as much as ApPpLe would like you to throw away your common sense and buy their Brand Related Experience, calling something an IBook or iBook or IBOOK is ridiculous. ibook yes, Ibook maybe, but IBoOk? no.
Im not that old. But someone I work with remembers the days when IBM was the "Big Boy", who drove choices in IT and people resented them for it. IBM *was* most certainly the bad-guy.
now, IBM gets the cluestick and decides Free Software - great. they are welcome to particpate. you *can* reform people.
So a bunch of kids watch Hackers and think their future work life is going to be a bonanza of titties and mysterious plotting of evil archtypes?
Give me a break, if some yokels cant discern reality from F.A.N.T.A.S.Y. i say they get what they deserve (i thought i promised to me more optimistic today.. ah well).
They should tell ALL High School kids that life as a working adult is a soul-sucking destruction of humanity, regardless of what they do.
Maybe we should also warn them that their Married Lives wont be a rife with XXX-rated sex with the maid.
Mr Barry is trite and obvious. His humour seems to be written by a 13 year old straight-man. Sarcastic quips might play well in Middle America(TM), but Mr. Barry is barely a step above a sarcastic Fart Joke. Like I said in the "Question Request Thread", Mr Barry is The smug literary equivalent of Martha Stewart.
I dont get it, are Mr. Barry's fans the same people who keep Friends and Fraser at the Top o' The Charts?
case that they were clue-challenged in understanding an entire generation
Have a look at that picture, it just screams "We are cool, hip, "individiuals" (the Marketing Idea -- not the adjective). Please read "No Logo by Naomi Klein
"We wanted things that paralleled our customers' priorities, which was hanging out with your friends and having fun."
...that would work until the MPAA used their accountants to devise a scheme where they recieve equal revnue over a desired period.
How? I dont know, say, sell the 'potential revenue' to a Bank (like you can sell a debt) and allow them to give you X% today, Y% over Z Years.
My point? It will require a much more definate and "radical" method to make the changes necessary. Small, "procedural" style changes will, in time, be made ineffective by future MPAA whores. Like they do today, slowly extending copyright, they will slowly morph your desired change to their own will.
My suggested answer? Amend your constitution to say "10 or 3 or 1" year. The rule must be simple. No more legislation, and no exceptions save ANOTHER constitution change.
...but thats not going to happen, the plutocrats have seized control of USofA'ian democracy and ground it to a halt. There is no more change, there is no more Democracy in America.
today's corporate society to see a society where freedom is sacrificed to make a buck. The democratic process control by two parties is in large part responsible for this situation.
My favorite word: Plutocracy. Used in a sentance: "The United States of America is a plutocracy."
I wouldnt use MS Linux for the same reasons that I wont use OSX. It leverages the Free Software efforts (bsd in case of osx) in order to off-set the cost of development to the volunteers and lock you into the Closed Interaface... its the Razorblade scam.
The idea of value in software is fiction. Once its written, the effort to create it has been spent - the idea of copyright is a stranglehold (before you hit reply: An idea that has been debated at lenght on/., so lets agree to disagree ok?)
The *Freedom* aspect of GNU software attracts me. Im also have very left politics, and abhor Corporate Masters, be they MS or GM. Using GNU/Linux allows me to be free of that 'influence'. No, I wouldnt use M$GNU/Linux.
But, it will NEVER work as it should because humans are greedy
I disagree. People are 'greedy' but not stupid. If Communism is implemented correctly, maximizing the health of the Community also maximizes your personal well being.
TAKING from your neighbour does not meant that you have created anything, agreeing with him that you will utilize the benefits of your efforts EQUALLY will gaurantee you both sucess. In the end, it makes more "sense" (from the perspective of self-preservation) to share (ie: live Communally). Capitalism means that you volunteer to work for someone ELSES' benefit (The Bosses' Profit) Competition (capitalism) == Duplication(waste), Co-Operation (communism) == Maximized Beneficial Utility (efficiency).
USA is a Plutocracy Admit it. Realize it. Fix it. This thing in Iraq is caused by the same PROBLEMS (you described) that are causing the USPTO to become so damned ridiculous.
Is the reason that the gTLD.name root provider went 'bust' was because of insanely bad business decisions? like $123131312Million in Venture Capital spent on B*shit (advertising/Executive Salaries/skybox at the %local_pro_stadium%)?
Because a few MBA dunderheads cant manage to make themselves filthy rich with a gTLD shouldnt restrict the creation of TLDs in the future.
What was the budget of the.ca or.au ccTLD until recently -- wasnt the *whole* of the.au managed until just (months?) recently by *one person*?
Yet another reason why the DoC and ICANN are a goddamn farce.
...excuse me for not getting 'it', but how is musicbrainz different from freedb? is freedb the data-collection project while musicbrainz provides an interface like (thesameas) gracenote?
Well, you yankees spend $400 billion of your $79X Billion discretionary budget on Weapons and Military -- a few thousand to RHAT is zero for the US Military.
That is very interesting news considering This article at The Register . The article talks about how Eurpoean top-level registries take over the technical task of running the Internet if ICANN cannot be relied upon to do a proper job -- because ICANN cannot seperate their Political machinations from the technical aspects of the DNS.
A good example would be ICANN's desire to create a artifical scarcity of TLDs to maintain 'value in the namespace'...
actually, i couldnt care less what my car looks like either. i want something to take me from A to B and is cheap to run/maintain. I am an advocate of Function vs. Form for Economic, Social and Environmental Reasons.
Television commercials about the 'brand lifestyle' are missing the mark in my case... so, no, i dont care what my car looks like. Nor do i ask my wife to get a boob-job or myself get hair-transplants. Vanity at what expense?
I dont normally give free adverts (or any for that matter), but Ive used Stealth's pointing devices/keyboards in an iron foundry (read as; incredibly harsh environment) -- they are they only thing to stand up to the abuse. Good quality stuff.
I 'll bet these little PCs are built equally well.
to become economically self-sufficient while critics claim that level of commercialization is unnecessary
By looking at this map you can understand why this particular park must have been chosen to 'sustain itself', the Land Development Community must have been chomping at the bit to get there hands on such a terrific piece of desirable property.
It would be better if it were the otherway around. The internet already liberates Computers, you can get any kind of information from millions of sources on the internet.
What would be cool (imho) if Television and Radio were "broadcast" as IP-based 'channels'.
If we could build a AP that was both a Broadcast Node (if you chose to create a stream) AND a 'listening node' (so you could tune-in digital TV & Radio' AND a Repeater Node (so you could extend the service range of others who are "Broadcasting".
This kind of Radio/Television liberation could broadcast all kinds of Independant tv, 'pirate tv', etc etc etc , open up a radio/television kind of "internet" where anything/anyone can participate.
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as much as ApPpLe would like you to throw away your common sense and buy their Brand Related Experience, calling something an IBook or iBook or IBOOK is ridiculous. ibook yes, Ibook maybe, but IBoOk? no.
fuck marketroids and their IbooK.
if you want the Aqua interface, you might as well buy MS WindowsXP. Both closed. OSX (in its usefull form) is *NOT* Free or Open Source Software.
Pay X amount to get out of GPL virus code
huh? If you want to use SOMEONE elses work, and not return their altruistic favour, your going to have to pay.
Im not that old. But someone I work with remembers the days when IBM was the "Big Boy", who drove choices in IT and people resented them for it. IBM *was* most certainly the bad-guy.
now, IBM gets the cluestick and decides Free Software - great. they are welcome to particpate. you *can* reform people.
So a bunch of kids watch Hackers and think their future work life is going to be a bonanza of titties and mysterious plotting of evil archtypes?
Give me a break, if some yokels cant discern reality from F.A.N.T.A.S.Y. i say they get what they deserve (i thought i promised to me more optimistic today.. ah well).
They should tell ALL High School kids that life as a working adult is a soul-sucking destruction of humanity, regardless of what they do.
Maybe we should also warn them that their Married Lives wont be a rife with XXX-rated sex with the maid.
Hear Hear!
Mr Barry is trite and obvious. His humour seems to be written by a 13 year old straight-man. Sarcastic quips might play well in Middle America(TM), but Mr. Barry is barely a step above a sarcastic Fart Joke. Like I said in the "Question Request Thread", Mr Barry is The smug literary equivalent of Martha Stewart.
I dont get it, are Mr. Barry's fans the same people who keep Friends and Fraser at the Top o' The Charts?
case that they were clue-challenged in understanding an entire generation
Have a look at that picture, it just screams "We are cool, hip, "individiuals" (the Marketing Idea -- not the adjective). Please read "No Logo by Naomi Klein
"We wanted things that paralleled our customers' priorities, which was hanging out with your friends and having fun."
This idea makes me sick. If someone's "priorities" are as above, they should please (PLEASE) read: Neil Postmans' 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' -- here is the foreword
...that would work until the MPAA used their accountants to devise a scheme where they recieve equal revnue over a desired period.
How? I dont know, say, sell the 'potential revenue' to a Bank (like you can sell a debt) and allow them to give you X% today, Y% over Z Years.
My point? It will require a much more definate and "radical" method to make the changes necessary. Small, "procedural" style changes will, in time, be made ineffective by future MPAA whores. Like they do today, slowly extending copyright, they will slowly morph your desired change to their own will.
My suggested answer? Amend your constitution to say "10 or 3 or 1" year. The rule must be simple. No more legislation, and no exceptions save ANOTHER constitution change.
...but thats not going to happen, the plutocrats have seized control of USofA'ian democracy and ground it to a halt. There is no more change, there is no more Democracy in America.
today's corporate society to see a society where freedom is sacrificed to make a buck. The democratic process control by two parties is in large part responsible for this situation.
My favorite word: Plutocracy. Used in a sentance: "The United States of America is a plutocracy."
Crappy Adventure Movie. Looked like Rambo.
Hollywood please meet plot, Plot; Hollywood.
I wouldnt use MS Linux for the same reasons that I wont use OSX. It leverages the Free Software efforts (bsd in case of osx) in order to off-set the cost of development to the volunteers and lock you into the Closed Interaface... its the Razorblade scam.
/., so lets agree to disagree ok?)
The idea of value in software is fiction. Once its written, the effort to create it has been spent - the idea of copyright is a stranglehold (before you hit reply: An idea that has been debated at lenght on
The *Freedom* aspect of GNU software attracts me. Im also have very left politics, and abhor Corporate Masters, be they MS or GM. Using GNU/Linux allows me to be free of that 'influence'. No, I wouldnt use M$GNU/Linux.
But, it will NEVER work as it should because humans are greedy
I disagree. People are 'greedy' but not stupid. If Communism is implemented correctly, maximizing the health of the Community also maximizes your personal well being.
TAKING from your neighbour does not meant that you have created anything, agreeing with him that you will utilize the benefits of your efforts EQUALLY will gaurantee you both sucess. In the end, it makes more "sense" (from the perspective of self-preservation) to share (ie: live Communally). Capitalism means that you volunteer to work for someone ELSES' benefit (The Bosses' Profit) Competition (capitalism) == Duplication(waste), Co-Operation (communism) == Maximized Beneficial Utility (efficiency).
Sorry, this is somewhat OT.
USA is a Plutocracy Admit it. Realize it. Fix it.
This thing in Iraq is caused by the same PROBLEMS (you described) that are causing the USPTO to become so damned ridiculous.
Is the reason that the gTLD .name root provider went 'bust' was because of insanely bad business decisions? like $123131312Million in Venture Capital spent on B*shit (advertising/Executive Salaries/skybox at the %local_pro_stadium%)?
.ca or .au ccTLD until recently -- wasnt the *whole* of the .au managed until just (months?) recently by *one person*?
Because a few MBA dunderheads cant manage to make themselves filthy rich with a gTLD shouldnt restrict the creation of TLDs in the future.
What was the budget of the
Yet another reason why the DoC and ICANN are a goddamn farce.
...excuse me for not getting 'it', but how is musicbrainz different from freedb? is freedb the data-collection project while musicbrainz provides an interface like (thesameas) gracenote?
How are they different? how are they the same?
Well, you yankees spend $400 billion of your $79X Billion discretionary budget on Weapons and Military -- a few thousand to RHAT is zero for the US Military.
That is very interesting news considering This article at The Register . The article talks about how Eurpoean top-level registries take over the technical task of running the Internet if ICANN cannot be relied upon to do a proper job -- because ICANN cannot seperate their Political machinations from the technical aspects of the DNS.
A good example would be ICANN's desire to create a artifical scarcity of TLDs to maintain 'value in the namespace'...
looks but everyone cares how thier car looks
actually, i couldnt care less what my car looks like either. i want something to take me from A to B and is cheap to run/maintain. I am an advocate of Function vs. Form for Economic, Social and Environmental Reasons.
Television commercials about the 'brand lifestyle' are missing the mark in my case... so, no, i dont care what my car looks like. Nor do i ask my wife to get a boob-job or myself get hair-transplants. Vanity at what expense?
I dont normally give free adverts (or any for that matter), but Ive used Stealth's pointing devices/keyboards in an iron foundry (read as; incredibly harsh environment) -- they are they only thing to stand up to the abuse. Good quality stuff.
I 'll bet these little PCs are built equally well.
my computer is under a table. i could really not care less what it looked like.
Thats what the USA needs, an 500 channels of Conservative Bias from Fox Network.
Great.
to become economically self-sufficient while critics claim that level of commercialization is unnecessary
By looking at this map you can understand why this particular park must have been chosen to 'sustain itself', the Land Development Community must have been chomping at the bit to get there hands on such a terrific piece of desirable property.
...about 'feeding themselves' - where is this magic land that people can go and sustain themselves independantly?
homesteading is longggg gone.
It would be better if it were the otherway around. The internet already liberates Computers, you can get any kind of information from millions of sources on the internet.
What would be cool (imho) if Television and Radio were "broadcast" as IP-based 'channels'.
If we could build a AP that was both a Broadcast Node (if you chose to create a stream) AND a 'listening node' (so you could tune-in digital TV & Radio' AND a Repeater Node (so you could extend the service range of others who are "Broadcasting".
This kind of Radio/Television liberation could broadcast all kinds of Independant tv, 'pirate tv', etc etc etc , open up a radio/television kind of "internet" where anything/anyone can participate.
Does this make much sense?
What, do you need your art spoon-fed to you? what you described seems no more or less valuable than Friends or Fear Factor.