As to your other arguments, yes, it is true that most Americans don't care and are happy being lemmings led along by the corporations and advertising that spoon feeds them their life.
But there _are_ people out there who don't live like this and those people are the ones who ultimately make a difference in the world.
That the constitution protects my right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of the Press proves you wrong.
I don't have to be a big name corporate muckity muck to be able to publish a press release or a newspaper. If my chosen medium is the Internet then there is nothing that the US Government can do to legally stop me.
I have played both men and women in online games. Typically I don't reveal my real gender to the other players in the game because really, why is it important?
But I agree on the Aesthetics point of view. It is a lot more enjoyable to play a computer game with a Female main character because, "If I'm gonna spend hours playing a game it might as well have something to look at other than some virtual guys butt."
One more thing. Some of my (male) friends who play online way more than I do also use female avatars more often than not because people tend to be more "polite" around the female characters than the male ones and they found that it cuts down on the random cursing. Something about there being "ladies" present that just snaps in most men.
... if you are going to be working on porting X to OpenGL (a really cool idea if you ask me) then why don't you also work on making windows "rotatable"?
I can see it now. I "minimize" an Xterm and instead of becoming an icon near the bottom of my screen it slides over to reside on the side wall of my desktop... which is, btw, cube shaped.
This one open ended cube would give me 5 surfaces to drop things onto and one open space in the middle to have things that I can work on. Or if you think the top surface would confuse you too much you configure yours so that it doesn't have a visible top surface and instead what you have is two side walls, a back wall, a desk surface, and the "working area" is what ever you are holding in your "hand" to read.
This kind of paradigm could be very easily implemented in OpenGL I imagine.
Transparency could then come into play when you needed to see "over" what you have in your hand to select something off of the walls/desk. You could do this by employing the middle mouse button (or some other configurable key/mouse combination)... while holding down the middle mouse you are scrolling in the wall/desk space, while not holding down the middle mouse you are scrolling in work space.
But I sure as heck own my CPU, Disk Drives, Home Network, and all of the software that I wrote.
Ok, so I licensed my OS from Microsoft. That does NOT give them the right to restrict what I run on that Operating System.
With this new approach, Microsoft could very easily limit the software that you run on the OS to be only MS and MS approved software, "for your own protection".
At that point your computer becomes an expensive appliance for MS provided services.
It would be like taking your refrigerator and saying you can no longer put your own food in there. Sure, this new SecureFridge will prevent you from ever having to throw away moldy food because all food inside is "approved", "secure" and guaranteed "mold free"... plus this new Service will provide food only from MS approved fast food vendors... oh, and as a security precaution you can only open the fridge when we can make sure that it is you. Doesn't matter if you'll starve to death or not.
Not thanks, I'll keep my moldy programs and potential for viruses, spam, and other nastiness. Why? Because I like to program computers to get them to do neat things and I don't want to have to send my code of to MS to be approved every time I compile something.
In 100 years I predict that we will have a way of getting computers to do tasks that is not possible to understand now.
We may not have compilers, for instance, to turn code into machine language. We may write directly in machine language, which might be French for all we know.
As another note, I disagree with his idea of removing numbers as a type from our computer languages. As long as COMPUTERS (a word that originally meant a PERSON who did COMPUTATIONS (e.g. MATH)) are focused on doing math, we will speak to them in the language they understand... math.
But if someone were to invent a device whose base representation was not numbers but was, instead, sound or pictures or language, THEN it would be more efficient to speak to it in its own terms. It would also probably not be called a COMPUTER, but rather something else, perhaps C3PO.
You didn't see _him_ doing any big math problems now did you?
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IMHO you should 'open-source' your data sets only with folks whom you get some 'open-data' in return from.
E.G. you and another party who is focused on other data collection areas should partner up and share data-sets... periodically updating your share-data sets. Then you not only have an off-site backup, but you have a new set of data to share out.
If half of the people don't vote then that makes my vote twice as powerful.
Let the lazy people sit on their couches and be ruled by their lack of choice. I'll chose for them. They had an equal choice.
So we don't need to get 50% of the US population to care about this... we just need to get a large portion of those that vote... either with their wallets or in the voting booth.
How, oh wise one, would you get back? Where would you find someone skilled enough to go to Mars that was willing to go there to die? Much less a whole crew?
Also, our technology for renewable, self sustaining life, ON EARTH, isn't there yet. How would you expect to send up a living module complete enough to allow the group of suicide scientists to survive for any length of time AND still have time to do any exploration?
My new Fujitsu Lifebook P-2000 notebook is a wonderful machine. With the extended main battery I was able to watch all of the Two Towers (single disk 3 hour version) before the battery died.
Take out the DVD drive and put in the second battery and I can listen to MP3s for 10 hours on battery.
Ok, so its not the most powerful processor in the world, but it does allow me to play games, so far I've played Civ III for 2.5 hours and still had 50% battery life left. I'm going to try out Homeworld soon, I'll let you know.
Well that is very noble of you and I applaud you for being willing to put your money where your beliefs are.
I think that more research should definitely be done in the area of alternative fuels. I just want to also make sure that we do things that make sense and not just things that make us feel better about ourselves but are really worse over all.
Though I don't think your whole desert plan will work very well.;-)
USPS can run their own planes (UPS, FEDEX, and others do)
Exec's have money and can afford to fly
Long-distance commuters can telecommute or live friggin closer to work!
Families in emergencies... ok, fine. Give them a discount or let them take a train/bus/whatever.
Government subsidies of Airports and Air Traffic control I understand. Subsidies of airlines I don't... if some carriers can make money then why can't they all?
1) What about Swapping? I know that you would by limited by physical ram (which IS getting cheaper) but couldn't you also get a really large virutal memory space and utilize that?
2) You can probably set up your own checkpoints to be more than once a day.
3) I agree. Lack of SQL would cause people to.... GASP.... learn a new system. SQL is very cool. And I admit that I have a system I am thinking of porting away from JDBC and into Prevalence just to see how it goes (No, it isn't mission critical) and one of the first things I realized is that I would have to design a new method of querying. But you know what... That can lead to new thinking and more powerful software in the future.
The company that I work for currently and the company that I used to work for would argue against your point and could do so just by naming customers of their products. Products that are written, in whole or in part, in Java.
Cross platform compatability through Virtual Machines is worth more that 100 programmers trying to get C/C++ programs to work the same on two platforms (much less 6 or 7) and then all the testers, support engineers, etc... to maintain all the different versions of the same program.
If you are comfortable with yourself then you can be comfortable with other people.
Treat yourself and others with respect.
If you are comfortable with other people they will realize that you have it together and they will treat you with respect. People pick up easily on how others expect them to act... if you expect people to treat you with respect, chances are they will.
Those that lose your respect, ignore. Not in the sense that you pretend they don't exist, just don't waste energy dealing with them. You have much better things to do with your time than be mad at other people. It usually doesn't accomplish anything except to raise your blood pressure and give you ulcers and heart attacks.
Angry people are too focused on what is wrong and miss out on many things that are good. Don't be angry. If you need to work out some agression then get some exercise and think happy thoughts.
If you make someones day better there is a good chance that they will make somebody elses day better and the world will get better bit by bit. If you go around making other people's days worse then eventually the whole world will be filled with angry people.
Verizon has a nice little feature called Anonymous Call Rejection.
If someone wants to call me they can have their caller ID on and I'll answer if I choose. If they have it blocked then a program answers asking them to record their name. If they record their name then and only then will my phone ring.
If I choose to answer this call, labeled as being from Verizon's special number for such things, then the first thing I hear is the recorded name and I can choose to accept or reject the call.
Not ONCE have I actually gotten a ring through because someone recorded their name. Since I put this feature on my phone (at a modest rate of $5 per month) I have gotten zero telemarketers leaving messages on my phone and the only calls that I get that are not from friends are from companies that have a legitimate reason to contact me.
I've never been happier.
Before I put this on my phone line I was getting dozens of answering machine messages a day of either nothing or beeps.
Actually Tampons are quite useful for stopping up large puncture wounds and bullet wounds. Do you get shot at often? That might be the reason.:-P
Of course what I don't get is the people who called me to sell me windows and aluminum siding when I was living in an apartment. Figure that one out for me...
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Hmmmm.... You read what I wrote.
Thank you for proving my point.
As to your other arguments, yes, it is true that most Americans don't care and are happy being lemmings led along by the corporations and advertising that spoon feeds them their life.
But there _are_ people out there who don't live like this and those people are the ones who ultimately make a difference in the world.
That the constitution protects my right to Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of the Press proves you wrong.
I don't have to be a big name corporate muckity muck to be able to publish a press release or a newspaper. If my chosen medium is the Internet then there is nothing that the US Government can do to legally stop me.
I have played both men and women in online games. Typically I don't reveal my real gender to the other players in the game because really, why is it important?
But I agree on the Aesthetics point of view. It is a lot more enjoyable to play a computer game with a Female main character because, "If I'm gonna spend hours playing a game it might as well have something to look at other than some virtual guys butt."
One more thing. Some of my (male) friends who play online way more than I do also use female avatars more often than not because people tend to be more "polite" around the female characters than the male ones and they found that it cuts down on the random cursing. Something about there being "ladies" present that just snaps in most men.
... if you are going to be working on porting X to OpenGL (a really cool idea if you ask me) then why don't you also work on making windows "rotatable"?
I can see it now. I "minimize" an Xterm and instead of becoming an icon near the bottom of my screen it slides over to reside on the side wall of my desktop... which is, btw, cube shaped.
This one open ended cube would give me 5 surfaces to drop things onto and one open space in the middle to have things that I can work on. Or if you think the top surface would confuse you too much you configure yours so that it doesn't have a visible top surface and instead what you have is two side walls, a back wall, a desk surface, and the "working area" is what ever you are holding in your "hand" to read.
This kind of paradigm could be very easily implemented in OpenGL I imagine.
Transparency could then come into play when you needed to see "over" what you have in your hand to select something off of the walls/desk. You could do this by employing the middle mouse button (or some other configurable key/mouse combination)... while holding down the middle mouse you are scrolling in the wall/desk space, while not holding down the middle mouse you are scrolling in work space.
I don't own my XBox because I didn't buy one.
But I sure as heck own my CPU, Disk Drives, Home Network, and all of the software that I wrote.
Ok, so I licensed my OS from Microsoft. That does NOT give them the right to restrict what I run on that Operating System.
With this new approach, Microsoft could very easily limit the software that you run on the OS to be only MS and MS approved software, "for your own protection".
At that point your computer becomes an expensive appliance for MS provided services.
It would be like taking your refrigerator and saying you can no longer put your own food in there. Sure, this new SecureFridge will prevent you from ever having to throw away moldy food because all food inside is "approved", "secure" and guaranteed "mold free"... plus this new Service will provide food only from MS approved fast food vendors... oh, and as a security precaution you can only open the fridge when we can make sure that it is you. Doesn't matter if you'll starve to death or not.
Not thanks, I'll keep my moldy programs and potential for viruses, spam, and other nastiness. Why? Because I like to program computers to get them to do neat things and I don't want to have to send my code of to MS to be approved every time I compile something.
In 100 years I predict that we will have a way of getting computers to do tasks that is not possible to understand now.
We may not have compilers, for instance, to turn code into machine language. We may write directly in machine language, which might be French for all we know.
As another note, I disagree with his idea of removing numbers as a type from our computer languages. As long as COMPUTERS (a word that originally meant a PERSON who did COMPUTATIONS (e.g. MATH)) are focused on doing math, we will speak to them in the language they understand... math.
But if someone were to invent a device whose base representation was not numbers but was, instead, sound or pictures or language, THEN it would be more efficient to speak to it in its own terms. It would also probably not be called a COMPUTER, but rather something else, perhaps C3PO.
You didn't see _him_ doing any big math problems now did you?
Video conferencing where you don't have to look anywhere but your monitor?
How about spying on your workplace? Security people would love to be able to "hide" a security camera in a monitor.
Of course, to get the kind of depth of field that you would need for those applications you would need to have lenses.
So lets look somewhere else...
How about a portable fax machine in your PDA?...
Or double your PDA as a scanner of text documents?
I'm sure something cool could be done here!
Will he have to sue Google now?
IMHO you should 'open-source' your data sets only with folks whom you get some 'open-data' in return from.
E.G. you and another party who is focused on other data collection areas should partner up and share data-sets... periodically updating your share-data sets. Then you not only have an off-site backup, but you have a new set of data to share out.
If half of the people don't vote then that makes my vote twice as powerful.
Let the lazy people sit on their couches and be ruled by their lack of choice. I'll chose for them. They had an equal choice.
So we don't need to get 50% of the US population to care about this... we just need to get a large portion of those that vote... either with their wallets or in the voting booth.
A trip to mars right now is a one way trip.
How, oh wise one, would you get back? Where would you find someone skilled enough to go to Mars that was willing to go there to die? Much less a whole crew?
Also, our technology for renewable, self sustaining life, ON EARTH, isn't there yet. How would you expect to send up a living module complete enough to allow the group of suicide scientists to survive for any length of time AND still have time to do any exploration?
Give it another 100 years, we'll get there.
Two words: Transmeta Processor.
My new Fujitsu Lifebook P-2000 notebook is a wonderful machine. With the extended main battery I was able to watch all of the Two Towers (single disk 3 hour version) before the battery died.
Take out the DVD drive and put in the second battery and I can listen to MP3s for 10 hours on battery.
Ok, so its not the most powerful processor in the world, but it does allow me to play games, so far I've played Civ III for 2.5 hours and still had 50% battery life left. I'm going to try out Homeworld soon, I'll let you know.
Well that is very noble of you and I applaud you for being willing to put your money where your beliefs are.
;-)
I think that more research should definitely be done in the area of alternative fuels. I just want to also make sure that we do things that make sense and not just things that make us feel better about ourselves but are really worse over all.
Though I don't think your whole desert plan will work very well.
How much energy is used in harvesting these plants? Then how much is used in extracting the oils from them?
I'm not trying to bash you or anything... you say good things. Just pointing out that total cost of energy needs to be considered.
Along those lines, how much energy is spent getting oil out of the ground and in the refining process?
USPS can run their own planes (UPS, FEDEX, and others do)
... if some carriers can make money then why can't they all?
Exec's have money and can afford to fly
Long-distance commuters can telecommute or live friggin closer to work!
Families in emergencies... ok, fine. Give them a discount or let them take a train/bus/whatever.
Government subsidies of Airports and Air Traffic control I understand. Subsidies of airlines I don't
I will buy a PS-3 when Gran Tourismo 4 comes out for it.
Gran Tourismo 3 is why I bought a PS-2
GT 2 and GT 1 are why I bought a PS-1
1) What about Swapping? I know that you would by limited by physical ram (which IS getting cheaper) but couldn't you also get a really large virutal memory space and utilize that?
2) You can probably set up your own checkpoints to be more than once a day.
3) I agree. Lack of SQL would cause people to.... GASP.... learn a new system. SQL is very cool. And I admit that I have a system I am thinking of porting away from JDBC and into Prevalence just to see how it goes (No, it isn't mission critical) and one of the first things I realized is that I would have to design a new method of querying. But you know what... That can lead to new thinking and more powerful software in the future.
The company that I work for currently and the company that I used to work for would argue against your point and could do so just by naming customers of their products. Products that are written, in whole or in part, in Java.
Cross platform compatability through Virtual Machines is worth more that 100 programmers trying to get C/C++ programs to work the same on two platforms (much less 6 or 7) and then all the testers, support engineers, etc... to maintain all the different versions of the same program.
Sorry, you are wrong.
Learn to love who you are.
If you are comfortable with yourself then you can be comfortable with other people.
Treat yourself and others with respect.
If you are comfortable with other people they will realize that you have it together and they will treat you with respect. People pick up easily on how others expect them to act... if you expect people to treat you with respect, chances are they will.
Those that lose your respect, ignore. Not in the sense that you pretend they don't exist, just don't waste energy dealing with them. You have much better things to do with your time than be mad at other people. It usually doesn't accomplish anything except to raise your blood pressure and give you ulcers and heart attacks.
Angry people are too focused on what is wrong and miss out on many things that are good. Don't be angry. If you need to work out some agression then get some exercise and think happy thoughts.
If you make someones day better there is a good chance that they will make somebody elses day better and the world will get better bit by bit. If you go around making other people's days worse then eventually the whole world will be filled with angry people.
One person can make a difference.
Verizon has a nice little feature called Anonymous Call Rejection.
If someone wants to call me they can have their caller ID on and I'll answer if I choose. If they have it blocked then a program answers asking them to record their name. If they record their name then and only then will my phone ring.
If I choose to answer this call, labeled as being from Verizon's special number for such things, then the first thing I hear is the recorded name and I can choose to accept or reject the call.
Not ONCE have I actually gotten a ring through because someone recorded their name. Since I put this feature on my phone (at a modest rate of $5 per month) I have gotten zero telemarketers leaving messages on my phone and the only calls that I get that are not from friends are from companies that have a legitimate reason to contact me.
I've never been happier.
Before I put this on my phone line I was getting dozens of answering machine messages a day of either nothing or beeps.
Just a question on this idea... to possibly promote futher work on it...
What about those who like to download their email and read them offline?
As for the "Keep" option that someone else mentioned, would that just copy it into your personal space so that you can have an original?
Also, what stops someone from sending out an email to people that doesn't get warned on and then "edits" it later to be a spam...
Just some thoughts.
I'm American and I agree with you. War is not justified here. At least not yet.
... you know what ... I voted for the other guy. ....
Unfortunately I'm just one voice amongst millions and
I need to go find me an anti-war rally.
None.
None more black.
Its like a black mirror.
Oh wait....
Good point.
Hey I know, why not just take two peopl in with one camera each and tag team the movie recording?
Heck, the movies are SHOWN with multiple reels, why shouldn't the pirates STEAL them in multiple reels?
Actually Tampons are quite useful for stopping up large puncture wounds and bullet wounds. Do you get shot at often? That might be the reason. :-P
Of course what I don't get is the people who called me to sell me windows and aluminum siding when I was living in an apartment. Figure that one out for me...