I vowed not to respond... but I have to. You haven't read Kurzwiel's Age of Spiritual Machines yet, have you? You really ought to.
Kurzwiel uses an excellent quote from a well-known manifesto to illustrate his main point: that technology enthusiasts (like us) are Luddites as well. Being a Luddite is not about fearing technology - it's fearing the application of technology. I, then, am a Luddite, along with Bill Joy.
These other people are, as you said, opportunists, and those who fear any organization of people. They fear communication among people. They don't fear the application of technology.
Indeed, the Luddites are returning, but in the guise of you and me - those who love technology but fear what people will do with it. I, for one, hate most of the 'net. It's a stinking pile of capatalist dung. Does that make me a Luddite? Yes. Do the people you named like the 'net as a stkinking pile of capatalist dung? Yes. They hate the aspects of the 'net that I like. They hate communication. That's not being a Luddite - just a power-hungry politician.
Jon, do yourself a favor, and pick up a copy of Kurzwiel's Age of Spiritual Machines. You won't regret it. Maybe you might even change your message to be a bit more positive.
Baah. Use them all the time here at work, esp. for development. You wouldn't believe how much better it is to be compiling on one of these than on a PeeCee.
Now the NSA can get into my Windows 95 (1st|2nd|3rd|4th ed.) box! Or into my MacOS 7.(5,6,7) box! And they'll do.... they'll do.... gee, I can't exactly figure out what they're going to do with it. Because all of my important data is encrypted and stored in an ultra-secure stoarge room (namely, under my bed) when I'm not using it.
Note to the humour impaired: Win95 2nd ed=Win 98, Win 95 3rd ed=Win 98 se, Win 94 4th ed=Win Me, MacOS 7.6=MacOS8, MacOS7.7=MacOS9
No kidding. It seems that the entire net is getting more useless. Either that or it's been a couple of slow news months.
The problem, btw, was PCMCIA. Booting with a 3C option got me to a shell, but starting photon kills the keyboard. Grr. Time to try on a desktop machine.
None exists as far as I know (hmm - most package managers support at least some of what you want, but package management is not the way to go), but try writing up an XML spec for one, and see how it goes. Better yet, screw XML, and just make a colon-seperated format:
$PROGRAM_NAME:$LICENSE_NAME:(Commercial|Shareware| Freeware|Semi-free|Free|Public-Domain):$ AUTHOR:$WEBSITE:$EMAIL
Then hack something together with cpio to include it with your program.
Actually, what happened before that was Be was leading due to a post on BeNews. Then, LT encouraged its voters to stuff the ballot and extinguish Be's lead. Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
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Welcome to the future friends, where it's not how fast your computer is, but how fast your bandwidth is! I've got an OC3, how much do you have? Nevermind that it would be a heck of a lot cheaper to just by a goddamn computer than to rent this OC3-connected IA, but I've got the bandwidth. And with GLX, I can even play 3D games over the network as fast as my friend's P60 with an S3 Virge!
The long and short of it is that this is SCO's plan to destroy desktop computing - the desktop computing that kicked SCO's ass in the marketplace, and this is their revenge - by forcing us to rent OC3's to get our applications. With the help of Microsoft (.NET is just another name for the Tarentella idea), they will destroy the PC revolution out of fear of the Linux revolution. We must stop them!
Well, I have no need of another account... why were you posting what you were posting? You weren't doing what other imposters tend to do... you were just posting (if a bit inane) normal stuff.
On the contrary, I feel it's actually more dangerous to give these kids access to places like msn.com and aol.com than to accidentally allow a pr0n site through. What the pr0n site does is a temporary offense to the mind - but allowing such bastions of commercialism through like aol.com is a slow denegration of the soul. It only exposes previously rather unexposed children to the rampant buy-buy-buy culture that is the outside world, and makes yet another media convert - a person with no thought skills, who does what the media wants. Can pr0n do that to a person? No. Can aol.com? Most definitely. I conclude that the commercialism is much, much more dangerous to society and to these individuals.
Download and install PE, and then delete all the image translators. Bingo! Instant image-free browser (Netpositive) that's too dumb to display most pr0n sites anyway. Woohoo!
Hmm... won't work with PC Video cards? Like the ATI Radeon, GeForce 2MX, or the Voodoo 5 5500? Take a look around. The mac has a good selection of video cards.
Only a true geek with no social life would think that a watch like that is Cute. It's a sad, sad, statement upon our society when people think that a watch is Cute just becuase it has a computer in it - nevermind the fact that it's ugly and doesn't tell time! If you want a really cute watch, go here.
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Kurzwiel uses an excellent quote from a well-known manifesto to illustrate his main point: that technology enthusiasts (like us) are Luddites as well. Being a Luddite is not about fearing technology - it's fearing the application of technology. I, then, am a Luddite, along with Bill Joy.
These other people are, as you said, opportunists, and those who fear any organization of people. They fear communication among people. They don't fear the application of technology.
Indeed, the Luddites are returning, but in the guise of you and me - those who love technology but fear what people will do with it. I, for one, hate most of the 'net. It's a stinking pile of capatalist dung. Does that make me a Luddite? Yes. Do the people you named like the 'net as a stkinking pile of capatalist dung? Yes. They hate the aspects of the 'net that I like. They hate communication. That's not being a Luddite - just a power-hungry politician.
Jon, do yourself a favor, and pick up a copy of Kurzwiel's Age of Spiritual Machines. You won't regret it. Maybe you might even change your message to be a bit more positive.
Baah. Use them all the time here at work, esp. for development. You wouldn't believe how much better it is to be compiling on one of these than on a PeeCee.
Note to the humour impaired: Win95 2nd ed=Win 98, Win 95 3rd ed=Win 98 se, Win 94 4th ed=Win Me, MacOS 7.6=MacOS8, MacOS7.7=MacOS9
Hey - know where to get a copy of Rhapsody PR2 for Intel? I'd like to play with that...
The problem, btw, was PCMCIA. Booting with a 3C option got me to a shell, but starting photon kills the keyboard. Grr. Time to try on a desktop machine.
Continue in sid=pb?
Computer hangs on "Generating helpviewer search database"... dang. I wanted this to work. Does anybody know what's up with that?
Point two: It won't support your organizer.
-- A bitter Palm Personal user who refuses to upgrade...
$PROGRAM_NAME:$LICENSE_NAME:(Commercial|Shareware| Freeware|Semi-free|Free|Public-Domain):$ AUTHOR:$WEBSITE:$EMAIL
Then hack something together with cpio to include it with your program.
See? Problem solved.
Actually, what happened before that was Be was leading due to a post on BeNews. Then, LT encouraged its voters to stuff the ballot and extinguish Be's lead. Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
- Open Photoshop/Photopaint/GIMP/etc.
- Apply a noise-creation filter (clouds, etc.)
- Apply filters.
- Repeat applying filters until you are satisfied.
Good enough?The long and short of it is that this is SCO's plan to destroy desktop computing - the desktop computing that kicked SCO's ass in the marketplace, and this is their revenge - by forcing us to rent OC3's to get our applications. With the help of Microsoft (.NET is just another name for the Tarentella idea), they will destroy the PC revolution out of fear of the Linux revolution. We must stop them!
Well, I have no need of another account... why were you posting what you were posting? You weren't doing what other imposters tend to do... you were just posting (if a bit inane) normal stuff.
Wow! My very own imposter! I'm impressed (not).
You can still get to the freeze point. Worksferme...
On the contrary, I feel it's actually more dangerous to give these kids access to places like msn.com and aol.com than to accidentally allow a pr0n site through. What the pr0n site does is a temporary offense to the mind - but allowing such bastions of commercialism through like aol.com is a slow denegration of the soul. It only exposes previously rather unexposed children to the rampant buy-buy-buy culture that is the outside world, and makes yet another media convert - a person with no thought skills, who does what the media wants. Can pr0n do that to a person? No. Can aol.com? Most definitely. I conclude that the commercialism is much, much more dangerous to society and to these individuals.
Download and install PE, and then delete all the image translators. Bingo! Instant image-free browser (Netpositive) that's too dumb to display most pr0n sites anyway. Woohoo!
Nah, MOMOCROME's too busy "trolling the trolls" and generally acting like an idiot.
Hmm... won't work with PC Video cards? Like the ATI Radeon, GeForce 2MX, or the Voodoo 5 5500? Take a look around. The mac has a good selection of video cards.
Hmm... isn't it interesting that he didn't use SSE-enhanced filters, which would be a fair comparison?
Only a true geek with no social life would think that a watch like that is Cute. It's a sad, sad, statement upon our society when people think that a watch is Cute just becuase it has a computer in it - nevermind the fact that it's ugly and doesn't tell time! If you want a really cute watch, go here.
BTW, even though the parent is at 0, my karma is still at 113 (at least it claims to be...)
And it ain't even Siggy himself... it's SiQnal 11.
Fawking imposters! Go back under your bridge. Good siggy impression, though.
This is very new. They tried to make a "karma limit", but in doing so froze those of us with karma>limit in place.
To paraphrase Signal 11: Look on Taco's face when I +2 first post for as long as I like: Priceless