ products with all their secret NSA keys installed. I mean it's enough everybody is being listened into by Echelon, no need to give the spooks direct access to your PC through Windows
:) That's what inquiring minds would like to know!
See deleted scenes
I didn't find it that great in the end, I bought it, and it has a lot of bugs in it. Now I found out that in the meantime the makers haven't been fixing bug, but been working on a bonus disc that you _only_ get when you get somebody else to buy the game too.
I find it rather insulting for me to buy a game, and then not get support, or extra's. Also to be honest I find the copy protection rather stupid.. A black sheet with black numbers printed on it.
All in all, the game is too short, lot of bugs, no support, you don't get cool stuff when you actually bought the game and the network support we were promised is still nowhere in sight..
It doesn't seem to hard to define
:)
Globalisation - The effect of modern technologies that in effect make the world 'smaller'. This means that things like TV, internet, phones, satelites and a whole host of things, like Japanese cartoons, to Brazilian coffee make subtles changes to our life. Small on their own, but huge when you add it all up. But it goes in reverse too, since I have a phone I can make a difference on the other side of the world by talking to somebody.
Globalisation is mostly used when thinking of evil corperations raping the earth for the almighty dollar. This is just an effect of globalisation not a cause. The fact that they _can_ have an effect on the other side of the world means that they will because they have a driving force to do so (money)
It can be good too though, scientist are able to work together on diseases and other fields using the internet, making progress more quickly.
More and more it will become a thing in our lives, because more and more we are effected and
effect ourselves all over the world.
So to define globalisation I would say "The phenomenon of increase in the interconectedness of an individual with the rest of the world, both material and interpesonal"
In my humble opinion though.
Is all this not just the next step in evolution?
With the caveman the darwinistic survival of the fittest stopped for humans, and nowadays everybody stays alive. I'm not saying this is ethically bad, but from a biological standpoint it is.
So without our genetic make-up becoming stronger due to natural selection, why not take the road that will enable us to better ourselves through genetic engineering? It's impossible to stop the knowledge or the technology to do this.
I'm not saying that it won't create any problems, afterall, the more power we humans get, the more trouble we stir up (think of biological weapons) and the the difference between have's and have not's will be huge if we as a society don't try to distribute everything.
But in the end the path will go there, and there is nobody that can stop it. We as the people of this world will just have to try and use our brains every step of the way.
As a sidenote, humankind has allready done a lot of risky things. For example the atombomb was thought to ignite the sky, and burn up the whole earth. Still they detonated it. Humankind has the damnest luck, and I just hope it holds out with this too.
Book recommendation: Woodsman, a book in a world where everything is genetically engineered, and everything is bio-based. Cars are just fast animals. Hamburgers come from plants. Nice to read.
I've been thinking about buying a mouse-pen, which seems to be would be a whole lot nicer on the hand.. Free-pen
If you are profiled as a potentional murderer, then I'm pretty sure they won't solve the problem by showering the subject with love and such. I think they'd sooner want to get rid of the risk and throw you out of their school! Besides, the methods they use for profiling are just _wrong_, it's inacurate and ethically wrong.
Besides murdering school kids are not the problem, they are the result of _other_ problems. When is america finally going to understand that the whole 'elite', 'jocks' and 'nerds' culture is going to create these murderers because of the stress this is going to put on children. It's wrong damnit!
*gagh* Why won't the US government and parents start out with using common sense. I can understand fully that a worried parent is going to demand action, but it just doesn't work like that. You cannot fix these things without going to the source..
What do you people think this case will do for the future, thinking for example of Intel who is trying hard to rid themselves of AMD.
If you read the Athlon Motherboard review on Tom's Hardware Guide, then you'll read about Asus, designing and producing an Athlon motherboard, but not mentioning it _anywhere_ on their site.
It sounds a lot like the 'MSIE as prefered browser' deal that Microsoft did with the ISP's.
Also do you agree with the fact that the government is reluctent to let Microsoft be hurt to badly, because it is still the leader in the American IT sector?
I am in favor of such regulations, however it doesn't really work for something as global as domain registration. Afterall a lot of Americans still think that if they pass a law regarding the internet, that it is valid for the whole world.
But regardless of that, I think they are not going far enough. How about people who buy up sites, in the hope they can make a profit later, even if it is not related to specific company name?
Ever been to www.arj.com recently? I mean we have enough junk on the net as it is. Also names that have been bought, but no (web)sites are ever set up for them.
I just think the internet is cluttering up much to fast (think usenet and spam) and it would be good to have some type off weed-out mechanism for domain names. Maybe restructure the whole thing, make it geographically sound, only giving companies _1_ domain name, giving people a free url like myname.people.us and such. 'Cause the longer you wait with such things, the harder it gets to change (640Kb is enough for everybody!)
-- Ren