And what's better? 24 hour non-stop politicized news coverage? The polarized blogsphere?
You sound like you think MSM network news isn't politicized. I'll get my information from people who are at least up front about their biases, thanks, rather than putting on transparently false airs of "objectivity."
The thing is that they were in JEDEC, the consortium where companies decide on standards for things like RAM. JEDEC rules are set up to prohibit what Rambus tried to do, i.e. get stuff that they'd patented written into the standards, and once everyone is committed to it, say "Surprise! We hold the patents to X, Y, Z, so all your profit are belong to us!"
I have taken to just buying the Sunday paper, too...but for that matter, CompUSA/Office {Depot, Max}/Staples/Best Buy all have their Sunday inserts online, comics are online, and the newspaper itself has most of its homegrown content online for seven days...so aside from classified ads (isn't that what craigslist is for?) what's the point in buying a dead tree newspaper?
I forget where I read this, but one source of our knowledge about the evolution of the Romance languages is the writing of the Roman equivalent of John Simon and William Safire: "Dagnabit, it's equus, not caballus!"
A goodly part of what those "inarticulate" youngsters are saying will turn to fossils, like "groovy," or "23-skidoo," "the bee's knees," or "absquatulate" from still earlier times... but OTOH, part may be the source of what the languages we speak will turn into.
They posted the question in a forum and gathered the responses. So...you're talking self-selected responses, which pretty well guarantees a non-representative sample, even if the responses are interesting. I wish they'd done a real live survey.
"the American guy has a good life. There's this belief that for every dollar they lose, the American government will pay them back in some way."
This is not a new thinking. Many crooks try to justify what they are doing by making it seem that they are not hurting anyone, at least not as much as they are.
Hmmm. That does bear a marked similarity to the justification of, for example, "progressive" taxation.
...that the summary says "a long roe to hoe." That's how the ZD article has it. Guess very few folks have agricultural experience these days, and hence don't know it's "a long [though I've always seen 'hard' in this cliche] row to hoe."
Admittedly, they should've put a big old [sic] after it.
(Well...maybe there is some bizarre fish species Mr. Berlind knows of?)
Selling you something broken, and then charging extra to make it work, is the right thing? Sounds to me like MS has finally figured out what they could call the Other Other Operation.
...with all the effectiveness and ethics exemplified by Oil for Food and the "Toyota Taliban", right? Perhaps sex in exchange for Internet access in developing countries?
Last but not least, when technology gets to the point of enabling humans to live several hundred years, who gets to enjoy such benefits?
Everybody, eventually, just as with other technology. It's always expensive at first. In the meantime, you can enjoy contemplating that it's those wicked rich people that are effectively beta testers.
(Yes, I know I've said this before, but the redistributionist mentality of "nobody should have anything unless everybody gets one" is persistent and pernicious.)
Good grief. I think the brouhaha over the gdm image says more about the people who object to it than to the image itself. Perhaps the next release should show three women in a circle wearing chadours.
I think that the term for those folks is "useful idiots." Concerning the whole "campaign finance reform" movement, this article is of interest; basically it was a huge astroturf campaign.
With all due respect to the Good Doctor and Tripmaster Monkey, psychohistory isn't involved. Read Marc Stiegler's Earthweb. (Note: the web page is out of date; for example, the contest is over.) It's set in a world where idea futures markets are commonplace (and periodically save the world).
(If you happen to have read his David's Sling (and if you haven't, you should), you'll recognize the world of Worldweb as the society that Nathan Pilstrom envisions at the end of that book, where the Zetetic Institute's ideas and methods have become commonplace. Reggie Oxenford is what Bill Hardie was trying to become.)
The main one IMHO is the ability to zoom on a page with not only the text made larger, but also with the graphics blown up. This is good for at least a couple of reasons:
1. If you end up on one of those web pages where #$%!@ designers render text as graphics so that they can be sure to inflict Joe's Bitchen Grunge Sans-Serif on you, you can still make the text large enough to read.
2. Until the day that web cartoonists all use SVG, if you're looking at a fine web comic like, say, Day by Day on your spiffy new 2000 x 1500 monitor, you can make it big enough to read.
I wish. Unfortunately, the US, while sane enough to make the switch to "decimal money," hasn't gotten around to switching to a sane system of measurements.
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You forgot Man Versus the Empire Brain Building (doo doo wah doo dooooo....)
...now we can look forward to being stuck at stop lights by idiots with those in their cars.
And what's better? 24 hour non-stop politicized news coverage? The polarized blogsphere?
You sound like you think MSM network news isn't politicized. I'll get my information from people who are at least up front about their biases, thanks, rather than putting on transparently false airs of "objectivity."
The thing is that they were in JEDEC, the consortium where companies decide on standards for things like RAM. JEDEC rules are set up to prohibit what Rambus tried to do, i.e. get stuff that they'd patented written into the standards, and once everyone is committed to it, say "Surprise! We hold the patents to X, Y, Z, so all your profit are belong to us!"
I have taken to just buying the Sunday paper, too...but for that matter, CompUSA/Office {Depot, Max}/Staples/Best Buy all have their Sunday inserts online, comics are online, and the newspaper itself has most of its homegrown content online for seven days...so aside from classified ads (isn't that what craigslist is for?) what's the point in buying a dead tree newspaper?
I forget where I read this, but one source of our knowledge about the evolution of the Romance languages is the writing of the Roman equivalent of John Simon and William Safire: "Dagnabit, it's equus, not caballus!"
A goodly part of what those "inarticulate" youngsters are saying will turn to fossils, like "groovy," or "23-skidoo," "the bee's knees," or "absquatulate" from still earlier times... but OTOH, part may be the source of what the languages we speak will turn into.
They posted the question in a forum and gathered the responses. So...you're talking self-selected responses, which pretty well guarantees a non-representative sample, even if the responses are interesting. I wish they'd done a real live survey.
"the American guy has a good life. There's this belief that for every dollar they lose, the American government will pay them back in some way."
This is not a new thinking. Many crooks try to justify what they are doing by making it seem that they are not hurting anyone, at least not as much as they are.
Hmmm. That does bear a marked similarity to the justification of, for example, "progressive" taxation.
...that the summary says "a long roe to hoe." That's how the ZD article has it. Guess very few folks have agricultural experience these days, and hence don't know it's "a long [though I've always seen 'hard' in this cliche] row to hoe."
Admittedly, they should've put a big old [sic] after it.
(Well...maybe there is some bizarre fish species Mr. Berlind knows of?)
That's not making the pricing attractive for everyone; that's hiding most of the price in what the government seizes from you.
...perhaps people will be able to remember when one actually had significant choice in mass-market computers.
Selling you something broken, and then charging extra to make it work, is the right thing? Sounds to me like MS has finally figured out what they could call the Other Other Operation.
The GIMP interface is teh suxxor! (But of course, I can't be bothered to tell you what would make it better.)
...with all the effectiveness and ethics exemplified by Oil for Food and the "Toyota Taliban", right? Perhaps sex in exchange for Internet access in developing countries?
Last but not least, when technology gets to the point of enabling humans to live several hundred years, who gets to enjoy such benefits?
Everybody, eventually, just as with other technology. It's always expensive at first. In the meantime, you can enjoy contemplating that it's those wicked rich people that are effectively beta testers.
(Yes, I know I've said this before, but the redistributionist mentality of "nobody should have anything unless everybody gets one" is persistent and pernicious.)
Good grief. I think the brouhaha over the gdm image says more about the people who object to it than to the image itself. Perhaps the next release should show three women in a circle wearing chadours.
Readers who believe the one has anything to do with the other need to go back to Dreyfus' 1972 classic What Computers Can't Do.
Citing Hubert Dreyfus as an authority on AI is like citing the Flat Earth Society as an authority on geography.
It is insane to think you would have to pay sales tax for the state you reside and the state you are purchasing from.
Since when is sanity a constraint on what the government does, especially when it sees the chance to grab more money?
In descending order of effect:
hand-written letter
typed/printed letter
phone call
email
email that has text exactly like that of umpteen other emails
online petition
I think that the term for those folks is "useful idiots." Concerning the whole "campaign finance reform" movement, this article is of interest; basically it was a huge astroturf campaign.
How insane does this sound?
Totally insane. At least as insane as all the "campaign finance" laws that have been passed so far in the US.
For details, see the First Amendment.
Why is it that for Linux to succeed Microsoft must fail and vice versa?
Because of the vice versa part. Microsoft defines success as destruction of all opponents, and has no notion of peaceful coexistence.
With all due respect to the Good Doctor and Tripmaster Monkey, psychohistory isn't involved. Read Marc Stiegler's Earthweb . (Note: the web page is out of date; for example, the contest is over.) It's set in a world where idea futures markets are commonplace (and periodically save the world).
(If you happen to have read his David's Sling (and if you haven't, you should), you'll recognize the world of Worldweb as the society that Nathan Pilstrom envisions at the end of that book, where the Zetetic Institute's ideas and methods have become commonplace. Reggie Oxenford is what Bill Hardie was trying to become.)
The main one IMHO is the ability to zoom on a page with not only the text made larger, but also with the graphics blown up. This is good for at least a couple of reasons:
1. If you end up on one of those web pages where #$%!@ designers render text as graphics so that they can be sure to inflict Joe's Bitchen Grunge Sans-Serif on you, you can still make the text large enough to read.
2. Until the day that web cartoonists all use SVG, if you're looking at a fine web comic like, say, Day by Day on your spiffy new 2000 x 1500 monitor, you can make it big enough to read.
You mean like inches, feet, and miles?
I wish. Unfortunately, the US, while sane enough to make the switch to "decimal money," hasn't gotten around to switching to a sane system of measurements.