Maybe SGI funnelled it around; SCO did drop chasing after them suddenly. I mean, while all the theories are flying around, might as well throw this one in the pot.
No. Taikong is a compound word, composed of two characters with two meanings. I broke it into the two meanings. Just like "naut". No one says naut, so obviously I was breaking it down into the constituent parts. Everyone and their dog probably realizes taikong means outerspace, since they paired with the Greek suffix "naut", which is found in words such as Astronaut and Cosmonaut. Usually, people use these words to encode both the meaning of "a sailor in space", and an ethnocentric pointer to where that sailor may be located.
(BTW - People that do not know the etymological breakdown of a Chinese word have no clue what the tones are so adding a 4 and a 1 are superfluous elements that only add to the confusion.)
Then software such as Windows NT are "rip offs" because the dude that helped implement the kernel for NT and other subsystems used to work on the VMS operating system. So, if MS uses the logic of "looking" at code and then implementing something better because of it, then they themselves are guilty of a sin they created.
You can tell much of the FUD about looking at Windows source and integrating it into Linux comes from a Flock of Psycho Chickens and their non-programming brothers. How in the name of all that is holy will the Chinese look at the source code and create their own Linux? Can anyone, from a programmer point of view, enlighten me on the subject?
You, my friend, are obviously not familiar with sales tax. Sales tax, just like income tax, comes in various flavors and levels. Using the cost of bread is mistaken as it misrepresents that sales tax covers all purchases from A to Z. This is wrong. In most states, that I am familiar with, basic units of life like food without services are not taxed. Bread is not taxed; nor should it ever be. Whoppers and Big Macs are taxed, because they come with a service and are *not* basic needs!
ALL taxes are bad. The worst is Income; do some research on the topic and come back with some better arguments. Thanks.
In other news... parents of the deceased and injured sue the parents of the killers for 60 million pounds.
Now where are they going to get the money?
Oh, yeah, those corporate demons! They're eating up software patents and making baby killer games!! Damn them!... oh, we're still supporting them... darn.
Most high-level languages can be embedded in the first two, so if you really want to go Python, setup main to call your script right off the bat. Maybe they won't notice!;)
> I think you have misunderstood what TCPA, Palladium, and DRM is all about.
Other arguments other than my capability to comprehend are more appropriate, as you relate further in later paragraphs. I do understand what these are all about and my questions still remain.
> DRM uses encryption to the keep the actual data secret from one of the parties, so that he can be subject to his computer regarding what he can do with the data in question.
You've said this quite well. However, my question remains... why are we protesting the vehicle rather than its passenger? Why do we want to banish P2P networks because of misuse? Why do we want to banish TCPA because of potential misuse? Either one is fine, a vehicle to convey information in either a wildly unrestricted manner versus a wildly restricted manner. The key point is the creator decides what goes: whether its open or proprietary. Of course, I'm a fan of open 'data', but I cannot protest and remove rights of those who want to close their own data.
So, my view is let's protest the data, the passenger, rather than the vehicle.
Question: Do you currently protest GPG signatures and encryption algorithms? Where do you draw the line between what *you* want to encrypt/control and what *you* want *others* to encrypt/control? Or do you want to pull an RMS and have no passwords to protect your systems, no security to lock your documents that you created and no rights to control stuff that you created? Shouldn't we let people have the right to handle guns and the right to handle encryption/document rights/system verification in anyway shape or form they please? Whether that be individuals, groups, churches, cults, governments, corporations, criminals, gangs, ACLU, EPA, Green Peace or whoever else!
Everything has an avenue of abuse, but that does not mean scrapping the whole thing because it's got a hole for possible misuse. I mean, look at another case in point: P2P networks. Do we sue the thing out of existence? Or do we fix the violators? What are the definitions of violators?
It's all nice and rosy to flat out and protest something that's "unknown", but the fact is the technology is here and big players are pushing for its existence. Unbelievers in the technology will always be a small ragtag of protestors holding up placards in front of large corporation buildings towering the skies of Redmond, WA.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Windows and I'm a Linux zealot, but I just cannot take your protest position at this time. Sorry.
> One wonders how the Taiwanese actually reconcile this cultural history with their desire to remain separate from China.
I think Mao's cultural revolution gave Taiwan about 40 Million reasons to reconcile a separatist notion. Not to preclude the millions of KMT members who died over the years prior.
I hate to break it to all the arm-chair political analysts, as I am, but "America" is not this single entity moving in one direction -- as with every damned nation on earth and every damned human being. America is *more* than double standard... at the very least, its quintiple standard. Same as Germany, France, Russia, UK, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, North and South Korea, China, India, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Poland... etc.
It's all about people. And these nations are large enough, there's more than a couple of people running the show. So, before we all spout off about how America sucks, let us sit down and relax... breathe in the reality of what is our human existance. We're "under one Nation", but that doesn't mean we move mindless forward in the same direction like the Borg. If we wanted that, we'd all be Microsoft employees.
Getting citizenship in the Orient is impossible. Especially when so many of their own are jumping ship to Canada and the U.S.A. The mindset is "why would anyone do such a stupid thing?" There are exceptions to the rule: Hong Kong. But, do really want to do such a stupid thing?
The INS (BCIS) could care less about American Citizens. All they care about are illegal immigrants (read: Mexicans) and people who fake marriage to get green cards. Trust me, I've been through it all... except illegally immigrating to the U.S. Although, when I was a kid my Mom probably thought so.
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Maybe SGI funnelled it around; SCO did drop chasing after them suddenly. I mean, while all the theories are flying around, might as well throw this one in the pot.
In Taiwan, the word is Tai Kong Ren for astronaut. Yu hang yuan sounds like some funky Star Trek term. But, hey, I learned my Chinese in Taiwan.
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No. Taikong is a compound word, composed of two characters with two meanings. I broke it into the two meanings. Just like "naut". No one says naut, so obviously I was breaking it down into the constituent parts. Everyone and their dog probably realizes taikong means outerspace, since they paired with the Greek suffix "naut", which is found in words such as Astronaut and Cosmonaut. Usually, people use these words to encode both the meaning of "a sailor in space", and an ethnocentric pointer to where that sailor may be located.
(BTW - People that do not know the etymological breakdown of a Chinese word have no clue what the tones are so adding a 4 and a 1 are superfluous elements that only add to the confusion.)
Chinese Portion
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Tai - extreme, very
Kong - space, area, emptiness
Greek Portion
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naut - sailor
Have fun!
Then software such as Windows NT are "rip offs" because the dude that helped implement the kernel for NT and other subsystems used to work on the VMS operating system. So, if MS uses the logic of "looking" at code and then implementing something better because of it, then they themselves are guilty of a sin they created.
You can tell much of the FUD about looking at Windows source and integrating it into Linux comes from a Flock of Psycho Chickens and their non-programming brothers. How in the name of all that is holy will the Chinese look at the source code and create their own Linux? Can anyone, from a programmer point of view, enlighten me on the subject?
Go the Microsoft Excel way: 'AA'.
Hello!
Hello!
Are you there?
Hello!
I called you up
to say hello.
I said hello.
Can you hear me, Joe?
Oh, no.
I can not hear your call.
I can not hear your call at all.
This is not good
and I know why.
A mouse has cut the wire.
Good-by![sic]
- Geisel, Theodor S., 1960, pp. 24-25, "One fish two fish red fish blue fish"
You, my friend, are obviously not familiar with sales tax. Sales tax, just like income tax, comes in various flavors and levels. Using the cost of bread is mistaken as it misrepresents that sales tax covers all purchases from A to Z. This is wrong. In most states, that I am familiar with, basic units of life like food without services are not taxed. Bread is not taxed; nor should it ever be. Whoppers and Big Macs are taxed, because they come with a service and are *not* basic needs!
ALL taxes are bad. The worst is Income; do some research on the topic and come back with some better arguments. Thanks.
In other news ... parents of the deceased and injured sue the parents of the killers for 60 million pounds.
... oh, we're still supporting them ... darn.
Now where are they going to get the money?
Oh, yeah, those corporate demons! They're eating up software patents and making baby killer games!! Damn them!
Most high-level languages can be embedded in the first two, so if you really want to go Python, setup main to call your script right off the bat. Maybe they won't notice! ;)
Then it wouldn't be anonymous, you bonehead.
> I think you have misunderstood what TCPA, Palladium, and DRM is all about.
... why are we protesting the vehicle rather than its passenger? Why do we want to banish P2P networks because of misuse? Why do we want to banish TCPA because of potential misuse? Either one is fine, a vehicle to convey information in either a wildly unrestricted manner versus a wildly restricted manner. The key point is the creator decides what goes: whether its open or proprietary. Of course, I'm a fan of open 'data', but I cannot protest and remove rights of those who want to close their own data.
Other arguments other than my capability to comprehend are more appropriate, as you relate further in later paragraphs. I do understand what these are all about and my questions still remain.
> DRM uses encryption to the keep the actual data secret from one of the parties, so that he can be subject to his computer regarding what he can do with the data in question.
You've said this quite well. However, my question remains
So, my view is let's protest the data, the passenger, rather than the vehicle.
Question: Do you currently protest GPG signatures and encryption algorithms? Where do you draw the line between what *you* want to encrypt/control and what *you* want *others* to encrypt/control? Or do you want to pull an RMS and have no passwords to protect your systems, no security to lock your documents that you created and no rights to control stuff that you created? Shouldn't we let people have the right to handle guns and the right to handle encryption/document rights/system verification in anyway shape or form they please? Whether that be individuals, groups, churches, cults, governments, corporations, criminals, gangs, ACLU, EPA, Green Peace or whoever else!
Everything has an avenue of abuse, but that does not mean scrapping the whole thing because it's got a hole for possible misuse. I mean, look at another case in point: P2P networks. Do we sue the thing out of existence? Or do we fix the violators? What are the definitions of violators?
It's all nice and rosy to flat out and protest something that's "unknown", but the fact is the technology is here and big players are pushing for its existence. Unbelievers in the technology will always be a small ragtag of protestors holding up placards in front of large corporation buildings towering the skies of Redmond, WA.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Windows and I'm a Linux zealot, but I just cannot take your protest position at this time. Sorry.
> One wonders how the Taiwanese actually reconcile this cultural history with their desire to remain separate from China.
I think Mao's cultural revolution gave Taiwan about 40 Million reasons to reconcile a separatist notion. Not to preclude the millions of KMT members who died over the years prior.
It's simple because once you setup you never have to look at it for years to come. Now that's abstraction!
Nope. Business people actually watch sports. When Oprah becomes a sport, hey, they might advertise beer!
Every car chase goes through the aquaducts in L.A. and they don't even need amphibious equipment!
I hate to break it to all the arm-chair political analysts, as I am, but "America" is not this single entity moving in one direction -- as with every damned nation on earth and every damned human being. America is *more* than double standard ... at the very least, its quintiple standard. Same as Germany, France, Russia, UK, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, North and South Korea, China, India, Uzbekistan, Serbia, Poland ... etc.
... breathe in the reality of what is our human existance. We're "under one Nation", but that doesn't mean we move mindless forward in the same direction like the Borg. If we wanted that, we'd all be Microsoft employees.
It's all about people. And these nations are large enough, there's more than a couple of people running the show. So, before we all spout off about how America sucks, let us sit down and relax
Well at least you kept the slashdot tradition of misspellings and grammatical errors!
Getting citizenship in the Orient is impossible. Especially when so many of their own are jumping ship to Canada and the U.S.A. The mindset is "why would anyone do such a stupid thing?" There are exceptions to the rule: Hong Kong. But, do really want to do such a stupid thing?
The INS (BCIS) could care less about American Citizens. All they care about are illegal immigrants (read: Mexicans) and people who fake marriage to get green cards. Trust me, I've been through it all ... except illegally immigrating to the U.S. Although, when I was a kid my Mom probably thought so.