their site seems to be down.
and i really wanted to write them a note to tell them what a few local, loyal (in the past) drinkers thought about this.
has it been slashdotted or something?
So do it yourself. Start a company that sells software in the way you think is sane. Or find a company that is closer than any other to doing things the way you would like to, and buy their stuff. Support them, hype them, if they have stock, buy some.
This is why we are still in a capitalist economy; if you think things could be better done another way, try to do it. If you are right, then the reward is yours.
And don't go saying it wouldn't work, or wouldn't work better than the practices already in use. If you believe your sears-hammer analogy is properly made then, modus ponens, it must work. For it seems clear that, if every store were doing the sears-hammer bit, a store that didn't would rake in the cash.
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"I currently attend a university here in Canada . .."
So your post is off topic. We probably all think that having computers in higher education is good. It is their use in middle and high schools that seems ridiculous.
A disturbing number of people seem to have quite unfounded fears that display a lack of basic knowledge of how biology works. I understand that this is a computerist (for lack of a better term) type site. So to make an analogy that might be more comprehensible: imagine a program that can make a copy of itself when you give it the command to do so. Now does this sound like a program that you would fear? I don't want them to destroy the cute little fellows after they create them. I want to buy some. I don't usually like pets, but I would be proud to own some manmade life. (this is putting aside that little technical debate about just how manmade these little critters _will_ be.)
Right on to point 4. If life on mars I say we make it happy in a nice zoo and then full speed ahead. I don't understand these people wanting to wait for public debate. Surely while one guy was telling the press that, the others were getting the equipment set up. And I would really, really, like to buy a petri dish of manmade life. I can think of no cooler pet(s). Just in time for the new millennium.
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their site seems to be down.
and i really wanted to write them a note to tell them what a few local, loyal (in the past) drinkers thought about this. has it been slashdotted or something?
me.
So do it yourself. Start a company that sells software in the way you think is sane. Or find a company that is closer than any other to doing things the way you would like to, and buy their stuff. Support them, hype them, if they have stock, buy some.
This is why we are still in a capitalist economy; if you think things could be better done another way, try to do it. If you are right, then the reward is yours.
And don't go saying it wouldn't work, or wouldn't work better than the practices already in use. If you believe your sears-hammer analogy is properly made then, modus ponens, it must work. For it seems clear that, if every store were doing the sears-hammer bit, a store that didn't would rake in the cash.
"I currently attend a university here in Canada . . ."
So your post is off topic. We probably all think that having computers in higher education is good. It is their use in middle and high schools that seems ridiculous.
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A disturbing number of people seem to have quite unfounded fears that display a lack of basic knowledge of how biology works. I understand that this is a computerist (for lack of a better term) type site. So to make an analogy that might be more comprehensible: imagine a program that can make a copy of itself when you give it the command to do so. Now does this sound like a program that you would fear?
I don't want them to destroy the cute little fellows after they create them. I want to buy some. I don't usually like pets, but I would be proud to own some manmade life. (this is putting aside that little technical debate about just how manmade these little critters _will_ be.)
Right on to point 4. If life on mars I say we make it happy in a nice zoo and then full speed ahead.
I don't understand these people wanting to wait for public debate. Surely while one guy was telling the press that, the others were getting the equipment set up.
And I would really, really, like to buy a petri dish of manmade life. I can think of no cooler pet(s). Just in time for the new millennium.