But that is nothing compared to effect it has on the web pages I view, pages has simply started to look better...
Firefox is on the top of my "why I want user's to switch" question for this very reason. I want user's to switch to Firefox (from IE) so that I can design web sites that make use of CSS. User's who don't make the switch force me to try and work around IEs limitations.
And what happens when the lead developer becomes a luddite, moves to the Northwest Territories, and dies in a horrific dog sled accident?
Life goes on and, if it's important to someone else, maybe they will pick it up. If it's important to you maybe you'll be the one to pick up the torch!
Either use single sign on or an honest assessment of whether or not every f-ing application and web site in the intranet needs it's own f-ing password. Some things are just not so important that they need a password especially if they are already relatively safe within the corporate intranet.
To use the example above, I'd be more than willing to think up and use a long, randomized password if it was the only one I had to remember to do my job and I only had to change it once every 90 days or so.
Expand please... I'm a loyal SuSE user (I still use the lowercase 'u' dammit) so is Novell 10 derived from SuSE 9.2 or not? The article seems to imply that it is: "Several of the Linux Desktop 10 features -- including Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, an Evolution 2.2 plug in and the Mono developer tools -- will surface in SUSE Linux 9.3, which will be introduced in early April."
It's an interesting comparison and one that I've made as well. I guess one way to look at it is the difference in the way the two sides view Life (with a capital 'L'; meaning a higher concept than simply microbes and cattle and plants).
One side views Life as sentience therefore to kill a sentient creature (even an evil one like an unrepentant murderer) is wrong while there is no moral quandaries about ending non-sentient life (a zygote or a brain-dead human-shaped meat pile).
The other side views Life as a Soul which means, I guess, that it is fine to bring about the destruction of evil souls (like murderers, abortionist, and Iraqis) while the destruction of innocent souls (unborn children and that woman in Florida) is wrong.
I guess this is why more liberals than consertatives are vegetarians. A liberal may be more likely to look at another species and recognize a form of sentience. A conservative is likely to look at another species and say "nope, no soul there."
"Could someone tell me what the essential difference is between someone violating the license terms on a copyrighted work released under a GPL license, and someone violating the terms under which a CD is released by (for example) Sony?"
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They want to ignore Sony's terms and conditions, while at the same time they're demanding that Sony et al respect the GPLs terms and conditions. It's hypocrisy, nothing else.
I don't believe it's hipocrisy. Copyright, in it's pure form, is about protecting the creative material. A CD is not a "creative" material; the music on it is. To turn the original comparison on it's head, the original quesition is like comparing the box and DVDs that SuSE 9.2 comes in to the performance rights for a particular song. Novell has a right to try and control the terms and conditions of the use of it's manufactured material (for example, using the police force to prevent shoplifting), but it doesn't have the right to change the copyright restrictions (e.g. GPL of the source code that is on the DVDs). Similarly, Sony may try to impose any form of terms and condition on the reuse of a Sony CD, but don't try and defend it under the umbrella of copyright law.
Anyway, I am most certainly not in the group that defends music piracy, but I am whole-hearted ly in the group that worries about large corporations using priracy as an excuse to take away fair use rights (and don't even get me started on the lifetime + X copyright horizon brought on by the George of the Jungle Copyright Extension Act).
If NASDAQ levels equals DotCom boom, then a 78% loss of value over the next 18 months sure seems like a DotCom crash. Anyway, I would like to apologize to everyone... I bought my first stock ever (not counting 401k) in a Sure Thing called Constellation 3D (currently trading at 0.0001) in March of 2000. I feel somewhat responsible.
Exactly, 4.2 millions is less than half what Bennett lost at casinos, less than DeLay spends on FEMA helicopters, and, to be fair, about equal to Ted Kennedy's hamburger budget. It is also about 36,000 times less than the cost of the War in Iraq.
Option 3: if you'd really be making 2-3 times more than you're making now. You could sell out for three or four years and then retire for a few years on the savings (assuming you had the discipline to maintain your current spending habits) to start a consulting company or something. Take the time you're working to finish your degree (in Comp. Sci) which will also help you keep your programming skills up.
Perhaps the solution is to stop referring children into grades. Rather there could be the concept of Groups. Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons would form the broad class of moderately skilled to unskilled labor. With a gramme of soma this structure could certainly work.
The problem is in trying to identify the various groups as young as possible (perhaps even before birth). Hmmmm....
Not to nit-pick, but removing environment enforcment provisions is a subsidy to the polluting industry and the antithesis of a free market. A common good (air, water, soil, whatever) is consumed by a single entity and the cost is born by others.
There you go... half the stars in the galaxy where converted into Dyson Spheres for the other half. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands.
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Don't stop there. Mars is a gold mine! Think of the patent opportunities:
Single-click purchase ON MARS
Hyperlinks ON MARS
Huffman compression ON MARS
Laser pointer as a cat excersize tool ON MARS
There's money to be made, my friend, on the new frontier.
I know almost nothing about this topic, but it's never stopped me before.
I wonder if The Sims has ever been used as a socialization tool for autism? If computer games are attractive to the individual. Could a game like The Sims that attempts to be an abstraction of "real life" help bridge the gap between normal, socialized behvaior online verses real life?
Our own weather forecasters can't even get the weather correct 48 hours in advance most of the time (save for areas like the equator and extreme north/south, of course).
Bzzzt... you just lost the new Godwin's Law. Climate != Weather.
Bravo. The term "semantic web" gets thrown around a lot. I think there is a hidden desire among a lot of people that if they just add enough markup data then suddenly and magically the web will become self-aware and AI will be born.
In a more functional sense, the pieces are slowly being put into place, but as long as there are a huge number of people with varying mental processes "marking up" the data, the whole thing won't be any more than a labor-intensive way of making new web pages. Where I believe it will work is where you have a trusted source of data that is in a known heirarchical format that can be preprocessed into a set interdependent links. Endeca (sp?) does a good job of this for individual commerce sites (I think CompUSA's search is powered by Endeca). iTunes (or any other music database) and IMDB are other good examples of data sources that could be wrapped with semantic meaning. Perhaps these trusted sources will eventually merge so that a the "seven degrees of Kevin Bacon" could expand to cover the world of music (how many degrees of separation between Kevin and Bach?).
1. would-be criminal walks into a gun shop. 2. would-be criminal asks for the gun with the "mouse interface" 3. would-be criminal says, "don't laugh at me, that's how it works in Doom!" 4. would-be criminal walks, dejected, back to his basement bedroom in his parent's house
Perhaps it open source patents should be a little more aggressive. Wouldn't it make sense to license open source patents wrapped in some sort of poison pill rather than simply place them in the public domain. For example, if EFF owns the patent then they could provide a commercial license that allows use for free... until the licensee files a lawsuit for (any form of) patent infringement at which point the license cost rises to $1,000,000 per use.
That whole "code word" argument always bothers me. It's just too easy to misunderstand what people are saying if you assign new meanings to their words.
The problem is that some positions are indefensible. "Keeping the n****r down" wasn't a popular position for the majority of Americans (even, I would guess, a majority of Southerners) in the 60's so a code word was developed -- "state's rights" -- that meant the same thing but could be debated and defended in Southern statehouses.
Yes, but the catch is what you consider inalienable rights. The Constitution clearly leaves that (other than those specifically enumerated) to state legislatures...
Not true. The 14th amendment -- the "Equal Protection" ammendment -- is very clear that all citizens are due equal protection under the law. In any case there are some 1,100 (The Economist, Feb 12th-18th, p.31) Federal benefits from the legal contract of marriage. This is not just a state issue. Perhaps a compromise is to establish a feberal marriage contract upon which those benefits are provided independet of a state marriage contract. And, just to be clear, NO proponent of gay marriage is trying to force any given church to perform a gay marriage ceremony. Separation of Church and State works both ways.
If he appoints a religious nut bent on expanding federal power...
I meant the "appointment OF Bush II" (i.e. Supreme Court v. State of Florida) not the appointments BY Bush II. My point was that it is a moot point arguing that that decision is wrong just like you can't roll back 30 years of case law based on Roe v. Wade by outlawing abortion.
There's been some interesting comments based on your posts and even though I don't agree with it, I thought I'd post and let you know that I read and respect it. However...;-)
I don't understand why you think something like principled opposition to abortion is "dividing our country".
Maybe I'm too cynical but I don't believe in the "principled opposition". Well, I do for many of the grass roots supporters, but for the people running the Republican party it has always seemed to me to be just another mechanism to distract the average person from meaningful issues. For previous example see communism in the 50's and "state's rights" in the 60's and 70's as a code word for "keepin' the n****r down". (As a side note, the Democrats didn't "lose the South for a generation" based on their stand on the capital gains tax). If the left were to roll over tomorrow and let the Republicans win on the issues of abortion and gay marriage and prayer in school and all these other issues, by Thursday Rev. Spongebob would be on the air demanding that condoms, birth control pills, and Telletubbies be outlawed. And, I fear, a preponderance of the Republican leadership would pander to these positions to further their own political end. In the end, as an atheist, you'd be in as deep as shit as the rest of us.
Eventually they will [allow gay rights], though, if you don't try to force them.
You, of course, know the standard response to this. Either human beings are worthy of inalienable rights or they are not. If they are, then any delay is unconscienable.
Oh, and speaking of "activist judges", I hope that 30 years from now we're not still bitching about the first appointment of Bush II like we are about Roe v. Wade.
I see no concrete difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to fiscal responsibility.
I don't entirely disagree with you, that's why I say bring back a divided government. In my opinion, the primary reason we had surpluses in the 90's was because Congress and the Executive branch were in opposite hands most of the time under both Bush and Clinton. Don't get me wrong, I will still support candidates from the left in the hope of nudging our country slighty back towards the center from the far right where we have drifted, but I'd be happy with a 50/50 split.
Here's an honest question for you (and a little off topic, but what the hell). You claim to be a atheist Republican which confuses me because other than the religious topics that the Republicans have been using to divide our country (abortion and homosexuality) what draws you to that party? It can't be fiscal responsibility, they abandoned that in the 90's. It can't be love of the Constitution. Other than the 2nd Amendement, there's not a lot of support for the Constitution among the GOP. It's certainly isn't a respect for the environment. Anyway, as a atheist who votes Democrat not out of any great passion but just because the alternatives are so awful, I am honestly curious.
I think you are incorrect, the desire to remain beta is a conditioned response of the software. Look at the following comment taken out of the source code of Google's GMail service:
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.";-)
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Firefox is on the top of my "why I want user's to switch" question for this very reason. I want user's to switch to Firefox (from IE) so that I can design web sites that make use of CSS. User's who don't make the switch force me to try and work around IEs limitations.
And what happens when the lead developer becomes a luddite, moves to the Northwest Territories, and dies in a horrific dog sled accident?
Life goes on and, if it's important to someone else, maybe they will pick it up. If it's important to you maybe you'll be the one to pick up the torch!
Either use single sign on or an honest assessment of whether or not every f-ing application and web site in the intranet needs it's own f-ing password. Some things are just not so important that they need a password especially if they are already relatively safe within the corporate intranet.
To use the example above, I'd be more than willing to think up and use a long, randomized password if it was the only one I had to remember to do my job and I only had to change it once every 90 days or so.
Wow, did mean old hippies steal your ice cream cone?
I'm always confused by the line of logic that seems to go, "A is better that B, but A is not perfect therefore don't bother using A".
Electronic Arts wasn't hiring! ;-)
Expand please... I'm a loyal SuSE user (I still use the lowercase 'u' dammit) so is Novell 10 derived from SuSE 9.2 or not? The article seems to imply that it is: "Several of the Linux Desktop 10 features -- including Beagle, F-Spot, Tomboy, an Evolution 2.2 plug in and the Mono developer tools -- will surface in SUSE Linux 9.3, which will be introduced in early April."
One side views Life as sentience therefore to kill a sentient creature (even an evil one like an unrepentant murderer) is wrong while there is no moral quandaries about ending non-sentient life (a zygote or a brain-dead human-shaped meat pile).
The other side views Life as a Soul which means, I guess, that it is fine to bring about the destruction of evil souls (like murderers, abortionist, and Iraqis) while the destruction of innocent souls (unborn children and that woman in Florida) is wrong.
I guess this is why more liberals than consertatives are vegetarians. A liberal may be more likely to look at another species and recognize a form of sentience. A conservative is likely to look at another species and say "nope, no soul there."
"Could someone tell me what the essential difference is between someone violating the license terms on a copyrighted work released under a GPL license, and someone violating the terms under which a CD is released by (for example) Sony?"
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They want to ignore Sony's terms and conditions, while at the same time they're demanding that Sony et al respect the GPLs terms and conditions. It's hypocrisy, nothing else.
I don't believe it's hipocrisy. Copyright, in it's pure form, is about protecting the creative material. A CD is not a "creative" material; the music on it is. To turn the original comparison on it's head, the original quesition is like comparing the box and DVDs that SuSE 9.2 comes in to the performance rights for a particular song. Novell has a right to try and control the terms and conditions of the use of it's manufactured material (for example, using the police force to prevent shoplifting), but it doesn't have the right to change the copyright restrictions (e.g. GPL of the source code that is on the DVDs). Similarly, Sony may try to impose any form of terms and condition on the reuse of a Sony CD, but don't try and defend it under the umbrella of copyright law.
Anyway, I am most certainly not in the group that defends music piracy, but I am whole-hearted ly in the group that worries about large corporations using priracy as an excuse to take away fair use rights (and don't even get me started on the lifetime + X copyright horizon brought on by the George of the Jungle Copyright Extension Act).
Gestures in Opera was innovative, I suppose. Not that I'm a big fan, but innovative != univerally pleasing.
If NASDAQ levels equals DotCom boom, then a 78% loss of value over the next 18 months sure seems like a DotCom crash. Anyway, I would like to apologize to everyone... I bought my first stock ever (not counting 401k) in a Sure Thing called Constellation 3D (currently trading at 0.0001) in March of 2000. I feel somewhat responsible.
Exactly, 4.2 millions is less than half what Bennett lost at casinos, less than DeLay spends on FEMA helicopters, and, to be fair, about equal to Ted Kennedy's hamburger budget. It is also about 36,000 times less than the cost of the War in Iraq.
Option 3: if you'd really be making 2-3 times more than you're making now. You could sell out for three or four years and then retire for a few years on the savings (assuming you had the discipline to maintain your current spending habits) to start a consulting company or something. Take the time you're working to finish your degree (in Comp. Sci) which will also help you keep your programming skills up.
Perhaps the solution is to stop referring children into grades. Rather there could be the concept of Groups. Alphas would be the future researchers and intellectual workers of the world. Betas would be the middle managers and skilled craftspeople. Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons would form the broad class of moderately skilled to unskilled labor. With a gramme of soma this structure could certainly work.
The problem is in trying to identify the various groups as young as possible (perhaps even before birth). Hmmmm....
Not to nit-pick, but removing environment enforcment provisions is a subsidy to the polluting industry and the antithesis of a free market. A common good (air, water, soil, whatever) is consumed by a single entity and the cost is born by others.
There you go... half the stars in the galaxy where converted into Dyson Spheres for the other half. This is what happens when you have too much time on your hands.
There's money to be made, my friend, on the new frontier.
I know almost nothing about this topic, but it's never stopped me before.
I wonder if The Sims has ever been used as a socialization tool for autism? If computer games are attractive to the individual. Could a game like The Sims that attempts to be an abstraction of "real life" help bridge the gap between normal, socialized behvaior online verses real life?
Our own weather forecasters can't even get the weather correct 48 hours in advance most of the time (save for areas like the equator and extreme north/south, of course).
Bzzzt... you just lost the new Godwin's Law. Climate != Weather.
Bravo. The term "semantic web" gets thrown around a lot. I think there is a hidden desire among a lot of people that if they just add enough markup data then suddenly and magically the web will become self-aware and AI will be born.
In a more functional sense, the pieces are slowly being put into place, but as long as there are a huge number of people with varying mental processes "marking up" the data, the whole thing won't be any more than a labor-intensive way of making new web pages. Where I believe it will work is where you have a trusted source of data that is in a known heirarchical format that can be preprocessed into a set interdependent links. Endeca (sp?) does a good job of this for individual commerce sites (I think CompUSA's search is powered by Endeca). iTunes (or any other music database) and IMDB are other good examples of data sources that could be wrapped with semantic meaning. Perhaps these trusted sources will eventually merge so that a the "seven degrees of Kevin Bacon" could expand to cover the world of music (how many degrees of separation between Kevin and Bach?).
I can imagine it now.
1. would-be criminal walks into a gun shop.
2. would-be criminal asks for the gun with the "mouse interface"
3. would-be criminal says, "don't laugh at me, that's how it works in Doom!"
4. would-be criminal walks, dejected, back to his basement bedroom in his parent's house
Perhaps it open source patents should be a little more aggressive. Wouldn't it make sense to license open source patents wrapped in some sort of poison pill rather than simply place them in the public domain. For example, if EFF owns the patent then they could provide a commercial license that allows use for free... until the licensee files a lawsuit for (any form of) patent infringement at which point the license cost rises to $1,000,000 per use.
That whole "code word" argument always bothers me. It's just too easy to misunderstand what people are saying if you assign new meanings to their words.
The problem is that some positions are indefensible. "Keeping the n****r down" wasn't a popular position for the majority of Americans (even, I would guess, a majority of Southerners) in the 60's so a code word was developed -- "state's rights" -- that meant the same thing but could be debated and defended in Southern statehouses.
Yes, but the catch is what you consider inalienable rights. The Constitution clearly leaves that (other than those specifically enumerated) to state legislatures...
Not true. The 14th amendment -- the "Equal Protection" ammendment -- is very clear that all citizens are due equal protection under the law. In any case there are some 1,100 (The Economist, Feb 12th-18th, p.31) Federal benefits from the legal contract of marriage. This is not just a state issue. Perhaps a compromise is to establish a feberal marriage contract upon which those benefits are provided independet of a state marriage contract. And, just to be clear, NO proponent of gay marriage is trying to force any given church to perform a gay marriage ceremony. Separation of Church and State works both ways.
If he appoints a religious nut bent on expanding federal power...
I meant the "appointment OF Bush II" (i.e. Supreme Court v. State of Florida) not the appointments BY Bush II. My point was that it is a moot point arguing that that decision is wrong just like you can't roll back 30 years of case law based on Roe v. Wade by outlawing abortion.
There's been some interesting comments based on your posts and even though I don't agree with it, I thought I'd post and let you know that I read and respect it. However... ;-)
I don't understand why you think something like principled opposition to abortion is "dividing our country".
Maybe I'm too cynical but I don't believe in the "principled opposition". Well, I do for many of the grass roots supporters, but for the people running the Republican party it has always seemed to me to be just another mechanism to distract the average person from meaningful issues. For previous example see communism in the 50's and "state's rights" in the 60's and 70's as a code word for "keepin' the n****r down". (As a side note, the Democrats didn't "lose the South for a generation" based on their stand on the capital gains tax). If the left were to roll over tomorrow and let the Republicans win on the issues of abortion and gay marriage and prayer in school and all these other issues, by Thursday Rev. Spongebob would be on the air demanding that condoms, birth control pills, and Telletubbies be outlawed. And, I fear, a preponderance of the Republican leadership would pander to these positions to further their own political end. In the end, as an atheist, you'd be in as deep as shit as the rest of us.
Eventually they will [allow gay rights], though, if you don't try to force them.
You, of course, know the standard response to this. Either human beings are worthy of inalienable rights or they are not. If they are, then any delay is unconscienable.
Oh, and speaking of "activist judges", I hope that 30 years from now we're not still bitching about the first appointment of Bush II like we are about Roe v. Wade.
I see no concrete difference between the Democrats and Republicans when it comes to fiscal responsibility.
I don't entirely disagree with you, that's why I say bring back a divided government. In my opinion, the primary reason we had surpluses in the 90's was because Congress and the Executive branch were in opposite hands most of the time under both Bush and Clinton. Don't get me wrong, I will still support candidates from the left in the hope of nudging our country slighty back towards the center from the far right where we have drifted, but I'd be happy with a 50/50 split.
Here's an honest question for you (and a little off topic, but what the hell). You claim to be a atheist Republican which confuses me because other than the religious topics that the Republicans have been using to divide our country (abortion and homosexuality) what draws you to that party? It can't be fiscal responsibility, they abandoned that in the 90's. It can't be love of the Constitution. Other than the 2nd Amendement, there's not a lot of support for the Constitution among the GOP. It's certainly isn't a respect for the environment. Anyway, as a atheist who votes Democrat not out of any great passion but just because the alternatives are so awful, I am honestly curious.
I think you are incorrect, the desire to remain beta is a conditioned response of the software. Look at the following comment taken out of the source code of Google's GMail service:
;-)
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."