Guns, smart and dumb. Missiles. Bombs, smart and dumb. Maneuvering for position in gravity wells. People will discover that common, everyday tools make great weapons, with the application of imagination.
What will war look like? Just like it has always looked. Messy, confusing, chaotic, adorned with lots of blood and gore.
My question is, why does everyone ignore the guns? Guns will work wonderfully in space. Projectiles won't be deflected by dust, mirrors, or other fancy tricks. Guns have been pretty reliable since they were invented. Guns probably won't last long as a primary weapon, but they will always have a place in combat. Energy weapons won't rule until we've figured out cold fusion. Until then, guns will remain as end-game deciders, if nothing else.
Unlike you, I'm offended by the existence of splash screens. I don't give a rat's ass which splash screen, whether it's my BIOS when I boot, the operating system when it takes control of the hardware, or the applications after I've finally logged in.
We (humanity) built computers so that we could do lightning-fast calculations, and do impossible chores in seconds or minutes, instead of lifetimes. The fun and everything just followed.
All those damned splash screens are anathema to the concept of computing.
I already KNOW that my BIOS was written by (ASUS, Phoenix, fill in your brand here), I do NOT need three, ten, or thirty second splash screens to remind me. Ditto with my nVidia card. Ditto with the boot loader. Ditto again with the operating system
And, that goes double (or more) for any application I might want to run. Adobe, Oracle, whoever - I KNOW where I got the software already. All I want it to do, is just what I want it to do. I most certainly DO NOT want it to waste precious seconds of my lifetime reminding me that Adobe or Oracle are wasting my time!
All I want from a computer is "instant on" and "instant responsiveness". I've invested a fair amount of money in good hardware, fast CPU and video, and plenty of memory. I want it to FLY, not to display inane splash screens!
Actually - trucks engaged in interstate commerce are REQUIRED to have the company name displayed on the side of the truck or tractor. Perhaps you are thinking of the trailer. The trailer is only required to have legal registration readily accessible, no markings at all.
Regarding that company name on the side of the truck, you are close to being correct. The company name need not be some readily recognized conglomerate, such as Wal-Mart. "Joe Jones Trucking" is perfectly correct, if Joe Jones is operating a fleet of trucks in interstate commerce. He may have a small "fleet" of one to ten trucks, but it's still a "fleet".
And, back to TFS: "Peterbilt tractor-trailer" Peterbilt doesn't make or sell a "tractor-trailer". Peterbilt builds and sells tractors. It's up to the purchaser to find a trailer, available from a number of vendors, large and small.
The legal term is, I believe, "Possession of stolen property". And, yes, there are probably tens of thousands of people in our prison system whose greatest crimes were "possession of stolen property". If it's a big enough item, then they were probably also charged with grand theft.
"I think it's fair to say most people are thinking of a mobile computing device when they hear "iPad" and they don't immediately think of sanitary towels."
In my day, a "pad" generally referred to brake pads, feminine hygiene products, or a hippy's home. I bought many tablets and notebooks, and I heard of "notepads", but I never bought or used a pad except for use in the wheels of my cars. The closest thing I ever used was "padding" when shipping something.
If I buy a car, stereo, computer, whatever from some dude, it's mine, right?
But, what happens when the cops knock on my door, with a search warrant, and search my home for that stuff I bought? They say it's stolen. And, I'm arrested, booked, and charged with "receiving stolen property".
I think Apple is in a parallel position here. They can expect to be slapped around a little for trying to bully the rightful owner of this "intellectual property".
They paid for the trademark - yes. And, Proview is honoring that sale. Proview is not marketing an iPad in global markets, in international markets, or in any national markets - outside of mainland China.
Apple got what they paid for. They have rights to the iPad name around the world - outside of China.
WTF for? I mean, who is going to use it? Who would ever pay for it? Why would I want it? Maybe Suse would put it in a default installation, but I haven't used Suse in a long time either.
That diversity? As nearly as I can tell, there are only two main schools. Not like Christianity where a new sect, cult, or church is started annually, and twice on leap year.
What's the matter - you failed spelling in school, and you can't spell "Christian"? Or, are you from some other planet, where the Xians are the official clerics? You certainly sound strange, here on Earth, talking about Xians.
The DEA has had the National Guard flying helicopters over the countryside for a long time now, searching for marijuana fields. If I remember correctly, those hemp plants show up quite differently in either infrared or ultraviolet photography. I'm not "up on" this stuff, but I do know that the state regularly flies patrol missions in my area each summer and autumn.
Damn, this is slashdot - someone probably expects me to research this shit before I post it. But, "Everyone knows that they are looking for marijuana!"
Irony? I guess in some alternate reality, it would be ironic. Like, some reality in which Gore actually contributed something that no one else was capable of contributing. Here, in this one reality that you and I happen to share, there were thousands of people already working hard to make the net work, before Gore hooked his talons into it.
Remember, we're talking about the same parasite who is profiting off of other people's guilt, by selling "carbon credits".
Note, that it was a jury trial. Had it been a non-jury trial, the judge probably would have been paid off. "You find for me, Your Honor, and it's worth tens of millions to your favorite charity IN YOUR NAME!" Or, something similar . . . .
I believe that one of the main ingredients is DMSO. I use veterinarian quality DMSO for my knees. A nice dose of the stuff keeps my knees working pretty well for several days, sometimes for weeks.
I met a guy in Houston who uses WD40 for the same thing. He has the stuff in all his toolboxes anyway, so he just uses WD40 instead of DMSO. It hasn't killed him yet!
Suck it? Dude, you live dangerously. I wouldn't touch any of their relatives with my, or my worst enemy's peter. There's to high a chance of helping the scum to replicate!
And, THAT is exactly what is wrong with NDA's. The end user, the guy who is actually purchasing the hardware, has the right to know what is on his machine, and how it got there.
I haven't bought an OEM machine about a decade now. I purchase what I want, and install what I want. I don't TRUST Compaq, Dell, or any of the others to NOT install crapware, spyware, bloatware, etc on my machine. They are in it for the money, and they don't work for ME, the end user.
You're perfectly right - the numbers are against us. And, there are a lot of obstacles to overcome in the future.
Look at it from a different perspective, though. Bill Gates gave it his best shot, to have Linux squashed. He couldn't do it. Microsoft hated OSS, and did everything in their power, at the height of their power, to smother open source. It hasn't happened. Linux may not be as strong as we would like, and OSS still isn't an every day house hold word. But, we're still here. We ain't going away.
Someone (here on slashdot, I believe) once laid out for me the normal life cycles of a corporation. Microsoft will change, diversify, and adapt as best they can to changing markets. We've seen some of that change, already. While their deals with the likes of Suse are poisoned, they are deals. Microsoft, by necessity, has accepted that OSS will survive.
We've won the struggle for existence, and we've even won some grudging support from the biggest giant in the field. We aren't going away. OSS is less established than - ohh - let's say IBM, but even IBM supports OSS in some ways. We've won, and we've won a lot.
Every day, there are new devices sold to the masses with *nix-like OS's on them. I'm not extremely fond of the direction that Android is going, but it's out there. Millions of users are using non-Microsoft products. And, every single one of them is a small victory over Microsoft.
We've won. We can only grow stronger, in the future. Our little paradise is assured, until the "next big thing" comes along.
And, to be honest, I'm looking forward to the day that some uppity young developers create a new operating system that just blows away everything we are playing with today! IMO, Linux is the best thing we have today, or maybe BSD. But, to be honest, nothing we have today is all that great.
I'm content though. OSS has won, and the future nerds who are crawling around in diapers today have room in which to play, explore, and develop that "next big thing". We've won.
WTF is 24? Forget that, I don't give a crap. Did I suggest that a citizen of another nation should, could, or would have fewer rights than a citizen of the United States? No, I didn't. I stated that no one has MORE rights than a citizen of the United States. Most certainly not some self-proclaimed "rights holders". That shit is for the old world aristocracy, for whom I have nothing but contempt.
I read your reply, and wondered, "Where did he get the half million from?" I spent several minutes with Google - until I ran into this. http://home.roadrunner.com/~casualties/ Seems you're right - that 1/4 million that I've been using appears to only account for the first invasion, or at most, only the first weeks of the second invasion.
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"he knows whose paying his salary and it AIN'T you."
That merits a minor correction. Yes, it is still us, the little people, who pay all their wages. The problem is, we've overpaid the entertainment industries for so long, that they have amassed some of the biggest fortunes in the world. That money permitted them to draw up laws, which effectively allow them to tax us, so that they can pay those salaries in our place.
If people would just wake up to the fact that they don't need what Hollywood and the other entertainment cartels have to offer, they could be brought to heel in a few years.
Black March would be a good start, if enough people get on board. If Black March doesn't get their attention, then maybe we could have a Black Summer, then a Black Autumn, and a Black Winter.
How many seasons of no sales could those cartels survive?
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I hate that term, "rights holder". No one has more rights than a citizen of the United States. That term alone is justification for a revolution.
Society, in general, is making the point that the price is to high. Are you even paying attention? SOPA and PIPA were shot down, thanks to a grass roots movement to kill them. They aren't dead yet, but they were definitely shot down. ACTA is in the process of being shot down.
Our cultures, around the world, are beginning to react to the outright greed of corporate entities, who value their "products" an order of magnitude to highly.
And, yes, copyright laws do indeed "lock up" society's right to innovate or to emulate performers.
Just to be clear - what we have today is not "free trade" by any definition. NAFTA was a weapon, which was designed to pit Mexican workmen against United States workers. CAFTA is more of the same. And, China's "most favored trade partner" status was too.
The corporate world is using us, all of us, as tools to destroy each other's livelihoods. Corporations in Mexico, South America, China, Africa, and the rest of the world are pushing family farmers out of business, so that those families have no choice but to emigrate, or turn to a life of crime to survive.
All that cheap labor becomes available to undermine the economies of the first world nations.
What we have today amounts to class warfare, with that infamous 1% stealing everything that belonged to the middle classes, lower classes, and even the subsistence level dirt poor of the world.
Free trade, my ass. Who was it that made all these "free trade" agreements? Damned near no one in the 99% voted for any of it. Al Gore's constituents made it quite clear to him that they did NOT want anything to do with NAFTA, and his reply amounted to, "I'm sorry, but I know better, so I'm overriding your wishes."
If this is "free trade", then I'm ready to try some socialism.
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Guns, smart and dumb. Missiles. Bombs, smart and dumb. Maneuvering for position in gravity wells. People will discover that common, everyday tools make great weapons, with the application of imagination.
What will war look like? Just like it has always looked. Messy, confusing, chaotic, adorned with lots of blood and gore.
My question is, why does everyone ignore the guns? Guns will work wonderfully in space. Projectiles won't be deflected by dust, mirrors, or other fancy tricks. Guns have been pretty reliable since they were invented. Guns probably won't last long as a primary weapon, but they will always have a place in combat. Energy weapons won't rule until we've figured out cold fusion. Until then, guns will remain as end-game deciders, if nothing else.
Unlike you, I'm offended by the existence of splash screens. I don't give a rat's ass which splash screen, whether it's my BIOS when I boot, the operating system when it takes control of the hardware, or the applications after I've finally logged in.
We (humanity) built computers so that we could do lightning-fast calculations, and do impossible chores in seconds or minutes, instead of lifetimes. The fun and everything just followed.
All those damned splash screens are anathema to the concept of computing.
I already KNOW that my BIOS was written by (ASUS, Phoenix, fill in your brand here), I do NOT need three, ten, or thirty second splash screens to remind me.
Ditto with my nVidia card.
Ditto with the boot loader.
Ditto again with the operating system
And, that goes double (or more) for any application I might want to run. Adobe, Oracle, whoever - I KNOW where I got the software already. All I want it to do, is just what I want it to do. I most certainly DO NOT want it to waste precious seconds of my lifetime reminding me that Adobe or Oracle are wasting my time!
All I want from a computer is "instant on" and "instant responsiveness". I've invested a fair amount of money in good hardware, fast CPU and video, and plenty of memory. I want it to FLY, not to display inane splash screens!
Actually - trucks engaged in interstate commerce are REQUIRED to have the company name displayed on the side of the truck or tractor. Perhaps you are thinking of the trailer. The trailer is only required to have legal registration readily accessible, no markings at all.
Regarding that company name on the side of the truck, you are close to being correct. The company name need not be some readily recognized conglomerate, such as Wal-Mart. "Joe Jones Trucking" is perfectly correct, if Joe Jones is operating a fleet of trucks in interstate commerce. He may have a small "fleet" of one to ten trucks, but it's still a "fleet".
And, back to TFS: "Peterbilt tractor-trailer" Peterbilt doesn't make or sell a "tractor-trailer". Peterbilt builds and sells tractors. It's up to the purchaser to find a trailer, available from a number of vendors, large and small.
"So when you pay for something, it's stolen?"
The legal term is, I believe, "Possession of stolen property". And, yes, there are probably tens of thousands of people in our prison system whose greatest crimes were "possession of stolen property". If it's a big enough item, then they were probably also charged with grand theft.
"I think it's fair to say most people are thinking of a mobile computing device when they hear "iPad" and they don't immediately think of sanitary towels."
In my day, a "pad" generally referred to brake pads, feminine hygiene products, or a hippy's home. I bought many tablets and notebooks, and I heard of "notepads", but I never bought or used a pad except for use in the wheels of my cars. The closest thing I ever used was "padding" when shipping something.
If I buy a car, stereo, computer, whatever from some dude, it's mine, right?
But, what happens when the cops knock on my door, with a search warrant, and search my home for that stuff I bought? They say it's stolen. And, I'm arrested, booked, and charged with "receiving stolen property".
I think Apple is in a parallel position here. They can expect to be slapped around a little for trying to bully the rightful owner of this "intellectual property".
Hypocrisy, maybe. But, at least 60% of our "intellectual property" is unethical bullshit.
Slide to unlock, anyone?
They paid for the trademark - yes. And, Proview is honoring that sale. Proview is not marketing an iPad in global markets, in international markets, or in any national markets - outside of mainland China.
Apple got what they paid for. They have rights to the iPad name around the world - outside of China.
WTF for? I mean, who is going to use it? Who would ever pay for it? Why would I want it? Maybe Suse would put it in a default installation, but I haven't used Suse in a long time either.
That diversity? As nearly as I can tell, there are only two main schools. Not like Christianity where a new sect, cult, or church is started annually, and twice on leap year.
What's the matter - you failed spelling in school, and you can't spell "Christian"? Or, are you from some other planet, where the Xians are the official clerics? You certainly sound strange, here on Earth, talking about Xians.
The DEA has had the National Guard flying helicopters over the countryside for a long time now, searching for marijuana fields. If I remember correctly, those hemp plants show up quite differently in either infrared or ultraviolet photography. I'm not "up on" this stuff, but I do know that the state regularly flies patrol missions in my area each summer and autumn.
Damn, this is slashdot - someone probably expects me to research this shit before I post it. But, "Everyone knows that they are looking for marijuana!"
Irony? I guess in some alternate reality, it would be ironic. Like, some reality in which Gore actually contributed something that no one else was capable of contributing. Here, in this one reality that you and I happen to share, there were thousands of people already working hard to make the net work, before Gore hooked his talons into it.
Remember, we're talking about the same parasite who is profiting off of other people's guilt, by selling "carbon credits".
Note, that it was a jury trial. Had it been a non-jury trial, the judge probably would have been paid off. "You find for me, Your Honor, and it's worth tens of millions to your favorite charity IN YOUR NAME!" Or, something similar . . . .
I believe that one of the main ingredients is DMSO. I use veterinarian quality DMSO for my knees. A nice dose of the stuff keeps my knees working pretty well for several days, sometimes for weeks.
I met a guy in Houston who uses WD40 for the same thing. He has the stuff in all his toolboxes anyway, so he just uses WD40 instead of DMSO. It hasn't killed him yet!
Suck it? Dude, you live dangerously. I wouldn't touch any of their relatives with my, or my worst enemy's peter. There's to high a chance of helping the scum to replicate!
And, THAT is exactly what is wrong with NDA's. The end user, the guy who is actually purchasing the hardware, has the right to know what is on his machine, and how it got there.
I haven't bought an OEM machine about a decade now. I purchase what I want, and install what I want. I don't TRUST Compaq, Dell, or any of the others to NOT install crapware, spyware, bloatware, etc on my machine. They are in it for the money, and they don't work for ME, the end user.
You're perfectly right - the numbers are against us. And, there are a lot of obstacles to overcome in the future.
Look at it from a different perspective, though. Bill Gates gave it his best shot, to have Linux squashed. He couldn't do it. Microsoft hated OSS, and did everything in their power, at the height of their power, to smother open source. It hasn't happened. Linux may not be as strong as we would like, and OSS still isn't an every day house hold word. But, we're still here. We ain't going away.
Someone (here on slashdot, I believe) once laid out for me the normal life cycles of a corporation. Microsoft will change, diversify, and adapt as best they can to changing markets. We've seen some of that change, already. While their deals with the likes of Suse are poisoned, they are deals. Microsoft, by necessity, has accepted that OSS will survive.
We've won the struggle for existence, and we've even won some grudging support from the biggest giant in the field. We aren't going away. OSS is less established than - ohh - let's say IBM, but even IBM supports OSS in some ways. We've won, and we've won a lot.
Every day, there are new devices sold to the masses with *nix-like OS's on them. I'm not extremely fond of the direction that Android is going, but it's out there. Millions of users are using non-Microsoft products. And, every single one of them is a small victory over Microsoft.
We've won. We can only grow stronger, in the future. Our little paradise is assured, until the "next big thing" comes along.
And, to be honest, I'm looking forward to the day that some uppity young developers create a new operating system that just blows away everything we are playing with today! IMO, Linux is the best thing we have today, or maybe BSD. But, to be honest, nothing we have today is all that great.
I'm content though. OSS has won, and the future nerds who are crawling around in diapers today have room in which to play, explore, and develop that "next big thing". We've won.
WTF is 24? Forget that, I don't give a crap. Did I suggest that a citizen of another nation should, could, or would have fewer rights than a citizen of the United States? No, I didn't. I stated that no one has MORE rights than a citizen of the United States. Most certainly not some self-proclaimed "rights holders". That shit is for the old world aristocracy, for whom I have nothing but contempt.
I read your reply, and wondered, "Where did he get the half million from?" I spent several minutes with Google - until I ran into this. http://home.roadrunner.com/~casualties/ Seems you're right - that 1/4 million that I've been using appears to only account for the first invasion, or at most, only the first weeks of the second invasion.
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/the-mpaa-must-die-and-how-you-can-help-make-that-happen.php
"he knows whose paying his salary and it AIN'T you."
That merits a minor correction. Yes, it is still us, the little people, who pay all their wages. The problem is, we've overpaid the entertainment industries for so long, that they have amassed some of the biggest fortunes in the world. That money permitted them to draw up laws, which effectively allow them to tax us, so that they can pay those salaries in our place.
If people would just wake up to the fact that they don't need what Hollywood and the other entertainment cartels have to offer, they could be brought to heel in a few years.
Black March would be a good start, if enough people get on board. If Black March doesn't get their attention, then maybe we could have a Black Summer, then a Black Autumn, and a Black Winter.
How many seasons of no sales could those cartels survive?
I hate that term, "rights holder". No one has more rights than a citizen of the United States. That term alone is justification for a revolution.
Society, in general, is making the point that the price is to high. Are you even paying attention? SOPA and PIPA were shot down, thanks to a grass roots movement to kill them. They aren't dead yet, but they were definitely shot down. ACTA is in the process of being shot down.
Our cultures, around the world, are beginning to react to the outright greed of corporate entities, who value their "products" an order of magnitude to highly.
And, yes, copyright laws do indeed "lock up" society's right to innovate or to emulate performers.
Just to be clear - what we have today is not "free trade" by any definition. NAFTA was a weapon, which was designed to pit Mexican workmen against United States workers. CAFTA is more of the same. And, China's "most favored trade partner" status was too.
The corporate world is using us, all of us, as tools to destroy each other's livelihoods. Corporations in Mexico, South America, China, Africa, and the rest of the world are pushing family farmers out of business, so that those families have no choice but to emigrate, or turn to a life of crime to survive.
All that cheap labor becomes available to undermine the economies of the first world nations.
What we have today amounts to class warfare, with that infamous 1% stealing everything that belonged to the middle classes, lower classes, and even the subsistence level dirt poor of the world.
Free trade, my ass. Who was it that made all these "free trade" agreements? Damned near no one in the 99% voted for any of it. Al Gore's constituents made it quite clear to him that they did NOT want anything to do with NAFTA, and his reply amounted to, "I'm sorry, but I know better, so I'm overriding your wishes."
If this is "free trade", then I'm ready to try some socialism.