The Internet was designed for Unix,
Windows was designed for the Internet.
Heh. I still remember M$'s catagorical denial (circa 1990) that they would ever ship a TCP/IP stack with windows. A time when all the clever little yuppie boyz and girlz at M$ were tell us nerds "you don't really need that" when we asked about network connectivity software; such remarks were usually followed by a condescending lecture about how "this internet thing" was "just a fad -- nobody will even remember it in a couple of years"... so we wound up getting our fixes from some acid-head drop-out unix hacker at a dingy ftp site in the dark, frozen waste-lands of Scandanavia...
In retrospect, the M$ strategy w.r.t. internet could only have been perpetrated by the same minds that gave use the 640k RAM constraint. Windows wasn't "designed for the internet" -- if it was designed at all, it was designed for a 20-bit address space (everything since then is cruft), but it was defintitely a design without network connectivity.
It would be more correct to say that Windows was dragged onto the internet kicking and screaming and crying for its mommy by the big, bad, unix connectivity daemons that possessed a certain segment of the Consumer Society that Willy-Billy and his friends wanted to continue bilking....
....gads. I promised myself I wouldn't post on this thread....*sigh*
Do you know any Muslims? I do, and they are just as sane, tolerant and rational as any other group of people I know.
I know muslims in the US, and I find it unfortunate that they have chosen to associate themselves with maniacs who are using them as a cover (I feel the same about xtians, too, btw, but they're not the topic here).
It is the existence of supposedly sane, rational muslims that has allowed fanatical, terrorist muslims to infiltrate, based on the idea that they may *not* be insane terrorists, since Muhammed who works down the hall seems like such a nice guy.
I heard recently on PBS that Muslim is the fastest growing religion in the US. I have to wonder why, since the simple fact of a large Mulsim community provides a backdrop that prevents individual muslim terrorists from standing out in a crowd. Obviously, being a Muslim supports the activities of the terrorists even if it is a passive support. I mean, the "sane, rational" muslims can hardly claim not to know that their spiritual bretheren are commit to death, murder, and mayhem on a massive scale, at this point...
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How many innocent Afghanis is it acceptable to kill along with bin Laden to abate our terror?
How many innocent Afghanis are there?
Kill them all, if that's what it takes. Their stated intent is to kill all americans, and as long as there is one true believer left alive, that is what they will try to do.
This is not about guilt or innocence, nor is it about abating terror. It's about behavior modification.
This is about demonstrating to those who have stated that "every American is a legitimate target" in the "Holy War" for Allah that, since they have made it their lifes work (their ticket to Paradise, in fact) to kill Americans, then their lives, their countries, and their loved ones aren't worth spit.
Nuke Afghanistan and Iraq into piles of radioactive sludge. Let it be an example to the world of the price of American lives. It's really very simple. Call it "behavior modification" or "self defense" or whatever. It boils down to: "You kill us, we kill you back... only we are better at it."
They are the stupid fucks who wanted war with us. Let them have it. I'm tired of making (and listening to) excuses for them.
ADSL however is available in a wide range of places and by 2005 will reach 98% of the population.
Wow! I don't think the the states even has phone service available to 98% of it's population, yet. DSL there is still fewer than a million customers, and that number is not increasing very fast. Telecomm down under must be a lot more serious about bandwidth than the pathetic excuses for providers americans have to deal with... 0x0000
The electrodes need to make very close contact with the head (to pick up the electrical signal) which is impossible to do with a simple helmet and is very uncomfortable.
One thing I did learn when I interviewed with East3 earlier this year was that the "breakthrough" development they are trying to capitalize on is the single-point, dry-contact sensor they are using. It needs to be snugged up, but not glued on...
I saw the prototype in use, and it does work. Noise due to movement of the head during use is/was a significant problem, which is probably the reason for the helmet design - i.e. to keep the sensor in place.
Otherwise, your analysis of the use of EEG is pretty accurate, if I understood correctly. The technology already existed, they have improved the sensor, and repackaged it.
The other thing I got out of the interview was that they were quite hostile to cross-platform development of the user software. E.g. there will be no Linux driver for the headset. They were talking about using the WinCE API to facilitate porting to game consoles, though. We'll see.
This type of software has some really intrusive possiblities for use outside the "ADHD treatment" applications, too. I'm a lot more comfortable with the open source efforts at this type of controller than I am with what East3 is doing.
I can't speak to the usefulness of the product as an ADHD treatment, but it was quite clear from the demo that various states of mind are quite detectable, and that the user can affect the EEG by "concentrating", fwiw.
It sounds like you might be talking about MindDrive, a galvonic skin repsonse sensor kit with some software, sold (iirc) by an outfit out of Austrailia.
Don't know if they're still around, but they did have a website. www.minddrive.com, I think it was.
Imagine our surprise when we got a letter just like the one Virginia Beach got.
Does your company, perchance, do business in Maryland, or Virginia? I can't help wondering at the coincidence of VA being on of the 2 states to pass UCITA, and the line in the article
In the past year, Microsoft has targeted Virginia in its software inquiries.
Isn't the UCITA designed to make this kind of inquiry by software companies easier?
I post to/. the same as you do, and "dominant, greedy" multinationals had nothing to do with it. Some multi-national companies
supplied the equipment necessary to support certain components of software and hardware from my computer to the/. server, but not a single one of them is dominant or greedy - they all have fierce competitors and none of them is able to control prices or influence markets with their behavior.
I did not specify that multi-nationals are greedy. They do tend to dominate their various fields, and we certainly could not post here without them. For that matter, the multi-nationals that are allowing me to post this are very greedy, and are draining me of my precious resources (time, money, etc) at an unbelievable rate at this very moment due to my vulnerable position as a non-multinational non-corporation.
And in order to legitimately characterize them as "competitive", you must limit the scope of the enterprise to those who can compete with each other. Since only a multi-national can compete with a multi-national (the fact that mega-retail outlet A crushes mega-retail outlet B during the course of "fierce competition" has little relevance to the mom-and-pop store that is run out of business by either or both of them -- there are a number of proverbs about this which don't spring quickly to mind), that point is spurious. In fact, I submit that your entire point concerning the non-evilness, competitiveness, and non-dominance of any given multi-national corp that was involved in your post to/. is completely spurious to my point, which is that such corporations run our lives. Completely, and without visible exception.
Some people think as soon as they can identify a company that is "multi-national", that it is somehow different from the corner
mom & pop grocery store, and it is greedy and evil and should be the subject of ridicule and cynical comments, rather than it being just a very large business able to conduct its business in more than one country.
A family-owned corner grocery or restraunt is in fact quite different from, say Wal-mart, or the flavor du jour of Burger Doodle. Among other things
customer feedback to a mom-and-pop operation is a lot more direct and immeadiate than to a multi-national
A mom-and-pop operation could not engage in a business practice destructive to the economy of their locale without destroying themselves. The same cannot be said of a multi-national.
Furthermore, many evils are perpetrated against humans by multi-national corps. When that happens, the victims are left with far less recourse than they could expect if the perpetrator were the mom-and-pop operation up the street. Whether or not the mega-corp is by nature or intent "evil" is demonstrably irrelevant. The result is a miscarriage of Justice.
If you really want to get into this, there are huge societal changes that are brought about by the operation of mega-corps, some of which are of very dubuious value to any living being outside the top levels of the corporate hierarchy. I'm sure you are already aware of such.
It's trolling to call people trolls, troll.;) I am not a troll, and I do not presume that you are either - we can debate this and perhaps enjoy an intellectual discourse, or we can do something else in which case I will not be participating. What's it going to be?
Fair enough. The final part of your previous remark struck me as so ludicrous that I felt you could have only published it as bait for persons with an obvious bent towards bombast and ranting (e.g. me). From your previous post:
These oh-so-evil companies have no relevance in modern society, and very rarely do they impact our daily lives at all.
I feel that such a statement is a bit like wearing a "Kick Me!" sign on the seat of your pants. If it was not meant as a troll, and you do in fact have what you feel is a valid intellectual or philosophical basis for that statement, I would love to hear it.
I will pass on any argument that depends upon the relative "evilness" of said companies (since their intent matters not at all to me, only the results of their activities), but if you can show that such corps have "no relevance in modern society" and/or only rarely impact our daily lives, please do.
the American people would reject the Green Party platform as much too radical
The american people would reject the Constitution as much to radical. Comapred to that, the GP platform is pretty tame, imo.
I do think Nader could beat Bush, and I think both the demopublicrats know it. That's why they've gone to such lengths to suppress all dissent for non-republicrat points of view. They Gore campaign is terribly frustrated with Nader because they are realizing that most of the votes Gore is counting on would go to Nader if Gore wasn't in the Race.
Now, Nader vs Brown, that would be a race. Anything with Bore or Gush in it is just pathetic.
point me to a poll that states that if Gore wasn't in the race Nader could beat Bush.
Point me to a poll that says he can't. That's one of the problems with your multiple choice formats.
What, don't you think all the liberal Gore supporters should be expected to support Nader once Big Al throws in the towel?
No? That's odd, the Gore campaign seems to think they're so close to Nader in their platform that the Nader supporters will just fall all over themselves to support Gore's sorry ass. If they don't think it works both ways, I guess they're just talking shit... Surpise, surprise.
So yes, voting for Nader could turn the tide of the election. There is statistical proof.
Yes, if you believe the polls. In fact, it's a good reason for Gore to withdraw from the race; Nader can beat Dubya hands down.
The only thing keeping Gore in the race at this point is the fact that he's already accepted the (corporate) money to play the part, and he can't afford to alienate the mega-corps if he wants to keep working as a corporate whore.
I don't love Al Gore, but he will speak for me, for my rights, my freedoms.
You poor, pathetic, loser. Do you really believe that? Big Al waves his Dubya stick and you cower like a worm. Bore and Gush are two sides of the same two-headed coin. You loose either way.
Vote Nader. If Bush wins, take it to the streets, along with everybody else who will finally figure it out once they just can't deny reallity any longer. Seattle, Philadelphia, etc, these are just the beginning.
The electorial votes are already halfway given out.
I disagree. There are completely allocated. The outcome of the election was decided well before the candidates were chosen. They're just actors playing parts.
That means that if everyone in this country voted for Ralph Nader, he still wouldn't get the office. There aren't enough electorial votes left to let him come close.
Well, that's part of the point, isn't it. Since Nader will win the popular vote. The only question remaining is whether or not enough people figure it out to get the revolution rolling. I mean, is there anyone who really wants another demopublican president (besides the corpratist plutocracy, that is)?
The "election" will not elect anyone. It will simply be the proof of the pudding that we've all been screwed.
It was here on/., not that long ago... somebody stated (a bit patronizingly, I thought) that the PS2 would not be running Linux, but was in fact using a mutant version of WinCE? Eh? What?
And now M$ says it's hard to develop for? Heheheheh.
...(every phone call you make being scanned for keywords etc) could not be real...
...uhhhh... Right. No, no, that's okay. I know you don't want to disturb the other ostriches... no need to tell them... Don't get your feathers in a riffle; I know, I know, the nice warm sand is soothing on your forehead... please, don't let me disturb your mediations... and no, that's not a mispelling of meditations...
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While Qwest (telco in the US) is not quite this blatent (they allow *nix customers as long as they don't have to support them), they have recently (following the takeover of US West) instituted a subtler and more insidious change in policy.
Previously US West had a service that allowed customers access and pay telephone bills online. It was a good, cross-platform usable service. Since Qwest took over, they have moved it to a M$ specific service, using ActiveX, and using only Excel format spread-sheet files to provide billing information.
I wrote them a nasty letter about breaking a useful service for no apparent reason, to which they have not replied.
Probably their decision to take the service offline (that is what they have accomplished, imo) has to do with the investment capital they accepted from, and their subsequent "partnership" with, M$.
The Qwest servers are an order of magnitude slower than the US West servers were, too.
The Internet is an ever changing, ever evolving entity. To map it would be like trying to map every skin cell of every human on earth.
Yadda, yadda. Whether you know it or not, you're echoing the same line most people used to try to convinince me the ECHELON could not possibly be real. No way; no how. I can't even even begin to tell you how many times I heard this... before the evidence went public. Of course, none of those people speak to me any more.... small loss.
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Heh. I still remember M$'s catagorical denial (circa 1990) that they would ever ship a TCP/IP stack with windows. A time when all the clever little yuppie boyz and girlz at M$ were tell us nerds "you don't really need that" when we asked about network connectivity software; such remarks were usually followed by a condescending lecture about how "this internet thing" was "just a fad -- nobody will even remember it in a couple of years" ... so we wound up getting our fixes from some acid-head drop-out unix hacker at a dingy ftp site in the dark, frozen waste-lands of Scandanavia...
In retrospect, the M$ strategy w.r.t. internet could only have been perpetrated by the same minds that gave use the 640k RAM constraint. Windows wasn't "designed for the internet" -- if it was designed at all, it was designed for a 20-bit address space (everything since then is cruft), but it was defintitely a design without network connectivity.
It would be more correct to say that Windows was dragged onto the internet kicking and screaming and crying for its mommy by the big, bad, unix connectivity daemons that possessed a certain segment of the Consumer Society that Willy-Billy and his friends wanted to continue bilking....
I know muslims in the US, and I find it unfortunate that they have chosen to associate themselves with maniacs who are using them as a cover (I feel the same about xtians, too, btw, but they're not the topic here).
It is the existence of supposedly sane, rational muslims that has allowed fanatical, terrorist muslims to infiltrate, based on the idea that they may *not* be insane terrorists, since Muhammed who works down the hall seems like such a nice guy.
I heard recently on PBS that Muslim is the fastest growing religion in the US. I have to wonder why, since the simple fact of a large Mulsim community provides a backdrop that prevents individual muslim terrorists from standing out in a crowd. Obviously, being a Muslim supports the activities of the terrorists even if it is a passive support. I mean, the "sane, rational" muslims can hardly claim not to know that their spiritual bretheren are commit to death, murder, and mayhem on a massive scale, at this point...
Damn, WNight, I wish I'd said that.
No Freedom, No Peace.
How many innocent Afghanis are there?
Kill them all, if that's what it takes. Their stated intent is to kill all americans, and as long as there is one true believer left alive, that is what they will try to do.
This is not about guilt or innocence, nor is it about abating terror. It's about behavior modification.
This is about demonstrating to those who have stated that "every American is a legitimate target" in the "Holy War" for Allah that, since they have made it their lifes work (their ticket to Paradise, in fact) to kill Americans, then their lives, their countries, and their loved ones aren't worth spit.
Nuke Afghanistan and Iraq into piles of radioactive sludge. Let it be an example to the world of the price of American lives. It's really very simple. Call it "behavior modification" or "self defense" or whatever. It boils down to: "You kill us, we kill you back ... only we are better at it."
They are the stupid fucks who wanted war with us. Let them have it. I'm tired of making (and listening to) excuses for them.
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I saw the prototype in use, and it does work. Noise due to movement of the head during use is/was a significant problem, which is probably the reason for the helmet design - i.e. to keep the sensor in place.
Otherwise, your analysis of the use of EEG is pretty accurate, if I understood correctly. The technology already existed, they have improved the sensor, and repackaged it.
The other thing I got out of the interview was that they were quite hostile to cross-platform development of the user software. E.g. there will be no Linux driver for the headset. They were talking about using the WinCE API to facilitate porting to game consoles, though. We'll see.
This type of software has some really intrusive possiblities for use outside the "ADHD treatment" applications, too. I'm a lot more comfortable with the open source efforts at this type of controller than I am with what East3 is doing.
I can't speak to the usefulness of the product as an ADHD treatment, but it was quite clear from the demo that various states of mind are quite detectable, and that the user can affect the EEG by "concentrating", fwiw.
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Don't know if they're still around, but they did have a website. www.minddrive.com, I think it was.
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I do not believe in coincidence.
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And in order to legitimately characterize them as "competitive", you must limit the scope of the enterprise to those who can compete with each other. Since only a multi-national can compete with a multi-national (the fact that mega-retail outlet A crushes mega-retail outlet B during the course of "fierce competition" has little relevance to the mom-and-pop store that is run out of business by either or both of them -- there are a number of proverbs about this which don't spring quickly to mind), that point is spurious. In fact, I submit that your entire point concerning the non-evilness, competitiveness, and non-dominance of any given multi-national corp that was involved in your post to /. is completely spurious to my point, which is that such corporations run our lives. Completely, and without visible exception.
A family-owned corner grocery or restraunt is in fact quite different from, say Wal-mart, or the flavor du jour of Burger Doodle. Among other thingsFurthermore, many evils are perpetrated against humans by multi-national corps. When that happens, the victims are left with far less recourse than they could expect if the perpetrator were the mom-and-pop operation up the street. Whether or not the mega-corp is by nature or intent "evil" is demonstrably irrelevant. The result is a miscarriage of Justice.
If you really want to get into this, there are huge societal changes that are brought about by the operation of mega-corps, some of which are of very dubuious value to any living being outside the top levels of the corporate hierarchy. I'm sure you are already aware of such.
Fair enough. The final part of your previous remark struck me as so ludicrous that I felt you could have only published it as bait for persons with an obvious bent towards bombast and ranting (e.g. me). From your previous post: I feel that such a statement is a bit like wearing a "Kick Me!" sign on the seat of your pants. If it was not meant as a troll, and you do in fact have what you feel is a valid intellectual or philosophical basis for that statement, I would love to hear it.I will pass on any argument that depends upon the relative "evilness" of said companies (since their intent matters not at all to me, only the results of their activities), but if you can show that such corps have "no relevance in modern society" and/or only rarely impact our daily lives, please do.
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I do think Nader could beat Bush, and I think both the demopublicrats know it. That's why they've gone to such lengths to suppress all dissent for non-republicrat points of view. They Gore campaign is terribly frustrated with Nader because they are realizing that most of the votes Gore is counting on would go to Nader if Gore wasn't in the Race.
Now, Nader vs Brown, that would be a race. Anything with Bore or Gush in it is just pathetic.
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What, don't you think all the liberal Gore supporters should be expected to support Nader once Big Al throws in the towel?
No? That's odd, the Gore campaign seems to think they're so close to Nader in their platform that the Nader supporters will just fall all over themselves to support Gore's sorry ass. If they don't think it works both ways, I guess they're just talking shit... Surpise, surprise.
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Guess I just set my standards a little higher than that "99%".
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The only thing keeping Gore in the race at this point is the fact that he's already accepted the (corporate) money to play the part, and he can't afford to alienate the mega-corps if he wants to keep working as a corporate whore.
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www.votenader.org
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Vote Nader. If Bush wins, take it to the streets, along with everybody else who will finally figure it out once they just can't deny reallity any longer. Seattle, Philadelphia, etc, these are just the beginning.
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The "election" will not elect anyone. It will simply be the proof of the pudding that we've all been screwed.
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No "NGC 604" show up in the Chandra site search...
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And now M$ says it's hard to develop for? Heheheheh.
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Denial is not a river in Egypt anymore, either.
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Previously US West had a service that allowed customers access and pay telephone bills online. It was a good, cross-platform usable service. Since Qwest took over, they have moved it to a M$ specific service, using ActiveX, and using only Excel format spread-sheet files to provide billing information.
I wrote them a nasty letter about breaking a useful service for no apparent reason, to which they have not replied.
Probably their decision to take the service offline (that is what they have accomplished, imo) has to do with the investment capital they accepted from, and their subsequent "partnership" with, M$.
The Qwest servers are an order of magnitude slower than the US West servers were, too.
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