A few years ago, prior to Quake 3 I recall Carmack speaking around this issue. The buzzword at the time was "portal" technology but the concept was the same. Distribute the clockcycles and network load around.
My memory (link tba) recalls that the context was along the lines of contesting the MMORPG's vision of enormous proprietary systems with something a bit more... flexible.
This is not because of your actual opinions about the content of these media forms.
This is because you are moving out of a target demographic. Quite possibly you are moving into another, but the purveyors of your new content just haven't found you yet.
I often get the willies when I the only "political" perspective that technical people can summon is the equivalent of calling someone else a "fascist" (or Bill Gates, or whatever). RMS is on point here. You cannot engineer without a very clear understanding of what thing you are creating. It is indeed unconscienable that humans would engineer missle technology, OS's used to hegonomize, and even appliances. We don't need them, they are toys, and RMS correctly places the responsiblity on the creator and not just the funder.
Aragorn!
Capitalism is a pretty damn loaded word. Typically by using it you are hoping for the prestige of Adam Smith and the potency of Ayn Rand. What you most often sound like though is the irrational of Rush Limbaugh and the lunatic idealism of "libertarianism". Any political position that places its goal as both sustainability and "better" production (meaning more efficient) is contradictary. Whether or not our politics/economics should be based on assumptions of scarcity is one thing. But to take the larger view (the Earth) we are most assuredly limited by the scarcity of the planet. Which comes around to this. To base an economic-political system on the rhetoric of a thirty year old toothless movement (the environmental) and an even older insane movement (capitalism) is to mire yourself in the irrelevancy (historically speaking) of both. Production is not a goal. It is how big machines talk to little people. You are either for it (by working for it) or you are ground to bits. Aragorn!
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At work we found some odd Salesforce incompatibilities with FF3 too. Annoying to have to open IE for one damn button....
I believe that can be arranged...
maybe you don't remember the multi-cultural dance party/orgy in the second Matrix?
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A few years ago, prior to Quake 3 I recall Carmack speaking around this issue. The buzzword at the time was "portal" technology but the concept was the same. Distribute the clockcycles and network load around.
My memory (link tba) recalls that the context was along the lines of contesting the MMORPG's vision of enormous proprietary systems with something a bit more... flexible.
Aragorn!
This is not because of your actual opinions about the content of these media forms.
This is because you are moving out of a target demographic. Quite possibly you are moving into another, but the purveyors of your new content just haven't found you yet.
Cheers.
Aragorn!
I often get the willies when I the only "political" perspective that technical people can summon is the equivalent of calling someone else a "fascist" (or Bill Gates, or whatever). RMS is on point here. You cannot engineer without a very clear understanding of what thing you are creating. It is indeed unconscienable that humans would engineer missle technology, OS's used to hegonomize, and even appliances. We don't need them, they are toys, and RMS correctly places the responsiblity on the creator and not just the funder. Aragorn!
Capitalism is a pretty damn loaded word. Typically by using it you are hoping for the prestige of Adam Smith and the potency of Ayn Rand. What you most often sound like though is the irrational of Rush Limbaugh and the lunatic idealism of "libertarianism". Any political position that places its goal as both sustainability and "better" production (meaning more efficient) is contradictary. Whether or not our politics/economics should be based on assumptions of scarcity is one thing. But to take the larger view (the Earth) we are most assuredly limited by the scarcity of the planet. Which comes around to this. To base an economic-political system on the rhetoric of a thirty year old toothless movement (the environmental) and an even older insane movement (capitalism) is to mire yourself in the irrelevancy (historically speaking) of both. Production is not a goal. It is how big machines talk to little people. You are either for it (by working for it) or you are ground to bits. Aragorn!