The only difference is that on the boat you are next to a very large gravitational object (the Earth) that is going to take care of disposing of those 300 pounds of rock. In space you may be just trading off that calamatous day of being hit by a giant asteroid for a calamatous day of being peppered by smaller asteroids, no less deadly when collectively accounted for. You had better plan those orbits nicely.
I think you would have to look at areas where their civilization was recently exposed to civilization as we know it, most likely the Pacific, and certain areas of Africa and South America.
Encourage them to do this. It will only accelerate their impoverishment and send them tumbling the way of the USSR. Their economy is about as bad off as the old Soviet Union, full of positive reports to keep ministers from being executed. They've got lots of bank scandals starting to appear showing that their currency is not worth what they say. They've got entire villages infected with AIDS that are about to disappear, because they can only deal with these things by hiding them from public view in the hopes no one will notice before they disappear. Things are going very wrong and have all the earmarks of a government without enough resources to handle it all. They ignore it all to produce a few gems like cavitation torpedoes, a space program, and a couple of capitalist sector cities.
Yeah, China building their own space station and planning their own moon mission is real collaborative of them. Sounds like we have more collaboration going on here on Earth than I thought!
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age was a good fiction book on the effects of a society where people have their own personal matter reconstruction equipment. Those with the cheap units are subjected to lives full of cheap commodity throwaway (but completley recyclable!) things, while those with more money for the better equipment can have better, higher quality things. And those able to afford real hand-made objects seem to hold themselves above all that.
Language evolution is perfectly acceptable, but we seem to be breeding the variety out of languages and will just end up with a sterile inbred single stream of language, unable to evolve into anything new without some drastic outside influence. In the past that influence was forced in the form of invading Huns splitting up the empire of the day. With the world connected as it is, you're hard pressed to come up with a new invading outside force. English could be considered as having invaded economically and in some cases militarily between both the U.S. and England over the past couple of hundred yearrs. Maybe we need to just play some Democratic campaign speeches into space to invite some hostile neighbors.
As for the Chinese or Hindi, I think a show like Firefly had real insight into this. And when I traveled to India on business in early 2001 I spoke with some people there who talked about how the world would one day be Chinese and Indian because of population explosions. That western people had stopped wanting the world by having less children (in some cases like Eastern Russia, reducing populations to very low levels) and that population increases (even with China's attempts at controlling it) would just push those countries into having no choice but to invade for resources and a some lebensraum. So why hope for asteroids and aliens when we the monster are always nearby to mix things up.
I checked, but the Bluetooth in my Sony Ericcson T610 phone and DLink USB adapter are still working. So as long as this continues whatever the industry decides will have no impact on this setup. I'll check it again later to see if he's right.
It's one thing to see languages die in countries where ceratin languages are forbidden, but in free nations where anyone can speak any language they want, it is irresponsible for an ethnic group to let the language and any other customs die. Watch "Whale Rider" for a modern tale of the New Zealand Maori trying to preserve their heritage. When a people lets their native customs die in favor of another set of customs, those customs really died a longer time ago than they suspect. Only resuming a strong identity is going to salvage the culture.
It all comes down to taking the time for the things that really matter in life. If a people cherish the Internet and pagers and other modern things more than the things of old then they have made a choice (concious or unconcious) to let the old ways slip into the eternal night. That is why I like to see locale options available for open source projects; the more that these are encouraged, the more lanaguages that can be saved. Countries like China that are taking an aggressive stance against Microsoft and Western commercial software are not just trying to keep from paying licenses, but also saving their culture from becoming english-saturated. If they also push locale options, then there will be plenty of rugged alternatives soon. Without alternate language construction examples, computing languages will likewise mainstream into similar styles.
Don't get me started about immigrants dumping their own native names for "Tony", "George" and the like when they come into the U.S. A name like "Panseur" (made it up) is just as valid a name.
Right, because the rest of us believe we should be fucking around with loading fonts and checking out desktop themes and new window managers rather than getting something done. Those PHB don't know what they're missing, right. Jez, no wonder people were getting laid off my the thousands: they weren't actually needed, like the bubble led us to believe. Pointcast, anyone?
I find no creativity in mixing two previous albums. Quite, the opposite, it strikes me as lazy uncreative slop. If you can't write or create your own music, well, you're just not creating anything new, and where is the art in that? It only smacks of grabbing at commercial straws. This is where the art of music is today, folks... wallowing in its own mediocrity and whipping out a right tit ovre it.
I remember getting a VCR in 1988 for about $300+ that could be programmed from the front without a remote or turning the TV on. You're right, newer models don't do that and I doubt we'll ever see anything like that again. I just threw it out last year when it just would not play anymore. Amazing that there was once a technology that could last 14 years and actually still be considered completely useful in that time.
How different is this from people who can't fix a sink asking their plumber friend for help, or someone who wants to do their taxes asking their accountant friend for help. Everyone has a sink and pretty much everyone has to do their taxes, and I would think those numbers are greater than those that own computers. This just shows that the demand for computer skills is out there waiting to be tapped. Convergence will make those with compute knowledge much more valuable and will embed technology into every pore of our lives. Eventually it will be expected that generations to come will learn how to use these things as they grow up, like anything else that is learned.
My kids are able to grasp computer concepts at a much earlier age an I did. And I can say the same for my daughter who is now 9 and can handle a computer better than when my 13 year old was that age. Eventually this gap will disappear, but there will always be some sort of technology gap in the population, be it sinks, taxes, or computers.
Another case of blaming the tool when the human weilding the tool are obviously at fault. Everyone wants to pin down what the Chinese are doing, but no one wants to confront the Chinese. I see World War III coming up the road.
Have you thought about spending $500 for a VCR that is a little higher quality than the $200 units? For your $500 you would probably get more features than the previous $500 unit, though at this point you'd have to have a pretty large collection to justify that expense. I'd rather put that into some other equipment and let VCR technology call it a day.
Errr...there are entire continents that are ill-gotten. Surely the relatively measly gains the Bush family is alleged to have pale by that. Believe it or not doing ill-gotten things seems to be a common human trait. It's the people who behave nicely that are out of the ordinary. What's with them anyway?
I wonder if this is really complex at all as far as nature is concerned. We are just at this point in computing without really solving for complex AI, so this must be something similar to reflex or an involuntary response.
The fact that ants may exhibit the same behavior makes me wonder about their level of awareness: is being vegetative really not as low a state as we believe it, or maybe we give ants too much credit, or maybe this is an example of a hive mind. Or is this something found throughtout most of nature and only where self-awareness/individuality comes in do things behave on their own in a viral devouring nature. Certainly viruses are not complex compared to humans, but as many times as we've heard human intelligence glorified, we have also been compared to ravenous viruses.
I know that many of the applications that we use for design, simulation and testing mostly run on Suns, but the vendors are quickly moving to Linux and we are more than willing to accept it. Why? Because a 3.2GHz P4 512k (Extreme Edition is next on the shopping list) with 512MB really does perform many times faster than something like a SunFire 280R cpu against cpu, and for many times less money!! It is only once you start getting into the need for 8GB of memory or dozens of cpu that you want to start looking at Sun for bang per buck.
I have always believed in UNIX on the back end, but it just doesn't pay to stick with Sun anymore. More and more, Linux and some form of RedHat (or whatever the vendors support) will take the place of the Suns.
Wait until thousands of Indians are canned as the US comes out of the recession. Better have that code locked up in a third country so you can cut off those pissed engineers before they toss the code onto the Internet in retaliation. Seriously, the "no work at home" but "here ya go India" attitude is bass-ackwards. Think of how much money some of these places could have saved by rolling out some VPN software and closing some offices. The reduction in productivity can't be worse than the crappy quality of work coming out of these third world countries. I don't think we are as tolerant of this in our software products as we are in our barbies and sneakers. This will definitely right itself.
India's state imposed job protectionism is that no one may emigrate to India for work unless they are Indian. Let's hope they hurt greatly for it. Think that one will get dropped?
If that's all you use it for, then I recommend you get yourself a Linux distro, and turn off all the services. You'll still be supported and still be able to do all of the above. There is no reason for you to update the most expensive part of the system, the hardware, especially since its speed isn't putting you off. Personally, if that were my system I would have chucked it a long time ago. On the other hand, I gave my son a laptop just like yours with Win95 on it about a year ago and he still uses it...no viruses, no updates, no reason to upgrade.
Actually, the WinXP drivers thing is true. I have a USB keyboard and the cue cat will not work because the drivers require the PS/2 keyboard driver to be loaded in order for "pretending to hit the keys" to work. Boot with a PS/2 keyboard instead of my USB keyboard, or in addition to it, and it works fine. My guess is they just create some sort of dummy driver that loads the PS/2 keyboard driver al lthe time in order to fake the system into listening on that port. Then again, it may be easier to just tear apart a $10 keyboard.
What prevents the rest of the world from continuing right along with alternatives. If you make no effort to find, use, or make these alternatives, you frankly don't deserve them. Rather than waiting for these new solutions to be served up for you, pave your own destiny.
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The only difference is that on the boat you are next to a very large gravitational object (the Earth) that is going to take care of disposing of those 300 pounds of rock. In space you may be just trading off that calamatous day of being hit by a giant asteroid for a calamatous day of being peppered by smaller asteroids, no less deadly when collectively accounted for. You had better plan those orbits nicely.
I think you would have to look at areas where their civilization was recently exposed to civilization as we know it, most likely the Pacific, and certain areas of Africa and South America.
Encourage them to do this. It will only accelerate their impoverishment and send them tumbling the way of the USSR. Their economy is about as bad off as the old Soviet Union, full of positive reports to keep ministers from being executed. They've got lots of bank scandals starting to appear showing that their currency is not worth what they say. They've got entire villages infected with AIDS that are about to disappear, because they can only deal with these things by hiding them from public view in the hopes no one will notice before they disappear. Things are going very wrong and have all the earmarks of a government without enough resources to handle it all. They ignore it all to produce a few gems like cavitation torpedoes, a space program, and a couple of capitalist sector cities.
Yeah, China building their own space station and planning their own moon mission is real collaborative of them. Sounds like we have more collaboration going on here on Earth than I thought!
Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age was a good fiction book on the effects of a society where people have their own personal matter reconstruction equipment. Those with the cheap units are subjected to lives full of cheap commodity throwaway (but completley recyclable!) things, while those with more money for the better equipment can have better, higher quality things. And those able to afford real hand-made objects seem to hold themselves above all that.
Language evolution is perfectly acceptable, but we seem to be breeding the variety out of languages and will just end up with a sterile inbred single stream of language, unable to evolve into anything new without some drastic outside influence. In the past that influence was forced in the form of invading Huns splitting up the empire of the day. With the world connected as it is, you're hard pressed to come up with a new invading outside force. English could be considered as having invaded economically and in some cases militarily between both the U.S. and England over the past couple of hundred yearrs. Maybe we need to just play some Democratic campaign speeches into space to invite some hostile neighbors.
As for the Chinese or Hindi, I think a show like Firefly had real insight into this. And when I traveled to India on business in early 2001 I spoke with some people there who talked about how the world would one day be Chinese and Indian because of population explosions. That western people had stopped wanting the world by having less children (in some cases like Eastern Russia, reducing populations to very low levels) and that population increases (even with China's attempts at controlling it) would just push those countries into having no choice but to invade for resources and a some lebensraum. So why hope for asteroids and aliens when we the monster are always nearby to mix things up.
I checked, but the Bluetooth in my Sony Ericcson T610 phone and DLink USB adapter are still working. So as long as this continues whatever the industry decides will have no impact on this setup. I'll check it again later to see if he's right.
It's one thing to see languages die in countries where ceratin languages are forbidden, but in free nations where anyone can speak any language they want, it is irresponsible for an ethnic group to let the language and any other customs die. Watch "Whale Rider" for a modern tale of the New Zealand Maori trying to preserve their heritage. When a people lets their native customs die in favor of another set of customs, those customs really died a longer time ago than they suspect. Only resuming a strong identity is going to salvage the culture.
It all comes down to taking the time for the things that really matter in life. If a people cherish the Internet and pagers and other modern things more than the things of old then they have made a choice (concious or unconcious) to let the old ways slip into the eternal night. That is why I like to see locale options available for open source projects; the more that these are encouraged, the more lanaguages that can be saved. Countries like China that are taking an aggressive stance against Microsoft and Western commercial software are not just trying to keep from paying licenses, but also saving their culture from becoming english-saturated. If they also push locale options, then there will be plenty of rugged alternatives soon. Without alternate language construction examples, computing languages will likewise mainstream into similar styles.
Don't get me started about immigrants dumping their own native names for "Tony", "George" and the like when they come into the U.S. A name like "Panseur" (made it up) is just as valid a name.
PHB trully believe they need Microsoft Office
Right, because the rest of us believe we should be fucking around with loading fonts and checking out desktop themes and new window managers rather than getting something done. Those PHB don't know what they're missing, right. Jez, no wonder people were getting laid off my the thousands: they weren't actually needed, like the bubble led us to believe. Pointcast, anyone?
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I find no creativity in mixing two previous albums. Quite, the opposite, it strikes me as lazy uncreative slop. If you can't write or create your own music, well, you're just not creating anything new, and where is the art in that? It only smacks of grabbing at commercial straws. This is where the art of music is today, folks... wallowing in its own mediocrity and whipping out a right tit ovre it.
I remember getting a VCR in 1988 for about $300+ that could be programmed from the front without a remote or turning the TV on. You're right, newer models don't do that and I doubt we'll ever see anything like that again. I just threw it out last year when it just would not play anymore. Amazing that there was once a technology that could last 14 years and actually still be considered completely useful in that time.
How different is this from people who can't fix a sink asking their plumber friend for help, or someone who wants to do their taxes asking their accountant friend for help. Everyone has a sink and pretty much everyone has to do their taxes, and I would think those numbers are greater than those that own computers. This just shows that the demand for computer skills is out there waiting to be tapped. Convergence will make those with compute knowledge much more valuable and will embed technology into every pore of our lives. Eventually it will be expected that generations to come will learn how to use these things as they grow up, like anything else that is learned.
My kids are able to grasp computer concepts at a much earlier age an I did. And I can say the same for my daughter who is now 9 and can handle a computer better than when my 13 year old was that age. Eventually this gap will disappear, but there will always be some sort of technology gap in the population, be it sinks, taxes, or computers.
Another case of blaming the tool when the human weilding the tool are obviously at fault. Everyone wants to pin down what the Chinese are doing, but no one wants to confront the Chinese. I see World War III coming up the road.
Have you thought about spending $500 for a VCR that is a little higher quality than the $200 units? For your $500 you would probably get more features than the previous $500 unit, though at this point you'd have to have a pretty large collection to justify that expense. I'd rather put that into some other equipment and let VCR technology call it a day.
Offtopic, but ironically that's the group that evolution rewards...nature's handouts.
Errr...there are entire continents that are ill-gotten. Surely the relatively measly gains the Bush family is alleged to have pale by that. Believe it or not doing ill-gotten things seems to be a common human trait. It's the people who behave nicely that are out of the ordinary. What's with them anyway?
I wonder if this is really complex at all as far as nature is concerned. We are just at this point in computing without really solving for complex AI, so this must be something similar to reflex or an involuntary response.
The fact that ants may exhibit the same behavior makes me wonder about their level of awareness: is being vegetative really not as low a state as we believe it, or maybe we give ants too much credit, or maybe this is an example of a hive mind. Or is this something found throughtout most of nature and only where self-awareness/individuality comes in do things behave on their own in a viral devouring nature. Certainly viruses are not complex compared to humans, but as many times as we've heard human intelligence glorified, we have also been compared to ravenous viruses.
Seems just like Earth from 30k ft, just with less assholes.
I know that many of the applications that we use for design, simulation and testing mostly run on Suns, but the vendors are quickly moving to Linux and we are more than willing to accept it. Why? Because a 3.2GHz P4 512k (Extreme Edition is next on the shopping list) with 512MB really does perform many times faster than something like a SunFire 280R cpu against cpu, and for many times less money!! It is only once you start getting into the need for 8GB of memory or dozens of cpu that you want to start looking at Sun for bang per buck.
I have always believed in UNIX on the back end, but it just doesn't pay to stick with Sun anymore. More and more, Linux and some form of RedHat (or whatever the vendors support) will take the place of the Suns.
Wait until thousands of Indians are canned as the US comes out of the recession. Better have that code locked up in a third country so you can cut off those pissed engineers before they toss the code onto the Internet in retaliation. Seriously, the "no work at home" but "here ya go India" attitude is bass-ackwards. Think of how much money some of these places could have saved by rolling out some VPN software and closing some offices. The reduction in productivity can't be worse than the crappy quality of work coming out of these third world countries. I don't think we are as tolerant of this in our software products as we are in our barbies and sneakers. This will definitely right itself.
India's state imposed job protectionism is that no one may emigrate to India for work unless they are Indian. Let's hope they hurt greatly for it. Think that one will get dropped?
If that's all you use it for, then I recommend you get yourself a Linux distro, and turn off all the services. You'll still be supported and still be able to do all of the above. There is no reason for you to update the most expensive part of the system, the hardware, especially since its speed isn't putting you off. Personally, if that were my system I would have chucked it a long time ago. On the other hand, I gave my son a laptop just like yours with Win95 on it about a year ago and he still uses it...no viruses, no updates, no reason to upgrade.
Actually, the WinXP drivers thing is true. I have a USB keyboard and the cue cat will not work because the drivers require the PS/2 keyboard driver to be loaded in order for "pretending to hit the keys" to work. Boot with a PS/2 keyboard instead of my USB keyboard, or in addition to it, and it works fine. My guess is they just create some sort of dummy driver that loads the PS/2 keyboard driver al lthe time in order to fake the system into listening on that port. Then again, it may be easier to just tear apart a $10 keyboard.
What prevents the rest of the world from continuing right along with alternatives. If you make no effort to find, use, or make these alternatives, you frankly don't deserve them. Rather than waiting for these new solutions to be served up for you, pave your own destiny.