Marxism's only basis is rhetorical philosophizing, you simply cannot rationaly derive the history of the future as Marx attempted to do. Marx could not forsee for example mass entertainment as it exists in our present, which has a dramatic effect on the "masses". Nor could he forsee the importance that non-scarce resources would play in the economy. It is interesting that you, as a self-proclaimed Marxist would latch onto a discussion about the proto-industrial third world, as Marx's attempts at pregnostication, coming from the early industrial period of europe, are forever locked in such a world and only have whatever validity they may contain under such circumstances.
How many planets have you been visiting to find out how "industrialization" proceeds? Just because the group of seven went through certain stages in their growth doesn't mean that they had to, nor does it condemn the rest of the world to go through them as well.
Furthermore, to take the US for example, we had a relatively stable agrarian society before industrialization began and it was possible for the child of a farmer to become a succesful "industrialist". In the third world of our present, the farm is just another asset of the G7 corporate giants. Farmers in the third world don't just starve when their crops go bad, they starve when they have bumper crops as well.
Some kid from the poor masses of the third world can't grow up and invent, say, the cotton gin, patent it and profit from that patent. Why? Because it was already patented two hundred years ago in the US.
By definition, the third world cannot go through the same stages of growth as the G7 did, because when the US and others went through industrialization there were no giant corporations from outside the country ensalving their citizens and taking all of the profits.
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When people "give" their consent to have tissue samples used for research, they view this as a donation. What is patently (pun) unfair is that this "donation" is then used to create profits for corporations.
The colonialism of the human genome is obscene. All a company has to do is come up with a vague idea about what a gene does and they can generate lists of "applications" to patent.
I haven't seen any of this "contempt for innovation and creation" you describe. What I have seen is a contempt for profiteers who take ideas and turn them into property, creating artificial scarcity and in the case of pharmeceuticals in particular, what are widely viewed as abusively high prices.
It is morally repugnant to present patients with the "opportunity" to "donate" their tissue samples to "science" when in reality they are being asked to give products of their own bodies to some faceless corporate money machine which will not so readily "donate" the results of its research.
This is so so SO stupid.
The really sad part is what happens in the year 2037, when the last of the tree-torturing 'real' bonsai practitioners are rounded up in an FBI sting. (Is 'an' correct in this case, 'an eff-bee-eye sting' or should it be 'a F(ederal)B(ureau of)I(nvestigation) sting'?)
I think Jaron's been reduced to the absurd. A randomly chosen AP English High School student could have written a better essay against copy control than Lanier.
There is a reason computers don't do this. I might want to write an email, a web page, a weblog entry, a shell script,a letter, a resume, a book, a technical article, a C++ program, a recipe, a garage sale flyer, a get-well card, I might want to type a phrase to "logoify" in an image editor. Does Wordperfect, or MS Word, or emacs, or notepad, or LyX open up? What if I'm posting on Slashdot, and I suddenly get an idea for something to put into a letter I'm writing, and I start typing. Do my words go in this "comment" field or does my wordprocessor magically open up?
There's a reason computers don't think for us, they can't. Even if they could, it's still our thoughts that they're there to filter. I wouldn't trust a secretary to figure out what to do with my words if I just started talking without any context. How the hell is a computer supposed to do any better?
As far as I know, the Battlenet networking code might under wine. The Battlenet display gets all f-d up though, so it'd be pretty hard to test. Anyhow, while they are mainly focused on DirectX (and on Direct3D specifically) TransGaming seems to have done some work on InstallShield and other non-DirectX stuff.
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A ROLLABLE computer.
Think about it. You can print a monitor AND all computer circuits on a sheet of plastic.
Print it on a sheet of flexible plastic two by three feet, you now have a monitor the size of a standard poster, with ALL the computer electronics included, that you can roll up and put in a mailing tube...
Now I'll have to put my coffe cup on one corner and my pencil cup on the other to try to keep it from rolling up. Then I'll go to drink a slug of joe and *swiffle* the dang thing rolls up again. As I'm unrolling it, I accidentally press 'rm -rf *[ENTER]'. Doh!
> Sounds like an attempt to exercise an existing monopoly to control another industry, IMO.
The RIAA is an industry association, and not a company. As such, it cannot be said that the RIAA is a monopoly, nor that any given member of the RIAA is a monopoly. About the only thing that I know of offhand, though of course IANAL, that an industry association could get into trouble with the FTC over is price fixing. (Which I'm pretty sure that the RIAA and MPAA would be "convicted" of with ease if their heavyweight lobbying forces didn't keep the FTC at bay like Foghorn Leghorn holding back the chickenhawk with one hand.)
Selling videos,books, and etc., paid appearances on radio/TV shows... profiteers. When these kooks start doing their Chicken Little performances without making half of it a sales pitch, their legitimacy may increase a notch or two in my book.
As for failing statistics, okay lets say you passed... in that case, how does a launch failure on the 50-somthingish launch disprove a failure estimate of 1 in 100,000? Or an average of 300 years between accidents? It does neither. Certainly the figures were bogus if they didn't take into account the temperature/faliure relationship of the solid boosters, but statistically, the Challenger accident neither proves nor disproves the figures as such.
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CyberSitter's blocking of slashdot of course bears no relationship to the quantity of foul language and links to sites clearly unsuitable for children in the AC peanut gallery... Interestingly enough, it's pretty clear that most of this "offensive" material on slashdot is being generated by children.
I don't believe open source works well for commercial companies because they can't control schedules," said Michael Cusumano...
Um, yeah... okay... (snicker)
Truth be told, I doubt that the development sections of these companies are too worried about Linus' release cycles. Certainly, however, the marketroids are plenty concerned about the lack of control that they have over the spin cycle.
The business school graduates can all get together if they want, fork the kernel and call it Spinux. They can release new versions all they want... "Now! Even more lemony!"
Can't they do this very thing today? As long as they make sure no one talks and nothing fishy shows up when you run 'strings' on it, you would never have solid evidence if IE12 was really 99% Mozilla alpha release#200345613 code under the skin.
Besides, in a copyright-(and left-)less world, nothing would stop anyone with a CD burner from copying Windows2023 and Microsoft would have to switch to a service and support model, and they would have no real reason not to release their source code. So, in the end, we would have a lot of businesses switch to copyleft-like behavior. The only reason copyleft needs to exist as it does today is because copyright has such a stranglehold on us already.
Yes, and when they transformed into "robots", they were dead-on doubles for actual twisted piles of wreckage, but with something that could pass for face if you were on mushrooms placed in some convenient location. The transforming McDonalds french fries toy comes out looking more like a warrior robot than any of the go-bots ever did.
The Transformers may have been plastic, and they may, as you imagine have been slightly on the nelly side, but they looked reasonably like actual vehicles, and when they transformed, gosh darn it, they looked somewhat like robots. Robots that often looked a lot like Episode I battledroids with large pieces of automobiles or jet planes inexplicable welded to their appendages, but at least they had hands that looked like hands and more than faces, these even usually had an actual head to put it on.
:) But really, I was too old for either, though my kid brother had some of both. Neither seemed less prone to his phenomenal toy-breaking facility either.
Would it be justifiable for this update to take my software out as well?
Yes.
For one, you keep paying money to companies that produce software with CD-checks built in. Put your money where your mouth is and refuse to buy them if it's such a hassle.
Two, since you have the original CDs, you can just reinstall.
Three, if you are using keygenned s3r|a1z, YOU are possibly hurting legitimate customers, who will be unjustly denied service on online services since their key has already been "claimed".
Does just possessing the knowledge to decode these ambient bits somehow make a person a thief?
Yes, I am sure that the 100,000 people with hacked H cards were all brilliant hackers, forced by the cruel fate of their genius to compulsively decode all encrypted bits vibrating through the ether around them. No, the majority of these chuckleheads are people who just want something for nothing and wouldn't know a smart card from a vacuum tube.
The real crime the DirecTV hackers have committed is not theivery, but whoring themselves out to the "I seen it in the Penny-Pincher so it gotta be legal" descrambler market. These freedom-loving hackers you so defend are just greedy slimeballs looking to make a quick buck.
Shouldn't all these folks shoehorning accelerated antialiased scalable whojumajigits into WMs more rightly be working on adding it to the X side of the equation? I don't really care all that much if KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment adds somesuch thing because it'll only affect apps written to that desktop environment. When I can get a cross-DE app that does these things regardless of DEs I have installed, then I'll get excited.
Well, if we get real simplistic and ignore the timing of operations, the distance across a page would only limit the CPU to something like 14.9GHz. Then again, you could get fancy with the layout, and if you consider the layering, you can keep some key parts of the CPU within less than 1/4 inch from each other.
Anybody who says these things would replace current technology as speed/power leaders any time soon is smoking crack, but I would certainly pay $15 for a 486DX66 laptop.
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Finally, if you have caller ID, if it says unavailable or private, then take that to mean your status as well. If its important, they'll leave a message.
Unfortunately, that's just what telemarketers do these days. Some unscrupulous telemarketers even have their autophone system set up so that it only leaves messages on machines and will hang up if a live person gets on the line.
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Marxism's only basis is rhetorical philosophizing, you simply cannot rationaly derive the history of the future as Marx attempted to do. Marx could not forsee for example mass entertainment as it exists in our present, which has a dramatic effect on the "masses". Nor could he forsee the importance that non-scarce resources would play in the economy. It is interesting that you, as a self-proclaimed Marxist would latch onto a discussion about the proto-industrial third world, as Marx's attempts at pregnostication, coming from the early industrial period of europe, are forever locked in such a world and only have whatever validity they may contain under such circumstances.
How many planets have you been visiting to find out how "industrialization" proceeds? Just because the group of seven went through certain stages in their growth doesn't mean that they had to, nor does it condemn the rest of the world to go through them as well.
Furthermore, to take the US for example, we had a relatively stable agrarian society before industrialization began and it was possible for the child of a farmer to become a succesful "industrialist". In the third world of our present, the farm is just another asset of the G7 corporate giants. Farmers in the third world don't just starve when their crops go bad, they starve when they have bumper crops as well.
Some kid from the poor masses of the third world can't grow up and invent, say, the cotton gin, patent it and profit from that patent. Why? Because it was already patented two hundred years ago in the US.
By definition, the third world cannot go through the same stages of growth as the G7 did, because when the US and others went through industrialization there were no giant corporations from outside the country ensalving their citizens and taking all of the profits.
It is morally repugnant to present patients with the "opportunity" to "donate" their tissue samples to "science" when in reality they are being asked to give products of their own bodies to some faceless corporate money machine which will not so readily "donate" the results of its research.
Joy: Britney Spears blah blah blah java blah blah jini blah blah...
me: What?!? How is java related to Britney spears?
Joy: Britney blah blah blah blah java blah blah java blah blah.
me: Are you just making up quasi-random responses until you hit on a train that leads in a tangetial way to plug java?
Joy: Essentially blah blah blah java...
me: Okay, whatever, get out of here.
Joy: Jini.
me: Go Bill, get the hell out.
Joy: Java.
me: Gates is in the front lawn! Go get 'im!
Joy: Java! Java! Jini! Java! World Domination! Java!
This is so so SO stupid. The really sad part is what happens in the year 2037, when the last of the tree-torturing 'real' bonsai practitioners are rounded up in an FBI sting. (Is 'an' correct in this case, 'an eff-bee-eye sting' or should it be 'a F(ederal)B(ureau of)I(nvestigation) sting'?)
Thats a load of poopoo.
I think Jaron's been reduced to the absurd. A randomly chosen AP English High School student could have written a better essay against copy control than Lanier.
There is a reason computers don't do this. I might want to write an email, a web page, a weblog entry, a shell script,a letter, a resume, a book, a technical article, a C++ program, a recipe, a garage sale flyer, a get-well card, I might want to type a phrase to "logoify" in an image editor. Does Wordperfect, or MS Word, or emacs, or notepad, or LyX open up? What if I'm posting on Slashdot, and I suddenly get an idea for something to put into a letter I'm writing, and I start typing. Do my words go in this "comment" field or does my wordprocessor magically open up?
There's a reason computers don't think for us, they can't. Even if they could, it's still our thoughts that they're there to filter. I wouldn't trust a secretary to figure out what to do with my words if I just started talking without any context. How the hell is a computer supposed to do any better?
As far as I know, the Battlenet networking code might under wine. The Battlenet display gets all f-d up though, so it'd be pretty hard to test. Anyhow, while they are mainly focused on DirectX (and on Direct3D specifically) TransGaming seems to have done some work on InstallShield and other non-DirectX stuff.
Now I'll have to put my coffe cup on one corner and my pencil cup on the other to try to keep it from rolling up. Then I'll go to drink a slug of joe and *swiffle* the dang thing rolls up again. As I'm unrolling it, I accidentally press 'rm -rf *[ENTER]'. Doh!
> Sounds like an attempt to exercise an existing monopoly to control another industry, IMO.
The RIAA is an industry association, and not a company. As such, it cannot be said that the RIAA is a monopoly, nor that any given member of the RIAA is a monopoly. About the only thing that I know of offhand, though of course IANAL, that an industry association could get into trouble with the FTC over is price fixing. (Which I'm pretty sure that the RIAA and MPAA would be "convicted" of with ease if their heavyweight lobbying forces didn't keep the FTC at bay like Foghorn Leghorn holding back the chickenhawk with one hand.)
Selling videos,books, and etc., paid appearances on radio/TV shows... profiteers. When these kooks start doing their Chicken Little performances without making half of it a sales pitch, their legitimacy may increase a notch or two in my book.
As for failing statistics, okay lets say you passed... in that case, how does a launch failure on the 50-somthingish launch disprove a failure estimate of 1 in 100,000? Or an average of 300 years between accidents? It does neither. Certainly the figures were bogus if they didn't take into account the temperature/faliure relationship of the solid boosters, but statistically, the Challenger accident neither proves nor disproves the figures as such.
CyberSitter's blocking of slashdot of course bears no relationship to the quantity of foul language and links to sites clearly unsuitable for children in the AC peanut gallery... Interestingly enough, it's pretty clear that most of this "offensive" material on slashdot is being generated by children.
I'm not suprised that you apparently agree with the anti-Cassini liars and profiteers, since you obviously failed statistics class.
Um, yeah... okay... (snicker)
Truth be told, I doubt that the development sections of these companies are too worried about Linus' release cycles. Certainly, however, the marketroids are plenty concerned about the lack of control that they have over the spin cycle.
The business school graduates can all get together if they want, fork the kernel and call it Spinux. They can release new versions all they want... "Now! Even more lemony!"
Can't they do this very thing today? As long as they make sure no one talks and nothing fishy shows up when you run 'strings' on it, you would never have solid evidence if IE12 was really 99% Mozilla alpha release#200345613 code under the skin.
Besides, in a copyright-(and left-)less world, nothing would stop anyone with a CD burner from copying Windows2023 and Microsoft would have to switch to a service and support model, and they would have no real reason not to release their source code. So, in the end, we would have a lot of businesses switch to copyleft-like behavior. The only reason copyleft needs to exist as it does today is because copyright has such a stranglehold on us already.I don't like to post just to complain about moderation, but jesus h., +3:Informative on a post that confuses patents and trademarks?!?
"vaguely reminiscent of actual vehicles"...
Yes, and when they transformed into "robots", they were dead-on doubles for actual twisted piles of wreckage, but with something that could pass for face if you were on mushrooms placed in some convenient location. The transforming McDonalds french fries toy comes out looking more like a warrior robot than any of the go-bots ever did.
The Transformers may have been plastic, and they may, as you imagine have been slightly on the nelly side, but they looked reasonably like actual vehicles, and when they transformed, gosh darn it, they looked somewhat like robots. Robots that often looked a lot like Episode I battledroids with large pieces of automobiles or jet planes inexplicable welded to their appendages, but at least they had hands that looked like hands and more than faces, these even usually had an actual head to put it on.
:) But really, I was too old for either, though my kid brother had some of both. Neither seemed less prone to his phenomenal toy-breaking facility either.
Yes.
For one, you keep paying money to companies that produce software with CD-checks built in. Put your money where your mouth is and refuse to buy them if it's such a hassle.
Two, since you have the original CDs, you can just reinstall.
Three, if you are using keygenned s3r|a1z, YOU are possibly hurting legitimate customers, who will be unjustly denied service on online services since their key has already been "claimed".
I love this sort of logic.
Yes, I am sure that the 100,000 people with hacked H cards were all brilliant hackers, forced by the cruel fate of their genius to compulsively decode all encrypted bits vibrating through the ether around them. No, the majority of these chuckleheads are people who just want something for nothing and wouldn't know a smart card from a vacuum tube.
The real crime the DirecTV hackers have committed is not theivery, but whoring themselves out to the "I seen it in the Penny-Pincher so it gotta be legal" descrambler market. These freedom-loving hackers you so defend are just greedy slimeballs looking to make a quick buck.
Tell me about it, all of us should be so lucky that our employers would pay our great-grandchildren for work that we are doing today.
Shouldn't all these folks shoehorning accelerated antialiased scalable whojumajigits into WMs more rightly be working on adding it to the X side of the equation? I don't really care all that much if KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment adds somesuch thing because it'll only affect apps written to that desktop environment. When I can get a cross-DE app that does these things regardless of DEs I have installed, then I'll get excited.
Well, if we get real simplistic and ignore the timing of operations, the distance across a page would only limit the CPU to something like 14.9GHz. Then again, you could get fancy with the layout, and if you consider the layering, you can keep some key parts of the CPU within less than 1/4 inch from each other.
Anybody who says these things would replace current technology as speed/power leaders any time soon is smoking crack, but I would certainly pay $15 for a 486DX66 laptop.
Unfortunately, that's just what telemarketers do these days. Some unscrupulous telemarketers even have their autophone system set up so that it only leaves messages on machines and will hang up if a live person gets on the line.
TiVO, no, but it'd do just fine for MP3s. You can add a HD, some guy supposedly booted windows on it.