It is time to seriously start thinking about one's separation from the state. It would be interesting to see citizens claiming their rights for independence and sovereignty. Those who have land will have more advantage
over those who live in a city and have almost no land. A one family, or even one man or woman state is coming near you now. You set up your own rules, your own government, your own banking and all of it is made
possible due to the Internet.
That's total bull. You cannot create a new state within another without provoking the ire of the government (it's called civil war and insurrection). People finally learned this during the Civil War. See there were a group of people who didn't get along with the United States we'll call them Southerners. The Southerners were basically being lead by the rich amongst them and controlling the poor. They wanted to stay in power making the good money off their stupid cotton business (which was propped up via an invention by a *notherner* named Eli Wittney and the north was propped up by an invention from a southerner). Well they got irritated at unkie sam and decided to "claim their rights for independence and sovreignty" (and in almost those exact words too). Well why don't we see any people walking around from the CSA (Confederate States of America) now?
Of-course there are about one billion questions to be asked and problems to be solved, but with today's computer speed, it's not too difficult. (Who is going to be running those sewers though?)
Computers are tools, they cannot change anyone without actually having someone operate them. AI is a ***Loooooonnnnnnngggg*** way off from being practical.
I mean, couldn't that have been said with the advent of the printing press, the library or television for that matter? Is the Internet just a sequential evolution of how we handle information or is it truly a new 'society'? Are
we putting the carriage before the horse here?
Exactly think about it. In reality the internet is just merely a method of gathering data and making it fancy. It dosn't create any new or powerful coalition in any sense.
The industrial revolution hasn't been supplanted by the internet and really hasn't been eliminated. What has changed is that more and more of the ecconomies of traditional European powers from rougly WWI on have shifted to service ecconomies and their populace have seen a change in government. This occurs on a small scale in the US but we actually have enough material goods to be able to deal with things nicely so that it really dosn't change.
Corporations are not equal to religion. Personally I dislike people who are historically ignorant to the means and wherefores of their past.
Medieval socities had people who lead brutal, short, horrible lives. Their only means of recreation, life, social gatherings, common grounds, etc were through churches. Personally I can't say that I would blame them for wanting a better life after going through shit in mine.
Corporations don't have that same ability to give people that kind of comfort. They are in fact cold sterile giants composed of men and women who do their own jobs and move slowly to do collective work.
Corporations more closely compare with Faciasm than any sort of organized religion. Ultimately Faciasm was seen as crap and people finally figured out that they were getting hurt. Personally the only way a company can really hurt you is if you don't have a job or if you are an idiot. Considering that most people have jobs (the US has only about 4% actual unemployment) I can't really see any problem in that area. The only other area is that people are idiots. I have argued this many times in the past. Essentially most of the jobs that are out there now are specialist types of things and usually take something more than your typical high school diploma or GED equivelent. That means that people are going to learn things and make them work.
Personally I don't think people are ignorant and I don't think the so called internet society will change anything.
Like I have said there are no conspiracies to do Faciast level evil.
Enhancements would be like AI or finding a better random # generator (check out this one if you care about that sort of thing). DVDs are an area that is actually quite outside of CS and more in the realm of hardware engineering. I know my ideas are not terribly popular but it's a social issue. And ultimately a social issue that has money tied up with it. And also to be quite frank I can't afford a DVD player and the only one I might get would be in the form of a Playstation 2. Also I can't even figure out how someone can crack an encryption scheme in the first place. I have at least minimal calculus experience and I can't even decipher some of the ideas about encryption and the like. It's an academic excercise that is best left up to people who actually will explain it better for people like me. Ultimately since companies are composed of people there are limits to power. Governments have power companies have limits on their power. If push came to shove companies have to bow to unkie sam.
Oh and no rational person would even consider that doing 50's era atomic bomb drills would work. Any person who has taken elementary level physics knows thawt you wouldn't have time to die if you got within reach of one of those. Also realize we have pretty much guaraneed that MAD could occur with the Chinese as well. Actually a pretty good senario would be to use all the nasties against the Chinese that we have been secretly developing since the end of WWII but never had a chance to try ouf full scale namely: 1. Sarin 2. Anthrax 3. Botulism/ Cyanide 4. Nutron burst warhead technology Also if anyone attacks the US all of NATO wil be obliged to attack as well. Persoanlly I don't think the Chinese can stand a Everybody else vs. China senario.
Linux isn't just for people who like writing arcane shell scripts on the console. And in fact most people who run linux are not totally cheap. Many people spend thousands a year on hardware for linux and it's apps.
That's why I started to even look into linux. Actually it was because of angband that I decided to run linux. They didn't bother with an updated win16 port so I decided to run linux which had virtual memory and a good compiler.
And speaking of linux not being fast maybe it's because of the window manager you have.
Ok I might be biased by from what I have heard from slashdot and the apps I have seen that really isn't all that hot.
Take a good example alicebot look at the java version. The same version of that program in C/C++ takes 1Mb of memory. The Java version takes *at least* 64 and you are suggested to have 128 to make it work comfortably. And mind you the Java version is better tested! Also the new jvm from Sun takes up about 40Mb for the compressed file. Why dosn't someone update kaffe a little more. The only useful java applications I have ever used or thought about were Freenet and some text editor in java.
All the stuff you mention would require you to have probably a monster box just to run nibbles. I hate to see what the sysrequirements are for things like Quake 3 in Java *shudder*.
'm willing to wait that long. It's so nice to play games on my Linux box and run a talker, and a web server, and host shell accounts, and a DNS server, and...
What is a talker?
I only play games under Linux now, and it's going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. I'm tired of the flakiness that comes from playing them under Windows. Heck, I can even do things like switch to a
spreadsheet or something for games with a lot of trading. I've never been able to do that before with a game on any platform besides Linux.
Trading? Like some kind of bartering simulation. I don't think I have ever played a game like that.
At the risk of getting modded as flamebait, I just don't see how the Linux game market is going to reach the critical mass to make it attractive for developers. Mac gaming, despite Jobs' strenuous efforts, remains an
ill-served niche. PC gaming, while a sucessful *market* (albeit far smaller than console gaming) is still an extraordinarily tough place for developers to make money due to everything from hardware complexity and
diversity to the hard-to-penetrate and expensive retail channel.
Open hardware standards that PC's use combined with cheap hardware and a free OS that people can modify/change/adapt.
Linux seems to have both the Mac and the PC's problems multiplied: niche market, hardware uncertainty, complexity and (let's be honest) consumer unfriendliness, and poor access to the retail channel.
Better future. It's basically new technology and people havn't become tired of it. Also it's easier to get ahold of a PC and put linux on it than get any old mac to run your game. Also it's possible to run linux on Mac hardware not the other way around.
Linux seems to have both the Mac and the PC's problems multiplied: niche market, hardware uncertainty, complexity and (let's be honest) consumer unfriendliness, and poor access to the retail channel.
Seeing as the last project that Sega bothered with was the Genesis I can't entirely see that they are in finicial doubt. I bought a genesis system as they were going on their way out for $50 and got a few games. Basically they were basically almost kind of like a SNES system with a different controller. They missed the boat with the playstation being released and then nintendo produced the N64 which basically took over what other people didn't own a playstation. The only reason that they have succeeded as long as they have is that they have had the ability to take advantage of the slow emergence of nintendo's new offering.
Using the CD only technology creates lock in and dosn't allow for any choice. It also kills any possibility of keeping things stable or long lasting. Isn't the life of a CD like 5 or 10 years? So I guess I can never keep an old game around to play it then?
Personally I *hate* those games that say the need the CD for them. I want to have the option to have it on my hard drive and theoretically throw the CD away in the trash if I so desire. Also I like to make backup copies of various games in case of fire/vandalism/theft. Why don't the distros actually keep everything up to date and standard so that a game can run on any distro. Or perhaps you list a list of packages that the game needs from each distro to run properly. File a bug report with the distros so that it's possible to run the game in question on the distro in question.
Personally I don't like the fact that some person can just walk away with the code and do whatever they want to it and then charge me for it. It's just not very nice. Personally I like to have some modicum of power over what someone does.
Well since I have never run or admined solaris myself I have to ask what are the major differences between what is published in the general *nix books and what is really the case?
Yeah I've seen those types of books. Basically they have little or no real ability to do anything without a great deal of difficulty. Personally I would love a book that took the O'Reiley approach but took on advanced topics with plenty of explanation. In many collegiate courses you have to deal with classes of 500 or so students and it's a pain. Basically your only recourse is to go for books.
Just because you get a dry thick tome that dosn't explain much dosn't mean it's better.
Back in 1998 I managed to get copies of many of the useful HOWTOs for linux and bound them up. They are very nice when you don't have access to the computer or when you like to get your hands on something.
Also personally with the expense of lap tops and their lack of durability (I had a friend in HS who had to use a laptop becuase of manual dexterity problems for handwriting and he went through 2-3 in his education). I will always stick with paper. Cheaper too.
Well after looking for things online and not finding them at all or even sparsely I have to concur with the AC who replied to you and also add my own observations. Personally I would like electronic copy of all books in ASCII format that I own. That would be cool and might possibly last longer. That will be my next project when I have a scanner. One of the benefits of having books is that you can take them anywhere you want, mark them up, dog ear them, physically enact your revenge, etc.
Also I want you to show me a online document that is better then the printed version of some major thing. Look at the comp.lang.c++ faq. They have a great deal of infommation but they lack in all the detail that the published book has by the same name. That's why.
So in conclusion until we get *good* online alternatives of conventional informational services people who want to know buy books.
Maybe you watch too much Judge Judy and think that real judges act like reactionary fools who are going through PMS but the reality is that most judges if they acted that way would be removed. You have to have a measured competence and swearing at people and demeaning people isn't one of them. Oh and usually "hot" is a relative term. Ever look at the gauge on a water heater. That's why it's there. One person't hot is another person't scaulding burn.
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It is time to seriously start thinking about one's separation from the state. It would be interesting to see citizens claiming their rights for independence and sovereignty. Those who have land will have more advantage
over those who live in a city and have almost no land. A one family, or even one man or woman state is coming near you now. You set up your own rules, your own government, your own banking and all of it is made
possible due to the Internet.
That's total bull. You cannot create a new state within another without provoking the ire of the government (it's called civil war and insurrection). People finally learned this during the Civil War. See there were a group of people who didn't get along with the United States we'll call them Southerners. The Southerners were basically being lead by the rich amongst them and controlling the poor. They wanted to stay in power making the good money off their stupid cotton business (which was propped up via an invention by a *notherner* named Eli Wittney and the north was propped up by an invention from a southerner). Well they got irritated at unkie sam and decided to "claim their rights for independence and sovreignty" (and in almost those exact words too). Well why don't we see any people walking around from the CSA (Confederate States of America) now?
Of-course there are about one billion questions to be asked and problems to be solved, but with today's computer speed, it's not too difficult. (Who is going to be running those sewers though?)
Computers are tools, they cannot change anyone without actually having someone operate them. AI is a ***Loooooonnnnnnngggg*** way off from being practical.
I mean, couldn't that have been said with the advent of the printing press, the library or television for that matter? Is the Internet just a sequential evolution of how we handle information or is it truly a new 'society'? Are
we putting the carriage before the horse here?
Exactly think about it. In reality the internet is just merely a method of gathering data and making it fancy. It dosn't create any new or powerful coalition in any sense.
The industrial revolution hasn't been supplanted by the internet and really hasn't been eliminated. What has changed is that more and more of the ecconomies of traditional European powers from rougly WWI on have shifted to service ecconomies and their populace have seen a change in government. This occurs on a small scale in the US but we actually have enough material goods to be able to deal with things nicely so that it really dosn't change.
Corporations are not equal to religion. Personally I dislike people who are historically ignorant to the means and wherefores of their past.
Medieval socities had people who lead brutal, short, horrible lives. Their only means of recreation, life, social gatherings, common grounds, etc were through churches. Personally I can't say that I would blame them for wanting a better life after going through shit in mine.
Corporations don't have that same ability to give people that kind of comfort. They are in fact cold sterile giants composed of men and women who do their own jobs and move slowly to do collective work.
Corporations more closely compare with Faciasm than any sort of organized religion. Ultimately Faciasm was seen as crap and people finally figured out that they were getting hurt. Personally the only way a company can really hurt you is if you don't have a job or if you are an idiot. Considering that most people have jobs (the US has only about 4% actual unemployment) I can't really see any problem in that area. The only other area is that people are idiots. I have argued this many times in the past. Essentially most of the jobs that are out there now are specialist types of things and usually take something more than your typical high school diploma or GED equivelent. That means that people are going to learn things and make them work.
Personally I don't think people are ignorant and I don't think the so called internet society will change anything.
Like I have said there are no conspiracies to do Faciast level evil.
Enhancements would be like AI or finding a better random # generator (check out this one if you care about that sort of thing).
DVDs are an area that is actually quite outside of CS and more in the realm of hardware engineering.
I know my ideas are not terribly popular but it's a social issue. And ultimately a social issue that has money tied up with it.
And also to be quite frank I can't afford a DVD player and the only one I might get would be in the form of a Playstation 2.
Also I can't even figure out how someone can crack an encryption scheme in the first place. I have at least minimal calculus experience and I can't even decipher some of the ideas about encryption and the like. It's an academic excercise that is best left up to people who actually will explain it better for people like me.
Ultimately since companies are composed of people there are limits to power. Governments have power companies have limits on their power. If push came to shove companies have to bow to unkie sam.
Oh and no rational person would even consider that doing 50's era atomic bomb drills would work. Any person who has taken elementary level physics knows thawt you wouldn't have time to die if you got within reach of one of those. Also realize we have pretty much guaraneed that MAD could occur with the Chinese as well. Actually a pretty good senario would be to use all the nasties against the Chinese that we have been secretly developing since the end of WWII but never had a chance to try ouf full scale namely: 1. Sarin 2. Anthrax 3. Botulism/ Cyanide 4. Nutron burst warhead technology Also if anyone attacks the US all of NATO wil be obliged to attack as well. Persoanlly I don't think the Chinese can stand a Everybody else vs. China senario.
I seriously doubt you can claim that DeCSS enhances the cause of comptuer science in any serious manner. Johansen isn't Linus or Knuth.
Linux isn't just for people who like writing arcane shell scripts on the console. And in fact most people who run linux are not totally cheap. Many people spend thousands a year on hardware for linux and it's apps.
That's why I started to even look into linux. Actually it was because of angband that I decided to run linux. They didn't bother with an updated win16 port so I decided to run linux which had virtual memory and a good compiler.
And speaking of linux not being fast maybe it's because of the window manager you have.
Ok I might be biased by from what I have heard from slashdot and the apps I have seen that really isn't all that hot.
Take a good example alicebot look at the java version. The same version of that program in C/C++ takes 1Mb of memory. The Java version takes *at least* 64 and you are suggested to have 128 to make it work comfortably. And mind you the Java version is better tested! Also the new jvm from Sun takes up about 40Mb for the compressed file. Why dosn't someone update kaffe a little more. The only useful java applications I have ever used or thought about were Freenet and some text editor in java.
All the stuff you mention would require you to have probably a monster box just to run nibbles. I hate to see what the sysrequirements are for things like Quake 3 in Java *shudder*.
'm willing to wait that long. It's so nice to play games on my Linux box and run a talker, and a web server, and host shell accounts, and a DNS server, and...
What is a talker?
I only play games under Linux now, and it's going to remain that way for the foreseeable future. I'm tired of the flakiness that comes from playing them under Windows. Heck, I can even do things like switch to a
spreadsheet or something for games with a lot of trading. I've never been able to do that before with a game on any platform besides Linux.
Trading? Like some kind of bartering simulation. I don't think I have ever played a game like that.
At the risk of getting modded as flamebait, I just don't see how the Linux game market is going to reach the critical mass to make it attractive for developers. Mac gaming, despite Jobs' strenuous efforts, remains an
ill-served niche. PC gaming, while a sucessful *market* (albeit far smaller than console gaming) is still an extraordinarily tough place for developers to make money due to everything from hardware complexity and
diversity to the hard-to-penetrate and expensive retail channel.
Open hardware standards that PC's use combined with cheap hardware and a free OS that people can modify/change/adapt.
Linux seems to have both the Mac and the PC's problems multiplied: niche market, hardware uncertainty, complexity and (let's be honest) consumer unfriendliness, and poor access to the retail channel.
Better future. It's basically new technology and people havn't become tired of it. Also it's easier to get ahold of a PC and put linux on it than get any old mac to run your game. Also it's possible to run linux on Mac hardware not the other way around.
Linux seems to have both the Mac and the PC's problems multiplied: niche market, hardware uncertainty, complexity and (let's be honest) consumer unfriendliness, and poor access to the retail channel.
Seeing as the last project that Sega bothered with was the Genesis I can't entirely see that they are in finicial doubt. I bought a genesis system as they were going on their way out for $50 and got a few games. Basically they were basically almost kind of like a SNES system with a different controller. They missed the boat with the playstation being released and then nintendo produced the N64 which basically took over what other people didn't own a playstation. The only reason that they have succeeded as long as they have is that they have had the ability to take advantage of the slow emergence of nintendo's new offering.
Give me a break! Linux for Windows just came out a little over a year ago.
I didn't realize that Linux can be run on top of windows now.
Using the CD only technology creates lock in and dosn't allow for any choice. It also kills any possibility of keeping things stable or long lasting. Isn't the life of a CD like 5 or 10 years? So I guess I can never keep an old game around to play it then?
Personally I *hate* those games that say the need the CD for them. I want to have the option to have it on my hard drive and theoretically throw the CD away in the trash if I so desire. Also I like to make backup copies of various games in case of fire/vandalism/theft. Why don't the distros actually keep everything up to date and standard so that a game can run on any distro. Or perhaps you list a list of packages that the game needs from each distro to run properly. File a bug report with the distros so that it's possible to run the game in question on the distro in question.
Personally I don't like the fact that some person can just walk away with the code and do whatever they want to it and then charge me for it. It's just not very nice. Personally I like to have some modicum of power over what someone does.
thank you very much
What is SOTA computer gear?
Personally the more chapters the more organization and more facts for my money. An excellent recommendation.
Well since I have never run or admined solaris myself I have to ask what are the major differences between what is published in the general *nix books and what is really the case?
Yeah I've seen those types of books. Basically they have little or no real ability to do anything without a great deal of difficulty. Personally I would love a book that took the O'Reiley approach but took on advanced topics with plenty of explanation. In many collegiate courses you have to deal with classes of 500 or so students and it's a pain. Basically your only recourse is to go for books.
Just because you get a dry thick tome that dosn't explain much dosn't mean it's better.
The bandwidth limitations on the card would necessitate that you would have to basically do a little more than overclock the card in any reasonable.
Back in 1998 I managed to get copies of many of the useful HOWTOs for linux and bound them up. They are very nice when you don't have access to the computer or when you like to get your hands on something.
Also personally with the expense of lap tops and their lack of durability (I had a friend in HS who had to use a laptop becuase of manual dexterity problems for handwriting and he went through 2-3 in his education). I will always stick with paper. Cheaper too.
Well after looking for things online and not finding them at all or even sparsely I have to concur with the AC who replied to you and also add my own observations. Personally I would like electronic copy of all books in ASCII format that I own. That would be cool and might possibly last longer. That will be my next project when I have a scanner. One of the benefits of having books is that you can take them anywhere you want, mark them up, dog ear them, physically enact your revenge, etc.
Also I want you to show me a online document that is better then the printed version of some major thing. Look at the comp.lang.c++ faq. They have a great deal of infommation but they lack in all the detail that the published book has by the same name. That's why.
So in conclusion until we get *good* online alternatives of conventional informational services people who want to know buy books.
Assuming ecconomic progress is going well then anyone should be able to afford housing and not have to sleep in homeless shelters huh?
Maybe you watch too much Judge Judy and think that real judges act like reactionary fools who are going through PMS but the reality is that most judges if they acted that way would be removed. You have to have a measured competence and swearing at people and demeaning people isn't one of them. Oh and usually "hot" is a relative term. Ever look at the gauge on a water heater. That's why it's there. One person't hot is another person't scaulding burn.