"Promote the General Welfare"... it's in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution. Marx wasn't even born yet when that was written. Saying that "the public good is a socialist idea" seems pretty uninformed, especially considering that Plato's Republic talks about some pretty extreme ideas of governance performed to promote the greater good.
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People here should read Alexander Hamilton. If we are to have a government that promotes the general welfare, then it must have the power to intervene in commerce on behalf of the citizenry. We the people here in California did not vote for the executive management of Enron. I am of the opinion that extreme free-marketry is nothing less than kleptocracy.
What's the difference between organized crime and Wall Street?
Did they take into account the mega-farms in Trent Lott's neck of the woods that are being subsidized to _not_ grow? Whatever. These enviromentalist statistics are always so much baloney.
"But those areas are not very productive ecologically/economically- not much potential for farms at the south pole. "
Not yet. Los Angeles before we developed large scale water systems was not so hospitable. Manhattan? A swamp. The moon?
My point is, us humans have a funny way of revolutionizing our relationship with the universe. Those clinging to a perspective within an axiomatic system will never understand what humanity is, on a geologic timescale. Welcome to the noosphere.
When we seriously start moving to colonize the Moon and beyond, we will probably start by improving our ability to live in the Arctic or Antarctica. The problem with the Arctic or Antarctica is not that we won't be able to survive there, but the similar problem appearing today in many parts of the so-called civilized world: it's too white.:P
Nah. If there wasn't a protection of intellectual property, er... no mechanism for the inventor to recoup the effort put into developing a new product or whatever, then a lot of people would probably not try. Or at least I think that's the idea. I think this was an episode of The Simpsons.
22. Who builds Transmeta's Crusoe processor solution?
The hardware piece of the Crusoe Processor solution, the VLIW chip, is fabricated and packaged by IBM's Microelectronic Division. The Code Morphing software is developed and distributed along with the processor by Transmeta as a complete solution. --from FAQ, transmeta.com
A manufacturing defect is still Transmeta's problem
So, isn't a manufacturing defect ultimately IBM's problem? Well, Transmeta's gotta deal with the bad press, but I wonder what IBM's DPM is?
The P4's probably a good product. Intel didn't get where it is by being stupid. Or shoddy. (lucky, maybe) Yeah, maybe AMD's giving them a run for their money, but isn't that a _good_ thing?
Frankly, I'm glad Intel's running around with a fire under it's ass, because in the end it means better computers for me.
And if Intel educated the public on what really pushes chip performance, doesn't that mean most people would go out and buy Duron systems running Linux? The truth is, the average consumer doesn't really behave very logically. They have to have what everybody else has, even if everybody else is overpaying for shoddy products.
Recall brings to mind images of faulty Firestone tires and other dangerously unsafe products.
I think the general public has basically come to expect new PC products to be buggy.
I see your point that the general, uninformed public might be affected negatively to Intel's brand image, but effective QC at the beginning of a product launch is much better than having to conduct a much larger recall down the road, where it would probably be an even bigger news story, and therefore a bigger problem to Intel's brand, and, more importantly, a bigger impact to sales.
Larry Wall speaks so carefully and so directly in the interview that I found it entertaining just to listen to Wall have a conversation with two people whom are basically Open Source ignorant.
Several times he is asked to respond to strange and/or cliched metaphors about Open Source (primitive tribe, priesthood) and himself (Prometheus, "man behind the curtain", Wizard) that put him at a loss for words -- as if they're tempting him into admitting "Yes! okay I'm just a cult leader and these are my dutiful minions" -- and he points out that what they think is counterintuitive (why give stuff away free? why let people read your code? how is there convergence in what seems to be a committee... aren't committees prone to dissent?) maybe isn't so counterintuitive...
And the interviewers start to understand the philosophical differences between closed source and open source. They really picked up on the significance of asking "Why not?". He really blows their minds with some deep thoughts about the importance of sharing software ideas.
I think that the general message they get is that Open Source isn't a business model, it's at least an ethic, and might even be a religion.
So,./ers, if your Open Source faith is waning, or you're looking for someone to convince you that Open Source is in fact the path of the righteous, then hear the preaching of the Reverend Larry Wall of the Church of Open Source... and be amazed.
I think you misunderstood. She went reaching for the etymology of 'linux' without noticing that Linus and UNIX smashed together looks like... whatever. Then she free-associated Lucifer as the biblical bearer of light as a segue into a question about the darker possibilities of Open Source.
Larry Wall gracefully picked up on the not-stupid parts of her questions (such as what does Open Source guard against within it's own movement) and pointed out that Open Source as he sees it promotes a diversity of ideas, such that Open Source doesn't snuff out "incipient cultures".
If I invented some crazy cool new image compression format... I'd charge admission too. Isn't that sorta what the wavelet compression plugin publishers are doing? Getting your personal info in lieu of money, i guess...
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...yes, and I would point out that the difference between hardware and software, the one you pointed out, is intrinsic...
Transmeta's approach represents a new strategy (not just another new tactic... many fail to see the difference so apologies if this is pedantic) in the general purpose microprocessor market, a software based strategy. To take this approach to a level where it starts to exhibit an obvious differentiation from the hardware approach to computing, one must increase the complexity and size of the code being processed - one way i can think of doing this is by configuring Crusoe processors in SMP configurations... the more the better. Then we'll start to see some weird stuff like banks of Crusoe-ish CPUs processing most instructions in parallel working in cahoots with an array of more specialized chips handling performance sensitive instructions.
They're getting ready for an IPO. What did you expect?
Hmm, if I were taking my company public, I'd go around and tell reporters that the incumbent operators in my market actually knew what they were doing and that our own product was actually not that great.
:-/ the real skinny comes _after_ the IPO.
This has nothing to do with the poor marks you've been getting on your english essays. Stop reading./ and go read a book or something.
I think Crusoe's gonna kick butt. I think all the world will have little Crusoe/Linux handhelds with color LCDs and wireless net in 2 years.
And they will sell for 200 bux a pop.
And Nintendo will port Pokemon to it.
And thus will start a chain of events resulting in a total refacing of the consumer electronics market.
Hollywood wants to sell movie tix, etc. etc. to napster users. Took them long enuff. Assuming most people on napster are say, 13-25, what better way to send your message to this most desirable of demographics than get in bed napster?
It's so easy to call others scum eh? Makes you feel superior over those lesser worms surrounding you. It's hard to feel sympathy for the sympathy-less.
Is the EFF really loaded or something? I mean where do they get the money to hire these high-priced attorneys? I guess it's all you stock-options fat noveau riche eh? Cause it ain't anyone I know. Anyways, attaboy EFF.
Now what's up with this judge? In the preliminary hearing he ruled:
"Under section 1201(a)(2) of the DMCA, Judge Kaplan said, it is illegal for anyone to offer technology intended to circumvent a technological measure that controls access to a work protected under the act." (NYTimes)
How stupid is this? This criminalizes a form of reverse engineering. Now if I were reverse engineering for criminal intent, would I announce to the whole world what I had done? No! I'd freakin circumvent the bozotech in secret. The act of open-sourcing the exploit should clear any doubts of an engineer's non-criminal intent. Duh! But nooo, that ain't how it is. We have to criminalize the tech sharers, so the bozos in the bureaucracy can milk the corporate establishment for favors... y'know, some Senator calls his Federal Judge Law School buddy and asks him for a favor: "psst, hey skippy, let this injunction stand 'kay? just think of it as payback for when I took you to the hospital and waited while you got your stomach pumped."
Sometimes the law is so stupid it makes want to stick hot pokers in my eyeballs.
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Okay, now take into account cases of middle-management at these government scientific agencies going into business for themselves. I know of one JPL manager that left to head up a firm that specializes in commercializing technologies originally developed for the space program.
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I'm with you dude. The problem is, normally the top graduates out of MIT and Caltech would be working for NASA. Nowadays, everyone from interns on up to the Head of JPL Microcomputing are gunning for ground-floor opportunities in the Internet biz. NASA's losing it's edge to brain drain.
??? No, if it wasn't for the patents and for the media speculating, then at the point where Transmeta comes out and announces their product a bunch of people stand around and go "who the hell is Transmeta?" The approach that Transmeta took to marketing their product modeled on how the Blair Witch Project was marketed. Yah, people who think like you may be annoyed, but more people end up knowing about Transmeta in the end.
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"Promote the General Welfare"... it's in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution. Marx wasn't even born yet when that was written. Saying that "the public good is a socialist idea" seems pretty uninformed, especially considering that Plato's Republic talks about some pretty extreme ideas of governance performed to promote the greater good.
We've got a President Hussein,
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And they've got a President who's not.
People here should read Alexander Hamilton. If we are to have a government that promotes the general welfare, then it must have the power to intervene in commerce on behalf of the citizenry. We the people here in California did not vote for the executive management of Enron. I am of the opinion that extreme free-marketry is nothing less than kleptocracy.
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What's the difference between organized crime and Wall Street?
Organized crime's got better accountants.
Did they take into account the mega-farms in Trent Lott's neck of the woods that are being subsidized to _not_ grow? Whatever. These enviromentalist statistics are always so much baloney.
Not yet. Los Angeles before we developed large scale water systems was not so hospitable. Manhattan? A swamp. The moon?
My point is, us humans have a funny way of revolutionizing our relationship with the universe. Those clinging to a perspective within an axiomatic system will never understand what humanity is, on a geologic timescale. Welcome to the noosphere.
When we seriously start moving to colonize the Moon and beyond, we will probably start by improving our ability to live in the Arctic or Antarctica. The problem with the Arctic or Antarctica is not that we won't be able to survive there, but the similar problem appearing today in many parts of the so-called civilized world: it's too white.
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Then how did Unisys get to start enforcing its patent on GIF way after the fact? -x
A manufacturing defect is still Transmeta's problem
So, isn't a manufacturing defect ultimately IBM's problem? Well, Transmeta's gotta deal with the bad press, but I wonder what IBM's DPM is?
I thought the QX-3 was pretty cool, actually. I don't remember the Me2Cam.
Frankly, I'm glad Intel's running around with a fire under it's ass, because in the end it means better computers for me.
And if Intel educated the public on what really pushes chip performance, doesn't that mean most people would go out and buy Duron systems running Linux? The truth is, the average consumer doesn't really behave very logically. They have to have what everybody else has, even if everybody else is overpaying for shoddy products.
I see your point that the general, uninformed public might be affected negatively to Intel's brand image, but effective QC at the beginning of a product launch is much better than having to conduct a much larger recall down the road, where it would probably be an even bigger news story, and therefore a bigger problem to Intel's brand, and, more importantly, a bigger impact to sales.
Several times he is asked to respond to strange and/or cliched metaphors about Open Source (primitive tribe, priesthood) and himself (Prometheus, "man behind the curtain", Wizard) that put him at a loss for words -- as if they're tempting him into admitting "Yes! okay I'm just a cult leader and these are my dutiful minions" -- and he points out that what they think is counterintuitive (why give stuff away free? why let people read your code? how is there convergence in what seems to be a committee... aren't committees prone to dissent?) maybe isn't so counterintuitive...
And the interviewers start to understand the philosophical differences between closed source and open source. They really picked up on the significance of asking "Why not?". He really blows their minds with some deep thoughts about the importance of sharing software ideas.
I think that the general message they get is that Open Source isn't a business model, it's at least an ethic, and might even be a religion.
So, ./ers, if your Open Source faith is waning, or you're looking for someone to convince you that Open Source is in fact the path of the righteous, then hear the preaching of the Reverend Larry Wall of the Church of Open Source... and be amazed.
Larry Wall gracefully picked up on the not-stupid parts of her questions (such as what does Open Source guard against within it's own movement) and pointed out that Open Source as he sees it promotes a diversity of ideas, such that Open Source doesn't snuff out "incipient cultures".
Great Stuff. Larry Wall is the f'in man.
Nude: girls naked. Naked: guys nude. hehe
If I invented some crazy cool new image compression format... I'd charge admission too. Isn't that sorta what the wavelet compression plugin publishers are doing? Getting your personal info in lieu of money, i guess... $.02
...yes, and I would point out that the difference between hardware and software, the one you pointed out, is intrinsic...
Transmeta's approach represents a new strategy (not just another new tactic... many fail to see the difference so apologies if this is pedantic) in the general purpose microprocessor market, a software based strategy. To take this approach to a level where it starts to exhibit an obvious differentiation from the hardware approach to computing, one must increase the complexity and size of the code being processed - one way i can think of doing this is by configuring Crusoe processors in SMP configurations... the more the better. Then we'll start to see some weird stuff like banks of Crusoe-ish CPUs processing most instructions in parallel working in cahoots with an array of more specialized chips handling performance sensitive instructions.
haha, you said 'inconceivable.' that's funny.
They're getting ready for an IPO. What did you expect?
Hmm, if I were taking my company public, I'd go around and tell reporters that the incumbent operators in my market actually knew what they were doing and that our own product was actually not that great.
:-/ the real skinny comes _after_ the IPO.
This has nothing to do with the poor marks you've been getting on your english essays. Stop reading ./ and go read a book or something.
I think Crusoe's gonna kick butt. I think all the world will have little Crusoe/Linux handhelds with color LCDs and wireless net in 2 years.
And they will sell for 200 bux a pop.
And Nintendo will port Pokemon to it.
And thus will start a chain of events resulting in a total refacing of the consumer electronics market.
All This I Know In My Perfect Foreknowledge.
Hollywood wants to sell movie tix, etc. etc. to napster users. Took them long enuff. Assuming most people on napster are say, 13-25, what better way to send your message to this most desirable of demographics than get in bed napster?
I think java pushers pray for the day the hardware is fast and cheap enough that any sort of speed disadvantage becomes moot.
It's so easy to call others scum eh? Makes you feel superior over those lesser worms surrounding you. It's hard to feel sympathy for the sympathy-less.
Now what's up with this judge? In the preliminary hearing he ruled:
How stupid is this? This criminalizes a form of reverse engineering. Now if I were reverse engineering for criminal intent, would I announce to the whole world what I had done? No! I'd freakin circumvent the bozotech in secret. The act of open-sourcing the exploit should clear any doubts of an engineer's non-criminal intent. Duh! But nooo, that ain't how it is. We have to criminalize the tech sharers, so the bozos in the bureaucracy can milk the corporate establishment for favors... y'know, some Senator calls his Federal Judge Law School buddy and asks him for a favor: "psst, hey skippy, let this injunction stand 'kay? just think of it as payback for when I took you to the hospital and waited while you got your stomach pumped."
Sometimes the law is so stupid it makes want to stick hot pokers in my eyeballs.
Okay, now take into account cases of middle-management at these government scientific agencies going into business for themselves. I know of one JPL manager that left to head up a firm that specializes in commercializing technologies originally developed for the space program.
I'm with you dude. The problem is, normally the top graduates out of MIT and Caltech would be working for NASA. Nowadays, everyone from interns on up to the Head of JPL Microcomputing are gunning for ground-floor opportunities in the Internet biz. NASA's losing it's edge to brain drain.
??? No, if it wasn't for the patents and for the media speculating, then at the point where Transmeta comes out and announces their product a bunch of people stand around and go "who the hell is Transmeta?" The approach that Transmeta took to marketing their product modeled on how the Blair Witch Project was marketed. Yah, people who think like you may be annoyed, but more people end up knowing about Transmeta in the end.