Well, Adam smits was a greedy fucker tray a bit of game theory instead. the wealth of the nations is 'good' (greedy fuckers) for an ever expanding universe.
You could call teh wealth of the nations greedy communism (or anarchy I suppose)
hey, this is a repeat, but it sums up perfectly my thoughts about IP.
thanks again to Louise Szente
THE CROW AND THE OWL
Louise Szente
The glow of the fire against the night sky was comforting. A smell of roasting meat permeated the air. The family sat quietly watching the fire and listening to the night sounds.
A morose old man sat to one side poking the fire with a twig. His thoughts were lost in yesteryear when such an occasion would have been noisy and full of laughter. Stories would have been told and lessons would have been learnt. But, now? now they cannot tell stories anymore. Now tradition is lost.
"Tata" said one of the children "please tell us about the times when you were young."
"Oh my boy" lamented the old man "those days are gone, I am not allowed to tell the tales that I heard from my grandfather, but I have been thinking. I can tell you the story about the Owl and the Crow, because I have just made it up. Listen and listen well."
Once a long long time ago, the Owl was the custodian of all the stories of the land. Every night all the animals would gather around the Owl and listen to the stories. And oh, what wonderful stories the Owl told. He passed on all the knowledge of the world.
Every night the Crow sat with all the other animals listening to the Owl. But, Crow grew jealous. "Why should Owl have the right to tell the stories, I am sure I can do a better job and makes lots of money."
Crow spent his days thinking of a way to take away the right of the Owl to tell the stories. He craved the power to have all the animals listen to him. He thought and thought because he knew that he could get very rich if he had the right to all the knowledge of the land.
One day Crow went to the Owl and very politely asked Owl if he could write down the stories that the Owl told each night. "Just think" said Crow "if I write down the stories, the children can read it during the day and never forget the lessons all the stories teach. The animals could use the stories to gather plants for healing purposes. Why they could even learn how to live peacefully together.:
The Owl spent days pondering Crows' request. He admired the cleverness of Crow. To think that the children would be able to learn during the day as well, maybe then he would be able to appoint a successor much sooner than tradition dictates. This made the Owl very happy, because it always took a long time to train somebody to take over the position of Custodian of Tradition.
Every day Crow would go to the Owl and in a smooth voice tell Owl of all the benefits the land could reap by having its tradition in writing. The purpose of all the medicinal plants would forever be available. The way children should be brought up traditionally would forever be there for parents to follow. Why, it would make the land a better place to live in because all the knowledge of the land would be saved for prosperity.
As Owl sat and listened to Crow each day, he wondered at the plan of Crow. He never for one moment thought about what Crow would benefit by such an idea. Oh, he knew very well that Crow was a sly and devious creature, but he thought Crow had changed. Perhaps Crow was getting old and was afraid that he would be forgotten. Be that as it may, the Owl thought about the idea and eventually said to Crow that he may write down all the stories.
This made Crow very happy. He rushed off and prepared a document for the Owl to sign. "Why should I sign this document?" asked the Owl.
Crow went into a long explanation about how some of the animals to not trust him and if he had this document, he could proved that he had the Owl's permission to record all the stories. Pleased with the foresight of Crow Owls signed the document that he did not really understand. He knew the animals did not trust Crow and he knew that they would query the fact that Crow is recording all the traditions of the land.
For years Crow sat at the feet of the Owl every night recording the stories. During the day Crow would ask the Owl how many stories he still has to tell and Owl would reply that there are many stories to be told and many lessons to be learnt.
One night a new generation of animals gathered to listen to the stories of the Owl. It so happened that the Owl decided to repeat a story. Immediately Crow jumped up and stopped Owl.
"You are not allowed to repeat that story," said Crow, "that story belongs to me"
"No Crow, you are wrong, that story belongs to all the animals of the land. It is my duty to tell this story. All the animals need to know everything about the land," replied the Owl.
"That story belongs to me," replied Crow " you gave me the right to that story, so you have to ask my permission to repeat that story. Come to think of it, I think that all the stories have been told. Now, all the stories are mine. If you want to tell the stories you will have to pay me"
"But,,, But what is this" stuttered the Owl "since the beginning of time the stories of the land have been told to the children every night. We always sat around the fire and the Custodian of Knowledge would tell stories. That is how the children learnt!"
"Not anymore." replied the Crow "from now on there will be no stories at night anymore. If you want to continue with the stories you will have to pay me. And, I am going to charge entrance fee from each and every animal attending the story time. Nothing comes free in this life Owl."
"What is this?" cried all the animals.
With an evil grin on his face Crow replied:
"THIS IS CALLED COPYRIGHT"
"You see children," said the old man "that is why I cannot tell you the stories of the times past. All the stories have been told. I can only tell you new stories that I had just made up and then I must be very careful that the Crow does not hear me, otherwise he would take my stories, sell it, and nobody would benefit from it. If the Owl had not given away our tradition to the unscrupulous crow, night times would have been the happy times it was.
Turn this super gun into an oil pipe running through afganistan. Conpanies in the US and UK will provide all the materials, and the US, UK governments will provide any 'assistants' you need, incease any 'problems' are encountered.
BTW Junk Yard wars was a UK programme called Scrap Heap chanlange. Conisidence?
about working from home? Too many cars in london... what shall we do? I know, roll out broad-band and get 50% of the people working from home 50% of the time....
Wow an instant 25% decrease in all congestion.
London should place a not-working from home tax on the companies that can easly support working from home.
ummm..... Bad Idea. anyone I've ever know to work with Indian outsources work has said. 'You get what you ask for' So why is that bad.... well you get EXACTLY what you asked for, didn't ask for security, won't get security. didn't ask for uptime, well it'll crash a bit, but do the job......
Outsourcing to india is cheep in the short term, but often requires a re-write in the long term. Consultancy, ummm.... what's that, don't you know what you want or somthing?
Now all I have to do is hack the crap software and no charge for me! (IIS,.NET, Indian software should be easy)
Slashdot Mirror
Monkey-soft developed the governments gateway systems.
NT has built in defrag abilities, Diskkeeper just wrote a front end.
checkout sysinternals to be free from bullshit.
You get pucks with graphics tablets not just pens.
mouse gestures are a bad idea, Mice are crap interface devices, ever tried drawing with a mouse, it''s like getting my brother to do the washing up.
Now with a graphics tablet as a interface device, gestures are easy(accurate) and fast.
don't do that, crtl + c is a break signal.
i like ctrl + insert and ctrl + delete.
It works with most applications under KDE, Windows and DOS.
Well, Adam smits was a greedy fucker tray a bit of game theory instead. the wealth of the nations is 'good' (greedy fuckers) for an ever expanding universe.
You could call teh wealth of the nations greedy communism (or anarchy I suppose)
hey, this is a repeat, but it sums up perfectly my thoughts about IP.
thanks again to Louise Szente
THE CROW AND THE OWL
Louise Szente
The glow of the fire against the night sky was comforting. A smell of roasting meat permeated the air. The family sat quietly watching the fire and listening to the night sounds.
A morose old man sat to one side poking the fire with a twig. His thoughts were lost in yesteryear when such an occasion would have been noisy and full of laughter. Stories would have been told and lessons would have been learnt. But, now? now they cannot tell stories anymore. Now tradition is lost.
"Tata" said one of the children "please tell us about the times when you were young."
"Oh my boy" lamented the old man "those days are gone, I am not allowed to tell the tales that I heard from my grandfather, but I have been thinking. I can tell you the story about the Owl and the Crow, because I have just made it up. Listen and listen well."
Once a long long time ago, the Owl was the custodian of all the stories of the land. Every night all the animals would gather around the Owl and listen to the stories. And oh, what wonderful stories the Owl told. He passed on all the knowledge of the world.
Every night the Crow sat with all the other animals listening to the Owl. But, Crow grew jealous. "Why should Owl have the right to tell the stories, I am sure I can do a better job and makes lots of money."
Crow spent his days thinking of a way to take away the right of the Owl to tell the stories. He craved the power to have all the animals listen to him. He thought and thought because he knew that he could get very rich if he had the right to all the knowledge of the land.
One day Crow went to the Owl and very politely asked Owl if he could write down the stories that the Owl told each night. "Just think" said Crow "if I write down the stories, the children can read it during the day and never forget the lessons all the stories teach. The animals could use the stories to gather plants for healing purposes. Why they could even learn how to live peacefully together.:
The Owl spent days pondering Crows' request. He admired the cleverness of Crow. To think that the children would be able to learn during the day as well, maybe then he would be able to appoint a successor much sooner than tradition dictates. This made the Owl very happy, because it always took a long time to train somebody to take over the position of Custodian of Tradition.
Every day Crow would go to the Owl and in a smooth voice tell Owl of all the benefits the land could reap by having its tradition in writing. The purpose of all the medicinal plants would forever be available. The way children should be brought up traditionally would forever be there for parents to follow. Why, it would make the land a better place to live in because all the knowledge of the land would be saved for prosperity.
As Owl sat and listened to Crow each day, he wondered at the plan of Crow. He never for one moment thought about what Crow would benefit by such an idea. Oh, he knew very well that Crow was a sly and devious creature, but he thought Crow had changed. Perhaps Crow was getting old and was afraid that he would be forgotten. Be that as it may, the Owl thought about the idea and eventually said to Crow that he may write down all the stories.
This made Crow very happy. He rushed off and prepared a document for the Owl to sign. "Why should I sign this document?" asked the Owl.
Crow went into a long explanation about how some of the animals to not trust him and if he had this document, he could proved that he had the Owl's permission to record all the stories. Pleased with the foresight of Crow Owls signed the document that he did not really understand. He knew the animals did not trust Crow and he knew that they would query the fact that Crow is recording all the traditions of the land.
For years Crow sat at the feet of the Owl every night recording the stories. During the day Crow would ask the Owl how many stories he still has to tell and Owl would reply that there are many stories to be told and many lessons to be learnt.
One night a new generation of animals gathered to listen to the stories of the Owl. It so happened that the Owl decided to repeat a story. Immediately Crow jumped up and stopped Owl.
"You are not allowed to repeat that story," said Crow, "that story belongs to me"
"No Crow, you are wrong, that story belongs to all the animals of the land. It is my duty to tell this story. All the animals need to know everything about the land," replied the Owl.
"That story belongs to me," replied Crow " you gave me the right to that story, so you have to ask my permission to repeat that story. Come to think of it, I think that all the stories have been told. Now, all the stories are mine. If you want to tell the stories you will have to pay me"
"But,,, But what is this" stuttered the Owl "since the beginning of time the stories of the land have been told to the children every night. We always sat around the fire and the Custodian of Knowledge would tell stories. That is how the children learnt!"
"Not anymore." replied the Crow "from now on there will be no stories at night anymore. If you want to continue with the stories you will have to pay me. And, I am going to charge entrance fee from each and every animal attending the story time. Nothing comes free in this life Owl."
"What is this?" cried all the animals.
With an evil grin on his face Crow replied:
"THIS IS CALLED COPYRIGHT"
"You see children," said the old man "that is why I cannot tell you the stories of the times past. All the stories have been told. I can only tell you new stories that I had just made up and then I must be very careful that the Crow does not hear me, otherwise he would take my stories, sell it, and nobody would benefit from it. If the Owl had not given away our tradition to the unscrupulous crow, night times would have been the happy times it was.
Being a geek, I'm sure you know how hard it is to remember peoples names, with your head stuffed full of all that stuff you have to remeber for work.
It can be a bit embarising, if, after going out for a couple of weeks you still forget you girls name.
So, my tips is; always date girls with the same name. (this is also handy if your seeing more than one at once).
and it's painfull watching him use it.
He's left handed, so I don't know if that's the main cause of the problems.
1: there's no way to setup the UI for left handed people e.g. scroll bar on the left so you don't cover everything up with your hand.
2: It takes him ages to input text, with lots of errors
on the good side, the developer kit he got looks quite good, and the interface isn't that bad (apart from 1 and 2).
I'm going to stick to a keypad for now, my handwritings so bad even I can't read it.
If you take a look at the change logs (for feture releases) you'll see that the optimization process is being made more granular in 3.4 (i think)
that's a .plan +1/2, opensyndicate (kinda ironic).
I never anwser the phone at home,
only emails and my cell phone.
I only have a phone line because 'it' came with adsl.
Now all I have to do is block up the snail mail box and I'm free.... Maybe a £500 littering fine will stop the crap comming through.
Turn this super gun into an oil pipe running through afganistan.
Conpanies in the US and UK will provide all the materials, and the US, UK governments will provide any 'assistants' you need, incease any 'problems' are encountered.
BTW Junk Yard wars was a UK programme called Scrap Heap chanlange. Conisidence?
it's called tabs.
How wrong you are,
My local computer shop sells all new PC's with OpenOffice no M$ office in site.
this company ships most PC's with Lindows installed.
etc....
2.5 is soooo smooth on the desktop compaired to 2.4, but doesn't have supermount grrr.....
no compleatly true!
feel free to flame away if you can rebutt what I've said.
about working from home?
Too many cars in london... what shall we do? I know, roll out broad-band and get 50% of the people working from home 50% of the time....
Wow an instant 25% decrease in all congestion.
London should place a not-working from home tax on the companies that can easly support working from home.
It doesn't work, cling file doesn't work either.
ummm..... Bad Idea.
.NET, Indian software should be easy)
anyone I've ever know to work with Indian outsources work has said.
'You get what you ask for'
So why is that bad.... well you get EXACTLY what you asked for,
didn't ask for security, won't get security. didn't ask for uptime, well it'll crash a bit, but do the job......
Outsourcing to india is cheep in the short term, but often requires a re-write in the long term.
Consultancy, ummm.... what's that, don't you know what you want or somthing?
Now all I have to do is hack the crap software and no charge for me! (IIS,
He's a commie, he even writes for the morning star. Can't be doing with any socilist types in the Labor party can we.
BTW an indipendant report said that the congestion charges might actually work. (it's on the BBC news web site somewhere, but there serch is shit)
Hmm.. I refered to 'him' as bandit blair, even before the Iraq crisis.
Londers don't have to pay a £5 charge, they can apply for a 95% discount.
But is was a fucking good game
(like GTA III in 1992), and apears to be largly forgotten about.
Hey I liked Syndicate Wars .
syndicate wars (1995 ish) was in 3d, and a great game