I've been saying EXACTLY THAT for over 20 years. When you consider the positive and negative effects of ZPE and MNT, there is no doubt that things are going to get scary and we should all hedge our bets by having someone out in the distance somewhere "safe". Particularly with enough genetic material to sustain a distant ecosystem.
You mean a company that unethically champions DRM also exploits 3rd world slave labor while using some FOSS ideas to distribute a closed source OS on locked down over-priced hardware has ethics problems? HOLY SHIT!
Look, maybe they aren't QUITE as bad as Sony or even MS, but until consumers demand real products that don't limit what the user can do on them at reasonable prices.... These corporations will all still operate the same old way:
The ONLY way to talk to these people is with your dollars.
I for one would gladly welcome our new mp3 player making overlords, particularly if they had an open source OS that allowed me to run ogg, or whatever other format my bleeding little heart would desire.
I try hard not to use words like never, as they almost always prove to make my statements false. Hence it is very easy to discern your paraphrasing as a straw man and discard it imediately.
Furthermore, you could consider that kind of sexual predator an outlier. A simple statistical analysis of anything is going to suggest that outlier research can lead to dangerous dead ends and assumptions, and over all not be especially useful "on the whole". Not to say that being aware of outliers isn't an essential part of any analysis.
And in this case I think it is essential to be very aware of sexual predators, and make wise decisions not based on them, but based on the rest of us, who ultimately matter a great deal more.
I'm all for personal privacy, but I think one great thing about MySpace is that it's hard to "fake it". You can pretend to be somebody you're not, but by and large kids in particular are really savvy to this kind of "fronting". Let's just all be who we are, whether we smoke weed, like kinky wierd sex acts, or are a creepy vegetarian. Let's stop lying about it and just have a good time, online and off. People are such fucking cry babies I swear. If every person in the country was totally honest about who they were, and these lame corporations still had all their lame "standards", they'd quickly not have ANY employees. Trying to make everyone pretend to be something they're not is just stupid.
Go ahead and check my MySpace, my piss, my driving record, and my credit record. I ain't perfect, but I'm a good worker and I get the job done, and there's probably about 200 million others of me in this country so STFU.
This just in! People who play video games are under represented in mediums which they are less interested in! Why doesn't bloomberg cover reggae concerts more often? The medium most gamers prefer is THE INTERNET (or technically, the WWW). So of COURSE there isn't going to be more video game coverage on TV and the movies. Gamers don't watch as much TV and movies, and they are more than happy to read about games online. In fact, as represented by the huge popularity of "The Office" and "The Daily Show" on torrent sites, I'm guessing that TV is more likely to get co-opted onto the computer than vice versa. TV, Movies, and the recording industry are dead. Long live TV, the movies, and the recording industry on bit torrent!
Ok, well I was still going to write the post, but then I saw all these other hillarious posts with cogent points and witty remarks. Since this new technology came up, and my post still wasn't ready, I decided to start all over and come up with an entirely new post. Now, some of my fans will be upset by the aditional wait, but the final quality of the post I will release will justify this decision. Why release a post now, or immediately in the future that is clearly now dated when compared to the other posts here in this story? Trust me, the new witty remarks and cogent points are going to be well worth it, and of course my post is going to have the original "crhylove post" feel that made my original post such a classic. Plus, for the other crhylove fans, I've been posting plenty on other stories, and they seem to have been well received. Most of the Slashdot industry has modded my posts as positive, and you can even check out my karma in the latest Postspot, or on PlanetPost.
I'd completely agree with you except I seriously doubt we initially had as many rights as we thought, or anybody ever did for that matter. Let's not bank on the illusion of freedom anymore until every person alive has a gone and is willing to use it for civil liberty, as Jefferson and Franklin intended.
I like 3d chess. I seem to make less "stupid" mistakes. I grew up with the real thing, and the 2d interface has never seemed natural or nice. I suppose it's a matter of preference. And as for game quality, I like playing a real person, and that would be even hotter with a 3d board over the internet...
I think it's fairly unfair to assume anything about my financial standing relating from something as simple as an email address. The point was that donations should be cumpalsary, and if not, then at least within reason. $200 seems like plenty to pay for a $100 product. The fact that somebody isn't already making and selling these with Ubuntu installed shows that there is no more free market in this country, and I think that's sad. Though a completely different problem with different solutions than the one stated to be solved by the OLPC program.
I think the whole program is a worthwhile endeavor, and I'd like to see it succeed. I think that even with it's good intentions and aims following the fast nickels rule of business is a good idea. If they can sell 100 million at $200 and only $20 million at $300.... Why the hell NOT sell them cheaper, make more money and donate EVEN MORE LAPTOPS to the 3rd world?
Congrats to Ubuntu and all the ubuntu-folk, however the only thing that's going to REALLY put a dent in windows is being AHEAD of the game, and that would mean XGL and compiz long before Vista comes out. And no txt file hacking in the terminal, either...... Just drag and drop or install automagically.
When is Linux going to be AHEAD of the other OSes? All my average-joe friends would switch now if XGL and compiz came pre-installed!
What we need isn't a petition that corporations and governments will ignore. What we need is a working FreeNet, and not in java, but in some truly open source language.
Everyone pray to the FOSS infrastructure gods! That'll more likely help than any petition ever will.
I'd happily donate one by paying double, that should be enough. Charging triple seems like gauging, especially when there are plenty of impoverished kids IN THIS COUNTRY who could use a kick-ass $200 laptop. I'm one of them.
Poof! Here's a whole society of people who believe in magic!
Look, I don't play rock paper scissors with people who think "sucker punch to the throat" is a fair move, and still most of the people I deal with don't ACTUALLY believe in magic, ALL THE WAY.
If you really want to draw people into the whole FOSS arena and generate pieces in the real world, make it applicable to real life. I think an all CG documentary about LOTS of subjects would dominate text books, and making one under GPL or GML or whatever would make it an editable improveable piece that could be used again and again, and improved over time by every viewer or instructor who used the material. Plus I can imagine quite a few topics where CG graphics would help clarify the subject matter for the student. Maybe even some computer lessons. Now granted, clippy sucked, but maybe FOSS can do a whole shit load better...
rhY
Topic Ideas: Something about ancient architecture. A biography about the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. A Mortal Kombat game featuring Leonardo Da Caprio. I'd love to do that fatality.
How many people think this is hillarious since windows is the only OS symantec can make a profit on, since it is the only one that performs poorly enough to NEED something like symantec?
Think about it, how many of us linux users are regularly downloading a virus cleaning program?
Symantec suing MS is like Karl Rove suing the republican party. It may be valid, but one would not exist without the other. That's just funny to me.
And this time it won't be massively overpriced and underperforming! Oh wait, a Dell? Hold on.... let me see which of the thousands of competitors is offering a cheaper amd64 option that will run circles around you. Seriously, I haven't recommended buying a Dell EVER, and so far I've never been proven wrong.
The fact that they are THIS LATE to the game on AMD, and that this is the ONLY AMD OPTION they are selling just goes to show you that they are no longer the market leader, and probably never will be again. This is an EXCELLENT time to sell Dell stock, except you might have been even smarter 6 months ago.
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I've been saying EXACTLY THAT for over 20 years. When you consider the positive and negative effects of ZPE and MNT, there is no doubt that things are going to get scary and we should all hedge our bets by having someone out in the distance somewhere "safe". Particularly with enough genetic material to sustain a distant ecosystem.
rhY
You mean a company that unethically champions DRM also exploits 3rd world slave labor while using some FOSS ideas to distribute a closed source OS on locked down over-priced hardware has ethics problems? HOLY SHIT!
Look, maybe they aren't QUITE as bad as Sony or even MS, but until consumers demand real products that don't limit what the user can do on them at reasonable prices.... These corporations will all still operate the same old way:
Shit software
Shit hardware
pollution
slave labor
monopoly
The ONLY way to talk to these people is with your dollars.
I for one would gladly welcome our new mp3 player making overlords, particularly if they had an open source OS that allowed me to run ogg, or whatever other format my bleeding little heart would desire.
rhY
I try hard not to use words like never, as they almost always prove to make my statements false. Hence it is very easy to discern your paraphrasing as a straw man and discard it imediately.
Furthermore, you could consider that kind of sexual predator an outlier. A simple statistical analysis of anything is going to suggest that outlier research can lead to dangerous dead ends and assumptions, and over all not be especially useful "on the whole". Not to say that being aware of outliers isn't an essential part of any analysis.
And in this case I think it is essential to be very aware of sexual predators, and make wise decisions not based on them, but based on the rest of us, who ultimately matter a great deal more.
rhY
Well if you're going to lie to your kids about who you were, and as a result who you are, you're destined to not be the best of parents anyway.
rhY
Yep. I agree with you. However aiming for something, even on an individual basis, is a good idea.
I'm all for personal privacy, but I think one great thing about MySpace is that it's hard to "fake it". You can pretend to be somebody you're not, but by and large kids in particular are really savvy to this kind of "fronting". Let's just all be who we are, whether we smoke weed, like kinky wierd sex acts, or are a creepy vegetarian. Let's stop lying about it and just have a good time, online and off. People are such fucking cry babies I swear. If every person in the country was totally honest about who they were, and these lame corporations still had all their lame "standards", they'd quickly not have ANY employees. Trying to make everyone pretend to be something they're not is just stupid.
Go ahead and check my MySpace, my piss, my driving record, and my credit record. I ain't perfect, but I'm a good worker and I get the job done, and there's probably about 200 million others of me in this country so STFU.
rhY
This just in! People who play video games are under represented in mediums which they are less interested in! Why doesn't bloomberg cover reggae concerts more often? The medium most gamers prefer is THE INTERNET (or technically, the WWW). So of COURSE there isn't going to be more video game coverage on TV and the movies. Gamers don't watch as much TV and movies, and they are more than happy to read about games online. In fact, as represented by the huge popularity of "The Office" and "The Daily Show" on torrent sites, I'm guessing that TV is more likely to get co-opted onto the computer than vice versa. TV, Movies, and the recording industry are dead. Long live TV, the movies, and the recording industry on bit torrent!
rhY
Ok, well I was still going to write the post, but then I saw all these other hillarious posts with cogent points and witty remarks. Since this new technology came up, and my post still wasn't ready, I decided to start all over and come up with an entirely new post. Now, some of my fans will be upset by the aditional wait, but the final quality of the post I will release will justify this decision. Why release a post now, or immediately in the future that is clearly now dated when compared to the other posts here in this story? Trust me, the new witty remarks and cogent points are going to be well worth it, and of course my post is going to have the original "crhylove post" feel that made my original post such a classic. Plus, for the other crhylove fans, I've been posting plenty on other stories, and they seem to have been well received. Most of the Slashdot industry has modded my posts as positive, and you can even check out my karma in the latest Postspot, or on PlanetPost.
Come get some!
I'd completely agree with you except I seriously doubt we initially had as many rights as we thought, or anybody ever did for that matter. Let's not bank on the illusion of freedom anymore until every person alive has a gone and is willing to use it for civil liberty, as Jefferson and Franklin intended.
I like 3d chess. I seem to make less "stupid" mistakes. I grew up with the real thing, and the 2d interface has never seemed natural or nice. I suppose it's a matter of preference. And as for game quality, I like playing a real person, and that would be even hotter with a 3d board over the internet...
rhY
All those pilots crashing into shit proves it! Everybody switch to bicycles!
It's funny that there ISN'T a good FOSS 3d chess program that runs on windows. There is one for Linux, though....
I think it's fairly unfair to assume anything about my financial standing relating from something as simple as an email address. The point was that donations should be cumpalsary, and if not, then at least within reason. $200 seems like plenty to pay for a $100 product. The fact that somebody isn't already making and selling these with Ubuntu installed shows that there is no more free market in this country, and I think that's sad. Though a completely different problem with different solutions than the one stated to be solved by the OLPC program.
I think the whole program is a worthwhile endeavor, and I'd like to see it succeed. I think that even with it's good intentions and aims following the fast nickels rule of business is a good idea. If they can sell 100 million at $200 and only $20 million at $300.... Why the hell NOT sell them cheaper, make more money and donate EVEN MORE LAPTOPS to the 3rd world?
Seems like econ 101 to me.
rhY
Congrats to Ubuntu and all the ubuntu-folk, however the only thing that's going to REALLY put a dent in windows is being AHEAD of the game, and that would mean XGL and compiz long before Vista comes out. And no txt file hacking in the terminal, either...... Just drag and drop or install automagically.
When is Linux going to be AHEAD of the other OSes? All my average-joe friends would switch now if XGL and compiz came pre-installed!
rhY
Agreed!
What we need isn't a petition that corporations and governments will ignore. What we need is a working FreeNet, and not in java, but in some truly open source language.
Everyone pray to the FOSS infrastructure gods! That'll more likely help than any petition ever will.
rhY
I'd happily donate one by paying double, that should be enough. Charging triple seems like gauging, especially when there are plenty of impoverished kids IN THIS COUNTRY who could use a kick-ass $200 laptop. I'm one of them.
rhY
Um yeah, wasn't not signing NDAs the whole point? Maybe I'm missing something but as far as I remember that's why RMS got THE WHOLE BALL ROLLING.
Seriously, java isn't open source, stop wetting yourself fanboys.
rhY
Poof! Here's a whole society of people who believe in magic!
Look, I don't play rock paper scissors with people who think "sucker punch to the throat" is a fair move, and still most of the people I deal with don't ACTUALLY believe in magic, ALL THE WAY.
rhY
You're very wrong about one thing. It's reason NUMBER ONE. This is the PRIMARY problem we and our progeny are going to face.
I realize I'm responding to a troll, but I'm really not:
www.leperkhanz.com
I'm the one with the violin.
If you really want to draw people into the whole FOSS arena and generate pieces in the real world, make it applicable to real life. I think an all CG documentary about LOTS of subjects would dominate text books, and making one under GPL or GML or whatever would make it an editable improveable piece that could be used again and again, and improved over time by every viewer or instructor who used the material. Plus I can imagine quite a few topics where CG graphics would help clarify the subject matter for the student. Maybe even some computer lessons. Now granted, clippy sucked, but maybe FOSS can do a whole shit load better...
rhY
Topic Ideas: Something about ancient architecture. A biography about the works of Leonardo Da Vinci. A Mortal Kombat game featuring Leonardo Da Caprio. I'd love to do that fatality.
Steve Ballmer is on Estrogen?!?! THAT explains the man-boobs!
How many people think this is hillarious since windows is the only OS symantec can make a profit on, since it is the only one that performs poorly enough to NEED something like symantec?
Think about it, how many of us linux users are regularly downloading a virus cleaning program?
Symantec suing MS is like Karl Rove suing the republican party. It may be valid, but one would not exist without the other. That's just funny to me.
rhY
And this time it won't be massively overpriced and underperforming! Oh wait, a Dell? Hold on.... let me see which of the thousands of competitors is offering a cheaper amd64 option that will run circles around you. Seriously, I haven't recommended buying a Dell EVER, and so far I've never been proven wrong.
The fact that they are THIS LATE to the game on AMD, and that this is the ONLY AMD OPTION they are selling just goes to show you that they are no longer the market leader, and probably never will be again. This is an EXCELLENT time to sell Dell stock, except you might have been even smarter 6 months ago.
rhY