That may be part of the issue. However there is the other issue of being able to afford a better infrastructure. Even a basic Home network in America has the following. A broadband modem That connects to a Router for their Wireless, This router does basic hardware firewall and acts like a switch between mutable PC's, and even old Wireless systems offer modest encryption. Just by being able to Drop a hundred bucks in equipment we have basic safety. If you are in poor country and don't have a few hundred bucks to spend, you will get second/third hand possibly hacked or hopelessly out dated hardware which doesn't have nearly the same protection level. Your computer will probably be using a Pirated version of Windows which you dare not to update, and volnerable system is in essence hooked up to an unfiltered internet. Allowing for the spyware to get in your system without having to click on that link.
J.J. Doesn't make good science fiction but he makes Science Fiction that the general mass who doesn't like Science Fiction to actually like.
Lets compare the original Star Trek Movies with J.J. Star Trek.
Star Trek Motion Picture to VI wasn't made as an action flick. Sure there was some fights, but they were never much about the action. Star Trek Motion Picture vs Star Trek. These two are polar opposites One was Slow and showed off all the money they spent to make it, vs. Fast (spend a lot of money on effects but less showing it off, Lets put a lens flair around our mistakes, and movable sets, and put half of it in the brewery) Star Trek 2 vs Star Trek. It is about Kirk looking back at his life. Vs Star Trek Looking forward to a new life Star Trek 3 vs Star Trek. Political Consequences for your actions. Vs you killed the bad guy heck you started to shoot him further when his ship was being destroyed putting your ship in further risk just because it felt good. Star Trek 4 vs Star Trek. Environmental message vs. Planets blowing up Star Trek 5 vs Star Trek. Understanding God vs. Spock going back in time telling you what you should do Star Trek 6 vs Star Trek. A lot like Star Trek 2 where Kirk is feeling old and that one final mission vs you first grand mission.
I can see us getting 1/2 c hundreds of years in the future. Taking 26 years to get there 26 years for some of them to get back. 10 years of study. However at 1/2 c speed. I would expect it would be better to send a probe at that speed and then send its data back at the speed of light. And really determine if there is anything worth people visiting.
However I don't see a Star Trek type of future. Perhaps most likely a Red Dwarf (TV show) future where there are no aliens that we know of and anything we do find, is because we left it there in the past.
We need to stop using Hacked all the time. It sounds really lame! and the jocks have the right to beat people up for people who over use the word.
Hacking is manipulating a system to do something it was intended to NOT do. Aka hacking/cracking into a computer system you have manipulated the system that was designed to not give you access to give you access. Hacking your iPhone so it jail broken, the phone was designed to prevent you from doing some features, you have found a way for them to give you access.
You cannot Hack Glasses meant for one thing and you find it works for something else too. You are just expanding its usefulness.
The problem with digital media is too cheap to produce. So the idea of supply in essence goes to infinity (or at least such a high number that it doesn't matter anymore) So using good old Supply and Demand the price of all digital media goes down to 0, no matter what the demand is, or the elasticity of supply and demand.
Free stuff that is good right? Well perhaps in the short term, but in the long term it creates the problem that it isn't free to create the information. It takes time and talent for writer to write a story good enough to be well liked and published. Software takes man hours of people with skill sets. Music takes talented people who need to dedicate good portions of their life for to their art...
My career is in writing software, I get paid to offer my services to an organization. The organization is willing to pay for my services as long as it deans my cost to be equal or less then the value I provide them. If I am producing stuff of little or no value due to a saturated market where anything I write already has a free version of it, and what ever I write must be offered for free too, means my value is 0, thus my bargaining costs will be 0 too (AKA I will not get paid for my work, or have no work).
If out of work, I will need to change my profession to a skill that has a lower supply and a higher demand. That means giving up skills that I am good at and go to something else. Now enough people do this we loose quality digital media and we get "Fan Fiction" quality stuff where if we are lucky we may get a good product every once in a while, but most of it will be complete garbage, or just rehashing what already exists with little innovation or new ideas.
Now here comes the Alternative Open Source business models and touting the profit of such companies such as Red Hat and IBM.... Sure Consulting services, and special distribution and configuration and training services are still in effect for some software. But that really works when you have something of a decent complexity. Now a lot of innovative stuff is too easy to use to be Consulting on. RMS who made money selling Tapes of Emacs. Well those tapes cost money to buy, and he had limited resources to create such tapes and mail them out, allowing supply and demand, as they didn't have the internet widely available at a fast enough speed, making media distribution obsolete.
There is greed, and there is being valuable and compensated for your value. If amazon flooded the market, there will be less authors willing to make digital media and will go back to printed, just because they can make more money off of printed books, even if they sell less. As with all things in life there is a balance, Greed is the case where the balance is broken. But most people who are not greedy do want more out of their lives.
I find that sometimes when I show off something, people seem to forget its original purpose. Is there a large group of people who don't seem to realize that your device was meant to blend food?
The US Military is Huge. A single US carrier group has more military might then most countries. So it would take huge resources to overpower a Carrier group, can they win... Sure, but that battle will cost them a lot, then the US will fight back, with our collective numbers.
The issue is there needs to be a middle ground. The problem with Software Development that most College grads realize after they get out of school... The requirements are always changing, or you are releasing a product that is out of date once it is complete. The Cowboy Coder is good at releasing fast code, with years of experience has nice hooks in its designed to be change and altered over time. However it can get sloppy over time and have bugs that interact unexpectedly due to proper engineering especially with multiple developers. The Well Engineered UML Modeled and other stuff program is well defined with a beginning and ending, which once it does it does what it suppose to do without much surprises. However if there is a design issue there is a lot of work that needs to be done to redo and fix things, delaying the project and taking a lot more resources.
A middle ground is actually a well designed system with rules, however allowing enough flexibility for things to handle changes over time.
Give all the Professors with eg. Dr.John.Smith and if there are more then one Dr.John.L.Smith and if there are multible Dr John L Smiths then you go to Dr.John.L.Smith1
This can fix a lot of political problems right there. Because the Professors email addresses and the students wouldn't get mixed up as often. As well the professors with the same name will have less of a chance of getting an increment number.
You can be the victim and not be innocent. This is the problem with Black Market activities. Both sides are breaking the law, so if one side breaks the deal there is little recourse to prevent it. However at some point the crime is worth more for the victim to complain while they may get punished for their crime, but the victimizer may get a lot more.
Besides just the blame you need to worry about giving people the right speed. Besides you are paying for your bandwidth, you should get priority for your own use. I can see a Net Neutrality complaint against you for not giving the freeloaders more speed.
Unfortunately in this world you are better off giving nothing then giving a little.
I think it is like why we usually find jokes funny. We are attracted to the unexpected. In a world where everything is explained, the idea that something that us unexplained is appealing.
We are want to know about the unexplained, we has humans have evolved to try to understand the unexplained at least enough to determine if it is dangerous or helpful.
Back in the old days a lot of Natural events were explained as supernatural, but now where we know more about the world and about most visible phenomena, our instincts are still in search for that possible dangerous thing outside our comfort zone of natural powers.
The difference is if you are a Target of the US Military and they know where you are, you are as good as dead. With the Taliban we are trying to not just kill everyone and trying to just get the bad guys, that is what makes it difficult. We could have killed the Taliban already if we were willing to just level any settlement in the country, but that isn't good PR.
I had to login via a terminal and I have worked as a sysadmin. Emacs just too too long to open, and I was better off with smaller lighter text editors, such as vi, however I tend to prefer jed which had many of the emacs commands but was a text editor not a mega system, but jed isn't part of a normal distribution, so I would fall back to vi.
With Unix and Linux systems you can still crl-z to suspend your program and open an other one and do a fg to get back. There was also a split command that was widely used.
The Unix design was best for running a lot of small applications together to create a bigger functionality. EMacs just barfed on that methodology, by giving you this big heavy program to run that duplicated the efforts of your many commands that were defaultly installed into your OS.
Back in the 90's and early 2000's We hated Microsoft and Apple. But if we were to choose who to hate most it would be Microsoft. I would think with Apple Kicking Microsoft Butt for the past decade, we would changing our feelings. Sure we still hate Apple and Microsoft, but we just might want Microsoft to get some traction.
It isn't about how good Perl is with DB. It is the fact the language design was for text processing... You switch your data to a Database, Perl isn't doing what it is good at. You are better off with languages that are easier to read.
Some mutations offer no advantage only a disadvantage. Why can't one just be an advantage without a trade-off. It is not like real life is like a Video Game or D&D where there is a goal for balance. Sometimes things are just better or worse than before.
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That may be part of the issue.
However there is the other issue of being able to afford a better infrastructure.
Even a basic Home network in America has the following.
A broadband modem That connects to a Router for their Wireless, This router does basic hardware firewall and acts like a switch between mutable PC's, and even old Wireless systems offer modest encryption. Just by being able to Drop a hundred bucks in equipment we have basic safety. If you are in poor country and don't have a few hundred bucks to spend, you will get second/third hand possibly hacked or hopelessly out dated hardware which doesn't have nearly the same protection level.
Your computer will probably be using a Pirated version of Windows which you dare not to update, and volnerable system is in essence hooked up to an unfiltered internet. Allowing for the spyware to get in your system without having to click on that link.
No that was in Red Dwarf.
J.J. Doesn't make good science fiction but he makes Science Fiction that the general mass who doesn't like Science Fiction to actually like.
Lets compare the original Star Trek Movies with J.J. Star Trek.
Star Trek Motion Picture to VI wasn't made as an action flick. Sure there was some fights, but they were never much about the action.
Star Trek Motion Picture vs Star Trek. These two are polar opposites One was Slow and showed off all the money they spent to make it, vs. Fast (spend a lot of money on effects but less showing it off, Lets put a lens flair around our mistakes, and movable sets, and put half of it in the brewery)
Star Trek 2 vs Star Trek. It is about Kirk looking back at his life. Vs Star Trek Looking forward to a new life
Star Trek 3 vs Star Trek. Political Consequences for your actions. Vs you killed the bad guy heck you started to shoot him further when his ship was being destroyed putting your ship in further risk just because it felt good.
Star Trek 4 vs Star Trek. Environmental message vs. Planets blowing up
Star Trek 5 vs Star Trek. Understanding God vs. Spock going back in time telling you what you should do
Star Trek 6 vs Star Trek. A lot like Star Trek 2 where Kirk is feeling old and that one final mission vs you first grand mission.
Rimmer?
Kachanski(SP?) is on Seasons 7 and 8
This is Slashdot, Microsoft is Bad and they Always make Bad Products, any evidence to the contrary means you have been paid off by Microsoft.
I can see us getting 1/2 c hundreds of years in the future.
Taking 26 years to get there 26 years for some of them to get back. 10 years of study.
However at 1/2 c speed. I would expect it would be better to send a probe at that speed and then send its data back at the speed of light. And really determine if there is anything worth people visiting.
However I don't see a Star Trek type of future. Perhaps most likely a Red Dwarf (TV show) future where there are no aliens that we know of and anything we do find, is because we left it there in the past.
But this sounds like rather interesting quest.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be home for breakfast.
We need to stop using Hacked all the time. It sounds really lame! and the jocks have the right to beat people up for people who over use the word.
Hacking is manipulating a system to do something it was intended to NOT do.
Aka hacking/cracking into a computer system you have manipulated the system that was designed to not give you access to give you access.
Hacking your iPhone so it jail broken, the phone was designed to prevent you from doing some features, you have found a way for them to give you access.
You cannot Hack Glasses meant for one thing and you find it works for something else too. You are just expanding its usefulness.
The problem with digital media is too cheap to produce. So the idea of supply in essence goes to infinity (or at least such a high number that it doesn't matter anymore) So using good old Supply and Demand the price of all digital media goes down to 0, no matter what the demand is, or the elasticity of supply and demand.
Free stuff that is good right? Well perhaps in the short term, but in the long term it creates the problem that it isn't free to create the information. It takes time and talent for writer to write a story good enough to be well liked and published. Software takes man hours of people with skill sets. Music takes talented people who need to dedicate good portions of their life for to their art...
My career is in writing software, I get paid to offer my services to an organization. The organization is willing to pay for my services as long as it deans my cost to be equal or less then the value I provide them. If I am producing stuff of little or no value due to a saturated market where anything I write already has a free version of it, and what ever I write must be offered for free too, means my value is 0, thus my bargaining costs will be 0 too (AKA I will not get paid for my work, or have no work).
If out of work, I will need to change my profession to a skill that has a lower supply and a higher demand. That means giving up skills that I am good at and go to something else. Now enough people do this we loose quality digital media and we get "Fan Fiction" quality stuff where if we are lucky we may get a good product every once in a while, but most of it will be complete garbage, or just rehashing what already exists with little innovation or new ideas.
Now here comes the Alternative Open Source business models and touting the profit of such companies such as Red Hat and IBM.... Sure Consulting services, and special distribution and configuration and training services are still in effect for some software. But that really works when you have something of a decent complexity. Now a lot of innovative stuff is too easy to use to be Consulting on. RMS who made money selling Tapes of Emacs. Well those tapes cost money to buy, and he had limited resources to create such tapes and mail them out, allowing supply and demand, as they didn't have the internet widely available at a fast enough speed, making media distribution obsolete.
There is greed, and there is being valuable and compensated for your value. If amazon flooded the market, there will be less authors willing to make digital media and will go back to printed, just because they can make more money off of printed books, even if they sell less. As with all things in life there is a balance, Greed is the case where the balance is broken. But most people who are not greedy do want more out of their lives.
Europeans: You Americans are all about greed, you have no moral.
Americans: Here is a few million Euros.
Europeans: You Americans your all right.
I find that sometimes when I show off something, people seem to forget its original purpose. Is there a large group of people who don't seem to realize that your device was meant to blend food?
The US Military is Huge. A single US carrier group has more military might then most countries. So it would take huge resources to overpower a Carrier group, can they win... Sure, but that battle will cost them a lot, then the US will fight back, with our collective numbers.
The issue is there needs to be a middle ground.
The problem with Software Development that most College grads realize after they get out of school... The requirements are always changing, or you are releasing a product that is out of date once it is complete.
The Cowboy Coder is good at releasing fast code, with years of experience has nice hooks in its designed to be change and altered over time. However it can get sloppy over time and have bugs that interact unexpectedly due to proper engineering especially with multiple developers.
The Well Engineered UML Modeled and other stuff program is well defined with a beginning and ending, which once it does it does what it suppose to do without much surprises. However if there is a design issue there is a lot of work that needs to be done to redo and fix things, delaying the project and taking a lot more resources.
A middle ground is actually a well designed system with rules, however allowing enough flexibility for things to handle changes over time.
I would suggest something like this.
[Title.]First.[MI.]Last[Increment]@domain.tldr
Give all the Professors with eg. Dr.John.Smith and if there are more then one Dr.John.L.Smith and if there are multible Dr John L Smiths then you go to Dr.John.L.Smith1
This can fix a lot of political problems right there. Because the Professors email addresses and the students wouldn't get mixed up as often. As well the professors with the same name will have less of a chance of getting an increment number.
You can be the victim and not be innocent.
This is the problem with Black Market activities. Both sides are breaking the law, so if one side breaks the deal there is little recourse to prevent it. However at some point the crime is worth more for the victim to complain while they may get punished for their crime, but the victimizer may get a lot more.
Besides just the blame you need to worry about giving people the right speed. Besides you are paying for your bandwidth, you should get priority for your own use. I can see a Net Neutrality complaint against you for not giving the freeloaders more speed.
Unfortunately in this world you are better off giving nothing then giving a little.
I think it is like why we usually find jokes funny. We are attracted to the unexpected. In a world where everything is explained, the idea that something that us unexplained is appealing.
We are want to know about the unexplained, we has humans have evolved to try to understand the unexplained at least enough to determine if it is dangerous or helpful.
Back in the old days a lot of Natural events were explained as supernatural, but now where we know more about the world and about most visible phenomena, our instincts are still in search for that possible dangerous thing outside our comfort zone of natural powers.
The difference is if you are a Target of the US Military and they know where you are, you are as good as dead. With the Taliban we are trying to not just kill everyone and trying to just get the bad guys, that is what makes it difficult. We could have killed the Taliban already if we were willing to just level any settlement in the country, but that isn't good PR.
Well compare to other people he is just as good as anyone else?
I had to login via a terminal and I have worked as a sysadmin.
Emacs just too too long to open, and I was better off with smaller lighter text editors, such as vi, however I tend to prefer jed which had many of the emacs commands but was a text editor not a mega system, but jed isn't part of a normal distribution, so I would fall back to vi.
With Unix and Linux systems you can still crl-z
to suspend your program and open an other one and do a fg to get back. There was also a split command that was widely used.
The Unix design was best for running a lot of small applications together to create a bigger functionality. EMacs just barfed on that methodology, by giving you this big heavy program to run that duplicated the efforts of your many commands that were defaultly installed into your OS.
Back in the 90's and early 2000's We hated Microsoft and Apple. But if we were to choose who to hate most it would be Microsoft.
I would think with Apple Kicking Microsoft Butt for the past decade, we would changing our feelings. Sure we still hate Apple and Microsoft, but we just might want Microsoft to get some traction.
It isn't about how good Perl is with DB. It is the fact the language design was for text processing... You switch your data to a Database, Perl isn't doing what it is good at. You are better off with languages that are easier to read.
Why would you have to lose anything?
Some mutations offer no advantage only a disadvantage. Why can't one just be an advantage without a trade-off. It is not like real life is like a Video Game or D&D where there is a goal for balance. Sometimes things are just better or worse than before.
I think it is part of a Vegan Lie. They want to make it seem like every thing that we do that they don't like is unnatural.