I've seen something similar done with a Biro and a pint of Guinness. Once you stir the Guinness quick enough, a vortex is created which sucks the ink out of the Biro.
It's a bit like the industrial revolution. We started with a mill with one single expensive source of rotary power. All the looms and other machines were run from that source. It was ever thus, until the elecric motor came along.
Let's try that again
It's a bit like mainframe computing. Our organisation had one single expensive source of computing power. All computing was carried out on that box. It was ever thus, until the mini and the desktop PC came along.
Let's run that again
It's a bit like the PC. We started with a single PC as a single expensive source of personal computing power. All our M$ applications (or Linux stuff) were run on that PC. The next logical step is for individual users to end up with multiple computing devices for different tasks. Some portable, some not, as technology makes them affordable.
"One problem is that the next generation may not care about a particular piece of data, but the one after that would find that data invaluable."
Unfortunately, it is the judgement call of the 'next generation' about what gets archived and what doesn't. This is their right, because they are meeting the cost of storing and maintaining it. It is market driven.
Religions have been built on this premise. The preaching and prophecies of each religion have had a huge amount of human investment, in terms of money and lives, to stop their information content from disappearing into the celestial bit bucket. In the end, the heroic acts of the 'keepers of the flame' becomes part of the folklore of the religion, which gets handed down, and even embellishes, the original message.
It is reckoned that 90% of paper, once filed, is never read ever again. How many millions of tree's worth of redundant paper do we have in cold storage, just in case someone needs it ? Do we want to repeat the mistakes of history, by wasting resources and lives in archiving every piece of data in sight, for fear of losing it one day ? Do you realise that we are generating data faster than ever before (yet genuine information remains at a premium) ?
The answer is simple. If it is of relevance, and people want to keep it (remember Oliver North ?), then people will keep it. People will judge the value, and take appropriate action. Otherwise, it goes to the bit bucket in the sky, and remains there......
In years to come, will we be complaining of 'data pollution', caused by spurious archives that no-one dare ditch, or noxious chemicals from discarded CDs ?
Excellent submission - Couldn't agree more ! Racism is prejudice. 'Pre - judice ' - before judgement. It is not rational. It based on ignorance, a lack of information, and a lack of desire to seek information. My own personal dream for the internet is that it will destroy racism. It will increase communication, make the world smaller. It will make it easier for me to understand someone elses culture. I can talk to them, read some sites on their religion or beliefs, and even if I don't agree, at least I know a bit more about where they are coming from. I can make a judgement based on information, rather than employing the 'default' prejudice mode. Our children will grow up in this environment. There is great hope in that. You don't treat a disease by hiding it from view. By repressing freedom of speech on the Internet, the UN will drive recism further underground. It will entrench prejudices further. P.S. I once saw the British National Party (our local racist/facists in the UK) demonstrating. Apart from a few sad old boys wearing campaign ribbons, there were about thirty skin-heads. The thing that scared me most was the realisation that this meant that somewhere nearby, a pack of thirty Rottweilers must be on the loose.....
So far, Internet users have not suffered too much government interference. Ther internet bypasses state censorship, and the Chinese are obviously big into this. We should be grateful for the privilege of free speech. I say privilege, because it is not a right, but something that can be taken away. We need to keep fighting for it. The internet means that you can express your opinions off-shore. I expect that a reaction to this embargo will be that some Chinese people will create 'off-shore resources' to tell their story to the world. Don't think that the west will be immune from this. freedom of speech may exist here, but once we start doing a lot of business over the Internet, and encruypting it, expect our 'liberal' governments to get hot under the collar. They can't tax what they can't see, so expect some 'interesting legislation' in the next decade in the US and Europe, as tax revenue start to disappear, and people start to move money and bank off-shore via the Internet. I am convinced that this was one key motivation of the US Government ban on strong encryption.
In terms of life as a western female, the biggest technological invention of the 20th century was the lightweight electric motor.
At the turn of the century, running a family household required two full-time adults. One to earn the money, the other to perform household tasks. As a child of the sixties, I can remember life without a refridgerator (shopping for fresh poduce daily), using primitive washing machines (wash day was Friday - all day. One adult in attendance at all times) and with no microwave or convenience foods (cooking times measured in hours, from fresh ingredients). we now have a state where one adult plus several devices is required to run a household. This has ontributed to female emancipation, allowing women to follow careers more easily. Since one compelling reason for staying together as a couple has been removed, it has also contributed to divorce, and the break-up of the 'nuclear family' and the increase of single parent families.
The liberating technologies for men have come much later in the century. In the early part of the century, conscription and advancing technology in war meant that men were massacred in millions. The first breakthrough (and some will hate me for this) was the atom bomb. This was a technology that made armies of massed numbers, and the evil , state enslavement of males called conscription, an irrelevance. Smart weapons at the end of the twentieth century mean that conscription is dead, and an army of tens can pack a devastating punch, This will be an influence in the early part of the 21st century. Metal (and silicon) will be better than meat.
Intel have a huge market share across *all* sectors of the processor market. There have been signs of the Goths knocking at the door for some time. They have fallen out (a bit) with Microsoft by endorsing Linux, and AMD stole a march on them with the Athlon. Perhaps they are now going the way of all great empires, being out-evolved and out manoevered by creatures which are smaller, faster and more relevant to today and the future. Like Transmeta, like AMD, like VIA (and friends). Or maybe not.
It will slow down horribly. All of the packets of data will need to be placed in tasteful little wrappers from Gucci or Versace./. will be an on-line tea shoppe, with real china, and Andover.Net an on-line mall.
Society is changing. Once upon a time, the nerd was kept in his place by the threat of physical violence from those less cerebral and more 'physical' than themselves.
Physical violence relies on proximity, unless you are a nation-state or something similar. The net has removed the proximity, so 'nerds' are now more free to express themselves without fear of exacting physical oppression.
And doesn't it just make you laugh when the oppressors get on-line. You can smell the testosterone dripping from their misspelt upper case scratchings !
I agree with what Linus is saying in his statement, and his reasons and motivations for doing it. Unfortunately the URL of this site represents identically the type of attack on the 'Microsoft' trademark that he is trying to protect Linux from ! I would hope that Linus, if he were aware of this site, would encourage LinuxOnline to drop the www.microsfot.com URL
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I've seen something similar done with a Biro and a pint of Guinness. Once you stir the Guinness quick enough, a vortex is created which sucks the ink out of the Biro.
It's a bit like the industrial revolution. We started with a mill with one single expensive source of rotary power. All the looms and other machines were run from that source. It was ever thus, until the elecric motor came along.
Let's try that again
It's a bit like mainframe computing. Our organisation had one single expensive source of computing power. All computing was carried out on that box. It was ever thus, until the mini and the desktop PC came along.
Let's run that again
It's a bit like the PC. We started with a single PC as a single expensive source of personal computing power. All our M$ applications (or Linux stuff) were run on that PC. The next logical step is for individual users to end up with multiple computing devices for different tasks. Some portable, some not, as technology makes them affordable.
"One problem is that the next generation may not care about a particular piece of data, but the one after that would find that data invaluable."
Unfortunately, it is the judgement call of the 'next generation' about what gets archived and what doesn't. This is their right, because they are meeting the cost of storing and maintaining it. It is market driven.
Religions have been built on this premise. The preaching and prophecies of each religion have had a huge amount of human investment, in terms of money and lives, to stop their information content from disappearing into the celestial bit bucket. In the end, the heroic acts of the 'keepers of the flame' becomes part of the folklore of the religion, which gets handed down, and even embellishes, the original message.
It is reckoned that 90% of paper, once filed, is never read ever again. How many millions of tree's worth of redundant paper do we have in cold storage, just in case someone needs it ? Do we want to repeat the mistakes of history, by wasting resources and lives in archiving every piece of data in sight, for fear of losing it one day ? Do you realise that we are generating data faster than ever before (yet genuine information remains at a premium) ?
......
The answer is simple. If it is of relevance, and people want to keep it (remember Oliver North ?), then people will keep it. People will judge the value, and take appropriate action. Otherwise, it goes to the bit bucket in the sky, and remains there
In years to come, will we be complaining of 'data pollution', caused by spurious archives that no-one dare ditch, or noxious chemicals from discarded CDs ?
Excellent submission - Couldn't agree more ! Racism is prejudice. 'Pre - judice ' - before judgement. It is not rational. It based on ignorance, a lack of information, and a lack of desire to seek information. My own personal dream for the internet is that it will destroy racism. It will increase communication, make the world smaller. It will make it easier for me to understand someone elses culture. I can talk to them, read some sites on their religion or beliefs, and even if I don't agree, at least I know a bit more about where they are coming from. I can make a judgement based on information, rather than employing the 'default' prejudice mode. Our children will grow up in this environment. There is great hope in that. You don't treat a disease by hiding it from view. By repressing freedom of speech on the Internet, the UN will drive recism further underground. It will entrench prejudices further. P.S. I once saw the British National Party (our local racist/facists in the UK) demonstrating. Apart from a few sad old boys wearing campaign ribbons, there were about thirty skin-heads. The thing that scared me most was the realisation that this meant that somewhere nearby, a pack of thirty Rottweilers must be on the loose .....
So far, Internet users have not suffered too much government interference. Ther internet bypasses state censorship, and the Chinese are obviously big into this. We should be grateful for the privilege of free speech. I say privilege, because it is not a right, but something that can be taken away. We need to keep fighting for it. The internet means that you can express your opinions off-shore. I expect that a reaction to this embargo will be that some Chinese people will create 'off-shore resources' to tell their story to the world. Don't think that the west will be immune from this. freedom of speech may exist here, but once we start doing a lot of business over the Internet, and encruypting it, expect our 'liberal' governments to get hot under the collar. They can't tax what they can't see, so expect some 'interesting legislation' in the next decade in the US and Europe, as tax revenue start to disappear, and people start to move money and bank off-shore via the Internet. I am convinced that this was one key motivation of the US Government ban on strong encryption.
In terms of life as a western female, the biggest technological invention of the 20th century was the lightweight electric motor.
At the turn of the century, running a family household required two full-time adults. One to earn the money, the other to perform household tasks. As a child of the sixties, I can remember life without a refridgerator (shopping for fresh poduce daily), using primitive washing machines (wash day was Friday - all day. One adult in attendance at all times) and with no microwave or convenience foods (cooking times measured in hours, from fresh ingredients). we now have a state where one adult plus several devices is required to run a household. This has ontributed to female emancipation, allowing women to follow careers more easily. Since one compelling reason for staying together as a couple has been removed, it has also contributed to divorce, and the break-up of the 'nuclear family' and the increase of single parent families.
The liberating technologies for men have come much later in the century. In the early part of the century, conscription and advancing technology in war meant that men were massacred in millions. The first breakthrough (and some will hate me for this) was the atom bomb. This was a technology that made armies of massed numbers, and the evil , state enslavement of males called conscription, an irrelevance. Smart weapons at the end of the twentieth century mean that conscription is dead, and an army of tens can pack a devastating punch, This will be an influence in the early part of the 21st century. Metal (and silicon) will be better than meat.
Spam will kill trees and fill physical mailboxes. I hope "postage" is charged back to the sender and not delivered "postage due"
Cool ! You can now spam your enemies into bankruptcy !
Intel have a huge market share across *all* sectors of the processor market. There have been signs of the Goths knocking at the door for some time. They have fallen out (a bit) with Microsoft by endorsing Linux, and AMD stole a march on them with the Athlon. Perhaps they are now going the way of all great empires, being out-evolved and out manoevered by creatures which are smaller, faster and more relevant to today and the future. Like Transmeta, like AMD, like VIA (and friends). Or maybe not.
So, Mitnick is not to be allowed near a computer again. How about the DoJ not letting Microsoft go near a web browser ?
"Once women take control of the net ......."
/. will be an on-line tea shoppe, with real china, and Andover.Net an on-line mall.
It will slow down horribly. All of the packets of data will need to be placed in tasteful little wrappers from Gucci or Versace.
"Once women take control of the net ......."
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OK - perhaps he shouldn't then !
I will now adorn myself in sackcloth and ashes, and beg forgiveness of Linux Online.
It still is an issue relating to the dilution of the Microsoft trade mark, and parallels the issues raised by Linus Torvalds in his article.
Society is changing. Once upon a time, the nerd was kept in his place by the threat of physical violence from those less cerebral and more 'physical' than themselves.
Physical violence relies on proximity, unless you are a nation-state or something similar. The net has removed the proximity, so 'nerds' are now more free to express themselves without fear of exacting physical oppression.
And doesn't it just make you laugh when the oppressors get on-line. You can smell the testosterone dripping from their misspelt upper case scratchings !
I agree with what Linus is saying in his statement, and his reasons and motivations for doing it. Unfortunately the URL of this site represents identically the type of attack on the 'Microsoft' trademark that he is trying to protect Linux from ! I would hope that Linus, if he were aware of this site, would encourage LinuxOnline to drop the www.microsfot.com URL