Alvin Toffler is a pathetic fraud no better than your average Psychic Friends Hotline fortune teller. In his books he has constantly beat the drums of FUD, claiming that we (the human race) just can't handle technological and social change at more than a glacial rate. He spews out prediction after prediction, and when the random factors align and one of his "predictions" comes true, people act like he's the f'ing second comming of Christ or something. Remember, this is the man who, back in his book "Future Shock" predicted that one of the worst issues of the '80s, '90s and beyond would be finding a way for people to spend all of their copious free time, since they wouldn't be working much. Yeah, right. I don't know about the rest of you, but everyone I know is working more than they (or their parents, for the younger ones) did back in the '70s. On the plus side, I love my job, even if I spend too much time there. Fortunatly, a lot of that "scary technology" (like this computer, the net (including email, WWW and USENET), cell phones, and voice mail) helps me to keep my life on track while I work at balancing my work and home life. Yeah, Toffler's an f'ing genius.
Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider: this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
Umm, no. Jefferson was generally opposed to any form of monopoly. He even questioned the cost-benefit tradeoff of the "limited" monopolies we call Copyrights and Patents. An interesting discussion, with very interesting quotes is available here.
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I especially like the following Jefferson quote:
I like the declaration of rights as far as it goes,
but I should have been for going further. For
instance, the following alterations and additons would
have pleased me... Article 9. Monopolies may be
allowed to persons for their own productions in literature,
and their own inventions in the arts, for a term not
exceeding ___ years, but for no longer term, and for no
other purpose.
The point being that said monopoly (conflating the concepts of Patent and Copyright) is a) of recognizable value in encouraging invention, whether literary or otherwise and b) dangerous enough for the limitation to be spelled out specifically in the Constitution. This would have rendered moot the "extension" shell game that the Copyright system continues to be run under.
... I've found that the extra width is what really helps -- not so much the ability to have two desktops visible at once.
I disagree strongly. Though I agree that width (and the ablility to have either long lines or multiple side-by-side terms) is of major benifit, I've found the ability to independently switch two monitors through multiple workspaces to be a much bigger win.
Funny thing is - having done all that and more, I'd be willing to give up my 6fig salary for some fucking representation in our government.
If you don't feel you're getting any representation in government, you're doing something wrong. Either your political representatives suck (work to replace them), you're not working to get your point of view accross to them (write/call/volunteer more) or your expectations are unreasonable (can't help you there).
Really.
And you don't have to give up your "6fig salary", either. You may find it useful to use some of that cash to support condidatates that represent you well, of course.
An example: I'm pretty conservative regarding most issues, and I live in Minnesota... better known in some circles as "Liberal Lakes". We're kindof politically scitzophrenic up here; the people are pretty conservative in their daily life, but for some reason have voted pretty liberal. None the less, two things have happened over the years: 1) our representation has become more conservative (esp. the in this last election) as the national liberal agenda has swung too far into loony-land and 2) even our more liberal representatives have been forced to moderate their stances on some issues. It has taken years of a combination of contact with whoever is in office, supporting candidates that seem more reasonable, reasoned debate and good ole' fashoned public protest to achieve this trend, but that's what it takes. Note, if you swing more left than right, the same things is possible, in reverse. Also note, if you are in a population that doesn't align with your political views, you might need to excercise another option: move! That's part of why the founders chose a Constitutional Republic, and why I feel very strongly on issues of State's rights.
The only difference in my attitude from 20 to 35 is that I am no longer willing to suffer for my beliefs - hardly a noble change...
Depending upon your definition of "suffer", you don't have to. But if your definition includes the things I described above, sucks to be you. Also sucks to be you if you can't deal with the fact that even if your representatives in government allign perfectly with you, you still may not get the outcomes you want.
Anyway, here's hoping you decide to re-enter our political process! If not, good luck with that whole cynical thing... that's something else I used to enjoy when I was younger. Now I find it tiring most of the time (though I admit to still indulging occasionally).
Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick, are you people completely daft? Or just that insecure? The "jump ship" comment was obvious sarcasm and on a quick scan of the comments it doesn't seem like anyone go it.
A piddlingly small percentage of the even more pathetic percentage of sites that chose to try.Not... er, I mean 2003 Server, we previously using Linux. The meat of the story (such as it is) is that so few sites are even bothering to try 2003 Server.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the story behind the switches from Linux to.Not are mostly cases where a company had their site done by a hosting service (who, sensibly, used Linux) that had grown enough that some twit manager decided they should bring their web presence "in house". Their internal IS people only know Windows, so their obvious choice was 2003 Server (it being perhaps the least bad of the Microsoft stable of shite).
Beyond a certain point, the ability to sychronize the signals of a parallel path becomes impossible. Serial is much easier to throttle up, given that the clock can be a part of the signal. Flow control becomes pretty simple, too.
Witness how SCSI is crawling up in speed, whilst Fibre Channel is flying along. 2Gb/s is mainstream FC and 4Gb/s is comming out for drive interconnects. 4 to the host is around the corner. Plans are in place for higher speeds.
For that matter, Ethernet (10/100/1000) is a serial interface, as is FireWire. Obviously, so is USB.
Even internal system busses are hitting the wall in parallel form. PCI-X is giving way to PCI Xpress (nee Infiniband, more or less).
But it wasn't just "one of those people at Id"; it was none other than Michael Abrash.
Also, it wasn't just an article, it was a series of articles. I'm at work (posting on/. rather than writing code... bad coder, no donut), so I don't have my DDJ collection here (and their site seems not be be responding for the moment), but I think these are the same basic content. This is another page with links to his stuff, but it is a bit out of date. For instance, I believe he's moved on from MicroSoft (though I can't be botherd to check on that... what d'ya want for nuthin?).
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No no no...
Just run a garden hose over to the hole...
... after all, scum usually rises to the surface of water, right?
Apparently you didn't bother to actually read much of anything while over at xwin.org. xwin.org is, to quote the page (including the page title) "just a website".
Xouvert is the project that xwin.org was put in place to instegate.
I'd love a "scroll ball button" in place of the "scroll wheel button" I have in the middle of my TrackMan Marble Wheel. Basically it would give me two trackballs on one base, one main one for cursor control that allows for precision because it is large and doesn't click and a smaller one for scrolling that can also act as my middle mouse button (gotta have my X paste!)
Seems to me that all this person is really complaining about is that they don't know how to formulate usefull search strings. I really don't see how that's Google's fault.
Taking the "apple" example for, er... example:
Yes, googling "apple" brings up (unsurprisingly) www.apple.com as first hit.
However, googling "apple fruit" brings up the Virginia Apple page on controlling apple tree pests as first hit and "apples" brings up the Univerisity of Illinois Extension Service Apple page as first hit. Wow... rocket science.
I doubt this is an example of bias or intentional spin. Remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity" or, more generally, Sturgeon's Law: "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
Um, except that an Athlon XP 2000+ really is faster than a P4 2GHz. More done per cycle means less cycles per second needed to do the same work. Not very complicated, but they thought they needed to simplify because they were afraid that too many people wouldn't get that point and would judge on clock speed alone.
You are proof by existance that they were correct.
I doubt that most of those messages are from the "linux community". Those sorts of posts are pretty normal on yahoo's stock message boards. They make some of the more volatile alt.* groups look tame.
The closest I could come is an article on CNET that says, in part:
"Competitor H&R Block doesn't use any type of activation technology for its TaxCut software and has not made any definite plans on whether to do so with future editions, said Chrys Sullivan, the company's director of software products.
"We think it's an interesting development in our industry," she said. "We're watching this closely to see how the industry reacts."
Sullivan added that H&R Block has given customers a legitimate way to use a single copy of TaxCut on multiple PCs with a new "platinum" version that comes with a license allowing multiple installations in a single household.
"We listened to our customers and we know that a lot of them want to be able install the software on multiple computers in the same household," she said. "We're glad to be able to accommodate that."
Sounds to me that, considering the backlash against Intuit's DRM stupidity, H&R Block is unlikely to follow their lead. Baring evidence to the contrary, H&R Block gets my vote (and dollars).
Vim (and EMACS for that matter) can do auto-completion using ctags and/or the contents of any open buffers.
It also does code coloring, flexible auto-indent, browsing to a given tag (like Browse Symbol in JBuilder), make from within the editor allowing a jump right to each error, ditto for file grepping, etc, etc, etc.
And Vim's had all this for years, runs equally usably on my home machine (pathetic K6-333 laptop w/128MB of RAM) and my work machine (P4 1.5GHz w/512MB of RAM) and runs equally well in Linux, *BSD, Windows, and umpty-gazillian other OSs.
It's not as pretty as an IDE, though. Also lets you keep working away w/o having to stop and grop a rodent (unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case it'll give you what you want).
Yeah. The sad parts are the slowed search, the delayed investigation, and the slipping future flight schedule.
The two people killed in the accident obviously don't deserve mention. In fact, they deserve to have died because they contributed to the delays mentioned.
yeah.
um...
Might I suggest that you GET YOUR F'ING PRIORITIES STRAIGHT?
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Alvin Toffler is a pathetic fraud no better than your average Psychic Friends Hotline fortune teller. In his books he has constantly beat the drums of FUD, claiming that we (the human race) just can't handle technological and social change at more than a glacial rate. He spews out prediction after prediction, and when the random factors align and one of his "predictions" comes true, people act like he's the f'ing second comming of Christ or something. Remember, this is the man who, back in his book "Future Shock" predicted that one of the worst issues of the '80s, '90s and beyond would be finding a way for people to spend all of their copious free time, since they wouldn't be working much. Yeah, right. I don't know about the rest of you, but everyone I know is working more than they (or their parents, for the younger ones) did back in the '70s. On the plus side, I love my job, even if I spend too much time there. Fortunatly, a lot of that "scary technology" (like this computer, the net (including email, WWW and USENET), cell phones, and voice mail) helps me to keep my life on track while I work at balancing my work and home life. Yeah, Toffler's an f'ing genius.
Why would a Wookiee -- an eight foot tall Wookiee -- want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
But more importantly, you have to ask yourself: what does that have to do with this case?
Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense.
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
I especially like the following Jefferson quote:
The point being that said monopoly (conflating the concepts of Patent and Copyright) is a) of recognizable value in encouraging invention, whether literary or otherwise and b) dangerous enough for the limitation to be spelled out specifically in the Constitution. This would have rendered moot the "extension" shell game that the Copyright system continues to be run under.(C) Move the fsck out of the city. Spread out a bit.
Yet another (inadvertant) bit of support for my pet philosophy:
People don't do well living like insects.
Help me out here. WTF are you talking about?
I believe the subject of the phrase is the shuttle, not the paste.
So, to edit:
becomes :Really.
And you don't have to give up your "6fig salary", either. You may find it useful to use some of that cash to support condidatates that represent you well, of course.
An example: I'm pretty conservative regarding most issues, and I live in Minnesota ... better known in some circles as "Liberal Lakes". We're kindof politically scitzophrenic up here; the people are pretty conservative in their daily life, but for some reason have voted pretty liberal. None the less, two things have happened over the years: 1) our representation has become more conservative (esp. the in this last election) as the national liberal agenda has swung too far into loony-land and 2) even our more liberal representatives have been forced to moderate their stances on some issues. It has taken years of a combination of contact with whoever is in office, supporting candidates that seem more reasonable, reasoned debate and good ole' fashoned public protest to achieve this trend, but that's what it takes. Note, if you swing more left than right, the same things is possible, in reverse. Also note, if you are in a population that doesn't align with your political views, you might need to excercise another option: move! That's part of why the founders chose a Constitutional Republic, and why I feel very strongly on issues of State's rights.
Depending upon your definition of "suffer", you don't have to. But if your definition includes the things I described above, sucks to be you. Also sucks to be you if you can't deal with the fact that even if your representatives in government allign perfectly with you, you still may not get the outcomes you want.Anyway, here's hoping you decide to re-enter our political process! If not, good luck with that whole cynical thing ... that's something else I used to enjoy when I was younger. Now I find it tiring most of the time (though I admit to still indulging occasionally).
'till then, enjoy being indestructable, immortal and inconceivably smarter and more incisive than anyone (especially those over thirty) around you.
I miss those days ...
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A piddlingly small percentage of the even more pathetic percentage of sites that chose to try .Not ... er, I mean 2003 Server, we previously using Linux. The meat of the story (such as it is) is that so few sites are even bothering to try 2003 Server.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the story behind the switches from Linux to .Not are mostly cases where a company had their site done by a hosting service (who, sensibly, used Linux) that had grown enough that some twit manager decided they should bring their web presence "in house". Their internal IS people only know Windows, so their obvious choice was 2003 Server (it being perhaps the least bad of the Microsoft stable of shite).
<sigh>
Beyond a certain point, the ability to sychronize the signals of a parallel path becomes impossible. Serial is much easier to throttle up, given that the clock can be a part of the signal. Flow control becomes pretty simple, too.
Witness how SCSI is crawling up in speed, whilst Fibre Channel is flying along. 2Gb/s is mainstream FC and 4Gb/s is comming out for drive interconnects. 4 to the host is around the corner. Plans are in place for higher speeds.
For that matter, Ethernet (10/100/1000) is a serial interface, as is FireWire. Obviously, so is USB.
Even internal system busses are hitting the wall in parallel form. PCI-X is giving way to PCI Xpress (nee Infiniband, more or less).
Also, it wasn't just an article, it was a series of articles. I'm at work (posting on /. rather than writing code ... bad coder, no donut), so I don't have my DDJ collection here (and their site seems not be be responding for the moment), but I think these are the same basic content. This is another page with links to his stuff, but it is a bit out of date. For instance, I believe he's moved on from MicroSoft (though I can't be botherd to check on that ... what d'ya want for nuthin?).
Just run a garden hose over to the hole ...
Money that you don't redistribute does lose value, due to inflation.
Xouvert is a specific project to accomplish some of what xwin.org is encouraging. Just because they link to it doesn't mean they are a part of it.
Xouvert is the project that xwin.org was put in place to instegate.
Xouvert is pronounced zoo-vert.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blather.
I'd love a "scroll ball button" in place of the "scroll wheel button" I have in the middle of my TrackMan Marble Wheel. Basically it would give me two trackballs on one base, one main one for cursor control that allows for precision because it is large and doesn't click and a smaller one for scrolling that can also act as my middle mouse button (gotta have my X paste!)
Taking the "apple" example for, er... example:
Yes, googling "apple" brings up (unsurprisingly) www.apple.com as first hit.
However, googling "apple fruit" brings up the Virginia Apple page on controlling apple tree pests as first hit and "apples" brings up the Univerisity of Illinois Extension Service Apple page as first hit. Wow ... rocket science.
I doubt this is an example of bias or intentional spin. Remember Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity" or, more generally, Sturgeon's Law: "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
You are proof by existance that they were correct.
I doubt that most of those messages are from the "linux community". Those sorts of posts are pretty normal on yahoo's stock message boards. They make some of the more volatile alt.* groups look tame.
It also does code coloring, flexible auto-indent, browsing to a given tag (like Browse Symbol in JBuilder), make from within the editor allowing a jump right to each error, ditto for file grepping, etc, etc, etc.
And Vim's had all this for years, runs equally usably on my home machine (pathetic K6-333 laptop w/128MB of RAM) and my work machine (P4 1.5GHz w/512MB of RAM) and runs equally well in Linux, *BSD, Windows, and umpty-gazillian other OSs.
It's not as pretty as an IDE, though. Also lets you keep working away w/o having to stop and grop a rodent (unless you're into that sort of thing, in which case it'll give you what you want).
The two people killed in the accident obviously don't deserve mention. In fact, they deserve to have died because they contributed to the delays mentioned.
yeah.
um ...
Might I suggest that you GET YOUR F'ING PRIORITIES STRAIGHT?
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