I don't need anything but my five PC's! Sure, it's fairly common for me to loose touch with the outside world, but who needs it? That route to Brazil never worked anyway. I've got my host tables, and I know who I am! Left hand, right hand, left hand, right hand, I can do this all day, weeee! My future is assured.
Cut away the web, and I'll build another one. I am the root name server, pay me now!
Kaplan is wrong, and a non biased apeals court or the Supreme Court will agree with me. HIS interpretation of the DMCP is radical and influenced by having practiced law for the prosecuters of this case.
DMCP outlaws devices designed to thwart copyright protection. This was not meant to outlaw VCR's and other devices that enable fair use copying and use. It was meant to make clear the illegality of machines that facilitate PUBLICATION. There is a large difference between fair use and publication. DeCSS is frimly in the fair use catagory as it can not be used on it's own to publish DVDs.
This law is obviously poorly written. Taking Kaplan's view, we might outlaw FTP, record buttons on VCRs, and anything else that he might decide has a possible illegitimate use.
Japanese companies used this ten years ago. They would send out nice looking people to stand around subway stations, shout and hand out tissue paper. The cardboard stiffener was printed with some advert, but the rest of the tissues were white. It was nice to have a pack of that where every sneaze is going to be on someone and where ordinary TP ran out so fast.
People complain a lot about how bad the public schools are, and how bad that is for the country in general. How many articles have I read here that trash some really awful or overworked teacher? Well, fix it.
See if you can work with a local high school where talented people are getting short changed. Go to the PTA meeting. Visit the schools and talk to students. Volunteer to work after hours. See if you can't get local companies to donate used equipment. You know what skills people need to build a career because you built your own. A good example and equipment at a high school can go along way to keeping people from needing more traditional charities.
You don't have to actually become a teacher to help out. Think of all the services that a school might need help with. All the money and computers in the world won't help anyone of no one at the school knows what to do with it or how it might possibly be useful.
Ruby Ridge: Government could have waited. Instead they used sniper to kill.
Waco: Government could have arrested leader in town. Instead they decided to go in with guns blazing, and failed. They then could have waited. Instead they decided to snipe and storm.
Elian: They could have waited for the court decision. Once again, they stormed a private house.
Now what laws? All of the above cases have the stench of abitrary and exmplerary enforcement. The last case was the shakiest legaly as A. Child Custody is a State matter. B. Federal law grants immunity rights to ANY Cuban that reaches US soil. C. No flight hazard was ever demonstrated.
The framers of the constitution put thought billiting of troops in private houses was evil enough to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. I wonder what they might think of the above.
Good luck to the breakthrough machine! I can immagine it sucking up mosquitoes, flies, mites, my wife's hair, pollen, etc... Would it see a centaur if I rode my horse? Hell, I'd call the police if I saw one of those.
"Soon, we will look back with nostalgia at the times when we were only listened to by the KGB and not by God-knows-whom, by anybody."
Bullshit. The KGB murdered people for political beliefs. This happens when law breaks down to the point that the government itself is simply a system of force. The US is a long way from there, despite incidents like Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Miami.
Don't try to compare M$ or DoubleClick using your email to sell shit, to the KGB. It's an insult to all the people that they killed.
There seems to be less than one PC per 1000 people int China. Check out this chart and see #46, China The data may be old but it is indicative of relative technology ownership. 7.1 million PCs is a generous number if the above chart is correct. With 4 PCs, you are very lucky indeed.
China seems to have more fundamental infratructure needs right now than PCs. China needs more electricity generation and distribution. China could also use more phones. I've read that the goal is to have one telephone per family in urban settings and one phone per village in rural settings. Wow, a phone!
As a graduate student and faculty memeber, I know about immigrants. Yep, I've studied under, worked with, and hired chineese immigrants. Some have been very good, and they are a great gift. Those that stay will make great Americans.
Their success in the US is the best evidence of the effects of govenment regulations at home. Here they have resources and are free to do what they will with them. I expect much more from them than those left behind. I'll bet that there are more than 7.1 million recent chinese imigrants in the US that are internet users.
I still won't trust a Chinese binary. Code written and compiled in the US is American, regardless of the author. Red Flag will be suspect.
US poverty looks like wealth elswhere. Grep of US starvation returns no results. People here have a problem with fat.
Microsoft's future in China looks bleak if "Microsoft Under New Media Attack in China" is to be belived. Here are a few good parts, you be the judge:
Microsoft and Chinese officials on Thursday denied the report, which appeared in Wednesday's edition of the Yangcheng Evening News.
But a Ministry of Information Industry official, who declined to be identified, said the government was advocating that users bought domestic software.
Microsoft is reeling from a stream of negative publicity in China, fuelled by a vitriolic book written by its former Chinese general manager, Wu Shihong, who accuses her former employer of arrogance and insensitivity to China's needs.
A piracy lawsuit by Microsoft against a small local firm unleashed a nationalist backlash against the U.S. software giant. The suit was thrown out by a Chinese judge last month.
The state-run think tank developing Red Flag-Linux said government offices had expressed strong interest in scrapping Windows for Red Flag, citing security concerns as a chief reason. It's hard to tell which end is up in a autocracy that lacks a free press, but we can see that segments of the Chineese government look down on Windows for all the obvious reasons. See my other article, "low expectations from a command economy," for why I don't think China's 7.1 million internet users will make too big a difference anytime soon.
Not a billion, that's for sure, and they won't be very free. China has low computer usage despite the many components that are made there. See SETI stats in China or CNN stats claims 7.1 surfers million by 2001.. China's greatest contribution for the forseable future will remain their steady stream of immigrants to the western world.
China's command economy has produced a stange mix of old and new and this does not bode well for increasing computer usage. They seem to have recovered from Mao's great step forward that killed 40 million people. Now peasants seem free to farm as they have for centuries, with oxen and hand, but still have to import some food. China Agriculture Profile . It is bizare that a nation as good at exporting all maner of manufactured goods has not been able to modernize it's agricultural sector, and the country as a whole is still very poor. Subsistance agriculturist don't make good computer users, they have other things to worry about.
I would not trust a Chineese Binary. If they are getting rid of W2K, it is so they keep control to themselves. As others have pointed out here before, disk copies of WinDoze does not make this a cost issue. >I'm affraid that Red Flag will be full of trojan horses and other control enhancements. Communist societies are deathly afraid of technology that can be used to tell the truth. Printing presses were supressed in the Soviet Union, while copy machines and faxes became indespensible tools in the west. China is presently fighting a desperate battle against a religious cult that had the audacity to stage a few sit down protests. Can we really expect free software in a place like that?
Still, who knows what effect those 7.1 million users might have given better tools? Good luck to you!
If you don't like my spelling, please post a corrected version. Thanks, I'm too lazy.
Who says the fat dude down the hall can't be witty or dashing?
Who says that wit is detrimental to coding. Creativty can help, can't it?
Your comment does not make me angry, it makes me sad. I'm sorry that you live in a shop where people get crushed then fired for not cutting off their nads, loosing their health, and hating that which is not fat and rude. I'm sorry that you have sold your soul to that shop. I expect more from my employers and my trade.
Of course more work pays off, but malnutrition and lack of sleep will take their toll, and everyone should step back and understand what they want out of life. Anyone who gets any kind of serious degree, or masters anything will have to work like this at least once . Few people however, have the endurance or luck of Edison. Sooner or later, lack of sleep will bust your performance. Time spent without proper resources is waste and you will end up reinventing someone else's wheel. Somewhere around age 25, a diet of pizza will start to take it's toll on your health. Cardiac damage starts in your early 20s. It's also a shame to ignore your body, which should be developed and enjoyed while it's young.
In the end, you have to ask yourself what the costs have been and what you have gained. Do you want to have a family to support you in your old age? Sure it's great to make things work, and accomplishemnts are a source of pride. The endless persuit of someone else's proffit just plain sucks. Don't get sucked into something that seems rewarding without really knowing what you want. The only way to know is to try it out. What's the use of developing cool code or anything else if you die single at age 50? Leaving behind a wife and kids is not to fun either.
Yes, the foot pedal thing does happen. So does the drink holder CD. It happens so much that it's just not funny.
The only phone tech support I've ever done was as a part of a very short lived sales carrer in 1989, still too early for the foot pedals and drink holders. I also used my skills to land two tech jobs working and developing gadgets, but never have I had to answer phones for an on line company. My career looks like it's going to be Nuclear, thanks to a job offer, and I'm a Mechanical Engineer in training.
Those legendary stories were told to me by a CS major here at LSU that I hired to help me program. At age 19 he has considerable experience. No wash out, that's for sure. He's also very honest and I can't imagine him making up stuff like that, even though I had a hard time beleiving it. He had to convince me that such things were commonplace. He really hated his stints at the "hell desk," but I think that it did him some good.
My wife made up the bit about actually using the foot pedal. It ammused my friend, and so I thought I'd share it.
No one that can hold a job is a looser. Not even the humble burger flipper that I will work to provide electricity. That's right, I'm his servant. Think about your place in the world.
The neutron bomb is acutally a fiction device, created by the former USSR. They exist like UFOs, as dissinformation.
I'm too lazy to prove it for myself, so I'll let you do it. Try computing the source required to deliver a fatal dose of neutrons at say 1000 yards from a point source. Then consider the energy that would be released creating those neutrons. Do you really have a device that will kill people without destroying property?
Check it out, bra! I just got me the meanest new Quake box for $2000 bucks, Windows pre-installed. Dual Pentium, Mega Sound, 27" monitor screamer, Wow. With all the other boxes lying around me and my partners can play local network and tag team the world! Yeah!
Not really, it's a $600 AMD box I use for diffusion problems. But how many people out there really do that kind of thing? In fact, I don't do much of that these days and when I'm finished with school, I hope to do something else at home besides work. I might pick up my old glider design hobby, but that's about as intense as I want to get for a while.
Who are we kidding? Gaming and boob tubing are the home market. Those marketing guys got it right, but their timing was off. They could have tried to push "serious" systems ala Microsoft, I suppose. I wish you and them all the best of luck.
She said the code was originally written by a WebTV employee as a means of tracking people who visited the site but has since turned into a tool for ne'er-do-wells.
Oh my God, if Porn and Get Rich Quick spam was bad, what will happen when that dude with MD 20/20 starts up? They must have been running that Wino distro or something, sharp.
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I'd like to know how they did this at 1atm without melting the walls of the container. I have my doubts.
Cut away the web, and I'll build another one. I am the root name server, pay me now!
DMCP outlaws devices designed to thwart copyright protection. This was not meant to outlaw VCR's and other devices that enable fair use copying and use. It was meant to make clear the illegality of machines that facilitate PUBLICATION. There is a large difference between fair use and publication. DeCSS is frimly in the fair use catagory as it can not be used on it's own to publish DVDs.
This law is obviously poorly written. Taking Kaplan's view, we might outlaw FTP, record buttons on VCRs, and anything else that he might decide has a possible illegitimate use.
Roblimo wants to out blither John Katz. Time to add someone to my filter.
1. Get approximate co ordinates of enemy targets.
2. Launch nuclear missiles.
3. Run away, pray, etc, you are now a sitting duck.
Marketing is always evil.
Closer to the truth:
VB is a vapid application development tool, with strengths in developer assimilation.
I hate MS "Visual" BASIC. The win API was rapid enough.
Will cut through case and spinning drive.
See if you can work with a local high school where talented people are getting short changed. Go to the PTA meeting. Visit the schools and talk to students. Volunteer to work after hours. See if you can't get local companies to donate used equipment. You know what skills people need to build a career because you built your own. A good example and equipment at a high school can go along way to keeping people from needing more traditional charities.
You don't have to actually become a teacher to help out. Think of all the services that a school might need help with. All the money and computers in the world won't help anyone of no one at the school knows what to do with it or how it might possibly be useful.
What would you think if all of your snail mail letters came to you opened and scanned by "electronic eyes."?
Obviously, something is wrong.
Ruby Ridge: Government could have waited. Instead they used sniper to kill.
Waco: Government could have arrested leader in town. Instead they decided to go in with guns blazing, and failed. They then could have waited. Instead they decided to snipe and storm.
Elian: They could have waited for the court decision. Once again, they stormed a private house.
Now what laws? All of the above cases have the stench of abitrary and exmplerary enforcement. The last case was the shakiest legaly as A. Child Custody is a State matter. B. Federal law grants immunity rights to ANY Cuban that reaches US soil. C. No flight hazard was ever demonstrated.
The framers of the constitution put thought billiting of troops in private houses was evil enough to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. I wonder what they might think of the above.
Good luck to the breakthrough machine! I can immagine it sucking up mosquitoes, flies, mites, my wife's hair, pollen, etc... Would it see a centaur if I rode my horse? Hell, I'd call the police if I saw one of those.
Bullshit. The KGB murdered people for political beliefs. This happens when law breaks down to the point that the government itself is simply a system of force. The US is a long way from there, despite incidents like Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Miami.
Don't try to compare M$ or DoubleClick using your email to sell shit, to the KGB. It's an insult to all the people that they killed.
China seems to have more fundamental infratructure needs right now than PCs. China needs more electricity generation and distribution. China could also use more phones. I've read that the goal is to have one telephone per family in urban settings and one phone per village in rural settings. Wow, a phone!
23 phones per 1000 people. check out this neat chart!
Their success in the US is the best evidence of the effects of govenment regulations at home. Here they have resources and are free to do what they will with them. I expect much more from them than those left behind. I'll bet that there are more than 7.1 million recent chinese imigrants in the US that are internet users.
I still won't trust a Chinese binary. Code written and compiled in the US is American, regardless of the author. Red Flag will be suspect.
US poverty looks like wealth elswhere. Grep of US starvation returns no results. People here have a problem with fat.
Microsoft and Chinese officials on Thursday denied the report, which appeared in Wednesday's edition of the Yangcheng Evening News.
But a Ministry of Information Industry official, who declined to be identified, said the government was advocating that users bought domestic software.
Microsoft is reeling from a stream of negative publicity in China, fuelled by a vitriolic book written by its former Chinese general manager, Wu Shihong, who accuses her former employer of arrogance and insensitivity to China's needs.
A piracy lawsuit by Microsoft against a small local firm unleashed a nationalist backlash against the U.S. software giant. The suit was thrown out by a Chinese judge last month.
The state-run think tank developing Red Flag-Linux said government offices had expressed strong interest in scrapping Windows for Red Flag, citing security concerns as a chief reason. It's hard to tell which end is up in a autocracy that lacks a free press, but we can see that segments of the Chineese government look down on Windows for all the obvious reasons. See my other article, "low expectations from a command economy," for why I don't think China's 7.1 million internet users will make too big a difference anytime soon.
China's command economy has produced a stange mix of old and new and this does not bode well for increasing computer usage. They seem to have recovered from Mao's great step forward that killed 40 million people. Now peasants seem free to farm as they have for centuries, with oxen and hand, but still have to import some food. China Agriculture Profile . It is bizare that a nation as good at exporting all maner of manufactured goods has not been able to modernize it's agricultural sector, and the country as a whole is still very poor. Subsistance agriculturist don't make good computer users, they have other things to worry about.
I would not trust a Chineese Binary. If they are getting rid of W2K, it is so they keep control to themselves. As others have pointed out here before, disk copies of WinDoze does not make this a cost issue. >I'm affraid that Red Flag will be full of trojan horses and other control enhancements. Communist societies are deathly afraid of technology that can be used to tell the truth. Printing presses were supressed in the Soviet Union, while copy machines and faxes became indespensible tools in the west. China is presently fighting a desperate battle against a religious cult that had the audacity to stage a few sit down protests. Can we really expect free software in a place like that?
Still, who knows what effect those 7.1 million users might have given better tools? Good luck to you!
If you don't like my spelling, please post a corrected version. Thanks, I'm too lazy.
What food, dude? Cafeterias rock.
Who says that wit is detrimental to coding. Creativty can help, can't it?
Your comment does not make me angry, it makes me sad. I'm sorry that you live in a shop where people get crushed then fired for not cutting off their nads, loosing their health, and hating that which is not fat and rude. I'm sorry that you have sold your soul to that shop. I expect more from my employers and my trade.
In the end, you have to ask yourself what the costs have been and what you have gained. Do you want to have a family to support you in your old age? Sure it's great to make things work, and accomplishemnts are a source of pride. The endless persuit of someone else's proffit just plain sucks. Don't get sucked into something that seems rewarding without really knowing what you want. The only way to know is to try it out. What's the use of developing cool code or anything else if you die single at age 50? Leaving behind a wife and kids is not to fun either.
The only phone tech support I've ever done was as a part of a very short lived sales carrer in 1989, still too early for the foot pedals and drink holders. I also used my skills to land two tech jobs working and developing gadgets, but never have I had to answer phones for an on line company. My career looks like it's going to be Nuclear, thanks to a job offer, and I'm a Mechanical Engineer in training.
Those legendary stories were told to me by a CS major here at LSU that I hired to help me program. At age 19 he has considerable experience. No wash out, that's for sure. He's also very honest and I can't imagine him making up stuff like that, even though I had a hard time beleiving it. He had to convince me that such things were commonplace. He really hated his stints at the "hell desk," but I think that it did him some good.
My wife made up the bit about actually using the foot pedal. It ammused my friend, and so I thought I'd share it.
No one that can hold a job is a looser. Not even the humble burger flipper that I will work to provide electricity. That's right, I'm his servant. Think about your place in the world.
I'm too lazy to prove it for myself, so I'll let you do it. Try computing the source required to deliver a fatal dose of neutrons at say 1000 yards from a point source. Then consider the energy that would be released creating those neutrons. Do you really have a device that will kill people without destroying property?
Not really, it's a $600 AMD box I use for diffusion problems. But how many people out there really do that kind of thing? In fact, I don't do much of that these days and when I'm finished with school, I hope to do something else at home besides work. I might pick up my old glider design hobby, but that's about as intense as I want to get for a while.
Who are we kidding? Gaming and boob tubing are the home market. Those marketing guys got it right, but their timing was off. They could have tried to push "serious" systems ala Microsoft, I suppose. I wish you and them all the best of luck.
Oh my God, if Porn and Get Rich Quick spam was bad, what will happen when that dude with MD 20/20 starts up? They must have been running that Wino distro or something, sharp.