Thanks for the link. Great intro. However, Paul Krassner could have done a better job transcribing, I noticed several errors. Nothing major, but dammit if you're gonna put Homer to text do it right!
Karl Marx has already explained exactly where money is going to go... into the ash-heap of history.
You're quite right, although thesingularity will be what causes it.
Nanotechnologywill play a big part in this. What it boils down to is, once we can replicate materials (like in Star Trek) we won't need to exchange pieces of paper in order to obtain goods. Services, perhaps, but the machines will be able to perform most services and you can replicate the machines.
This should all happen within our lifetimes. Perhaps in less than a generation (~20 years).
I wrote a lot of software in Pascal using the UCSD p-System. The applications ran comfortably on machines with a 4.77 Mhz 8088, 8087 FPU and 512KB RAM.
Wow, that takes me back. I remember in High School using Apple ][ computers running the UCSD p-System. I wrote an application to help the teachers keep track of grades (yes, I'm that old;-).
Fond memories. As another response says, p-code doesn't do as much garbage collection and checking as Java does, so it would be faster given equivalent platforms. I remember it giving acceptable performance, both in the "compile" phase as well as execution.
I would like to know what exactly he considers an internet download.
I'm no politician, but I would imagine he's talking about software that's purchased and then downloaded, with no physical delivery of CDs or other media.
Taxing any activity in which $0 exchanges hands sounds a bit absurd, so I would bet your Slashdot index.pl loads are safe. For the time being.
I like the idea, so I went to their site and was confronted with this:
PLEASE NOTE: LivePhish.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5 or later. You will not be able to register or purchase or download shows with the web browser you are currently using. Please come back and visit us with Internet Explorer.
I'm using Mozilla 1.3a, a very standards-compliant browser. Phish should hire smarter webheads; form-based registration and downloading are quite "baked" technologies and should not require a specific browser.
I think it's wonderful that ClearChannel is using technology to provide a better experience to the concert buyer. It's somewhat ironic as CC is in bed with the RIAA as far as payola goes, but this just goes to prove that not everyone is "in on" the conspiracy. Innovation can still happen, and I for one am proud of them.
A critical point that marks a division or a change of course; a turning point: "a watershed in modern American history, a time that... forever changed American social attitudes" (Robert Reinhold).
So it's a critical turning point in broadcasting maturity levels. The other definitions are about the land mass that separates two bodies of water (or water flows, like rivers).
It's pretty obvious to everyone that changes are necessary, but there's no movement to change things.
It's pretty obvious to everyone that giving corporations voting rights is wrong, but that's what we've effectively done and since there are only two evils to choose from, citizen voting is largely inconsequential.
The patent system will not change; it has too much momentum and corporations gain a lot with the system the way it is. Since corporations are effectively the "voters" in our society, this situation won't change until the voting public takes back the vote.
Which is impossible. A former co-worker had a one-page article on third-parties and contribution limits, comparing it to the 3 networks we had prior to cable (ABC, NBC, CBS). The networks wanted to "tax" cable networks a great deal, effectively creating a barrier to entry for new networks. The plan fell through, and now we have a wide variety (albeit crap) of channels.
Similarly, since there is a limit to how much an individual can contribute to any party, and there are a lot more supporters of democrats and republicans, multiply "a lot more" by the limit and it's obvious that the two major parties receive the majority of the funds, and thus will always outspend the third parties.
Libertarians will never win votes in this system, as it's designed to keep out fresh blood. And since the corporations don't want to lose the power they currently have over the government (creating new laws to prop up failed business models, making criminals out of your customers for wanting to make backups, playing the "defensive patents" game, etc.), the system will never change without violence.
Note that I'm not advocating violent overthrow; it would probably fail. But historically, that has been the only way to remove one's self from a tyrannical regime.
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If you'll remember, there were tons of Interesting and Insightful questions rated with a score of 5 that were presented as possible questions for Mitnick.
Yeah, I was really hoping he'd answer the questions about whether prison is really full of sex/rape.
Perhaps you have to sign an NDA as you leave prison saying you'll never talk about your experiences? Including the NDA? I've never heard or seen or read anything by anyone supporting the view of prisons we see in the movies.
plus the fact a lot of the latest hardware lack Linux drivers
You said it. I've downloaded several ISOs recently (new cable modem) and have yet to find a distribution that works with my several-years-old computer.
It's a SiS motherboard, with audio/video/nic/usb on the motherboard. The best I've found is Mandrake 9.1 beta 1 has no sound but the network works; beta 2 and 3 are the reverse (no network, but has sound). Red Hat 8.0 has sound but no network.
This machine works fine with Windows 2000, so it's not a hardware issue. And this machine is several years old!
I really want to switch over to Linux but it's not a no-brainer.
There was actually a King of the Hill episode where low-flow toilets were introduced, and Hank hated them because you had to flush multiple times to dispose of the waste (thus negating any environmental benefits).
Turned out the company that sponsored the law was the producer of low-flow toilets.
I wonder if this sitcom plot has any basis in reality? Dave? What has your research found?
It's another step toward The Mesh, covered very well in a Small Times cover package last year.
Completely off topic, but I saw the following in the article:
Mike Horton, Crossbow's president and CEO, said the company tested the technology with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in March 2001 at the Twentynine Palms Marine base in Southern California.
I remember an old Robert Plant song called "29 Palms". Reading through the lyrics it's mostly just a love/lust song, no military significance but it was kinda cool to see a parallel, even if there's no actual link.
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Thanks for the link. Great intro. However, Paul Krassner could have done a better job transcribing, I noticed several errors. Nothing major, but dammit if you're gonna put Homer to text do it right!
You're quite right, although the singularity will be what causes it.
Nanotechnology will play a big part in this. What it boils down to is, once we can replicate materials (like in Star Trek) we won't need to exchange pieces of paper in order to obtain goods. Services, perhaps, but the machines will be able to perform most services and you can replicate the machines.
This should all happen within our lifetimes. Perhaps in less than a generation (~20 years).
Wow, that takes me back. I remember in High School using Apple ][ computers running the UCSD p-System. I wrote an application to help the teachers keep track of grades (yes, I'm that old ;-).
Fond memories. As another response says, p-code doesn't do as much garbage collection and checking as Java does, so it would be faster given equivalent platforms. I remember it giving acceptable performance, both in the "compile" phase as well as execution.
Seriously, thanks.
Darwin potential.
I'm no politician, but I would imagine he's talking about software that's purchased and then downloaded, with no physical delivery of CDs or other media.
Taxing any activity in which $0 exchanges hands sounds a bit absurd, so I would bet your Slashdot index.pl loads are safe. For the time being.
I'm using Mozilla 1.3a, a very standards-compliant browser. Phish should hire smarter webheads; form-based registration and downloading are quite "baked" technologies and should not require a specific browser.
I think it's wonderful that ClearChannel is using technology to provide a better experience to the concert buyer. It's somewhat ironic as CC is in bed with the RIAA as far as payola goes, but this just goes to prove that not everyone is "in on" the conspiracy. Innovation can still happen, and I for one am proud of them.
LMAO at his disclaimer about Stale Urine .
I went to Dictionary.com , and looked it up: watershed .
It appears the third definition fits best:
So it's a critical turning point in broadcasting maturity levels. The other definitions are about the land mass that separates two bodies of water (or water flows, like rivers).
If that's so, then why don't other browsers break as well?
What .css is returned for a UserAgent of ""? Or random garbage?
The patent system will not change; it has too much momentum and corporations gain a lot with the system the way it is. Since corporations are effectively the "voters" in our society, this situation won't change until the voting public takes back the vote.
Which is impossible. A former co-worker had a one-page article on third-parties and contribution limits, comparing it to the 3 networks we had prior to cable (ABC, NBC, CBS). The networks wanted to "tax" cable networks a great deal, effectively creating a barrier to entry for new networks. The plan fell through, and now we have a wide variety (albeit crap) of channels.
Similarly, since there is a limit to how much an individual can contribute to any party, and there are a lot more supporters of democrats and republicans, multiply "a lot more" by the limit and it's obvious that the two major parties receive the majority of the funds, and thus will always outspend the third parties.
Libertarians will never win votes in this system, as it's designed to keep out fresh blood. And since the corporations don't want to lose the power they currently have over the government (creating new laws to prop up failed business models, making criminals out of your customers for wanting to make backups, playing the "defensive patents" game, etc.), the system will never change without violence.
Note that I'm not advocating violent overthrow; it would probably fail. But historically, that has been the only way to remove one's self from a tyrannical regime.
Yeah, I was really hoping he'd answer the questions about whether prison is really full of sex/rape.
Perhaps you have to sign an NDA as you leave prison saying you'll never talk about your experiences? Including the NDA? I've never heard or seen or read anything by anyone supporting the view of prisons we see in the movies.
It's a SiS motherboard, with audio/video/nic/usb on the motherboard. The best I've found is Mandrake 9.1 beta 1 has no sound but the network works; beta 2 and 3 are the reverse (no network, but has sound). Red Hat 8.0 has sound but no network.
This machine works fine with Windows 2000, so it's not a hardware issue. And this machine is several years old!
I really want to switch over to Linux but it's not a no-brainer.
Go ahead, whack my karma.
Turned out the company that sponsored the law was the producer of low-flow toilets.
I wonder if this sitcom plot has any basis in reality? Dave? What has your research found?
There's another item but it's actually just a flag for sale. Ahh, marketing.
You're quite right: bidding starts at $10,000 .
"Need Another Seven Astronauts."
It blew Contact too, she kept calling the encryption primer a "primmer".
So the submitter didn't get it wrong, but there seems to be a lack of explanation how they got from 0.1 to 0.001...
That's what I get for not RT(whole)FA before posting.
The actual article says "Warming the gel - by as little as 0.1 C - increases its electrical conductance, Brown finds."
Still impressive, though.
Rant about what the duties of editors are supposed to be deleted...
Completely off topic, but I saw the following in the article:
I remember an old Robert Plant song called "29 Palms" . Reading through the lyrics it's mostly just a love/lust song, no military significance but it was kinda cool to see a parallel, even if there's no actual link.