You guys are doing a lot of pooh poohing of this idea, but I think it might have merit. People are plenty happy with crappy compressed music and crappy compressed video. What makes you think peole would not be perfectly happy with crappy compressed clones. The fact is that people while incredibly adept at complicating things are not really all that complicated. Therefore, I submit that a grainy clone that is able to evoke the emotional responses of the original would be accepted quite readily. Also as history has shown, the compression algorithms just get better and better. Upoading petabytes of nonsense is pointless. Just get the basics online and you have a marketable product... just sayin'
-because a strong AI would recognize all the logical fallacies of any religion and immediately dismiss it. As we all know so well, machines love circular references...;-D
...The Singularity is Near.
As for you my friend, death is the completion of the natural circle of life. I wish you godspeed. I will be following shortly.
Thanks for the reply. That was a good (long) article. I think I will just take a "wait and see" attitude on systemd for the time being. I am very frustrated by software bloat especially in the browser arena. Also, the dumbing down of user facing software and hiding of controls is very frustrating and somewhat disheartening. This activity serves only to benefit the elites by making it harder to ascertain when inappropriate activities are being conducted. I sincerely hope the Linux community corrects it's trajectory on this and chooses not to participate in this 21st century IT insult. Lots of lip service is given to transparency while at the same time hiding everything that is not nailed down.
A friend of mine got one of those from his neighbor. It weighs about 300 lbs. Damn near got a hernia helping him move it. I don't know why anybody would buy a big screen TV anymore. I got an LED projector for a great price and it only weighs about 5 lbs. I will never go back to a TV.
Khee, try taking off using just Bernoulli. That's how it would be for me if I tried getting her to turn off automatic updates. I suggested that she might try LInux once. ONLY ONCE! As my sig shows, I love Mr. Gate's baby...
I would like to suggest that the lower level employees are merely aping the culture of management. We have a global epidemic of bad corporate manners and of course, occasionally evidence of these bad manners will leak out. All of this can be chronicled back to when they bifurcated the client base into "customers" and "consumers". Customers get helped, consumers get slapped around, called names, and abused. Just sayin'''
I have two Sony digital Walkmen. An 8GB NWZ-S544 and a 16GB NWZ-S545 which I use in my fitness classes. The hardware is high quality and has stood up really well to being banged around. The software on the other hand SUCKS!!! I cannot even delete files off the player. Furthermore, Sony cut some evil deal with M$ to use some non-standard playlist format which is only reasonably editable in windows OS. I have to keep a windows machine available just to generate playlists for these players. Sony completely abandoned me. No firmware updates to fix these glaring problems. I was brutally orphaned and Sony arrogantly ignored my requests to be heard. $1200.00 indeed! After my experience with the NWZ familyof players, I wouldn't give one of their players to Kim Jong...
butt, I'm sure as hell not going to blurt it out here. It is a really simple little piece of code, but I'm not a coder so, if any of you devs out there are interested in a collaboration, send me a private message. This will be a very very small bit of work that will help a lot of people and quite possibly put some change in our pockets. That's all I can say for now. OBTW: HAPPY NEW YEAR/.!!!
Yes, and these glorious benvolent corporations have devolved over the past 50 years into soulless beasts that will eat your soul for a nickel. I had a 16" oscillating fan that was built in the 60s that was still running just fine in the late 80s when I gave it away. Sure, you had to oil it a couple of times a year, but that was designed in. FUCK the 21st century corporations. They are even more evil than.gov. I DREAD having to contact any large corporation today.
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Eek!!! The doors just self locked and now I can't get out. Damned bullet proof glass.
i switched from Latte to M'ate and now considering LXLE. Any comments on LXLE would be greatly appreciated...
That's what 3D printers will be for. We've given the AI hands with opposable thumbs...
Good idea, but I prefer jumpers...
You guys are doing a lot of pooh poohing of this idea, but I think it might have merit. People are plenty happy with crappy compressed music and crappy compressed video. What makes you think peole would not be perfectly happy with crappy compressed clones. The fact is that people while incredibly adept at complicating things are not really all that complicated. Therefore, I submit that a grainy clone that is able to evoke the emotional responses of the original would be accepted quite readily. Also as history has shown, the compression algorithms just get better and better. Upoading petabytes of nonsense is pointless. Just get the basics online and you have a marketable product... just sayin'
Ok, I've read enough. I think I will just skat on out of here.
That's what suppositories are for... ;-)
-because a strong AI would recognize all the logical fallacies of any religion and immediately dismiss it. As we all know so well, machines love circular references... ;-D
...The Singularity is Near. As for you my friend, death is the completion of the natural circle of life. I wish you godspeed. I will be following shortly.
It's grants all the way down...
Thanks for the reply. That was a good (long) article. I think I will just take a "wait and see" attitude on systemd for the time being. I am very frustrated by software bloat especially in the browser arena. Also, the dumbing down of user facing software and hiding of controls is very frustrating and somewhat disheartening. This activity serves only to benefit the elites by making it harder to ascertain when inappropriate activities are being conducted. I sincerely hope the Linux community corrects it's trajectory on this and chooses not to participate in this 21st century IT insult. Lots of lip service is given to transparency while at the same time hiding everything that is not nailed down.
A friend of mine got one of those from his neighbor. It weighs about 300 lbs. Damn near got a hernia helping him move it. I don't know why anybody would buy a big screen TV anymore. I got an LED projector for a great price and it only weighs about 5 lbs. I will never go back to a TV.
Thanks for this interesting post. Do you know if LInus has published any comments on this??? Sigs are for smoking. In my case see below:
Khee, try taking off using just Bernoulli. That's how it would be for me if I tried getting her to turn off automatic updates. I suggested that she might try LInux once. ONLY ONCE! As my sig shows, I love Mr. Gate's baby...
My GFs windows laptop does that all the time. PISSES ME OFF!!!
I gave up a whole string of mods to reply to this: " right or wrong or logic has nothing to do with the law." You are absolutely correct.
A period of time...
I would like to suggest that the lower level employees are merely aping the culture of management. We have a global epidemic of bad corporate manners and of course, occasionally evidence of these bad manners will leak out. All of this can be chronicled back to when they bifurcated the client base into "customers" and "consumers". Customers get helped, consumers get slapped around, called names, and abused. Just sayin'''
[a little safer form criminals and the government. ] What's the difference???
Intelligent design, of course. Ask any Southern Baptist...
ha ha, I lost my mod points when I posted...otherwise, I would give you some. Yappy Hew Near!!! OBTW: I'm lysdexic.
Thanks AC, that was funny and I have mod points. Too bad, you don't get any.
I have two Sony digital Walkmen. An 8GB NWZ-S544 and a 16GB NWZ-S545 which I use in my fitness classes. The hardware is high quality and has stood up really well to being banged around. The software on the other hand SUCKS!!! I cannot even delete files off the player. Furthermore, Sony cut some evil deal with M$ to use some non-standard playlist format which is only reasonably editable in windows OS. I have to keep a windows machine available just to generate playlists for these players. Sony completely abandoned me. No firmware updates to fix these glaring problems. I was brutally orphaned and Sony arrogantly ignored my requests to be heard. $1200.00 indeed! After my experience with the NWZ familyof players, I wouldn't give one of their players to Kim Jong...
butt, I'm sure as hell not going to blurt it out here. It is a really simple little piece of code, but I'm not a coder so, if any of you devs out there are interested in a collaboration, send me a private message. This will be a very very small bit of work that will help a lot of people and quite possibly put some change in our pockets. That's all I can say for now. OBTW: HAPPY NEW YEAR /.!!!
Yes, and these glorious benvolent corporations have devolved over the past 50 years into soulless beasts that will eat your soul for a nickel. I had a 16" oscillating fan that was built in the 60s that was still running just fine in the late 80s when I gave it away. Sure, you had to oil it a couple of times a year, but that was designed in. FUCK the 21st century corporations. They are even more evil than .gov. I DREAD having to contact any large corporation today.