All those people complaining about the fact that there's not Wi-Fi access where they use their camera - maybe there isn't now, but give it two years and there will be.
And I suspect that all the places that throw conferences sure as hell are building in Wi-Fi access...
Nope, it means that things that previously would have faded into the general 'unrealism' that pervades computer games stand out more and more when the other problems aren't there along with them.
Look at (for instance) Quake3. Point out a couple of problems with the graphics. Now look at Quake. The problems that FF has are almost certainly there too, but you won't notice them because other problems are far more glaring.
I tell it what shows I like and then I watch it whenever I like. I have no idea what days most shows are even on any more. I just sit down and see that there's a new Futurama or Scrubs or whatever. I don't have to program it with times/dates and I don't have to worry (mostly) about shows moving timeslots every week - the built in episode guide worries about all of that for me.
There's something about e-mail that demands a reply, demands a response. But when youâ(TM)re getting thousands of these things, it becomes an impossibility to respond to everything. So weâ(TM)ve got to shift the etiquette, and maybe make e-mail more like publishing: that is, you send something out and you might get one percent response. I think that the paradigm of e-mail as letters, as objects, is inappropriate. I'm waiting for a shift to the timeline, rather than the object, as the organizing principle. If you think about a blog for instance, thatâ(TM)s a timeline. And itâ(TM)s a really good way of organizing huge amounts of information, because weâ(TM)re quite good at sequencing.
I find this entirely true. So much of my day-to-day communication with my friends has changed from email to journal. Rather than mailing each other with "I've been doing X this morning, what have you been up to?", we've moved to making journal entries (and commenting on each other's entries). There's no spam, you don't feel bad about emailing your minutiae around the internet and you can read them from anywhere.
Obviously they don't do everything email does, but there are definitely places where they're very useful.
Well, yes. I think that Capitalism is necessary to give people the reward system they need to keep them happy and make them productive.
I just don't think that _only_ capitalism is the answer.
I followed the Anarchy FAQ above, hoping that it would have ideas about other ways to run systems. The economic arguments basically boiled down to "In an anarchist state, people would do stuff because they thought it was the right thing to do!"
I think I have a lower opinion of human nature than they do.
Yup, it's the worst form of economy, except for all the others
Absolutely.
I don't, however, believe in unfettered capitalism. Well, I do, when it comes to luxuries. Supply and demand work fantastically well for luxuries. But when it comes to things that people will pay infinite amounts of money for (healthcare, for instance), things which help people to become the rational agents the market depends upon to run smoothly (education) and people starving to death in the streets, I go for socialist approaches every time.
So how do give the people (and ourselves) what they want, while at the same time, having enough money to eat and pay rent?
Well, being a European left-wing type (with occasional anarchist leanings) my perfect system for encouraging this is universal benefit. The cost of a minimum standard of living (i.e. food, rent, and enough of the basics to get by) is provided for all people, so as to make sure that you can't starve to death in the gutters without trying, and after that you're on your own.
This removes the problem of means-tested benefit (which frequently makes people worse off when they start working), puts people in a bargaining position with employers (you wouldn't have to work in a really shitty job, so they'd have to improve conditions if they wanted you to work for them) and removes a fairly large layer of bureaucracy that deals with the poor.
Of course, the very idea of this tends to bring capitalists out in red blotches, but I think it would actually make the labour market more efficient (as it would be an actual free market, as opposed to a "you must work in shit jobs, or starve to death" market) and do more to improve the lot of most of the population than any other intervention method.
I'm on The High Proten Diet (as the book is called) and that restricts me to 40g of carbs a day.
This has helped enormously with my cravings (they basically stopped 2 days after I started the diet) and I no longer feel like I'm on a cycle of ups and downs.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published studies showing thayt it worked fantastically well for lowering cholestorol levels and suchlike.
It seems to work well for lots of people losing weight as well. I've certainly lost weight on it.
Yup. IIRC, everyone has an address of username@jabberserver
You connect to your jabber server and when you connect to a user on a different one, your server talks to the other one and passes the message across, just like happens with email.
I will pay to download files. Give me iTunes pricing, with MP3s available and I'll happily pay for that, no problems at all.
But I'm not trekking all the way to a store to pay for an album that I then copy to MP3 anyway.
Call me lazy if you like, but until the music industry makes it easier for me to use their service than it is to use Kazaa, they aint seeing any more of my money.
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I already have a copy of Shadowrun.
All those people complaining about the fact that there's not Wi-Fi access where they use their camera - maybe there isn't now, but give it two years and there will be.
And I suspect that all the places that throw conferences sure as hell are building in Wi-Fi access...
I've yet to see a Don Bluth film I'd rate above a 6/10. I'd happily rate Lion King, Lilo and Stitch and Emperor's New Groove way above any of them.
Nope, it means that things that previously would have faded into the general 'unrealism' that pervades computer games stand out more and more when the other problems aren't there along with them.
Look at (for instance) Quake3. Point out a couple of problems with the graphics. Now look at Quake. The problems that FF has are almost certainly there too, but you won't notice them because other problems are far more glaring.
I don't have a huge backup tape system.
Burning my complete collection onto CDs as a backup would be incredibly sucky.
I want the server to keep track of what I've bought and allow me to 'resynch' with it if my hard drive blows up.
The last thing I want is to have to pay for my entire myusic collection again. (Which is what you have to do with iTunes).
If Sherlock was someones open source/free software, then it would not be distributed and "integrated" into the OS.
If it was an add-on for Gnome, the Gnome people could put a competitor into the framework/default install.
Simple Object Access Protocol
It's just a way of turning calls to objects into XML so that they can be passed over TCP/IP.
XML-RPC (Remote Procedure Call) is another way of doing the same thing.
I'm now going to go and look up the difference...
Chocolate contains tryptophan, a seratonin precursor.
Seratonin is connected with depression, boosting it seems to make people happier.
They have three months to put all new entries into their systems. No matter when you sign up there's a three month window until it takes effect...
I couldn't live without my Tivo.
I tell it what shows I like and then I watch it whenever I like. I have no idea what days most shows are even on any more. I just sit down and see that there's a new Futurama or Scrubs or whatever. I don't have to program it with times/dates and I don't have to worry (mostly) about shows moving timeslots every week - the built in episode guide worries about all of that for me.
pretty cool looking chair tho...
There's something about e-mail that demands a reply, demands a response. But when youâ(TM)re getting thousands of these things, it becomes an impossibility to respond to everything. So weâ(TM)ve got to shift the etiquette, and maybe make e-mail more like publishing: that is, you send something out and you might get one percent response. I think that the paradigm of e-mail as letters, as objects, is inappropriate. I'm waiting for a shift to the timeline, rather than the object, as the organizing principle. If you think about a blog for instance, thatâ(TM)s a timeline. And itâ(TM)s a really good way of organizing huge amounts of information, because weâ(TM)re quite good at sequencing.
I find this entirely true. So much of my day-to-day communication with my friends has changed from email to journal. Rather than mailing each other with "I've been doing X this morning, what have you been up to?", we've moved to making journal entries (and commenting on each other's entries). There's no spam, you don't feel bad about emailing your minutiae around the internet and you can read them from anywhere.
Obviously they don't do everything email does, but there are definitely places where they're very useful.
Well, yes. I think that Capitalism is necessary to give people the reward system they need to keep them happy and make them productive.
I just don't think that _only_ capitalism is the answer.
I followed the Anarchy FAQ above, hoping that it would have ideas about other ways to run systems. The economic arguments basically boiled down to "In an anarchist state, people would do stuff because they thought it was the right thing to do!"
I think I have a lower opinion of human nature than they do.
Yup, it's the worst form of economy, except for all the others
Absolutely.
I don't, however, believe in unfettered capitalism. Well, I do, when it comes to luxuries. Supply and demand work fantastically well for luxuries. But when it comes to things that people will pay infinite amounts of money for (healthcare, for instance), things which help people to become the rational agents the market depends upon to run smoothly (education) and people starving to death in the streets, I go for socialist approaches every time.
It's a pleasure :->
I think you'll find that the words you were looking for was "capitalism makes for an unequitable and explotative system"
Sadly, it also makes for the most efficient and productive system. So it's better to use it your your advantage than to throw it away entirely.
So how do give the people (and ourselves) what they want, while at the same time, having enough money to eat and pay rent?
Well, being a European left-wing type (with occasional anarchist leanings) my perfect system for encouraging this is universal benefit. The cost of a minimum standard of living (i.e. food, rent, and enough of the basics to get by) is provided for all people, so as to make sure that you can't starve to death in the gutters without trying, and after that you're on your own.
This removes the problem of means-tested benefit (which frequently makes people worse off when they start working), puts people in a bargaining position with employers (you wouldn't have to work in a really shitty job, so they'd have to improve conditions if they wanted you to work for them) and removes a fairly large layer of bureaucracy that deals with the poor.
Of course, the very idea of this tends to bring capitalists out in red blotches, but I think it would actually make the labour market more efficient (as it would be an actual free market, as opposed to a "you must work in shit jobs, or starve to death" market) and do more to improve the lot of most of the population than any other intervention method.
Think how good our tech would be if everyone was smart.
goddamit, I want more smart people to hang out with. This would be much easier if there were more smart people.
I'm on The High Proten Diet (as the book is called) and that restricts me to 40g of carbs a day.
This has helped enormously with my cravings (they basically stopped 2 days after I started the diet) and I no longer feel like I'm on a cycle of ups and downs.
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published studies showing thayt it worked fantastically well for lowering cholestorol levels and suchlike.
It seems to work well for lots of people losing weight as well. I've certainly lost weight on it.
I have as little respect for most PhDs as I do for having a level 200 AO character.
Do what brings you the most satisfaction and the hell with anyone who tells you it's "not worthwhile"
Yes, like bread.
Go and read about the Atkins diet, or check out the Scientific American article here for more information.
I agree that caps suck, but how often do you download the RH ISO and all the components you develop with???
Yup. IIRC, everyone has an address of username@jabberserver
You connect to your jabber server and when you connect to a user on a different one, your server talks to the other one and passes the message across, just like happens with email.
I will pay to download files. Give me iTunes pricing, with MP3s available and I'll happily pay for that, no problems at all.
But I'm not trekking all the way to a store to pay for an album that I then copy to MP3 anyway.
Call me lazy if you like, but until the music industry makes it easier for me to use their service than it is to use Kazaa, they aint seeing any more of my money.