>>The inherently arrogant and increasingly elitist tech culture is myopically convinced that whatever happens to the masses, their salvation is just some new software away, and that programming skills will insulate them from the world beyond.
NO. You have once again confused people who know what they are doing with everyone else. The -true- tech "elites" know that that software revs won't solve world hunger.
oh, and your average MCSE is _NOT_ one of the tech elites.
Yes, putting it on a shirt makes it legal (rather, non-illegal). Does owning an MP3 ripper/encoder sound illegal? no. using it may be. DeCSS should be treated the same, it's just code. Now, someone in the business of ripping and copying DVDs with DeCSS is guilty of copyright infringement. DeCSS is just sorta there, like the electricity he uses to power his computer.
Is sitting a computer going to be illegal tomorrow?
This is obviously a case where 'free trade' isn't, and a 'competitive system' is just really a monopoly, or partnered monopoly.
The big five should be blasted all to hell just for the havoc they create with the devilish contracts they make with artists, not to mention the horrid way they force-feed overpriced slop down the consumer's throat.
But then, I'm just an arrogant American, I probably don't spend nearly as much time helping the needy as you do.
just as long as we don't let the french get it....
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We'll all be walking around with naturally-curly 4 inch long nose hair, perfectly straight, thick leg hair, and all be art-movie ugly.
At least if the US is gonna start twiddling with genes we can look forward to a future where women have back problems at 15, males have to consume 6000 calories a day, and viagra is generated by the adrenal gland.
wait-- maybe all the men in future might have hair...
When all the people looked at the Emperor's new clothes, all of them commented on how fine they looked, and not one of them would dare mention that the Emperor was naked....
wait a sec, what's to prevent every pornsite from here to kansas to just start using ssl some other sort of 'secure' connection? surely this lamebrain software can't decypher that.
(just use 40-bit keys so all the pacific islanders can get their pr0n)
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Wait, Help me out here, but can't much of the slag that is the ancient throw-back compatibility be dropped? I mean, in the days where I can emulate anything from a c64 to a PSX on my desktop, why do I need hardware AT/8086 compatibility? just my $.02
>> Since they won't be able to share information any of the 'new' companies would have to create an OS from scratch and all of their Apps would have to be rewritten.
ok, pause for a moment, and imagine being cooped up in a metal tube, probably not much bigger than a submarine. say you have 12-20 crewmates, and just for kicks lets assume that your crewmates are a 50/50 male/female split (that's 6-10 females and 6-10 males, not a bunch of quasi-hermaphrodites, for the sticklers out there).
ok. you are now 13 months into your 30 month mission, and, sadly, you are horny as hell (male or female, honestly, it doesn't matter, and anyone that says it does in a small 20 person microsociety like this needs to read up). Even without the presence of alcohol, most body attractiveness concerns will fly right out the window at around 2 or 3 months into the mission.
So. here we are. is anyone gonna try and tell me now that sex wouldn't happen? repeatedly? (the rules about crewmembers having sex in piers anthony's 'ghost' and 'bio of a space tyrant' series just seem a matter of common sense).
really think here, it's one thing to be celibate for a year or more, but quite another to try and be so while in continued contact with the same 10 members of the opposite sex, eating together, working together, running treadmills, etc.
The mere exposure effect is a (testable) theory in social psychology that states, (plainly) the more we are exposed to individuals (that we do not for other reasons strongly dislike) the more we will 'like' them, and favor their company. (there have been experiments with college students being better friends gradually with those living closer to them in a dorm).
Seriously, these crewmates are gonna bone the heck out of each other, like crazy.
it might make real sense for NASA to consider STD testing pre-mission, and packing lots of birth control...
one could argue that they don't "learn", but that's all really beside the point; a neuron is a part of a larger organism, so the 'traditional' checklist of 'life' doesn't apply. (is my toe alive? my liver? my eyelid? the tail of a dog?)
i cannot remember all 7 or so 'rules' for determining if something is alive, but i'm pretty sure that reproduction is quite high up there, along with learning, and reaction to outside stimuli.
sure i'd want my name on anything i did, but is that logical?
Corporations function through teamwork. The poor bastards that don't get their name signed would suffer a motivation and morale hit. Is that worth the (small) ego boost for the blokes that get their name up in lights?
Is the genius that goes into codewriting any different that the genius that goes into aerodynamic design? or architecture? or landscaping? IS the name of every guy who designed the hood of your car hidden on it somewhere? what about the people that did the landsaping along your favorite Interstate?
I think that a lack of signatures would hardly make your company "commie". Besides, to make such brash political allegations about Microsoft would have to mean that they all get paid the same, and i KNOW that ain't true.
I'm sure this will draw flame, but why the heck do programmers ave enough time to sign their work, when there are always bugs? I mean, more than once I've seen a neat-o easter egg, and caught a bug later, and thought idly to myself
"gee, would it have been nifty if they had fixed that instead of making their names look so pretty?"
Credit? You make it sound as if these programmers and engineers are all doing this out of the goodness of their collective hearts. They get PAID for their time and efforts, why should they get credit for it?
Granted, easter eggs are cute, but not in a company thats employee roster numbers in the thousands.
At this point, even if such signatures could be kept to Apple isn't a little kid anymore, and they're acting like it.
Your point? If you were to be blunt enough to stroll up to a peace officer and explain your inner feelings towards him via your middle finger, would you really expect him to ignore you? Hacking any governmental site is dumb. Getting caught is dumber. Being dumb is bad.
i mean, i have about as much use for titanium oven mitts as the next guy, and i really don't 10E^50 email addresses, (but hey, doesn't that subliminal seduction tape really work? *cough*)
But c'mon, it's just like the junkmail you get at home. only you don't have to walk all the way to the garbage can; you get rid of it without leaving your couch. if you really want to bitch, bitch about something worthwhile. junkmail is just junkmail.
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>>The inherently arrogant and increasingly elitist tech culture is myopically convinced that whatever happens to the masses, their salvation is just some new software away, and that programming skills will insulate them from the world beyond.
NO. You have once again confused people who know what they are doing with everyone else. The -true- tech "elites" know that that software revs won't solve world hunger.
oh, and your average MCSE is _NOT_ one of the tech elites.
Yes, putting it on a shirt makes it legal (rather, non-illegal). Does owning an MP3 ripper/encoder sound illegal? no. using it may be. DeCSS should be treated the same, it's just code. Now, someone in the business of ripping and copying DVDs with DeCSS is guilty of copyright infringement. DeCSS is just sorta there, like the electricity he uses to power his computer.
Is sitting a computer going to be illegal tomorrow?
URLs?
it's about the dotted quad, baby.
Are you not thinking straight?
This is obviously a case where 'free trade' isn't, and a 'competitive system' is just really a monopoly, or partnered monopoly.
The big five should be blasted all to hell just for the havoc they create with the devilish contracts they make with artists, not to mention the horrid way they force-feed overpriced slop down the consumer's throat.
But then, I'm just an arrogant American, I probably don't spend nearly as much time helping the needy as you do.
We'll all be walking around with naturally-curly 4 inch long nose hair, perfectly straight, thick leg hair, and all be art-movie ugly.
At least if the US is gonna start twiddling with genes we can look forward to a future where women have back problems at 15, males have to consume 6000 calories a day, and viagra is generated by the adrenal gland.
wait-- maybe all the men in future might have hair...
When all the people looked at the Emperor's new clothes, all of them commented on how fine they looked, and not one of them would dare mention that the Emperor was naked....
*closes storybook* oh. right.
Internet like TV? like AOL/TW?
portable USB hard drive: $300
spare USB cable, hub: $60
bootable CDROM with OS of choice: $15
assorted floppies, zips $30
knowing M$ won't be reading my data: priceless.
I wonder, how often will they, peruse, i mean, 'index' your data?
I dislike this idea.
wait a sec, what's to prevent every pornsite from here to kansas to just start using ssl some other sort of 'secure' connection? surely this lamebrain software can't decypher that.
(just use 40-bit keys so all the pacific islanders can get their pr0n)
This is a FRIGHTENING bit of news.
The thought that ISPs could 'vchip' content is unnerving, and ripe for abuse.
God forbid we act as parents for our chilren, no...
we should just invent 'safe' boxes to sit them in front of for 18 to 20.
True, the engine wasn't state of the art anymore, but i always felt like Moo was just cleaner, i dunno, i guess i liked the art more.
plus, is it just me, or does anyone else hit the alpha state with some games, and not with others?
(i.e. no longer thing about doing, just doing, etc)
MARATHON FOREVER!!!!
long live durandal.
Wait, Help me out here, but can't much of the slag that is the ancient throw-back compatibility be dropped? I mean, in the days where I can emulate anything from a c64 to a PSX on my desktop, why do I need hardware AT/8086 compatibility? just my $.02
>> Since they won't be able to share information any of the 'new' companies would have to create an OS from scratch and all of their Apps would have to be rewritten.
And this is a terribly -bad- thing?
ok, pause for a moment, and imagine being cooped up in a metal tube, probably not much bigger than a submarine. say you have 12-20 crewmates, and just for kicks lets assume that your crewmates are a 50/50 male/female split (that's 6-10 females and 6-10 males, not a bunch of quasi-hermaphrodites, for the sticklers out there).
ok. you are now 13 months into your 30 month mission, and, sadly, you are horny as hell (male or female, honestly, it doesn't matter, and anyone that says it does in a small 20 person microsociety like this needs to read up). Even without the presence of alcohol, most body attractiveness concerns will fly right out the window at around 2 or 3 months into the mission.
So. here we are. is anyone gonna try and tell me now that sex wouldn't happen? repeatedly? (the rules about crewmembers having sex in piers anthony's 'ghost' and 'bio of a space tyrant' series just seem a matter of common sense).
really think here, it's one thing to be celibate for a year or more, but quite another to try and be so while in continued contact with the same 10 members of the opposite sex, eating together, working together, running treadmills, etc.
The mere exposure effect is a (testable) theory in social psychology that states, (plainly) the more we are exposed to individuals (that we do not for other reasons strongly dislike) the more we will 'like' them, and favor their company. (there have been experiments with college students being better friends gradually with those living closer to them in a dorm).
Seriously, these crewmates are gonna bone the heck out of each other, like crazy.
it might make real sense for NASA to consider STD testing pre-mission, and packing lots of birth control...
one could argue that they don't "learn", but that's all really beside the point; a neuron is a part of a larger organism, so the 'traditional' checklist of 'life' doesn't apply. (is my toe alive? my liver? my eyelid? the tail of a dog?)
i cannot remember all 7 or so 'rules' for determining if something is alive, but i'm pretty sure that reproduction is quite high up there, along with learning, and reaction to outside stimuli.
(too much biopsych and behavioral psych)
Out of tradition, yes, but their credits aren't bogging down the projector's processor, or eating valuable real estate, are they?
;)
(And judging from your reply, i think you missed my other comment on which artists get to sign their work and which don't)
Most video games have some neat credit sequences at their close, maybe OS's could have some when you shut down
sure i'd want my name on anything i did, but is that logical?
Corporations function through teamwork. The poor bastards that don't get their name signed would suffer a motivation and morale hit. Is that worth the (small) ego boost for the blokes that get their name up in lights?
Is the genius that goes into codewriting any different that the genius that goes into aerodynamic design? or architecture? or landscaping? IS the name of every guy who designed the hood of your car hidden on it somewhere? what about the people that did the landsaping along your favorite Interstate?
"It's pretty, but is it Art?"
I think that a lack of signatures would hardly make your company "commie". Besides, to make such brash political allegations about Microsoft would have to mean that they all get paid the same, and i KNOW that ain't true.
now a socialist company....
I'm sure this will draw flame, but why the heck do programmers ave enough time to sign their work, when there are always bugs? I mean, more than once I've seen a neat-o easter egg, and caught a bug later, and thought idly to myself
"gee, would it have been nifty if they had fixed that instead of making their names look so pretty?"
just a thought.
Credit? You make it sound as if these programmers and engineers are all doing this out of the goodness of their collective hearts. They get PAID for their time and efforts, why should they get credit for it?
Granted, easter eggs are cute, but not in a company thats employee roster numbers in the thousands.
At this point, even if such signatures could be kept to
Apple isn't a little kid anymore, and they're acting like it.
Your point? If you were to be blunt enough to stroll up to a peace officer and explain your inner feelings towards him via your middle finger, would you really expect him to ignore you? Hacking any governmental site is dumb. Getting caught is dumber. Being dumb is bad.
i have to agree, spam isn't really all that bad.
i mean, i have about as much use for titanium oven mitts as the next guy, and i really don't 10E^50 email addresses, (but hey, doesn't that subliminal seduction tape really work? *cough*)
But c'mon, it's just like the junkmail you get at home. only you don't have to walk all the way to the garbage can; you get rid of it without leaving your couch. if you really want to bitch, bitch about something worthwhile. junkmail is just junkmail.