I don' use twitter in any way, but I think I saw it's usefulness during the protests in Iran.
Imagine Twitter with Free code and a non-profit, donations based model. Surely humankind could set that up, everyone paying what they can. It should work, IMO. I'd pay some:s, just as soon as I can muster any income and a bank account. I expect the finances being open and any monetary need (for hosting or whatever) addressed swiftly by the haves of the community.
On the other hand, more and more people are finding more information and affiliations all over the world.
While the pop-media and marketing stranglehold on mainstream culture is depressing, the opposition is growing too. Looking at "pop-media" and "marketing-spoon-fed citizens", things are and have been getting worse for decades, but at the same time, they are getting better.
I don't know if will take decades yet for critical thinking to reach critical mass, but I can't see the progress of humankind declining on the whole.
Surely, all the triumphs of bullshit and other bad shit are just smaller swings of the pendulum on a general trajectory towards a more enlightened, better future. Or did I dream it?
But if you have an x% police tax on your income instead of a tax on alcohol etc. then the rich would be paying more for the police than the poor. Can't have that!;)
If Dallas having a data center is not that critical, then never mind. Otherwise, from taxes, where civilized civilization usually comes from. But actually I just put that first post there to spoil it for prospective first posters. It was a copy/paste from the start of the wikipedia article on redundancy(engineering).
There should always be duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe.
I think Bill Hicks summed advertising up quite accurately: "There's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself."
It's relative. If I have a club and can't afford to buy a regular longsword (if they'd be available) and you would be rich enough (relative to me), you could beat me just because you'd be "rich" (provided that there is PvP in this game).
Fuck that shit. I don't want to escape the real world run by the rich to a virtual fantasy world where a realworld rich person can just buy a BMFG and pwn me.
I won't disagree with freedom of speech being great and extremist religious nuts being the suxxors, but with banning of minarets and burkas nowadays and the lumping together of all muslims being common, to me it looks like the muslims are the Jews of the 21:st century.
So, while you are a great freedom fighter mocking crazy religious people with your drawings, keep in mind that you are kicking the underdog (even if it's a narrow-minded, backwards and crazy underdog). Also keep in mind that the crazies are not representative of the whole.
Apart from the fact that people should run morally decent Free software and spread that gospel, how does other people running IE6 hurt me, you and the rest of mankind? (not a rhetorical question)
The young, creative, and potentially starving defsigners should of course be looked after. A little bit of basic income for everyone would solve all these starving artist problems.
The upside of all this IP "theft" is of course that we do get nice desings on the cheap in the malls.
(That most clothes are produced without regard to the environment or working conditions and decent pay is another issue, of course.)
>and they are calling us up every week it seems begging us to come back.
If a company was calling me up every week I'd entertain the thought of hiring goons to go bust some kneecaps. Then I'd remember I'm supposed to be a pacifist and pursue some other avenue. At the very least, I'd just say "Fuck you" and hang up every time they called if I couldn't automatically screen the call due to hidden or different numbers. Surely there must be a way to get them to stop calling if you'd want to?
> the market will be a final arbiter of this beastie...
Market schmarket. This is the most powerful handheld gaming device out there, running linux, developed by and for an enthusiast community. As far as I'm concerned it is allready a success.
According to the relevant Wikipedia page, you can get emulators for Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Amiga, SNES, Atari Jaguar and Sega Mega Drive for the Pandora.
This is like having an N900 without the phone functionality, with a (probably) better keyboard and the controls for half the price. In other words like a low powered computer that fits in your pocket.
Pretty sweet in my opinion. If I had any money to waste, I'd get one just for the controls.
As was all ready mentioned, it's about having a security process. This can be implemented regardless of openness.
If more open "stores", such as Android or Maemo/MeeGo or Debian or whatever don't yet have as rigorous a process as Apple, they should get busy of course.
Regarding any discrepancy between source and binary, you should obviously just upload the source to the store and have the store build the binary.
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Does it run on Linux?
I don' use twitter in any way, but I think I saw it's usefulness during the protests in Iran.
Imagine Twitter with Free code and a non-profit, donations based model. Surely humankind could set that up, everyone paying what they can. It should work, IMO. I'd pay some :s, just as soon as I can muster any income and a bank account. I expect the finances being open and any monetary need (for hosting or whatever) addressed swiftly by the haves of the community.
Incidentally, half the work has all ready been done: http://identi.ca/ and http://status.net/
On the other hand, more and more people are finding more information and affiliations all over the world.
While the pop-media and marketing stranglehold on mainstream culture is depressing, the opposition is growing too. Looking at "pop-media" and "marketing-spoon-fed citizens", things are and have been getting worse for decades, but at the same time, they are getting better.
I don't know if will take decades yet for critical thinking to reach critical mass, but I can't see the progress of humankind declining on the whole.
Surely, all the triumphs of bullshit and other bad shit are just smaller swings of the pendulum on a general trajectory towards a more enlightened, better future. Or did I dream it?
But if you have an x% police tax on your income instead of a tax on alcohol etc. then the rich would be paying more for the police than the poor. Can't have that! ;)
>And the funding comes from where?
If Dallas having a data center is not that critical, then never mind. Otherwise, from taxes, where civilized civilization usually comes from. But actually I just put that first post there to spoil it for prospective first posters. It was a copy/paste from the start of the wikipedia article on redundancy(engineering).
There should always be duplication of critical components of a system with the intention of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the case of a backup or fail-safe.
I think Bill Hicks summed advertising up quite accurately:
"There's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself."
"The Dell Streak, however, represents the beginnings of a very slippery slope. Where does a phone end and a tablet begin?"
What difference does it make?
It's relative. If I have a club and can't afford to buy a regular longsword (if they'd be available) and you would be rich enough (relative to me), you could beat me just because you'd be "rich" (provided that there is PvP in this game).
Fuck that shit. I don't want to escape the real world run by the rich to a virtual fantasy world where a realworld rich person can just buy a BMFG and pwn me.
I won't disagree with freedom of speech being great and extremist religious nuts being the suxxors, but with banning of minarets and burkas nowadays and the lumping together of all muslims being common, to me it looks like the muslims are the Jews of the 21:st century.
So, while you are a great freedom fighter mocking crazy religious people with your drawings, keep in mind that you are kicking the underdog (even if it's a narrow-minded, backwards and crazy underdog). Also keep in mind that the crazies are not representative of the whole.
Apart from the fact that people should run morally decent Free software and spread that gospel, how does other people running IE6 hurt me, you and the rest of mankind? (not a rhetorical question)
Besides, I was under the impression that Facebook was about to implode at any minute now.
The young, creative, and potentially starving defsigners should of course be looked after. A little bit of basic income for everyone would solve all these starving artist problems.
The upside of all this IP "theft" is of course that we do get nice desings on the cheap in the malls.
(That most clothes are produced without regard to the environment or working conditions and decent pay is another issue, of course.)
>Actually, what they should have is the client's signature. No signature = no visit.
How could the customer give them a signature if the customer really wasn't at home, though?
>and they are calling us up every week it seems begging us to come back.
If a company was calling me up every week I'd entertain the thought of hiring goons to go bust some kneecaps. Then I'd remember I'm supposed to be a pacifist and pursue some other avenue. At the very least, I'd just say "Fuck you" and hang up every time they called if I couldn't automatically screen the call due to hidden or different numbers. Surely there must be a way to get them to stop calling if you'd want to?
>Will it run nethack?
That's probably a rhetorical question? And modded funny. Does that make it sad that Nethack is the absolute killer app for me on the N900?
>What can i do with Pandora that i cannot with an iPad or Kindle or even an iPod touch.
Avoid sucking satans cock, figuratively speaking?
> the market will be a final arbiter of this beastie...
Market schmarket. This is the most powerful handheld gaming device out there, running linux, developed by and for an enthusiast community. As far as I'm concerned it is allready a success.
According to the relevant Wikipedia page, you can get emulators for Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Amiga, SNES, Atari Jaguar and Sega Mega Drive for the Pandora.
I don't see why there would be any major difficulties getting Android and Meego and [KXLU]buntu to run on the pandora.
> Except for the analog controls, I don't see where the N900 does not beat it in any way...
Keyboard and price, also.
This is like having an N900 without the phone functionality, with a (probably) better keyboard and the controls for half the price. In other words like a low powered computer that fits in your pocket.
Pretty sweet in my opinion. If I had any money to waste, I'd get one just for the controls.
As was all ready mentioned, it's about having a security process. This can be implemented regardless of openness.
If more open "stores", such as Android or Maemo/MeeGo or Debian or whatever don't yet have as rigorous a process as Apple, they should get busy of course.
Regarding any discrepancy between source and binary, you should obviously just upload the source to the store and have the store build the binary.
A million dollars should be more than enough for anybody.