Erm... well the post you were responding to was clearly talking about 'intelligent design' in it's non-creationist-wakjob sense. Living outside the US, it astounds me that you feel refuting creationist rhetoric is deemed worthy of neuron time. Understanding what you are dealing with inside the US, I can see why you might feel the need to refute it vocally. Perhaps you want to (re)define your terms a little more clearly.
I read somewhere (it may be rubbish) that we remember things differently when read on a screen, than when read in print. Things read on a screen tend to be more short term memory Things read in print tend to be more long term memory.
I know I print out drawings for checking, because you just see more......butts.
You agree with the person you're criticising. Sucky public transport sucks. Try Japan. You can set your second hand by the train departures, & you'll get there quicker by train than by car. You still wont get a seat in a major city but if you're four hours into bumpkin land... (^-^)...you'll probably get a seat.
good call on the Mac thing though.
I believe Fucking is in Germany isn't it? I remember a BBC news article about brits stealing their signs. Maybe your bus got lost.
Excuse me? Linux has X thank you very much! Good luck trying to fix it. MacOS X has X (sorta). If you want to fix something why start there? Microsoft I think even has X, but it'd be cludgy & hardly worth the trouble.
As an Architect (a real one not a software architect, whatever that is) I refute that statement. Good design regularly partakes in heated scientific discussion, and that's _it_.
I'm not much of a Mac fan. I'd go Mac over windows though. Given a choice I'd run linux. This is problematic due to the poverty of Architectural CAD for non-Mac Unix. My preference for linux & Unix in general is about good design based upon heated 'scientific' discussion.
Mac's best design (and, I dare say, most heated scientific discussion) seems to happen in their marketing department. I really like the boxes their kit comes in. They all say "Designed in the USA" but *SCREAM* Japanese packaging design. I'd still go for commodity parts (given a choice) because they get more design dollars. As for putting them together, I have a quite expensive 5 year design education that I'm still paying off & should probably capitalise on. If I get bored, I might even make up a shiny sexy packing box to take it out of (^-^) but that would be eco-bad & non-pc (^-^) wouldn't it.
I find it's always visually illiterate people with little or no formal design education (past painting with their fingers & colouring inside the lines) that make comments like yours. I never hear them query the time a lawyer puts into changing the names in a contract template though. Probably because they are literate enough to know it's something they couldn't have written themselves.
Does it means that if you are using Hyper V to run Red Hat (don't ask me why you'd put yourself in that 'position'), and you have a top level service contract with both, and one Patch Tuesday it all goes terribly wrong......they (Microsoft) will hand you your top level service contract & tell you where you can stick it..
..oh & you can stick it there outside in the cold. You'll then have to wander over the Red Hat ask them to fix Microsoft's problem around their heath. I imagine that would involve the words "Xen or VMware"
Perhaps if PayPal got some competent programmers for their website, and it started consistently worked properly for browsers other than iE......then they might get more people with decent browsers visiting their site.
People who are sensible enough to object to using iE for banking. People who are a little over x86 & ready to......move on to something better
If it is written word, it is covered by copyright. The language, encoding, translation and medium are irrelevant.
Copyright law conflicts with patent law.
Software patents are a direct result of the USA's general disregard for international agreements (whenever there's a buck in it for someone who owns enough senators)
The introduction of the Gnome HIG brought about substantial stripping of functionality out of gnome. It's heavily tailored toward lowest common denominator computing. It does make flexible & robust GUIs. They just don't do anything you want.
great if you struggle with sequences of numbers, but do visual maths for a living......until your bank decides to randomly assign numbers to keys on an onscreen clickable keypad. Then you have to stare at your numeric keypad, visualise the pattern & hold the string in your head long enough to hunt & peck all the numbers on the screen.
With all the billions we burn on designing buildings for cripples (at the expense of design for people in the 5-95%) such a banking interface should be illegal!!! (^-^)
The example given of a 16 year old girl with a boy in her room, but some Foucault style non-present parental supervision sounds like a reasonable game to allow a child to develop in a safe environment. The parents don't have to be watching. They just have to be able to watch. This assists in developing self observation/assessment skills, don't you think?
However, having a natural focus on exotic & unusual people, I've met many who've moved large distances to escape overprotective or controlling parents. If your boundaries are ridiculous to the extent that any normal person will move completely beyond the boundaries as part of becoming a normal human being, then they grow up to have no boundaries at all, and little or no critical tools for developing any.
For example: I find this with people who grew up in deeply authoritarian and domineering fundamentalist christian families. If/When they discover that the entire universe outside the door to their church is not wickedness & the devil & they reject their programming, what tools have they been given for independent development of values & boundaries? They have never rationally discussed the 'why' of anything. They have always received absolute and unquestionable 'truth'. An intelligent one in this environment will be constantly aware of the disparity between what they are told and physical reality. They are often the exception. Then I meet someone who's not too sharp & comes from this background, it always rings alarm bells for me. Many of them seem to tend towards a psychopathic disregard for the wellbeing of 'others' (where everyone is in an other/non-human category) but are adept at masking this behind self-righteous indignation.
Anyway, back on topic:
The net nanny thing is belittling deluded rubbish.
I think the parents should be able to access the computer, but generally shouldn't exercise that ability. They own the roof that covers it, & the power that feeds it, and your food supply, so that much is covered. Give her a unix box with a usb key & authenticate based on it's serial number & you're sorted. Make it pretty & put it on a key chain. That'd do a 7 year old, don't you think?
Give it a root password you need to type from muscle memory, that physically hurts to verbalise & hand it to the parental units on a post-it. Explain that it's to keep her safe. Alternatively perhaps the older brother is a suitable minder. I don't know. He clearly has more of a clue about the park she's playing in.
compulsory military service (or alternatively community service) exists in Sweden. (^-^) Didn't you know?
...also, as I understood it, Sweden & Finland were instrumental in disabling Germany's hard water (read nuclear bomb) plant for long enough for the USA to steal all the technology / scientists they needed to whip up a couple first. 12 Scandinavian commandos bombed a factory guarded by 500 SS soldiers in the middle of German occupied Norway TWICE with no casualties. They went to ground in the countryside after the first attack. There had been an earlier British attempt of which there were no survivors.
xaxa: I'd be more worried as a parent if I saw my 14 year old son searching 'guns' on Google than 'porn'. The default filter doesn't block guns -- and it shouldn't. I don't think it should block porn either. We're not talking about the 'rest of world', this is the USA's finest. Sex and 'cursing' are evil and wickedness, while guns are the tools of God... ...you can't argue with logic like that.
I think America's politico-economic globule has been pioneering this kind of flattening of IP protection for some time now. Witness your patentability of written works (software) and the perpetual extension of copyright on the Disney logo (amongst other things). The removal of all obligations upon media producers under copyright law (DRM) and the extension of copyright law to protect against the circumvention of regional price fixing (CSS/DMCA)
The ROW (Rest of World) should just give up on their agreements & standards on IP, & let US companies work out what's best for all of us.:-)
To call it a functioning democracy you'll need to work on affordable ubiquitous education & health care, and seriously reform campaign finance. Proportional representation in at least one of your houses wouldn't go astray either.
Hmmm......interesting point. A 'might is right' approach to gunboat diplomacy, with a pinch of 'corporate' pre-selection of all elected representatives shouldn't be compared with Sharia law.
Sharia law is a far less sophisticated method of financing the removal of democratically elected governments & replacing them with corrupt... cough...I mean corporately pre-selected dictators......at least at a global scale.
When Ubuntu/SuSe comes stock with a Xen kernel, and a convenient way to make and run XP virtual machines with full hardware acceleration......then we might have a winner.
If you look at ESR's projections based upon market dominance at tipping points between dominant processor architectures of the past, there should be a clear 64bit market winner in 2008. Winning means more than 50% market share. It's obviously speculation, but well reasoned...
I noticed something interesting in Myers Department Store. Most of the interest in eeepcs was from 20 something uni/office women. They had one real question. Does this do what I want. I was only there for about half an hour, so not a huge sampling, but it was rather interesting.
...and the current shift away from DRM by large music studios is removing one of the principal blockers he lists to linux uptake as the dominant software platform of the 64bit era......so there's still hope. Just blue-ray regional price fixing codecs left really:-)
alternatively we could start aiming for the 128bit processor market.:-)
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My use of the term wakjob was in no way a reference to Steve.
Erm... well the post you were responding to was clearly talking about 'intelligent design' in it's non-creationist-wakjob sense.
Living outside the US, it astounds me that you feel refuting creationist rhetoric is deemed worthy of neuron time.
Understanding what you are dealing with inside the US, I can see why you might feel the need to refute it vocally.
Perhaps you want to (re)define your terms a little more clearly.
I read somewhere (it may be rubbish) that we remember things differently when read on a screen, than when read in print.
...butts.
Things read on a screen tend to be more short term memory
Things read in print tend to be more long term memory.
I know I print out drawings for checking, because you just see more...
So Cedric
...you'll probably get a seat.
You agree with the person you're criticising. Sucky public transport sucks.
Try Japan. You can set your second hand by the train departures, & you'll get there quicker by train than by car.
You still wont get a seat in a major city but if you're four hours into bumpkin land... (^-^)
good call on the Mac thing though.
I believe Fucking is in Germany isn't it? I remember a BBC news article about brits stealing their signs. Maybe your bus got lost.
Excuse me?
Linux has X thank you very much! Good luck trying to fix it.
MacOS X has X (sorta). If you want to fix something why start there?
Microsoft I think even has X, but it'd be cludgy & hardly worth the trouble.
As an Architect (a real one not a software architect, whatever that is) I refute that statement. Good design regularly partakes in heated scientific discussion, and that's _it_.
I'm not much of a Mac fan. I'd go Mac over windows though. Given a choice I'd run linux. This is problematic due to the poverty of Architectural CAD for non-Mac Unix. My preference for linux & Unix in general is about good design based upon heated 'scientific' discussion.
Mac's best design (and, I dare say, most heated scientific discussion) seems to happen in their marketing department. I really like the boxes their kit comes in. They all say "Designed in the USA" but *SCREAM* Japanese packaging design. I'd still go for commodity parts (given a choice) because they get more design dollars. As for putting them together, I have a quite expensive 5 year design education that I'm still paying off & should probably capitalise on. If I get bored, I might even make up a shiny sexy packing box to take it out of (^-^) but that would be eco-bad & non-pc (^-^) wouldn't it.
I find it's always visually illiterate people with little or no formal design education (past painting with their fingers & colouring inside the lines) that make comments like yours. I never hear them query the time a lawyer puts into changing the names in a contract template though. Probably because they are literate enough to know it's something they couldn't have written themselves.
Oh! and who lays the optical cable to the corner store?
Oh! & who builds all the extra corner stores you'll need in levitt town suburbia?
They owns you for years now. They do as they please. Silence now minion!
Does it means that if you are using Hyper V to run Red Hat (don't ask me why you'd put yourself in that 'position'), and you have a top level service contract with both, and one Patch Tuesday it all goes terribly wrong... ...they (Microsoft) will hand you your top level service contract & tell you where you can stick it..
..oh & you can stick it there outside in the cold. You'll then have to wander over the Red Hat ask them to fix Microsoft's problem around their heath. I imagine that would involve the words "Xen or VMware"
Perhaps if PayPal got some competent programmers for their website, and it started consistently worked properly for browsers other than iE... ...then they might get more people with decent browsers visiting their site.
...move on to something better
People who are sensible enough to object to using iE for banking.
People who are a little over x86 & ready to...
If it is written word, it is covered by copyright. The language, encoding, translation and medium are irrelevant.
Copyright law conflicts with patent law.
Software patents are a direct result of the USA's general disregard for international agreements
(whenever there's a buck in it for someone who owns enough senators)
Soooo????? TellUs!!!!! WTF do they do?
My only comment would be that:
The introduction of the Gnome HIG brought about substantial stripping of functionality out of gnome.
It's heavily tailored toward lowest common denominator computing. It does make flexible & robust GUIs.
They just don't do anything you want.
... (^-^)
great if you struggle with sequences of numbers, but do visual maths for a living... ...until your bank decides to randomly assign numbers to keys on an onscreen clickable keypad. Then you have to stare at your numeric keypad, visualise the pattern & hold the string in your head long enough to hunt & peck all the numbers on the screen.
With all the billions we burn on designing buildings for cripples (at the expense of design for people in the 5-95%) such a banking interface should be illegal!!! (^-^)
I agree. The key is 'reasonable'
The example given of a 16 year old girl with a boy in her room, but some Foucault style non-present parental supervision sounds like a reasonable game to allow a child to develop in a safe environment. The parents don't have to be watching. They just have to be able to watch. This assists in developing self observation/assessment skills, don't you think?
However, having a natural focus on exotic & unusual people, I've met many who've moved large distances to escape overprotective or controlling parents. If your boundaries are ridiculous to the extent that any normal person will move completely beyond the boundaries as part of becoming a normal human being, then they grow up to have no boundaries at all, and little or no critical tools for developing any.
For example: I find this with people who grew up in deeply authoritarian and domineering fundamentalist christian families. If/When they discover that the entire universe outside the door to their church is not wickedness & the devil & they reject their programming, what tools have they been given for independent development of values & boundaries? They have never rationally discussed the 'why' of anything. They have always received absolute and unquestionable 'truth'. An intelligent one in this environment will be constantly aware of the disparity between what they are told and physical reality. They are often the exception. Then I meet someone who's not too sharp & comes from this background, it always rings alarm bells for me. Many of them seem to tend towards a psychopathic disregard for the wellbeing of 'others' (where everyone is in an other/non-human category) but are adept at masking this behind self-righteous indignation.
Anyway, back on topic:
The net nanny thing is belittling deluded rubbish.
I think the parents should be able to access the computer, but generally shouldn't exercise that ability. They own the roof that covers it, & the power that feeds it, and your food supply, so that much is covered. Give her a unix box with a usb key & authenticate based on it's serial number & you're sorted. Make it pretty & put it on a key chain. That'd do a 7 year old, don't you think?
Give it a root password you need to type from muscle memory, that physically hurts to verbalise & hand it to the parental units on a post-it. Explain that it's to keep her safe. Alternatively perhaps the older brother is a suitable minder. I don't know. He clearly has more of a clue about the park she's playing in.
compulsory military service (or alternatively community service) exists in Sweden. (^-^) Didn't you know?
http://www.espionageinfo.com/Gu-In/Heavy-Water-Technology.html
WOW! I guess soccer is really taking off over there then. :-)
I think America's politico-economic globule has been pioneering this kind of flattening of IP protection for some time now. Witness your patentability of written works (software) and the perpetual extension of copyright on the Disney logo (amongst other things). The removal of all obligations upon media producers under copyright law (DRM) and the extension of copyright law to protect against the circumvention of regional price fixing (CSS/DMCA)
:-)
The ROW (Rest of World) should just give up on their agreements & standards on IP, & let US companies work out what's best for all of us.
- they must have security updates turned off, because they might break the computer? (This is where your proposal falls down)
- they don't need virus protection, because they have a fire wall
- they can't use passwords, because "what if someone else needed to get on"
- they are perpetually in an administrator account, because right clicking executable & selecting "run as" is WAY to inconvenient
- they are using internet explorer, because their favourite website only works if they allow the world to run unsigned activeX controls
- they are using outlook, because learning how to use any other calendar & task list is IMPOSSIBLY EXPENSIVE. Think of the down time
- their computer takes 30mins to boot up
- their internet connection is slow
- they have regular IT outages costing them WHAT?
- the government & their ISP should do something about these damn spammers
- they didn't have a virus before they spoke to you
- all of the above
Solutions exist. The problem is all the wrong kinds of 'education'To call it a functioning democracy you'll need to work on affordable ubiquitous education & health care, and seriously reform campaign finance. Proportional representation in at least one of your houses wouldn't go astray either.
Hmmm... ...interesting point. A 'might is right' approach to gunboat diplomacy, with a pinch of 'corporate' pre-selection of all elected representatives shouldn't be compared with Sharia law.
...I mean corporately pre-selected dictators... ...at least at a global scale.
Sharia law is a far less sophisticated method of financing the removal of democratically elected governments & replacing them with corrupt... cough
When Ubuntu/SuSe comes stock with a Xen kernel, and a convenient way to make and run XP virtual machines with full hardware acceleration... ...then we might have a winner.
If you look at ESR's projections based upon market dominance at tipping points between dominant processor architectures of the past, there should be a clear 64bit market winner in 2008. Winning means more than 50% market share. It's obviously speculation, but well reasoned...
I noticed something interesting in Myers Department Store. Most of the interest in eeepcs was from 20 something uni/office women. They had one real question. Does this do what I want. I was only there for about half an hour, so not a huge sampling, but it was rather interesting.
...and the current shift away from DRM by large music studios is removing one of the principal blockers he lists to linux uptake as the dominant software platform of the 64bit era... ...so there's still hope. Just blue-ray regional price fixing codecs left really :-)
alternatively we could start aiming for the 128bit processor market. :-)