You nailed it. I remember reading that George Bush's campaign manager for Bush's first term became Bill Clinton's campaign manager for Clinton's second term. Both times, he had great success by using his triangle philosophy. This philosophy was to place the candidate right between opposing groups in three key areas. These areas were something like moral, financial, and social.
Back when I was a kid, I thought cable was kind of cool, because even though you have to pay, you don't have to watch commercials. Later, I realized that they were putting commercials on cable anyway. In the music world, I wonder what if we might see ads creep into recordings we actually buy.
You've found the perfect solution. Any site in Quebec need only post a link to the babel-fish, which will serve a translated version of the site. And VOILA, instant (albeit really ugly) compliance.
'For the right price, my boys could offer you "protection", because we wouldn't want to see what happened to you if you didn't buy our "protection." hehehehe.'
Remember the Declaration of Independence?
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We [still] hold this truth to be self evident that all men [and women] are created equal [although thanks to technology some of us are created more equal than others].
Look how expensive test tube babies are today. It's not going to be your average Joe who can afford a superbaby. It will be the affluent, who can also afford to give their children the perfect education, all the opportunities, etc. It seems we've created another way for the elite to be more elite.
On the other hand, what about all those genetic alterations that fail? If genetecists really go after the "super baby", there are going to be a lot of lab rat babies who end up with serious defects or impairments due to a doctor's incorrect hypothesis or miscalcualation or even equipment failure. How will we deal with these new numbers of defective humans we might create? Frankenstein indeed.
Will a new breed of nazism appear as we determine that once again the inferior races are bogging down the "super race" that we just created? Will military countries look for ways to create the perfect fighting human, who will then be sent to scientific training camps to become soldiers and nothing else? While we're at it, who is going to clean our sewers? Why don't we make a being with a low IQ, but high endurance and resistance to all kinds of disease to be raised as a full-time sewer cleaner? Ok, now we're getting into Brave New World. But maybe it's time to give Huxley's book another look.
And of course Orwell, not just 1984, but also Animal Farm, as I alluded to at the top of this comment.
While we're at it, how about another season of the long forgotten T.V. show, the $10,000,000 man.
From the header of the ABC News article: "Scientists say they have finished drafts of the human genome, placing in proper order most of the 3.1 billion subunits of DNA that make up the genome." Aren't we jumping the gun just a little? BTW: Will Max Headroom be one of the guest speakers at President Clinton's announcement?
What a great scheme. Come up with a brilliant idea. Then quietly patent it. Let everyone use it freely for a few years, without saying a word to anyone. A product without royalties or restrictions is one that will likely thrive. After EVERYONE is heavily invested and entrenched in your technology, start charging as much as you want for royalties. The key is timing. Who knows, maybe even Linus is using this trick.
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Next I'll have to have my IPV6 address tatooed on my forehead to do business in the brick and mortar world. You won't need anything tattooed to your forehead, because every establishment with a budget and disregard for privacy will have a face recognition system. Of course they will all be networked, so your daily whereabouts, purchases, etc. will all be neatly logged in a database in some city you've never heard of. Today: savings cards, IP addresses, cookies, and milk. Tommorow: souls.
If I remember correctly, the Government's recommendations which were accepted by the judge included the provision that Microsoft cannot do anything to frustrate the remedies imposed on them. This would presumedly include leaving the country. Pulling a George Washington and trying to sneak everyone out by boats one night would be quite a task.
The following message was received from a radio telescope in South America and decoded using a massive experimental cluster of Palm computers:
Hello. This is Mars. We noticed you've been looking at our water. Feel free to visit, but be prepared to pay our very expensive water park entrance fees. Also, there will be an airport fee assessed for each passenger landed on our planet.
By the way, that last probe you tried to land here is in our custody. We already patented spacecraft 4,000 years ago, and we will naturally expect to collect royalties on the numerous patent violations you have committed over the last few decades.
In addition we have noticed several transmissions made by past probes of sounds and images which had been previously copyrighted.
Finally, we have taken note of the large amounts of space junk produced by your planet. As 90% of our population are attorneys, they have really been looking forward to such an attractive source of lawsuit revenues.
Please enjoy our planet. Bring your own sunblock, and try not to pollute the water.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -Robert Louis Stevens Amen.
Now that they've invented smart pets, someone is bound to get a patent on them, and then all kinds of people will get sued for illegal copying. On second thought, maybe they'll just sue the pets.
I haven't actually owned one. But I played with one in the store, and they look really cool. The really cool thing about the IPaq one is that instead of having a built-in flash port, it has a slip-on back-pack-like unit that has a flash port, or you can get a standard PCMCIA unit instead of flash and get a big (4GB I think) PCMCIA microdrive instead of the ~500MB available in Flash size. That's a lot of MP3 files.
The article has nothing to do with the question "Is x86 good?" Arguments about this question are therefore off-topic. As has been pointed out, most of those posting do not seem to have read the article. The crux of the article seems to be the shift toward abstraction that makes the architecture question not so important. When I write code for the x86 chips (and others), I'm actually writing code for any number of (present and) future architectures that may have little to do with x86. "Write once, run anywhere," in Java terms.
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You nailed it. I remember reading that George Bush's campaign manager for Bush's first term became Bill Clinton's campaign manager for Clinton's second term. Both times, he had great success by using his triangle philosophy. This philosophy was to place the candidate right between opposing groups in three key areas. These areas were something like moral, financial, and social.
Did somebody say McDonalds?
gluons, maybe?
MP3s with ads--
What an idea! (This haiku
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Back when I was a kid, I thought cable was kind of cool, because even though you have to pay, you don't have to watch commercials. Later, I realized that they were putting commercials on cable anyway. In the music world, I wonder what if we might see ads creep into recordings we actually buy.
You've found the perfect solution. Any site in Quebec need only post a link to the babel-fish, which will serve a translated version of the site. And VOILA, instant (albeit really ugly) compliance.
Eastern Canadians...
'For the right price, my boys could offer you "protection", because we wouldn't want to see what happened to you if you didn't buy our "protection." hehehehe.'
We [still] hold this truth to be self evident that all men [and women] are created equal [although thanks to technology some of us are created more equal than others].
Look how expensive test tube babies are today. It's not going to be your average Joe who can afford a superbaby. It will be the affluent, who can also afford to give their children the perfect education, all the opportunities, etc. It seems we've created another way for the elite to be more elite.
On the other hand, what about all those genetic alterations that fail? If genetecists really go after the "super baby", there are going to be a lot of lab rat babies who end up with serious defects or impairments due to a doctor's incorrect hypothesis or miscalcualation or even equipment failure. How will we deal with these new numbers of defective humans we might create? Frankenstein indeed.
Will a new breed of nazism appear as we determine that once again the inferior races are bogging down the "super race" that we just created? Will military countries look for ways to create the perfect fighting human, who will then be sent to scientific training camps to become soldiers and nothing else? While we're at it, who is going to clean our sewers? Why don't we make a being with a low IQ, but high endurance and resistance to all kinds of disease to be raised as a full-time sewer cleaner? Ok, now we're getting into Brave New World. But maybe it's time to give Huxley's book another look.
And of course Orwell, not just 1984, but also Animal Farm, as I alluded to at the top of this comment.
While we're at it, how about another season of the long forgotten T.V. show, the $10,000,000 man.
From the header of the ABC News article: "Scientists say they have finished drafts of the human genome, placing in proper order most of the 3.1 billion subunits of DNA that make up the genome." Aren't we jumping the gun just a little? BTW: Will Max Headroom be one of the guest speakers at President Clinton's announcement?
What a great scheme. Come up with a brilliant idea. Then quietly patent it. Let everyone use it freely for a few years, without saying a word to anyone. A product without royalties or restrictions is one that will likely thrive. After EVERYONE is heavily invested and entrenched in your technology, start charging as much as you want for royalties. The key is timing. Who knows, maybe even Linus is using this trick.
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Next I'll have to have my IPV6 address tatooed on my forehead to do business in the brick and mortar world. You won't need anything tattooed to your forehead, because every establishment with a budget and disregard for privacy will have a face recognition system. Of course they will all be networked, so your daily whereabouts, purchases, etc. will all be neatly logged in a database in some city you've never heard of. Today: savings cards, IP addresses, cookies, and milk. Tommorow: souls.
Mars probe killed by rocks? No way, says Captain Nemo, A big squid did it.
If I remember correctly, the Government's recommendations which were accepted by the judge included the provision that Microsoft cannot do anything to frustrate the remedies imposed on them. This would presumedly include leaving the country. Pulling a George Washington and trying to sneak everyone out by boats one night would be quite a task.
The following message was received from a radio telescope in South America and decoded using a massive experimental cluster of Palm computers:
Hello. This is Mars. We noticed you've been looking at our water. Feel free to visit, but be prepared to pay our very expensive water park entrance fees. Also, there will be an airport fee assessed for each passenger landed on our planet.
By the way, that last probe you tried to land here is in our custody. We already patented spacecraft 4,000 years ago, and we will naturally expect to collect royalties on the numerous patent violations you have committed over the last few decades.
In addition we have noticed several transmissions made by past probes of sounds and images which had been previously copyrighted.
Finally, we have taken note of the large amounts of space junk produced by your planet. As 90% of our population are attorneys, they have really been looking forward to such an attractive source of lawsuit revenues.
Please enjoy our planet. Bring your own sunblock, and try not to pollute the water.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -Robert Louis Stevens Amen.
No more C & H; Connaiseurs expect the best: Pure galactic cane.
When we start finding Tootsie Rolls floating around in the cosmos, then we should really start wondering.
Now that they've invented smart pets, someone is bound to get a patent on them, and then all kinds of people will get sued for illegal copying. On second thought, maybe they'll just sue the pets.
I haven't actually owned one. But I played with one in the store, and they look really cool. The really cool thing about the IPaq one is that instead of having a built-in flash port, it has a slip-on back-pack-like unit that has a flash port, or you can get a standard PCMCIA unit instead of flash and get a big (4GB I think) PCMCIA microdrive instead of the ~500MB available in Flash size. That's a lot of MP3 files.
For some of us, it might be our only chance to brag that we have root level access.
The article has nothing to do with the question "Is x86 good?" Arguments about this question are therefore off-topic. As has been pointed out, most of those posting do not seem to have read the article. The crux of the article seems to be the shift toward abstraction that makes the architecture question not so important. When I write code for the x86 chips (and others), I'm actually writing code for any number of (present and) future architectures that may have little to do with x86. "Write once, run anywhere," in Java terms.
I think as long as Lego refuses to license its Operating System (LegoOS), the clones will never be that good.