"I'm more suprised the number of people that believe in both GOD and evolution."
And what do you suppose we would be in the eyes of creatures and early conscious being that evolve in a universe we create? And at that point would we not have enough in hindsight of our own evolution to know what to think of the actions of such primitive, to us, beings? Wouldn't we have a much different perspective and understanding of that stage of life?
...if there is anything as real evidence of there being anything to creationism, its the exhibit itself.
See, we can create things that we can imagine!
And sometime in the distant future, if man doesn't destroy himself first, we may just come to understand physics enough and develop such technology that enables us to create a new galaxy and live long enough to see it evolve and even influence it and the life in it.
But Why? Survival instinct of conscious beings! What else could it be? Today we play on the fence of whether or not we get past the self destructive waring mentality....
If the universe exist and no one is there to see it, does it matter?
Ultimately this seems to be a no win situation for Microsoft, as their price is to high and if Windows doesn't get included then Linux or other widely supported application types of lower cost OS will be.
Microsoft for so long played thing in a manner that would insure their growth and profit. In hindsight many see some of the tactics Microsoft used as being anti-competitive breaking anti-trust laws.
Consider these former acts of Microsoft as being actions that have equal and opposite reaction which are beginning to show up in counter effects.
But the real evidence of the equal and opposite reaction is that of the reactions themselves becoming unavoidably the result of Microsofts own direct actions. Not intentional actions of Linux or other outside of MS, force.
Father Physics and Mother Nature are not forces you want to bias against as they will find a way to counter bias so to balance back out. Here is as though there is a ghost applying MSs former anti-competitive actions against MS. The availability of Linux only allowed the ghost to be enabled.
This action equals reaction has happened before, google "trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript. Follow the money!!!
Take a block of wood and start whittling it down and soon you'll have something other than a block of wood. Be careful of the whittlers.
The human race advances by building upon and/or with what those before us have done. And those who contribute are not left out in the overall benefit.
Sure those who contribute should get extra credit. But the problem is one of a system of value exchange. Or to put it another way, Why cannot both society and the individuals benefit without false limits?
Its not uncommon for a great work to lack marketing/exposure that brings its value to a maximum in both society and for the individual using the value exchange system we have today.
Of course this copyright move will be extended to other intellectual properties, like software.
Now suppose all copyrighted property of productivity value was delayed from public use for 10 years, where it then be applied to improve society at large. Upon the application of such IP in society at large, these tools then allow more IP that would advance society even further, but it two is delayed for ten years.
After 100 years of this going on, how much has society been handicapped in advancement in terms of years? Hint the effect can be exponential.
Rewarding creators is right. Handicapping society advancement is wrong.
Its the value exchange system of IP that needs improvement.
I'm sure that there is more information to consider. But even the information you provided indicates a size issue in the US. Less than half the population and near the same size? Finances from taxes? How do taxes compare? Not to mention that Europe is made up of many countries with different politics/tax use.
A greater population density and higher taxes to pay for the base of public transportation. Which would this describe?
Transportation systems need to be updated and maintained. Only within the last ten years have roundabouts begun to be used in new intersection. There are cities in the US that have good public transportation, such that you can pretty much get where you want to go inside the city.
I'm sure there are areas in both that don't have it, but probably more so in the US due population.
The US is bigger in area vs. population, or so you even say.
The article was about working from home and the rise of it in the US, with claims of gas prices being to high. It normally takes me around 20 minutes to get to work, but on a weekend when I catch the lights green and don't get stuck behind someone driving slow I can make it to work in less the 7 minutes. That means I spend 13 minutes burning gas one way that I wouldn't burn if the population of Atlanta wasn't growing far faster than road construction and planning happen. The 20+ years I've lived here, the best traffic was, was during the 1996 Olympics as fearing traffic congestion a lot of people went on vacation out of Atlanta and many others used public transportation (mostly the public transportation increase was from the population that came in for the events). So the result was a reduction in the private vehicle roads usage by those who left.
One might also point out that as third world countries start upgrading that don't have the development of the same communication infrastructure (i.e. telephone lines all over the place) but instead are developing wireless networks. With this in mind, realize the difference between Europe's longer history than the US (post indian nation).
For those comparing the EU gas prices to that of the US....
I found the public transportation system of Europe to be wonderful. But the US is just bigger and that means its more difficult to create and maintain a public transportation system.
I live in Atlanta GA close to I-285 which is 60 miles full circle. As slow as traffic can be, I'd prefer public transportation, if it only existed close enough to where I work, but it doesn't.
Perhaps the real problem is that of figuring out a better public transportation system. One that can handle the size problem yet help to keep traffic congestion to a minimum whele itself having low fuel cost.
Oh I know.....Teleportation........ hmmmm.... of work, not people (until that gets figured out....)
neither of which had anything to do with piracy issues, but rather doing things to my at work system that broke and even removed other legal software. Adobe is guilty of this too.
What this really means? Well for symantec to effect pirated systems would mean that symantec software was also pirated (which just happens to run on Windows system). Because this is a symantec problem more then it is a windows problem..... I'd imagine users of symantec will better question the risk of using risk prevention software. And Pirates are less likely to use it, leaving the effected to be less pirates and more honest users.
It wasn't the first attempt on the world trade center.
Ted Turner said it was an act of desparation, then a week later (after he was probably threated by anthrax) he changed his statement.
The anthrax was a non-conspiracy government official with enough clearance to not officially inspect the anthrax store of the military base it was traced back to. This person knew enough about anthrax, as anyone trained would know, to do the dirty deed. But as a single person, [conspiracy requires two or more,] but who couldn't guess what the republican political party would do with the results? Those who are stupider'er than politicians? As it would certainly play into controlling the media for Bushes war drum banging....
Fact is, the world stock market gamble caused a very big problem world wide, except for china who wasn't playing that game but got front row seats via hong kong lease ending.
CNN and ABC did stories on the problems this gamble was causing south east asia, banks were closing and mothers couldn't afford to buy baby milk. Indonesians (CIA reports its 88% Muslim) knew it was teh americans but didn't know how they were doing it. They knew their own government was corrupt but this was beyond even that, and they knew it, just not how)
World Bank (run by the US) offered to bail out south east asia for interest payment on such a loan. That did not go over at all. Ultimately interest rate went to 0% even in the US as part of the "saying sorry".
Muslims in general are not to blame, as we Americans simply provided a very good excuse for radical extreamist to promote their cause against the US, so to enlist such a large following as they have. The war Bush waged on Iraq was in no way aimed at Bin Laden, though 9/11 was the excuse for the war. And that only pissed more off.....go figure.
Why the pentagon and white house 9/11 targets? Simple: the target wasn't about hitting those directly responsible, as few knew where they were, but as a statement something along the lines of "wrongful world economic manipulation back by politically controlled military".
I don't like Lil'natzi Bush, nor do I like radical extreamist. However, the Trillion dollar bet was VERY VERY WRONG!!! An dit is what gave cause to 9/11 by radical extreamist and a major excuse for Bush to finish his fathers work against Iraq.
That much money doesn't just appear out of nowhere and then vanish into nowhere and some of the participants have been in teh news, mostly the losers like worldcom, enron, etc... and note the timing on the dot com boom and bust. Some of the winners had to put their easy winnings somewhere (easy come easy go)..... follow the money....
... untill MS presents the evidence, the evidence is researched by those who are the coders of suppose infringments, and recognition of infringment is done by such coders.
Until then it can safely be assumed that MS is being what we all have come to expect them to be, due the reputation they have worked to establish. Dishonest.
Its best to call MS's cards on this. The sooner it is addressed openly and honestly the better.
... concerns over the 235 patents of theirs they claim Linux infringes?
Or maybe they are pretending Linux doesn't exist today so tomorrow when they recognize that it does they can claim all of Linux is infringing their patents... ya know a prior art thing.
There is a human characteristic about software that make its not patentable.
MS has teamed up with CMU on a project that distorts the origins of computation and gives credit to the machine rather than the humans who have made the computer all that it is. Do a google on "Computational Thinking".
At any rate the human characteristic is that if the natural ability to apply Abstraction Physics and as such software is really not of patentable nature.
All the software patent law suits are fraudlent. It s really rather ignorant due to the fact that copyright is more appropriate and terms are longer. Patents on the other hand try and be what copyright doesn't cover, and that is broad claims.
... MS with is proprietary mindset and evidence of consumer abuse via countless anti-trust cases can't possibly do better than what open source can do here. And lets not forget that USB ram sticks are getting cheaper and larger in storage ability.. and faster access.
With the ability of hardware today to boot from a USB, what is the point of doing only half the job (what MS is proposing) when you can have the the whole system on the stick, OS included.
MS is so far behind on this that their ball and chain methodologies won't very well move forward anywhere near as fast as open source already has.
So what is the point of taking your desktop with you when you can take your whole software system with you on a stick?
... when we get enough of a collection of human... whatever... then we can look back on it in honesty and start looking for the reasons/cause rather than hiding the symptoms.
The lesson of history is to not make the same mistakes. Those who don't want to learn the value of history, want to repeat it.
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"I'm more suprised the number of people that believe in both GOD and evolution."
And what do you suppose we would be in the eyes of creatures and early conscious being that evolve in a universe we create? And at that point would we not have enough in hindsight of our own evolution to know what to think of the actions of such primitive, to us, beings? Wouldn't we have a much different perspective and understanding of that stage of life?
...if there is anything as real evidence of there being anything to creationism, its the exhibit itself.
See, we can create things that we can imagine!
And sometime in the distant future, if man doesn't destroy himself first, we may just come to understand physics enough and develop such technology that enables us to create a new galaxy and live long enough to see it evolve and even influence it and the life in it.
But Why? Survival instinct of conscious beings! What else could it be?
Today we play on the fence of whether or not we get past the self destructive waring mentality....
If the universe exist and no one is there to see it, does it matter?
...base in the form of copyright.
The real question is who was able to obtain the video in the first place? Do they work for the suing party?
Couldn't this be a set up to get money out of video sites?
Seems to me they need to go after the original poster of the video. Isn't that what the RIAA would do?
...all this is really a distraction from dealing with the core issue of the fraudulent perspective of the patenting software.
See: http://threeseas.net/abstraction_physics.html re: what is universally considered NOT patentable.
...wouldn't the genuine nerd makeup want politics to be more like genuine open source, rather than politics that support hackable voting machines..
... we need email tax... http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/ 24/1516253
cause it will get email out of bankruptcy or end it once and for all.
Tax email and spammers won't be able to afford the bill and a larger number of users will say screw it and stop using it.
But where will we place the headstone?
... there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Ultimately this seems to be a no win situation for Microsoft, as their price is to high and if Windows doesn't get included then Linux or other widely supported application types of lower cost OS will be.
Microsoft for so long played thing in a manner that would insure their growth and profit. In hindsight many see some of the tactics Microsoft used as being anti-competitive breaking anti-trust laws.
Consider these former acts of Microsoft as being actions that have equal and opposite reaction which are beginning to show up in counter effects.
But the real evidence of the equal and opposite reaction is that of the reactions themselves becoming unavoidably the result of Microsofts own direct actions. Not intentional actions of Linux or other outside of MS, force.
Father Physics and Mother Nature are not forces you want to bias against as they will find a way to counter bias so to balance back out. Here is as though there is a ghost applying MSs former anti-competitive actions against MS.
The availability of Linux only allowed the ghost to be enabled.
This action equals reaction has happened before, google "trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript. Follow the money!!!
Take a block of wood and start whittling it down and soon you'll have something other than a block of wood.
Be careful of the whittlers.
The human race advances by building upon and/or with what those before us have done. And those who contribute are not left out in the overall benefit.
Sure those who contribute should get extra credit. But the problem is one of a system of value exchange.
Or to put it another way, Why cannot both society and the individuals benefit without false limits?
Its not uncommon for a great work to lack marketing/exposure that brings its value to a maximum in both society and for the individual using the value exchange system we have today.
Of course this copyright move will be extended to other intellectual properties, like software.
Now suppose all copyrighted property of productivity value was delayed from public use for 10 years, where it then be applied to improve society at large. Upon the application of such IP in society at large, these tools then allow more IP that would advance society even further, but it two is delayed for ten years.
After 100 years of this going on, how much has society been handicapped in advancement in terms of years?
Hint the effect can be exponential.
Rewarding creators is right. Handicapping society advancement is wrong.
Its the value exchange system of IP that needs improvement.
I'm sure that there is more information to consider. But even the information you provided indicates a size issue in the US. Less than half the population and near the same size? Finances from taxes? How do taxes compare? Not to mention that Europe is made up of many countries with different politics/tax use.
A greater population density and higher taxes to pay for the base of public transportation. Which would this describe?
Transportation systems need to be updated and maintained. Only within the last ten years have roundabouts begun to be used in new intersection. There are cities in the US that have good public transportation, such that you can pretty much get where you want to go inside the city.
I'm sure there are areas in both that don't have it, but probably more so in the US due population.
The US is bigger in area vs. population, or so you even say.
The article was about working from home and the rise of it in the US, with claims of gas prices being to high.
It normally takes me around 20 minutes to get to work, but on a weekend when I catch the lights green and don't get stuck behind someone driving slow I can make it to work in less the 7 minutes. That means I spend 13 minutes burning gas one way that I wouldn't burn if the population of Atlanta wasn't growing far faster than road construction and planning happen. The 20+ years I've lived here, the best traffic was, was during the 1996 Olympics as fearing traffic congestion a lot of people went on vacation out of Atlanta and many others used public transportation (mostly the public transportation increase was from the population that came in for the events). So the result was a reduction in the private vehicle roads usage by those who left.
One might also point out that as third world countries start upgrading that don't have the development of the same communication infrastructure (i.e. telephone lines all over the place) but instead are developing wireless networks.
With this in mind, realize the difference between Europe's longer history than the US (post indian nation).
long distant trains in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMTRAK seem to suggest its not a century to century change.
For those comparing the EU gas prices to that of the US....
I found the public transportation system of Europe to be wonderful.
But the US is just bigger and that means its more difficult to create and maintain a public transportation system.
I live in Atlanta GA close to I-285 which is 60 miles full circle.
As slow as traffic can be, I'd prefer public transportation, if it only existed close enough to where I work, but it doesn't.
Perhaps the real problem is that of figuring out a better public transportation system. One that can handle the size problem yet help to keep traffic congestion to a minimum whele itself having low fuel cost.
Oh I know.....Teleportation........ hmmmm.... of work, not people (until that gets figured out....)
And so has Microsoft updates....
neither of which had anything to do with piracy issues, but rather doing things to my at work system that broke and even removed other legal software. Adobe is guilty of this too.
What this really means? Well for symantec to effect pirated systems would mean that symantec software was also pirated (which just happens to run on Windows system). Because this is a symantec problem more then it is a windows problem..... I'd imagine users of symantec will better question the risk of using risk prevention software. And Pirates are less likely to use it, leaving the effected to be less pirates and more honest users.
People do things for reasons
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stoc
It wasn't the first attempt on the world trade center.
Ted Turner said it was an act of desparation, then a week later (after he was probably threated by anthrax) he changed his statement.
The anthrax was a non-conspiracy government official with enough clearance to not officially inspect the anthrax store of the military base it was traced back to. This person knew enough about anthrax, as anyone trained would know, to do the dirty deed. But as a single person, [conspiracy requires two or more,] but who couldn't guess what the republican political party would do with the results? Those who are stupider'er than politicians? As it would certainly play into controlling the media for Bushes war drum banging....
Fact is, the world stock market gamble caused a very big problem world wide, except for china who wasn't playing that game but got front row seats via hong kong lease ending.
CNN and ABC did stories on the problems this gamble was causing south east asia, banks were closing and mothers couldn't afford to buy baby milk. Indonesians (CIA reports its 88% Muslim) knew it was teh americans but didn't know how they were doing it. They knew their own government was corrupt but this was beyond even that, and they knew it, just not how)
World Bank (run by the US) offered to bail out south east asia for interest payment on such a loan. That did not go over at all. Ultimately interest rate went to 0% even in the US as part of the "saying sorry".
Muslims in general are not to blame, as we Americans simply provided a very good excuse for radical extreamist to promote their cause against the US, so to enlist such a large following as they have. The war Bush waged on Iraq was in no way aimed at Bin Laden, though 9/11 was the excuse for the war. And that only pissed more off.....go figure.
Why the pentagon and white house 9/11 targets? Simple: the target wasn't about hitting those directly responsible, as few knew where they were, but as a statement something along the lines of "wrongful world economic manipulation back by politically controlled military".
I don't like Lil'natzi Bush, nor do I like radical extreamist. However, the Trillion dollar bet was VERY VERY WRONG!!! An dit is what gave cause to 9/11 by radical extreamist and a major excuse for Bush to finish his fathers work against Iraq.
That much money doesn't just appear out of nowhere and then vanish into nowhere and some of the participants have been in teh news, mostly the losers like worldcom, enron, etc... and note the timing on the dot com boom and bust. Some of the winners had to put their easy winnings somewhere (easy come easy go)..... follow the money....
...is all going on?
I don't know cause I use Linux...
... did not contribute to that number.
Oh I feel so lonely using linux... Am I the last linux user?
... Dell verifys the hardware to be compatable with the release of ubuntu that it ships with it's hardware.
Considering Ubuntu itself has a paid line of support....
... untill MS presents the evidence, the evidence is researched by those who are the coders of suppose infringments, and recognition of infringment is done by such coders.
Until then it can safely be assumed that MS is being what we all have come to expect them to be, due the reputation they have worked to establish. Dishonest.
Its best to call MS's cards on this. The sooner it is addressed openly and honestly the better.
All of us at the same time.
Wa da ya say Mr. Gates, your house for the meet?
First Open Source is ignored, then laughed at, then planned against, then accused of stealing, etc...
Its predictable like machinery
Isn't SCO's direction an indication of where MS is heading?
If its dead then is there a reason to pursue it for claimed patent infringment?
... concerns over the 235 patents of theirs they claim Linux infringes?
Or maybe they are pretending Linux doesn't exist today so tomorrow when they recognize that it does they can claim all of Linux is infringing their patents... ya know a prior art thing.
everyone else.
There is a human characteristic about software that make its not patentable.
MS has teamed up with CMU on a project that distorts the origins of computation and gives credit to the machine rather than the humans who have made the computer all that it is. Do a google on "Computational Thinking".
At any rate the human characteristic is that if the natural ability to apply Abstraction Physics and as such software is really not of patentable nature.
All the software patent law suits are fraudlent. It s really rather ignorant due to the fact that copyright is more appropriate and terms are longer. Patents on the other hand try and be what copyright doesn't cover, and that is broad claims.
.... all the spam is good for.
The bigger they get the higher the likely hood that the results won't be what the searcher is wanting.
So this is really not about search enignes but about googles incomming advertising dollar and perhaps what they chose to do with it.
Or in a word to express the competitions POV "envy"
... MS with is proprietary mindset and evidence of consumer abuse via countless anti-trust cases can't possibly do better than what open source can do here. And lets not forget that USB ram sticks are getting cheaper and larger in storage ability.. and faster access.
With the ability of hardware today to boot from a USB, what is the point of doing only half the job (what MS is proposing) when you can have the the whole system on the stick, OS included.
MS is so far behind on this that their ball and chain methodologies won't very well move forward anywhere near as fast as open source already has.
So what is the point of taking your desktop with you when you can take your whole software system with you on a stick?
... when we get enough of a collection of human ... whatever... then we can look back on it in honesty and start looking for the reasons/cause rather than hiding the symptoms.
The lesson of history is to not make the same mistakes.
Those who don't want to learn the value of history, want to repeat it.
1) forget history
2) repeat it.
3) profit