Thats is an interesting viewpoint consider your handle "quakeaddict". What operating systems does quake run on?
windows
linux
mac
Now last time I checked quake3arena got far equivalent scores on at leat the linux, and windows platforms, actually framerates only differing by 2-3 frames per second.
So please be a little more precise when you talk about speed. Speed isnt the reason why they are not porting it. The reason why they arent porting it becuase the language is pointless without the COM components, and Win32 APIs. I looked at the intro, and language reference.. did you?
Want to know what is looked like... Simple it looked fsckin exactly like java syntax, and even the API calls. It is too bad that M$ still cannot create products that play nice with others.
I am a webdeveloper, and when I develop sites, I dont say screw the netscape user and make IE specific, if I took that aproach, not only would I be cutting out some of my userbase, but I woul also look like an asshole for not taking the considerations of other people in my design. But of-course M$ always that we need it to be innotive crap to fall back on. Thats ok though, becuase I am sure that this will be great for Windows developers, working with COM is a pain-in-the-ass. But it is definetly a pure windows solution exactly like VisualBasic, very limited in scope, and not nearly as cool as it initially sounds. I think that modern language cover most of the bases, we have C\C++ for speed and maturity, java for platform compatibility, and elegeant design, perl for web-hacks, and get-it-done jobs. Why another language...? Becuase the world doesnt need another programming language... it needs interoperability, M$ should start thinking about how they are going to intergrate with the unix systems, becuase if they go down hill, they will have no one to hang on to but themselves. nuff said. -Nathan
WTF? We spend so much time reading dispositions, lawsuits, trials, anti-trust crap.... Why even code anymore. Let just drop everything and become a large group of beer lovin lawyers. come on you know you want to:)Oh BTW information should be free like the birdies, or buffalo depending on who you ask.
I think the above post should be moderated up, he make some interesting points.
what Sun is rightfully afraid of is that Java will go the way of Unix - 57 different flavors, each of which requires a modifications to a Makefile to even compile, much less run. The fact that Microsoft has already attempted to pollute Java is more than enough justification to keep the language centrally managed.
I would like to make a few points about the above qoute:
Java has a very good reason for maintaining control over the java spec. A solid definition of what Java is, is absolutely essential to developers who will be working with this technology, esp in terms of ecommerce and java servlets.
Another reason is that Java is designed to be platform independent. It is one of the key points to the architecture of the language. (I my opinion they did a pretty good job). Not maintaining Draconian control over the spec lets companies add proprietary extensions, hence diluting the architecture *coudh* *cough* Microsoft.
One of the problems is that Sun might use this Draconian control to extert market dominance over Java. Thus gaining an unfair advantage.
This open committee is a good idea is forced Sun to be responsible for technologies changes. It also puts the spotlight on Sun whenever they want to do anything shifty.
This is disgusting! I not am avid supporter of flamebait but this is annoying, and I feel that I must retaliate. Yes Microsoft is big, yes it has a marketing department with big yellow, nasty pointy teeth. But take a moment to think about the hardware engineers, and coders who stay up all night behind deadlines trying to sqeeze a few more frames per second out of the hardware. Did you see how many butterflies there was on the screen, or how many ping pong balls there was? Or how fine the polygons where on the Raven models.
Now I like bashing M$ as much as the next guy. Its easy to do, they have made silly mistakes in the past, but this demo I can respect. Slasdotters always complain about the FUD, or try to turn everything into FUD. Have you ever thought about the hardcare coders, and hackers at M$? Oh yes.. they are there. Microsoft has some of the most dedicated and hardcare techies out there.
You know what I think is happening. I think that you see these amazing and beautifully renders screenshots, and you know that its good, you just dont have the balls to admit it. That said, I work at a major telecom company that *cough* *cough* (created UNIX). I love Linux/FreeBSD I use them at work and at home extensively. Just because I love UNIX doesnt mean I cant see the beauty in other things. The words of Socrates come to mind.
I went to a man who was reputed to be wise, thinking that there, if anywhere, I should prove the answer wrong. So I examined the man -- I need not tell you his name, he was a politician--but this was the result, Athenians. Then I conversed with him I came to see that, though a great many persons, and most of all himself, he thought he was wise, yet he was not wise, though he fancied he was. By doing so I mafe him indignant, and many of the bystanders. So when I went away I thought myself, "I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worth knowing, but he thinks that he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser then he is on this point: I do not think that I know what I do not know." Socrates - The Apology
So I ask of you dear Slashdotters, tell us not that the XBox blows, but also tell us your reasoning behind so we may become clear in the truth.
Well been happening for awhile. Geek culture. This is just another nail in the coffin. I can see it know. MTV with special host Richard Stallman. Seriously though UF is pretty funny stuff. I wonder how much revenue thinkgeek.com makes? They already have $80 of my cash.
Ahem..Crash Me, Mellisa, ILoveYou, Hotmail, now this. Leave it to Microsoft to bring innovative new ways to lose all sense of privacy. Seriously though maybe this is an artifact of M$ getting to big? I am a pretty forgiving guy, but they are making to many mistakes for even me to overlook.
Maybe a breakup is a good thing. Its about time that Micorosoft re-discovers the meaning of the words, pride.. integrity.. fun.. innovation.. excellence. Instead of of their usuall fair which consists of market capitialization, share value, PR, equity.
Microsoft has alot of good people working for them, and I have had the pleasure of working with some of them. To bad the company's sense of responsibility, and integrity is off smoking a $3 sack of crack.
Yes I have to agree with you. I spent 6 months hauling heavy ass boxes and loading them into trucks for UPS. But you wouldnt have to wait 10 years to go truck driver. There are a couple of interesting things about UPS I would like to point out. *EVeryone*, and I mean *Everyone* starts out as a loader:) Then after 3 to 4 years of loading boxes and hard work (Being a loader is not easy work* they will more then likely promote you to truck driver, let me tell you though everyone on that loading want to be a truck driver heheh. The truck drivers get paid a chunk af change about 60-70K, The loaders make about 10$/hr, and they work 6 hour shifts. You cant load 8 hours a day your back will explode.:) Anyway its unrelated by take not that there are plentry of jobs that dont touch computers, Mitnicck can make an good 15-24$ hour in Montana as a hnad, or he can make good money about 12-15$ hour as a entry level construction worker. People forget that this is good money to most people. My dad make arounf 45K a year as a mechanic, and has been doing it for 20+ years, he is also the one of the best mechanics I know. As oppsosed to me I make around 50+ a year as a coder, and Im not the best the coder I know.. by far. I when I realize how much I make in the tech industry as a developer.. I try to be humble, and realize that alot of people are making less and consider themselves very successful, it is all a matter of perspective.
Here is my opinion on the Mitnick subject.
First thing is first. Mitnick broke the law. He stepped over the line, and as a consequence he lost some of his rights. Yes people have some rights even if they kill someone, but the important thing to remember is that they lose some rights. Its funny that alot of rights are in actuality priviliges.
It is unfortunate that he was mistreated (and he was) concerning his imprisonment. A similiar case comes to mind (Steve Jackson Games), and they were innocent from the beginning. The FBI just about destroyed there business.
I think that the judge is being a little too harse on Mitnick concerning the public speaking, but you also have to look at it from the layman's point of view. Mitnick has to obtain trust from society again. He has screwed it up multiple times. I think that he should take it cool and learn to function in society again, the same basic rules apply to him, that apply to everyone.
Concerning to above mentioned bullet. There is something called free speech, and even if you kill someone, you still have the freedom of speaking about anything you wish.
Along those lines. There is no such thing as freedom or free speech, it is all an illusion. Most people stay in line and follow the mobs direction, or follow a few people you have enough intelligence to take over the minds of people to lazy to think for themselves. For the most part peers keep other people in line, and prevent radical thought from spawning. Think about it a little bit.. what *really* maintaines our illusion of freedom. The government.. the consitution... It is a peice of paper, a peice of paper cannot kill or harm a person. No my friends it is force, That peice of paper represents violence and force it is a doctrine forcing people to live by its rule. (similiar to the GPL). It is a facade of freedom. All freedom is.. is a state of mind. A particular perspective that we have choosen to live by. The First Ammendment give up the right to free speech, but what If I want to right to disallow free speech... Do I have the right to do it.... I can try, and people will destroy me before they allow that to happen.
In closing I would like to point out that I think the US consitution, and and Bill fo Rights is the one of the best things to happen to people. Our illusions are so strongs they make themselves concrete. I am a firm believer in our societies system, aside from it contradictions.
Mitnick is a harmless enough fellow. If he is still stupid enough to exploit the fears of common men, then he will pay to consequences. He complains that it isnt fair, well what is fair? Was is fair for him to break into those computers? I think its time for him to take a step back and not look at the definition of fair, rather look at you currently controls the definition of fair. The people who control the definition of fair currently, has guns, and the ability to make him a little bloodstain and the ground. Thus it has been this way through history. heheh
I have check out the latest Mozilla build for BeOS and it blows goats. But that is beside the point. I think the issue to look at is whether AOL will gain anything financial from you proposal, after looking at it I cant see how it would benefit them.
No I highly doubt that people woulf go nuts over it, More likely people would avoid it like the plague. There are a couple of facts that kill BeOS: 1. No good Browser 2. No good productivity software. (Gobe's stuff isnt good enough)
Dont get me wrong BeOS is a beatufil operating system and I wish it were the mainstream, It has many points ov4re other OSes, but lets be honest that wouldnt make the slightest bit of sense for AOL.
That isnt exactly true. Jon Romero left Quake 3 becuase of differences with Carmac, I Think Romero worked on Quake 1. After seeing DiaKatana just shows yous how much Romero blows, and Carmac rules.
heheheh people trying to make money, As far as large group communication, a better word for it would be mob rule. STudied like this have been done before. Im gong nowhere with this post:)
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3.One of the biggest problems isnt software its bandwidth!! A decent sounding stream is at least 56K minimum, even with a T1 your nadwidth can max out quickly, if your stream is non-commercial then look into www.live365.com which provides free bandwidth for non-commercial streams along with a slew of tools.
4. If you need more advice then check out www.bigfreakinserver.com. This is our site we have a forum which we monitor frequently and will be happy to answer any streaming questions. bigfreak pipes out 3 streams over a 768Kbps DSL line, running on a dual proc Celercon, running FreeBSD:).
5. Finally here is a little fun tools for all you stream listeners, called streamripper located at www.bigfreakinserver.com (Look in the PROJECTS section). Which allows you to hook up to an mp3 and rip the tracks directly to your hardrive:). very fun indeed.
Its funny if you do a search for the obvious domains.
microsoft.tv they want 1,000,000 nbc.tv they want 250,000
Doesnt this seem kinda ridiculus, I my opnion, I dont think people should be allowed to buy out top level domains like that. For instance what if micosoft decided to buy out.linux, or even better,.org. This whole domain squatting crap is pretty sick. In the world of the internet this is a like buying a country. All this damn squatting is doing, is crowding out the other top level domain namespaces.
I would like to second this motion. Verant has been ultr-sensitive when it comes to user's privacy. The simple fact that they backed down from implementing this shows, that responsibility to user wishes. Ironically though before they made this decision they held a poll on EQ, this poll was required, and a overhwhelming amount of people thought it would be ok for Verant to scan their harddrive for cracks. I think that most people agreed that they would rather have a level playing field. Also this isnt really an issue of invading privacy, all they are doing is making usre people arent cheating, if you dont want you EQ directory looked at then just dont play EQ, nobody is forcing you to. Not without saying that they openly admit and bring to the light the fact that they will be searching a portion. of you harddrive. I commend Verant on their reposibility in this issue.
Are you insane? Its pretty simple. If Bob doesnt like some of the restrictions in the products then he shouldnt buy it, buy a competitors, or not by any ebook at all. The US's entire economy is comprised of something called 'free' enterprise. A company can do whatever it wants with the money it 'earns' froms its products. Ironically what you are proposing is probably the worst possible outcome for the customer. If companies spend their money how customers would want them to spend it, then there would be no innvocation, no pride, or dedication to their work. This is digusting Ill top now.
This is disgusting, this guys has had a valid argument. Why the hell did someone moderate him down to 0. Dont give me that flamebait bullshit. He even provided links to where you can find more information about it. Just becuase it has the name Microsoft attached to it, everybody jumps on his ass and moderates him to 0. Well face the fact, whether the Open-source community wants to admit it or not, the simple fact is that Microsoft is a innovative company, with some of the brightest people in the world working there. GNU is an amazing set of software, which I use daily. I'm just sick of the Microsoft bashing, its getting old, and you have no real reason to be bitter except for jealousy, why dont you take your energy and actually contribute to the community in some way rather than attacking people who have the sense to know that Microsoft has good things about it. *sigh* -Nathan
sigh, though I hate to admit it and with it werent true it is..... The above statement is true, what is the point of the flamebait moderation. If people cant post difficult and challenging posts, then all slashdot is....is a bunch of GNU/Linux/Open-Source zealots, all posting in agreement with each other. I thought that new opinions, and conflicting interests where supposed to create a dynamic and interesting environment.
I would just like to point out sometimes there is a reason for flamage. I getting sick of this whole slashdot close-minded bullshit, karma-whore sucking people.
Well unfortunately, I think that the manual labor is going to start being pushed off into minorities, immigrants, and 3rd world countries. While this is a sort of bad view, it is the truth. While the wealth moves into the hands of the "knowledge workers" the grunt work will in turn get passed on to people not willing to adapt as quickly. I agree completely with your point of view through. The digital ecenomy is creating great wealth for people, but how much of it is just hype? People still need basic needs like transportation, food, housing, unless we automize all of these basic needs then there is still going to be a need for them. That is a basic unalterable human fact. I have been troubled recently by the decline of old school bluechip stocks, and the insanse rise of digital stocks, and pointless e-commerce companies. It seems that all you need right now is a neat idea to getting funding for a company, it doesnt even have to be economically feasible. That in it self is disturbing, there has to be a balance,... and there will be. It wont happen by government regulations, thing like this tend to filter out naturally, as people realize that you still need companies to manufacture textiles, and steel shapes. Ayway starting to turn into sort of a rant so I will stop now.
Yeah but of those billions of people very little actually even know what the internet is. Most are to busy worrying whether or not there cow is going to produce enough milk for supper that night. Not to mention that the government has been repressing the people of china for years, this isnt anything new really, they are probably used to it by now. I highly dont most will care. Doesnt make it right but that is just how it is.
WTH: This guy is just running his own site he got the name first, and he isnt squatting per say. The article noted that he works with encryption stuff, maybe he plans to use that site for some of his work. Wasnt there just this huge fiasco about etoy.com, It seemed that the slashdot community was behind etoy.com. I could understand if he was squatting to get money but it doesnt look like this guy is out to make money off of the deal, he just registered the site. Just becuase OpenSSH wants the site doesnt mean that it deserves to get it. I *hate* doman squatters, but this seems like a legit use of the domain registration service. Is he trying to exhort money out of OpenSSH? Anyway we have to be fair, and it sound like this guy is being fair.
The benfits of this law are readily apparent. The article didnt go too much into the legal technicalities of the bill. What are the other resrictions. While I dont mind the government cracking down on certain companies, i just start getting nervous when the government steps in and starts taking control from people.
hmm interesting, I wonder if they kind of ship would run cooler then their electronic counterparts? This sounds like the technology that is going to hold us over under we find out how to do quantum computing. IS this magnetic switching of bit just as fast as traditional electronic chips, or does it impose latency. Last, and finally all I want it to run quake 3 arena on my laptop for 7 hours at 60 FPS, then Ill be happy
For the same reason there are more male engineers, mechanics, or other technologists. , there are two main reasons: 1) Sheer numbers 2) Human disposition.
Come is this really anything new, Men are using drawn more towards the technological side then women, I am *not* saying women can't perform In this function, Im just saying men tend to have a disposition whether though social upbringing, or testoterone.
Slashdot Mirror
- windows
- linux
- mac
Now last time I checked quake3arena got far equivalent scores on at leat the linux, and windows platforms, actually framerates only differing by 2-3 frames per second.So please be a little more precise when you talk about speed. Speed isnt the reason why they are not porting it. The reason why they arent porting it becuase the language is pointless without the COM components, and Win32 APIs. I looked at the intro, and language reference.. did you?
Want to know what is looked like... Simple it looked fsckin exactly like java syntax, and even the API calls. It is too bad that M$ still cannot create products that play nice with others.
I am a webdeveloper, and when I develop sites, I dont say screw the netscape user and make IE specific, if I took that aproach, not only would I be cutting out some of my userbase, but I woul also look like an asshole for not taking the considerations of other people in my design. But of-course M$ always that we need it to be innotive crap to fall back on. Thats ok though, becuase I am sure that this will be great for Windows developers, working with COM is a pain-in-the-ass. But it is definetly a pure windows solution exactly like VisualBasic, very limited in scope, and not nearly as cool as it initially sounds. I think that modern language cover most of the bases, we have C\C++ for speed and maturity, java for platform compatibility, and elegeant design, perl for web-hacks, and get-it-done jobs. Why another language...? Becuase the world doesnt need another programming language... it needs interoperability, M$ should start thinking about how they are going to intergrate with the unix systems, becuase if they go down hill, they will have no one to hang on to but themselves. nuff said. -Nathan
WTF? We spend so much time reading dispositions, lawsuits, trials, anti-trust crap.... Why even code anymore. Let just drop everything and become a large group of beer lovin lawyers. come on you know you want to :)Oh BTW information should be free like the birdies, or buffalo depending on who you ask.
what Sun is rightfully afraid of is that Java will go the way of Unix - 57 different flavors, each of which requires a modifications to a Makefile to even compile, much less run. The fact that Microsoft has already attempted to pollute Java is more than enough justification to keep the language centrally managed.
I would like to make a few points about the above qoute:
Anyway
But take a moment to think about the hardware engineers, and coders who stay up all night behind deadlines trying to sqeeze a few more frames per second out of the hardware. Did you see how many butterflies there was on the screen, or how many ping pong balls there was? Or how fine the polygons where on the Raven models.
Now I like bashing M$ as much as the next guy. Its easy to do, they have made silly mistakes in the past, but this demo I can respect. Slasdotters always complain about the FUD, or try to turn everything into FUD. Have you ever thought about the hardcare coders, and hackers at M$? Oh yes.. they are there. Microsoft has some of the most dedicated and hardcare techies out there.
You know what I think is happening. I think that you see these amazing and beautifully renders screenshots, and you know that its good, you just dont have the balls to admit it. That said, I work at a major telecom company that *cough* *cough* (created UNIX). I love Linux/FreeBSD I use them at work and at home extensively. Just because I love UNIX doesnt mean I cant see the beauty in other things. The words of Socrates come to mind.
I went to a man who was reputed to be wise, thinking that there, if anywhere, I should prove the answer wrong. So I examined the man -- I need not tell you his name, he was a politician--but this was the result, Athenians. Then I conversed with him I came to see that, though a great many persons, and most of all himself, he thought he was wise, yet he was not wise, though he fancied he was. By doing so I mafe him indignant, and many of the bystanders. So when I went away I thought myself, "I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worth knowing, but he thinks that he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser then he is on this point: I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Socrates - The Apology
So I ask of you dear Slashdotters, tell us not that the XBox blows, but also tell us your reasoning behind so we may become clear in the truth.
Well been happening for awhile. Geek culture. This is just another nail in the coffin. I can see it know. MTV with special host Richard Stallman.
Seriously though UF is pretty funny stuff. I wonder how much revenue thinkgeek.com makes? They already have $80 of my cash.
Maybe a breakup is a good thing. Its about time that Micorosoft re-discovers the meaning of the words, pride.. integrity.. fun.. innovation.. excellence. Instead of of their usuall fair which consists of market capitialization, share value, PR, equity.
Microsoft has alot of good people working for them, and I have had the pleasure of working with some of them. To bad the company's sense of responsibility, and integrity is off smoking a $3 sack of crack.
My humble opinion.....
-Nathan
Sorry that was a typo on my part.
My dad make arounf 45K a year as a mechanic, and has been doing it for 20+ years, he is also the one of the best mechanics I know. As oppsosed to me I make around 50+ a year as a coder, and Im not the best the coder I know.. by far. I when I realize how much I make in the tech industry as a developer.. I try to be humble, and realize that alot of people are making less and consider themselves very successful, it is all a matter of perspective.
Here is my opinion on the Mitnick subject.
-Nathan
I have check out the latest Mozilla build for BeOS and it blows goats. But that is beside the point.
I think the issue to look at is whether AOL will gain anything financial from you proposal, after looking at it I cant see how it would benefit them.
There are a couple of facts that kill BeOS:
1. No good Browser
2. No good productivity software. (Gobe's stuff isnt good enough)
Dont get me wrong BeOS is a beatufil operating system and I wish it were the mainstream, It has many points ov4re other OSes, but lets be honest that wouldnt make the slightest bit of sense for AOL.
That isnt exactly true. Jon Romero left Quake 3 becuase of differences with Carmac, I Think Romero worked on Quake 1. After seeing DiaKatana just shows yous how much Romero blows, and Carmac rules.
heheheh people trying to make money, As far as large group communication, a better word for it would be mob rule. STudied like this have been done before. Im gong nowhere with this post :)
1. As mentioned above the premeir open-source on is www.icecast.org, The original is www.shoutcast.com, for additional resources and to talk to people their is www.shoutclub.com.
2. If you want to stream *live* audio then liveice (which is part of icecast) shout work, if you on windows then use the SC plugin for winamp.
3.One of the biggest problems isnt software its bandwidth!! A decent sounding stream is at least 56K minimum, even with a T1 your nadwidth can max out quickly, if your stream is non-commercial then look into www.live365.com which provides free bandwidth for non-commercial streams along with a slew of tools.
4. If you need more advice then check out www.bigfreakinserver.com. This is our site we have a forum which we monitor frequently and will be happy to answer any streaming questions. bigfreak pipes out 3 streams over a 768Kbps DSL line, running on a dual proc Celercon, running FreeBSD :).
5. Finally here is a little fun tools for all you stream listeners, called streamripper located at www.bigfreakinserver.com (Look in the PROJECTS section). Which allows you to hook up to an mp3 and rip the tracks directly to your hardrive :). very fun indeed.
Well enjoy the resources.
microsoft.tv they want 1,000,000
nbc.tv they want 250,000
Doesnt this seem kinda ridiculus, I my opnion, I dont think people should be allowed to buy out top level domains like that. For instance what if micosoft decided to buy out .linux, or even better, .org. This whole domain squatting crap is pretty sick. In the world of the internet this is a like buying a country. All this damn squatting is doing, is crowding out the other top level domain namespaces.
I would like to second this motion. Verant has been ultr-sensitive when it comes to user's privacy. The simple fact that they backed down from implementing this shows, that responsibility to user wishes. Ironically though before they made this decision they held a poll on EQ, this poll was required, and a overhwhelming amount of people thought it would be ok for Verant to scan their harddrive for cracks.
I think that most people agreed that they would rather have a level playing field. Also this isnt really an issue of invading privacy, all they are doing is making usre people arent cheating, if you dont want you EQ directory looked at then just dont play EQ, nobody is forcing you to. Not without saying that they openly admit and bring to the light the fact that they will be searching a portion. of you harddrive. I commend Verant on their reposibility in this issue.
Are you insane? Its pretty simple. If Bob doesnt like some of the restrictions in the products then he shouldnt buy it, buy a competitors, or not by any ebook at all.
The US's entire economy is comprised of something called 'free' enterprise. A company can do whatever it wants with the money it 'earns' froms its products. Ironically what you are proposing is probably the worst possible outcome for the customer. If companies spend their money how customers would want them to spend it, then there would be no innvocation, no pride, or dedication to their work. This is digusting Ill top now.
This is disgusting, this guys has had a valid argument. Why the hell did someone moderate him down to 0. Dont give me that flamebait bullshit.
He even provided links to where you can find more information about it. Just becuase it has the name Microsoft attached to it, everybody jumps on his ass and moderates him to 0. Well face the fact, whether the Open-source community wants to admit it or not, the simple fact is that Microsoft is a innovative company, with some of the brightest people in the world working there. GNU is an amazing set of software, which I use daily. I'm just sick of the Microsoft bashing, its getting old, and you have no real reason to be bitter except for jealousy, why dont you take your energy and actually contribute to the community in some way rather than attacking people who have the sense to know that Microsoft has good things about it. *sigh* -Nathan
well put. :)
I would just like to point out sometimes there is a reason for flamage. I getting sick of this whole slashdot close-minded bullshit, karma-whore sucking people.
Well unfortunately, I think that the manual labor is going to start being pushed off into minorities, immigrants, and 3rd world countries.
While this is a sort of bad view, it is the truth. While the wealth moves into the hands of the "knowledge workers" the grunt work will in turn get passed on to people not willing to adapt as quickly. I agree completely with your point of view through. The digital ecenomy is creating great wealth for people, but how much of it is just hype? People still need basic needs like transportation, food, housing, unless we automize all of these basic needs then there is still going to be a need for them. That is a basic unalterable human fact.
I have been troubled recently by the decline of old school bluechip stocks, and the insanse rise of digital stocks, and pointless e-commerce companies. It seems that all you need right now is a neat idea to getting funding for a company, it doesnt even have to be economically feasible. That in it self is disturbing, there has to be a balance,... and there will be. It wont happen by government regulations, thing like this tend to filter out naturally, as people realize that you still need companies to manufacture textiles, and steel shapes. Ayway starting to turn into sort of a rant so I will stop now.
Yeah but of those billions of people very little actually even know what the internet is. Most are to busy worrying whether or not there cow is going to produce enough milk for supper that night. Not to mention that the government has been repressing the people of china for years, this isnt anything new really, they are probably used to it by now. I highly dont most will care. Doesnt make it right but that is just how it is.
WTH: This guy is just running his own site he got the name first, and he isnt squatting per say. The article noted that he works with encryption stuff, maybe he plans to use that site for some of his work. Wasnt there just this huge fiasco about etoy.com, It seemed that the slashdot community was behind etoy.com.
I could understand if he was squatting to get money but it doesnt look like this guy is out to make money off of the deal, he just registered the site. Just becuase OpenSSH wants the site doesnt mean that it deserves to get it. I *hate* doman squatters, but this seems like a legit use of the domain registration service. Is he trying to exhort money out of OpenSSH?
Anyway we have to be fair, and it sound like this guy is being fair.
The benfits of this law are readily apparent. The article didnt go too much into the legal technicalities of the bill. What are the other resrictions. While I dont mind the government cracking down on certain companies, i just start getting nervous when the government steps in and starts taking control from people.
hmm interesting, I wonder if they kind of ship would run cooler then their electronic counterparts? This sounds like the technology that is going to hold us over under we find out how to do quantum computing.
IS this magnetic switching of bit just as fast as traditional electronic chips, or does it impose latency. Last, and finally all I want it to run quake 3 arena on my laptop for 7 hours at 60 FPS, then Ill be happy
1) Sheer numbers
2) Human disposition.
Come is this really anything new, Men are using drawn more towards the technological side then women, I am *not* saying women can't perform In this function, Im just saying men tend to have a disposition whether though social upbringing, or testoterone.