Hmm let's look at standard toys: action figures, blocks, toy trucks, cars, coloring books, etc. Do these really need a net connection? Face it connecting toys to the net is simply just an attempt to look trendy.
of. At least look logically just because a number of people come here dosn't mean that everyone and thier mother does as well. Most average people do not even know this site exists.
Just because you ferry more data around dosn't mean you need supposedly "better" software (that IBM just happens to be selling). Standard unixy stuff works well and scales as long as you have hardware tol support the data processing.
Since the library of congress is increasing it's collections each and every day you can't measure a quantity that really should be measured in absolute terms.
3. When big businesses figure out that if they want anyone except CEOs and Saudi Arabian oil barons to buy them they are going to have to take the first step and wire American cities via themselves or the government to accomodiate access. You can't expect the average joe to finance something so damn expensive do you?
For most applications you really don't need even cable speed. As long as the times that you have to wait for things are about what the human attention spam has your perfectly fine. I use a 2400 bps link every day and find that it works reasonably for fetching and sending e-mail quite well. Downloading works better than kermit and at least with your own ip and lynx or w3m with SSL support is better than nothing and is often much better than all of the cruft that is en vouge today. I actually have never had access to something that fast so I really can't see unless you make it a personal habit of mirroring all the major ftp sites or run some form of server or you like to mail chain letters with DVD attatchments.
There has to be a large infrastructure to support it and also that means extremely high implimentation costs. That's why I am stuck with a modem and only billionarires are using massive bandwidth pipes. Also with telcos charging up the ass for T-1's I don't think that this will change anything just how much more they can charge the big guys. Also don't you consider an application that someone else controls a bad thing? Last I checked it's far far better to own a think than to borrow on a per use basis. I will never "borrow" any of my software even if that means using linux for the rest of my life.
Then software vendors have a perfect solution to piracy just have a whole massive game that takes 10 CDs be downloaded over the net for one time use for a single period of playing in just 5 minutes. This is a bad thing that anyone could do with time.
Hmm what kind of security does this place have? An enterprising person could easily do a little James Bong-esq thing possiby. If the data is so important to people why don't they bother to convert it? What possible motivation could people have for just leaving records to fall apart and go into obscurity. What would be the best thing is to get it all converted to plain text and use something like grep or the like to do it. How much more efficient would be the government be if you could search for anything that they needed to find almost instantly. Also this inefficiency is also another reason why things like the X-files don't work too many squealers out there. Nobody keeps a secret anymore
Well since this is the second post that has brought up this unfounded and quite frankly crackpot scheme I feel at liberity to comment and put things straight. Bill Gates does not have the facilities nor any of the people working under him of procuring an atomic bomb or the plans to construct a good one. If he had. The first thing that would happen would be a cruise missle fired at all of his major facilities and then an extensive manhunt involving massive multiagency coorporation. Businessmen do not have the ability to affect anything but cheap shitty products that we can ignore.
Maybe this works for Ziare and such but not highly secure US installiations. What do you think the first thing that happened when the fire started? Well I do. The people who ran Eschelon and the like pointed their best satellites at that location and made sure that each person who was comming or goign was strictly monitored. Also with the town vacated like that a person who just had a little "hunting accident" would not be deemed suspicious. Not everyone is a fool. Also all you have to do is bolt down the area and lock everything good and tight. Also realize that not everyone from the facility was removed. I suspect that a highly dedicated group of people were keeping watch of the vaults. Also consider that the reccords are most likely kept in a secure bunker which would have multiple redundancy like that which is required in many facilities. There is a good chance that there are also "dummy vaults" that contain false data in case of the worst anyway.
Why is it that I am becomming more and more unsafe in my own country? You know why is it that people in brutal regimes are better at keeping secrets than people living in a free society. In the whole history of Russian central control and terror (ie the USSR) they almost never had problems like this. Everything was secure and almost nothing was lost. If anyone tried to get material out of any restricted area they were usually gunned to death. In the USA we just let any Tom, Dick, and Harry just look at information about nuclear weapons research for the hell of it. It makes me sick that so two bit communist regime can keep people in line and a more technologically advanced country dosn't even keep the Chinese (a potential threat if I ever saw one) from stealing things. Also our "crackshot" teams of assassins can't even kill some stupid communist stoolie in Cuba who had the gall to try and point missles at us. This is just disgusting and disheartening. If you look at the intelligence community we really like to screw up in America. Disasters in the Bay of Pigs, Terrhan in 1980, dealings with terrorists, various moves on communist leaders, etc. The KGB got a higher kill ratio for crying out loud. This is disgraceful.
I was about to ask this very question when I saw this thread and decided to ask this. Are these algorithms discussed in any detail anywhere? The only book I have on the subject is one that is far from including anything interesting and is all in pascal (yuck). Anyway they do look interesting. How about the first one about "stumbling on a solution to a problem"? That sounds interesting? Has anything to do with Newton's method of arriving at the solution to an N degree polynominal with iterative methods?
Automated tasks can be fully managed by a computer system. But the real meat and substance of this is usualy people who have to have specilization. Take a software company. Without training of the sort that you get from a university you really can't go far. Oh you can do something but that will be pretty limited. People need to go to college. Unless you like others calling all the shots.
Historically look at Rome, Egypt, Byzantine empire, Etruscans, etc. Sure there might have been a massive numbers of people doing grunt work but on the whole most of the policy decisions and the actual shaping of Roman life were taken from the middle and upper classes. Even revolutions never change a damn thing. The poor remain poor infinately unless they change their cast.
I still don't buy that most jobs can be had with a highschool diploma or equivelent. All the people I know had to have one to get all but the hottest and noisest jobs. And therefore you have to be intelligent and not stupid. Or even if you are you don't count insofar as policy making goes. Yeah you can vote but still in a representative democracy you have others making policy for you. Or better yet consider a direct democracy. You are still going to have to get your facts from someone or something else because you will be unschooled in what is actually going on.
The median income level of the average job is usually well above minimum wage as computed by the federal government. Yes there may be a great many jobs that are paying minimum wage but the question is most people who are making policy level decisions in the world are in actuality making substatially more. Basically out of all the people who are really driving this supposed lease oriented ecconomy they are in fact educated by status of their employment position.
That stated leasing is completely stupid. It's far better to own a thing than to be constantly making payments for so called "value added options" and the like. For example take a car. I would rather have a car that was mine and would always be mine without the need to make constant payments still when I would have be able to have the car under a standard system.
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Really unless there is some elitist leaning I can't see the difference.
I am sure that in the middle ages people also thought things were moving fast. Perhaps even in neolithic times when they say many beasts getting killed, interesting weather patterns, others in the cave group die, etc. What leads you to the conclusion that anything is moving fast in such a way. I look at technology and just see the same old BS again and again. Nothing is new. The stuff that is new is usually rehashed stuff from days gone by.
Ok here's simple logic to disprove this. 1. You need a job to live. 2. Most jobs require a collegiate level of education. 3. That education is difficult to obtain. 4. Therefore most of the jobs that people have are required to have people who are intelligent. 5. Most people are intelligent.
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And naturally one would also think that people would choose the better product or at least one that costs less.
Remember telephone networks were mever meant for modems and internet access those developments occured after telephones were widely deployed.
Hmm let's look at standard toys: action figures, blocks, toy trucks, cars, coloring books, etc. Do these really need a net connection? Face it connecting toys to the net is simply just an attempt to look trendy.
Last I checked toys didn't need electrictiy in many cases and never a net connection.
AOL is really a useless ISP. Basically it's like comparing Barney and Friends or Teletubbies to say Hamlet.
of. At least look logically just because a number of people come here dosn't mean that everyone and thier mother does as well. Most average people do not even know this site exists.
Just because you ferry more data around dosn't mean you need supposedly "better" software (that IBM just happens to be selling). Standard unixy stuff works well and scales as long as you have hardware tol support the data processing.
I mean if you dump a bunch of water into your beer you don't get more beer just more diluted beer.
Think about if labour is an issue perhaps the application of convict populations to do the work and then all you have to worry about is the parts.
Since the library of congress is increasing it's collections each and every day you can't measure a quantity that really should be measured in absolute terms.
Considering that voice analysis isn't absolutely the best for things like code writing and typing there will always be the need for keyboards.
3. When big businesses figure out that if they want anyone except CEOs and Saudi Arabian oil barons to buy them they are going to have to take the first step and wire American cities via themselves or the government to accomodiate access. You can't expect the average joe to finance something so damn expensive do you?
For most applications you really don't need even cable speed. As long as the times that you have to wait for things are about what the human attention spam has your perfectly fine. I use a 2400 bps link every day and find that it works reasonably for fetching and sending e-mail quite well. Downloading works better than kermit and at least with your own ip and lynx or w3m with SSL support is better than nothing and is often much better than all of the cruft that is en vouge today. I actually have never had access to something that fast so I really can't see unless you make it a personal habit of mirroring all the major ftp sites or run some form of server or you like to mail chain letters with DVD attatchments.
There has to be a large infrastructure to support it and also that means extremely high implimentation costs. That's why I am stuck with a modem and only billionarires are using massive bandwidth pipes. Also with telcos charging up the ass for T-1's I don't think that this will change anything just how much more they can charge the big guys. Also don't you consider an application that someone else controls a bad thing? Last I checked it's far far better to own a think than to borrow on a per use basis. I will never "borrow" any of my software even if that means using linux for the rest of my life.
Then software vendors have a perfect solution to piracy just have a whole massive game that takes 10 CDs be downloaded over the net for one time use for a single period of playing in just 5 minutes. This is a bad thing that anyone could do with time.
Hmm what kind of security does this place have? An enterprising person could easily do a little James Bong-esq thing possiby. If the data is so important to people why don't they bother to convert it? What possible motivation could people have for just leaving records to fall apart and go into obscurity. What would be the best thing is to get it all converted to plain text and use something like grep or the like to do it. How much more efficient would be the government be if you could search for anything that they needed to find almost instantly. Also this inefficiency is also another reason why things like the X-files don't work too many squealers out there. Nobody keeps a secret anymore
Well since this is the second post that has brought up this unfounded and quite frankly crackpot scheme I feel at liberity to comment and put things straight. Bill Gates does not have the facilities nor any of the people working under him of procuring an atomic bomb or the plans to construct a good one. If he had. The first thing that would happen would be a cruise missle fired at all of his major facilities and then an extensive manhunt involving massive multiagency coorporation. Businessmen do not have the ability to affect anything but cheap shitty products that we can ignore.
Maybe this works for Ziare and such but not highly secure US installiations. What do you think the first thing that happened when the fire started? Well I do. The people who ran Eschelon and the like pointed their best satellites at that location and made sure that each person who was comming or goign was strictly monitored. Also with the town vacated like that a person who just had a little "hunting accident" would not be deemed suspicious. Not everyone is a fool. Also all you have to do is bolt down the area and lock everything good and tight. Also realize that not everyone from the facility was removed. I suspect that a highly dedicated group of people were keeping watch of the vaults. Also consider that the reccords are most likely kept in a secure bunker which would have multiple redundancy like that which is required in many facilities. There is a good chance that there are also "dummy vaults" that contain false data in case of the worst anyway.
Why is it that I am becomming more and more unsafe in my own country? You know why is it that people in brutal regimes are better at keeping secrets than people living in a free society. In the whole history of Russian central control and terror (ie the USSR) they almost never had problems like this. Everything was secure and almost nothing was lost. If anyone tried to get material out of any restricted area they were usually gunned to death. In the USA we just let any Tom, Dick, and Harry just look at information about nuclear weapons research for the hell of it. It makes me sick that so two bit communist regime can keep people in line and a more technologically advanced country dosn't even keep the Chinese (a potential threat if I ever saw one) from stealing things. Also our "crackshot" teams of assassins can't even kill some stupid communist stoolie in Cuba who had the gall to try and point missles at us. This is just disgusting and disheartening. If you look at the intelligence community we really like to screw up in America. Disasters in the Bay of Pigs, Terrhan in 1980, dealings with terrorists, various moves on communist leaders, etc. The KGB got a higher kill ratio for crying out loud. This is disgraceful.
I was about to ask this very question when I saw this thread and decided to ask this. Are these algorithms discussed in any detail anywhere? The only book I have on the subject is one that is far from including anything interesting and is all in pascal (yuck). Anyway they do look interesting. How about the first one about "stumbling on a solution to a problem"? That sounds interesting? Has anything to do with Newton's method of arriving at the solution to an N degree polynominal with iterative methods?
Automated tasks can be fully managed by a computer system.
But the real meat and substance of this is usualy people who have to have specilization.
Take a software company. Without training of the sort that you get from a university you really can't go far. Oh you can do something but that will be pretty limited.
People need to go to college. Unless you like others calling all the shots.
Historically look at Rome, Egypt, Byzantine empire, Etruscans, etc.
Sure there might have been a massive numbers of people doing grunt work but on the whole most of the policy decisions and the actual shaping of Roman life were taken from the middle and upper classes. Even revolutions never change a damn thing. The poor remain poor infinately unless they change their cast.
I still don't buy that most jobs can be had with a highschool diploma or equivelent.
All the people I know had to have one to get all but the hottest and noisest jobs. And therefore you have to be intelligent and not stupid. Or even if you are you don't count insofar as policy making goes. Yeah you can vote but still in a representative democracy you have others making policy for you. Or better yet consider a direct democracy. You are still going to have to get your facts from someone or something else because you will be unschooled in what is actually going on.
The median income level of the average job is usually well above minimum wage as computed by the federal government.
Yes there may be a great many jobs that are paying minimum wage but the question is most people who are making policy level decisions in the world are in actuality making substatially more.
Basically out of all the people who are really driving this supposed lease oriented ecconomy they are in fact educated by status of their employment position.
That stated leasing is completely stupid. It's far better to own a thing than to be constantly making payments for so called "value added options" and the like.
For example take a car. I would rather have a car that was mine and would always be mine without the need to make constant payments still when I would have be able to have the car under a standard system.
Really unless there is some elitist leaning I can't see the difference.
I am sure that in the middle ages people also thought things were moving fast. Perhaps even in neolithic times when they say many beasts getting killed, interesting weather patterns, others in the cave group die, etc. What leads you to the conclusion that anything is moving fast in such a way. I look at technology and just see the same old BS again and again. Nothing is new. The stuff that is new is usually rehashed stuff from days gone by.
Ok here's simple logic to disprove this. 1. You need a job to live. 2. Most jobs require a collegiate level of education. 3. That education is difficult to obtain. 4. Therefore most of the jobs that people have are required to have people who are intelligent. 5. Most people are intelligent.