"f after some enormous period of time, a general concensus and a lack of contrary experimental evidence, then the theory may begin to be regarded as a "law of nature". Even then, no-one really claims that it's perfect or entirely accurate; "
That's not what some folks are claiming here when we get into that creationism/evolution debate. Sheesh! I don't support creationism (as what we should be teaching kids in public school) at all, but you say one little thing about evolution not being a 100% absolute fact, and they brand you a religious wingnut. Oh well, a wingnut's as easy a cross to bear as any. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It just APPEARS to us to be expanding, because we're perceiving the time as moving forward, but it's actually moving backwards. From our point of view, the universe will expand forever, but in reality, at some point in time, it will wink out of existance as it collapses into a giant black hole.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
It's an old philosophical saw: God is All Knowing, All Good, and All Powerful. BUT. Evil exists, therefore, He either Doesn't Know About It, Doesn't Care About It, or Can't Do Something About It.
Sound like rational logic isn't up to the task of explaining this paradox? One explanation I've heard for this is that God create us with Free Will. The principle of Free Will is very important, God didn't want to make a bunch of robots to be "His friends". He created beings who could CHOOSE to be "His friends". This essentially redefines "Good" to mean, standing for the principle of Free Will over human miserey and suffering. The human miserey and suffering is allowed to exist, because if God stepped in and interfered in our Free Will to stop it, then we'd be robots.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
They don't even have to be famous to get media attention; For example, our beloved Columbine. 15 kids shot dead that day. The same number of nameless, faceless kids who die every day in auto accidents in the US.
15 rich, white, suburban kids died, in a manner that was highly susceptible to sensationalization.
It's sick. Not to trivialize their deaths, but in reality, they were trivial.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, this sounds like that question, if your wife was dying of a disease, and you couldn't afford to buy the drug to save her, would you steal the drug?
Well damn, of course I would, but how are you supposed to answer that question?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Hey, they're a monopoly. They bundled products to leverage their OS marketshare to beat server competition. They dumped (gave away product for free).
How was any of this different than what they did with IE? A company was driven out of business here. People are out of work. Diversity and consumer choice was reduced.
Harm done.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Oh, but your ex-government didn't have the power that Microsoft theoretically could wield.
Nobody could communicate period, without Microsoft being able to intercept or modify it.
Word processors - spell checkers, grammar checkers. Have you looked up the definition of Microsoft in Encarta? How about GUIDs? Planning a revolution against Microsoft? How about education? Trying to teach your kids to despise Microsoft? Look out for Microsoft Barney!
Commerce - piss of Microsoft - Hey! you didn't pay your license fee! We're disabling your software remotely. Hey, I'll take a 10% cut of every transaction now, just because we own the trading protocol you, and everyone else uses.
If you're not afraid, you should be. Very.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The important question is, who is Amiga? If it's Israel, look for the rise of Amiga in the future, and if Apple is Iraq, look for a bloody Apple/Amiga conflict of some kind!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
First off, thanks to the internet, there are quite enough conspiracy theorists out there to provide me with adequate cover.
Secondly, I'm sorry I came off as attacking Science, or even Science education. I'm not. I'm not even attacking the scientific community at large. I'm attacking those individuals, the vocal ones, who DO seem hell-bent on blaming all the wolrd's ills on religion, seem to think that only whackos are religious, and that only "desperate theists" cannot conceive of a world in which both rational science and spirituality can coexist. I'm attacking the "desperate humanists" who cannot conceive of a world in which spirituality can or should exist. There are folks out there like this.
As I said, I have no problem with evolution as a THEORY, even a very well proven scientific theory supported by an overwhelming body of evidence. I know that among Christians who accept evolution, there are two schools of thought, either the Bible is flawed, or the Bible can be interperated in such a way to allow evolution to be true, AND the creation account in Genesis to be true. I'm one of the former, not the latter, because I know that eventually, science will come into conflict with the Bible in other areas (such as the value of Pi). There are other Christians who feel that if evolution is true, it threatens their absolutist view that the Bible is completely flawless and true. Well, that's just special. But regardless of what mankind observes and rationalizes, you simply cannot disprove the existence of God. Furthermore, NO scientific theory, no matter how well supported by observational evidence, can be completely accepted as fact. It's a phenomenological question. What one perceives, and accepts, is likely the truth, but one can not always discount otherwise. God COULD have created the world 50 years ago, complete with aged humans with memories of previous years of life, cities, animals, mountains, and dinosaur bones buried in the rock containing varied amounts of carbon-14. The point is, we can all agree on what we think is the most likely truth, and call it science, but we can't ever fully be sure. That's my point. And too many times, Science is used as a tool to espouse an absolute world-view -and that's what I disagree with. As a thought exercise, it's just not constructive. I'm not saying that this was the rationale used in Kansas. But it IS the rationale behind why I support what they did, with the language they used (although the intent was pretty brain dead in the opposite direction - absolutist spiritualism doesn't get us collectively anywhere either).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Don't dis Ricky Martin, or you'll be accused of racism. It's safer to dis Backstreet Boys.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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But what if your album sucks?
With just about any other product, a dissatisfied consumer can return for a refund. But not CD's, once that seal is broken, I can't return it, because they assume I've recorded it.
Well, since there's all this MP3 traffic, you can assume I recorded it already, so if the CD sucks, you can give me my money back now.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
A staffer wrote that? My guess what a Microsoft spokesperson wrote it (thanks Al, for showing up, and here's a nice fleece jacket with the Microsoft logo on it).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
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"It's a great way for them to become popular. "
In theory.
How long has this MP3 phenomenon been around, 2 years, three? I don't know one single band that started out distributing MP3's, that "made it". Maybe you know some that ended up getting some airplay on a local college radio station, but to date, nobody has made it big this way. Not to say I wouldn't like to see it happen. It sure seems lik it would be a more merit-based system for market success (which is probably the REAL reason why RIAA is scared, because they might have to start digging up TALENTED musicians instead of trained monkey performers - I use the word monkey in reference to the original model of such crap, The Monkees. Yes, i appreciate their place in pop culture, and I even like some of their songs, and their TV show was funny, but the downside is, this organism evolved from The Monkees to Back Street Boys - and I think we can all agree they are a plague.)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Even if you DO spend the money on developing the highly optimized CGI on your fast database server, you'll still eventually have to scale it by adding more hardware anyway.
At a certain point, it was cheaper to write that code, and buy less quantity of hardware to obtain the same service level. But that point is probably far beyond any web site's needs today.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
when one controls thoughts, communication, information, and even commerce, that monopoly becomes something else. In this world, it would be God. And it would STAY God, for a very, very long time.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Slashdot Mirror
whaddy mean by "posix compliant".
NT is theoretically "posix compliant".
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Of course, that number would be significantly less that $60 B if the stock value DID decline. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"f after some enormous period of time, a general concensus and a lack of contrary experimental evidence, then
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the theory may begin to be regarded as a "law of nature". Even then, no-one really claims that it's perfect or
entirely accurate; "
That's not what some folks are claiming here when we get into that creationism/evolution debate. Sheesh! I don't support creationism (as what we should be teaching kids in public school) at all, but you say one little thing about evolution not being a 100% absolute fact, and they brand you a religious wingnut.
Oh well, a wingnut's as easy a cross to bear as any. .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
RIGHT!
It just APPEARS to us to be expanding, because we're perceiving the time as moving forward, but it's actually moving backwards. From our point of view, the universe will expand forever, but in reality, at some point in time, it will wink out of existance as it collapses into a giant black hole.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I find that it's better to be a smartass and go for the cheapo humor points.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Free Will.
It's an old philosophical saw:
God is All Knowing, All Good, and All Powerful.
BUT.
Evil exists, therefore, He either Doesn't Know About It, Doesn't Care About It, or Can't Do Something About It.
Sound like rational logic isn't up to the task of explaining this paradox?
One explanation I've heard for this is that God create us with Free Will. The principle of Free Will is very important, God didn't want to make a bunch of robots to be "His friends". He created beings who could CHOOSE to be "His friends". This essentially redefines "Good" to mean, standing for the principle of Free Will over human miserey and suffering. The human miserey and suffering is allowed to exist, because if God stepped in and interfered in our Free Will to stop it, then we'd be robots.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
They don't even have to be famous to get media attention;
For example, our beloved Columbine.
15 kids shot dead that day.
The same number of nameless, faceless kids who die every day in auto accidents in the US.
15 rich, white, suburban kids died, in a manner that was highly susceptible to sensationalization.
It's sick. Not to trivialize their deaths, but in reality, they were trivial.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, this sounds like that question, if your wife was dying of a disease, and you couldn't afford to buy the drug to save her, would you steal the drug?
Well damn, of course I would, but how are you supposed to answer that question?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Hey, they're a monopoly.
They bundled products to leverage their OS marketshare to beat server competition.
They dumped (gave away product for free).
How was any of this different than what they did with IE?
A company was driven out of business here. People are out of work. Diversity and consumer choice was reduced.
Harm done.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Oh, but your ex-government didn't have the power that Microsoft theoretically could wield.
Nobody could communicate period, without Microsoft being able to intercept or modify it.
Word processors - spell checkers, grammar checkers. Have you looked up the definition of Microsoft in Encarta? How about GUIDs? Planning a revolution against Microsoft? How about education? Trying to teach your kids to despise Microsoft? Look out for Microsoft Barney!
Commerce - piss of Microsoft - Hey! you didn't pay your license fee! We're disabling your software remotely. Hey, I'll take a 10% cut of every transaction now, just because we own the trading protocol you, and everyone else uses.
If you're not afraid, you should be. Very.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
The important question is, who is Amiga? If it's Israel, look for the rise of Amiga in the future, and if Apple is Iraq, look for a bloody Apple/Amiga conflict of some kind!
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
First off, thanks to the internet, there are quite enough conspiracy theorists out there to provide me with adequate cover.
Secondly, I'm sorry I came off as attacking Science, or even Science education. I'm not. I'm not even attacking the scientific community at large. I'm attacking those individuals, the vocal ones, who DO seem hell-bent on blaming all the wolrd's ills on religion, seem to think that only whackos are religious, and that only "desperate theists" cannot conceive of a world in which both rational science and spirituality can coexist. I'm attacking the "desperate humanists" who cannot conceive of a world in which spirituality can or should exist.
There are folks out there like this.
As I said, I have no problem with evolution as a THEORY, even a very well proven scientific theory supported by an overwhelming body of evidence. I know that among Christians who accept evolution, there are two schools of thought, either the Bible is flawed, or the Bible can be interperated in such a way to allow evolution to be true, AND the creation account in Genesis to be true. I'm one of the former, not the latter, because I know that eventually, science will come into conflict with the Bible in other areas (such as the value of Pi). There are other Christians who feel that if evolution is true, it threatens their absolutist view that the Bible is completely flawless and true. Well, that's just special.
But regardless of what mankind observes and rationalizes, you simply cannot disprove the existence of God. Furthermore, NO scientific theory, no matter how well supported by observational evidence, can be completely accepted as fact. It's a phenomenological question. What one perceives, and accepts, is likely the truth, but one can not always discount otherwise.
God COULD have created the world 50 years ago, complete with aged humans with memories of previous years of life, cities, animals, mountains, and dinosaur bones buried in the rock containing varied amounts of carbon-14. The point is, we can all agree on what we think is the most likely truth, and call it science, but we can't ever fully be sure. That's my point. And too many times, Science is used as a tool to espouse an absolute world-view -and that's what I disagree with.
As a thought exercise, it's just not constructive.
I'm not saying that this was the rationale used in Kansas. But it IS the rationale behind why I support what they did, with the language they used (although the intent was pretty brain dead in the opposite direction - absolutist spiritualism doesn't get us collectively anywhere either).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Don't dis Ricky Martin, or you'll be accused of racism. It's safer to dis Backstreet Boys.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
But what if your album sucks?
With just about any other product, a dissatisfied consumer can return for a refund. But not CD's, once that seal is broken, I can't return it, because they assume I've recorded it.
Well, since there's all this MP3 traffic, you can assume I recorded it already, so if the CD sucks, you can give me my money back now.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
In my opinion, this thing did a bit more harm for Gore than good.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
I smell a future slashdot poll. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
A staffer wrote that? My guess what a Microsoft spokesperson wrote it (thanks Al, for showing up, and here's a nice fleece jacket with the Microsoft logo on it).
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"How, exactly, could "hate crime" legistlation possibly affect these crimes? "
um- more minority and gay votes for politicians that support it?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Novell geeks would say; Left-shift, right-shift, alt, escape.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
just another fucking hoax.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"It's a great way for them to become popular. "
In theory.
How long has this MP3 phenomenon been around, 2 years, three? I don't know one single band that started out distributing MP3's, that "made it". Maybe you know some that ended up getting some airplay on a local college radio station, but to date, nobody has made it big this way.
Not to say I wouldn't like to see it happen. It sure seems lik it would be a more merit-based system for market success (which is probably the REAL reason why RIAA is scared, because they might have to start digging up TALENTED musicians instead of trained monkey performers - I use the word monkey in reference to the original model of such crap, The Monkees. Yes, i appreciate their place in pop culture, and I even like some of their songs, and their TV show was funny, but the downside is, this organism evolved from The Monkees to Back Street Boys - and I think we can all agree they are a plague.)
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Even if you DO spend the money on developing the highly optimized CGI on your fast database server, you'll still eventually have to scale it by adding more hardware anyway.
At a certain point, it was cheaper to write that code, and buy less quantity of hardware to obtain the same service level. But that point is probably far beyond any web site's needs today.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
it's not a matter of "do we want to cripple Microsoft in every market", it's "did Microsoft act illegally here?"
Since the tactics, and effects were the same, I believe yes, Jackson, and the DOJ's lawyers did overlook this area.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
when one controls thoughts, communication, information, and even commerce, that monopoly becomes something else. In this world, it would be God. And it would STAY God, for a very, very long time.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Intel, of course. AMD is China. IBM is Russia. So look out for the coming Cold War.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".