Re:Bad side of globalization
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Globalization
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I take it you've never heard of Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a Likud (conservative) sympathizer, principally for his stance on making peace with palestinians and arab neighbors, a stand in conflict with extreme conservatives (as large and fast growing segment of the Israeli population) who will tell you that it's their promised land they it is the palestinians who are the usurpers and should be driven out. There's been spectulation, which I wouldn't rule out, that the assassination of Rabin was aided by Israeli government agents sympathetic to the conservative cause (not too unlike theories about the Kennedy assassination.)
It's also worth pointing out that the mainstream palestinians weren't the ones who claimed to have carried out the attack, a reprisal for the apparent assassination of palestinian leaders. Israel has been making all palestinians suffer for the acts of a few. Up to 1947, IIRC, the land was called Palestine, not Israel.
Before globalization could benefit people in that part of the world, they need rational people to settle the differences equitably and peacefully. As we have seen, those desperate to call attention to political causes have taken advantage of vulnerabilities of globalization. Such irony.
Re:Bad side of globalization
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Good god... the indigenous geeks have the same reaction when they see Japanese tech magazines!
I felt similarly when a friend traveled to Japan and brought back a really really cool Sony portable boom-box. I checked with the Sony store in Chicago and found the model was Europe and Japan only all the models that were available for US sale weren't anywhere near as neat with features.
I also felt that something was amiss when I returned from my first tour of Europe and realized public transportation there blows the socks off what we have in the US. IMHO it's convenient to have a car, but if we had in the US the kind of rail and subway services they have throughout Europe, I'd happily give up my product-of-a-global-economy, maybe I'd still have a scooter, but that would be it. It truly sucks to have to drive 12-13 hours, besides the fact of losing an entire day to the activity, to go some of the places I used to when I lived in Michigan. No rail and sporadic bus service.
No, it's not arrogance, it's our indifference. American idly has stood by while Ariel Sharon put the theories of the most hardline and Israelies into practice buy overreacting to every incident connected to the palestinians, even when it's bait provided by those outside the PLO means of control.
I spent two hours in Nice, France, a few years back, talking with a palistinian on the run. He had a number tattooed on his arm from when he had been imprisoned in Israel. He was clearly frustrated because the land which had been in his family for generations had been siezed and his family had been displaced by the occupiers. There's a lot of injustice happening in Israel, and that the US has actually done very little to help the palestinians. Worth noting, however, that most arab states have done little contructively, either.
Bad side of globalization
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In my own humble, ininformed, and probably stupid view, the reason Fundamentalists gain so much support is that Globalization is basically capitalism, whereas the societies where it fails are those where people are so dirt poor that they can't afford the products or services offered by cosmopolitan societies. People no better or worse for the fate of their placement of birth, limited access to opportunity and ability to be brainwashed by zealous ideologues.
It was discovered that one of the great causes of discontent and unrest in Central America in the 60's was unintentional, where Peace Corps workers left out magazines, loaded with american advertisements, where locals saw them. The indiginous people, uninitiated to the ways of Madison Avenue, would see what american had, what their country and culture lacked and it erroded their faith in their own noble cultures. They had to have cars, they had to have women with come hither looks, they had to drink Tanqueray, they had to have a Timex! Discontent breeds revolution, revolution creates upheaval and all the ills (hunger, disease, orphans, maimed bodies, etc.) Enter the "fundamentalist", whether it's Daniel Ortega spouting the promises of Marxism and reclaiming the land in the name of the people, or some Mullah in Afghanistan preaching a glorious afterlife littered with nubile virgins to people desperately poor, the appeal is the same: Anything is better than what we have now.
The bitterness of people in the middle east has been a long time simmering. From european colonialism to corporate colonialism to the shameful double standard of Israel vs. Arabs (and yet these people come from the same blood, but tell them that.)
Now the West loses billions of dollars in upset commerce, tourism, etc., and it's the poorest people on earth the US is pitted against in a war which consumes even more billions of dollars. (With hopes from some that war will stimulate the economy(!))
Jimmy Buffett had it right, if you ever have listened to the Feeding Frenzy CD. Drop a bunch of money on these people, then drop a bunch of catalogs, for the cost of one B-1 bomber we could have full employment, they could have all kinds of toys and we'd have peace. Well, peace if that bully in Israel would stop the acts of war against the palestinians.
My $0.02 anyway...
Re:Rumors of passing on are vastly overrated
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Please elaborate. How do you run an MS_DOS application under XP? Sounds like MS_DOS is still there and a minor tweak of a shortcut should be able to put MS_DOS on the desktop.
Rumors of passing on are vastly overrated
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No MS_DOS prompt is just one more reason I wouldn't move to XP, not that I even plan to. Still on 98 and I've been re-discovering some of my favorite old software and games from 386 days (remember Scorched Earth?) Much of these require the DOS shell, even if you have to fool around with slowing the computer or something.
Can't expect old dogs like me to leap on the bandwagon just because there is one. Maybe someone will write an MS_DOS emulator for XP;-)
Push up your coke-bottle glasses with the white cloth tape over the bridge
Wipe your nose on your sleeve while serrupticiously looking down to make sure your pocket protector and all your pens are straight and in order
Look back up quickly, tossing back your greasy Bill Gates unkempt-style hair to one side, for a better view
Nervously extend the left hand then utter the sacred oath "..uh.. oh, wrong hand, heh"
Extend a cold, extremely clamy right hand while tucking left hand into pocket while slouching slightly and grinning the same way you did when that really bad drivers license photo was taken
Grasp unsteadily and pump firmly once before trying to remove hand while other party is still trying to shake
Or is it now the Virtual Handshake of Look-the-other-guy-in-the-eye-like-you-know-you-co uld-kick-his-butt-in-quake-3-but-hey-we're-all-fri ends-right-? and utter the mystic words "Hey, 'sup?"
... and complain that none of my submissions
are ever taken.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who posted tons of articles and few, usually the least interesting, get through. Well, Wil, I've got new respect for ya, d00d!
I was planning to get one of these, years ago, until it was explained to me that these were HDTV for Commercial use, i.e. boardroom slide shows or such. None of the equipment was the same as proposed for consumer use. Is this still the case?
Isn't the MPAA or some other terrorist.. I mean recording organization going to try and ban this? Cuz if you can record it on your hard drive, the evil linux hackers will circumvent the copy protection and redistribute it! Pfft.
I was stumped why the parent was modded as troll, because these are close to my thoughts on the matter. [As far as the DMCA and MPAA in Afghanistan, DMCA applies only to businesses doing business in the USA, though political pressure upon foreign manufacturers may be applied. The MPAA isn't relevent in Afghanistan because the Taliban banned all movies and TV, besides, the third world flaunts such things as a habit]
My concern is Microsoft, AT&T, TimeWarner or anyone else dictating right down to the hardware all the standards, circuitry, etc. to make these things work and completely bar recording and replay without buying into some service they offer. I.e. You can rewatch last nights baseball game five years from now, but it's not on your video cassette, DVD or hard drive, rather, it's something that you pay for and they'll retransmit for you, complete with up-to-date advertising inserted. What a boon, eh? No more need for buying piles of recordable media and recording devices. The MPAA is thrilled because they now know exactly what you are watching, through their partnerships with such schemes, but use it to dumb-down film and TV, targetting, always targetting.
There must be some reason I keep watching non-Hollywood films at the Santa Cruz Nickelodeon. Possibly because I've already seen every plot beaten to death by Hollywood, tired of vacuous actors and actresses, weary of bad writing and fatigued by orange fireball explosions, and these alternative films are refreshing and interesting.. nah, I'm probably just a weirdo.
Ok, this is probably a bit offtopic, but the search is so horrible and broken I can't find the original topic. It dealt with a question about memory as a disk drive. Lo and behold, our CIO, a gadget junky if there ever was one, got his hands on a Pen Drive from Frys (an evil store in Silicon Valley we turn to as a last resort) with 64 Meg of flash RAM. You install the little driver on whichever systems you want to use it on and it plugs in through a USB port. Here's what amazed me... they actually have it working for Win98 forward, Linux, and Mac OS (dunno about OSX, check it yourself at the link above) Sizes are supposed to be up to 1 Gig, tho I've only seen vendors for the smaller capacity drives. Since it's flash it doesn't need a battery. 64Meg about $84 bucks.
I've been coding for over 20 years and I've seen some beauties, and I'm sure others have as well. Like the guy who put about 500 lines of Java in one Try - Catch. I'd suggest they screen their contributors better. Use a carrot and very gentle stick approach and be certain to encourage coders to think "what could happen here and how should I handle it?" whenever writing.
Control a laser/mirror arrangement which could draw or print phrases on your rear window. I'm certain there are enough creative minds out there that could figure out what to display;-)
Maybe some sensors jammed into every nook and cranny of your engine, too, for data acquisition and observation.
Tie it into a GPS, put some big servos on your steering column and have it drive you back home when you're too drunk %-)
I don't agree. I doubt MSN advertisers are hoping to reach the linux market.
Who said anything about Linux? How about them AOLers who drift over to MSN? Assume for a moment that some day MSN decides to play coy and tell people they have a defective browser and the way to fix it is to get IE and dump AOL altogether. That's just on scenario.
Worked on my Netscape 4.75, but man, what the heck is in that page? It's huge and chews some serious CPU (this on a 900MHz PIII system on a highspeed network)
For fun, go to your favorite unix shell and whois microsoft.com
BTW there's stuff that pops up for slashdot.org, yahoo.com and google.com
If the page can't be viewed, even in vanilla HTML, then MSN.com has made an amature blunder. You don't design pages to keep people out, particularly where advertisers will be barred from reaching an audience.
Sure, it stinks to high heaven like a typically corrupt monopolist move (but they wouldn't do that would they?), and consider how ISP's have been switching over to MSN as their default portal for users, this would be an error. Right? Yes, just like putting the fox in the hen house and nailing the door shut. You can count on him to look after the best interest of the chickens.
This alleged ongoing effort to lock people into everything Microsoft would be an open admission that their software and systems are so bad that they can't sell on their own merits. But they wouldn't do these things, thus admitting to that, would they?
Bottom line is, people won't pay for new features they don't need, especially when many of us have *finally* stabalized our
current Windows version. I predict this will be another "Windows for Warehouses".
Sure, but keep in mind they're spending $250 Million to sell the public on this thing. That's almost $1 per citizen of the US. Think about how much lucre they've raised in selling something to the public that, after taxes, expenses, dividends, Bill's new house, etc, that they can actually afford $1 per person to try to convince them that the sun won't shine quite as well, the birds won't sing as well, and apple pie won't taste as well without XP on your computer (and you're really backward if you don't have a PC, yet, but there's hope and a vendor willing to set that right, assuming you're not some commie who doesn't believe in having lots of posessions and debt.)
The art of sales is convincing people they need something they really don't. Lucky me, my TV is off for a while so I don't have to see the commercials. (c=
I rather like Berke Breathed's childrens books, including Red Ranger Came Calling and Edwurd Fuddwupper Fibbed Big, but I have this sneaky suspicion that these books are actually more of a hit with the Bloom County/Outland crowd.
As soon as I could read by myself I got caught up in those old Reader's Digest hard bound classics (which you don't see much anymore), some where a bit grim, but I suspect, like myself, childrens ability to grasp plots and follow stories is much greater than a lot of adults give kids credit for. I think the fact there were 7-8 year olds reading those Harry Potter tomes should attest to that.
I think when I have kids I'll start them on Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Fritz Lieber and JRR Tolkien before they get into kindergarden.
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It's also worth pointing out that the mainstream palestinians weren't the ones who claimed to have carried out the attack, a reprisal for the apparent assassination of palestinian leaders. Israel has been making all palestinians suffer for the acts of a few. Up to 1947, IIRC, the land was called Palestine, not Israel.
Before globalization could benefit people in that part of the world, they need rational people to settle the differences equitably and peacefully. As we have seen, those desperate to call attention to political causes have taken advantage of vulnerabilities of globalization. Such irony.
I felt similarly when a friend traveled to Japan and brought back a really really cool Sony portable boom-box. I checked with the Sony store in Chicago and found the model was Europe and Japan only all the models that were available for US sale weren't anywhere near as neat with features.
I also felt that something was amiss when I returned from my first tour of Europe and realized public transportation there blows the socks off what we have in the US. IMHO it's convenient to have a car, but if we had in the US the kind of rail and subway services they have throughout Europe, I'd happily give up my product-of-a-global-economy, maybe I'd still have a scooter, but that would be it. It truly sucks to have to drive 12-13 hours, besides the fact of losing an entire day to the activity, to go some of the places I used to when I lived in Michigan. No rail and sporadic bus service.
I spent two hours in Nice, France, a few years back, talking with a palistinian on the run. He had a number tattooed on his arm from when he had been imprisoned in Israel. He was clearly frustrated because the land which had been in his family for generations had been siezed and his family had been displaced by the occupiers. There's a lot of injustice happening in Israel, and that the US has actually done very little to help the palestinians. Worth noting, however, that most arab states have done little contructively, either.
It was discovered that one of the great causes of discontent and unrest in Central America in the 60's was unintentional, where Peace Corps workers left out magazines, loaded with american advertisements, where locals saw them. The indiginous people, uninitiated to the ways of Madison Avenue, would see what american had, what their country and culture lacked and it erroded their faith in their own noble cultures. They had to have cars, they had to have women with come hither looks, they had to drink Tanqueray, they had to have a Timex! Discontent breeds revolution, revolution creates upheaval and all the ills (hunger, disease, orphans, maimed bodies, etc.) Enter the "fundamentalist", whether it's Daniel Ortega spouting the promises of Marxism and reclaiming the land in the name of the people, or some Mullah in Afghanistan preaching a glorious afterlife littered with nubile virgins to people desperately poor, the appeal is the same: Anything is better than what we have now.
The bitterness of people in the middle east has been a long time simmering. From european colonialism to corporate colonialism to the shameful double standard of Israel vs. Arabs (and yet these people come from the same blood, but tell them that.)
Now the West loses billions of dollars in upset commerce, tourism, etc., and it's the poorest people on earth the US is pitted against in a war which consumes even more billions of dollars. (With hopes from some that war will stimulate the economy(!))
Jimmy Buffett had it right, if you ever have listened to the Feeding Frenzy CD. Drop a bunch of money on these people, then drop a bunch of catalogs, for the cost of one B-1 bomber we could have full employment, they could have all kinds of toys and we'd have peace. Well, peace if that bully in Israel would stop the acts of war against the palestinians.
My $0.02 anyway...
Please elaborate. How do you run an MS_DOS application under XP? Sounds like MS_DOS is still there and a minor tweak of a shortcut should be able to put MS_DOS on the desktop.
Can't expect old dogs like me to leap on the bandwagon just because there is one. Maybe someone will write an MS_DOS emulator for XP ;-)
The secret handshake!?!?
That's the one where you:
Push up your coke-bottle glasses with the white cloth tape over the bridge
Wipe your nose on your sleeve while serrupticiously looking down to make sure your pocket protector and all your pens are straight and in order
Look back up quickly, tossing back your greasy Bill Gates unkempt-style hair to one side, for a better view
Nervously extend the left hand then utter the sacred oath "..uh .. oh, wrong hand, heh"
Extend a cold, extremely clamy right hand while tucking left hand into pocket while slouching slightly and grinning the same way you did when that really bad drivers license photo was taken
Grasp unsteadily and pump firmly once before trying to remove hand while other party is still trying to shake
Or is it now the Virtual Handshake of Look-the-other-guy-in-the-eye-like-you-know-you-co uld-kick-his-butt-in-quake-3-but-hey-we're-all-fri ends-right-? and utter the mystic words "Hey, 'sup?"
Wow! I thought I was the only one who posted tons of articles and few, usually the least interesting, get through. Well, Wil, I've got new respect for ya, d00d!
I was planning to get one of these, years ago, until it was explained to me that these were HDTV for Commercial use, i.e. boardroom slide shows or such. None of the equipment was the same as proposed for consumer use. Is this still the case?
I was stumped why the parent was modded as troll, because these are close to my thoughts on the matter. [As far as the DMCA and MPAA in Afghanistan, DMCA applies only to businesses doing business in the USA, though political pressure upon foreign manufacturers may be applied. The MPAA isn't relevent in Afghanistan because the Taliban banned all movies and TV, besides, the third world flaunts such things as a habit]
My concern is Microsoft, AT&T, TimeWarner or anyone else dictating right down to the hardware all the standards, circuitry, etc. to make these things work and completely bar recording and replay without buying into some service they offer. I.e. You can rewatch last nights baseball game five years from now, but it's not on your video cassette, DVD or hard drive, rather, it's something that you pay for and they'll retransmit for you, complete with up-to-date advertising inserted. What a boon, eh? No more need for buying piles of recordable media and recording devices. The MPAA is thrilled because they now know exactly what you are watching, through their partnerships with such schemes, but use it to dumb-down film and TV, targetting, always targetting.
There must be some reason I keep watching non-Hollywood films at the Santa Cruz Nickelodeon. Possibly because I've already seen every plot beaten to death by Hollywood, tired of vacuous actors and actresses, weary of bad writing and fatigued by orange fireball explosions, and these alternative films are refreshing and interesting .. nah, I'm probably just a weirdo.
This stuff is more enjoyable to look at than most of what's on the walls at the Guggenheim!
Hello, Sen. Helms, we've been monitoring traffic from your office this evening and, well, it creates a picture of a troll, over and over again...
Yeah, just as bad. Lovely when they're supposed to be getting some mandatory data or resource, fail to and let the app keep going.
It's sleepy and I'm late...
Those boys from Texas sure know how to handle cattle.
Ok, this is probably a bit offtopic, but the search is so horrible and broken I can't find the original topic. It dealt with a question about memory as a disk drive. Lo and behold, our CIO, a gadget junky if there ever was one, got his hands on a Pen Drive from Frys (an evil store in Silicon Valley we turn to as a last resort) with 64 Meg of flash RAM. You install the little driver on whichever systems you want to use it on and it plugs in through a USB port. Here's what amazed me... they actually have it working for Win98 forward, Linux, and Mac OS (dunno about OSX, check it yourself at the link above) Sizes are supposed to be up to 1 Gig, tho I've only seen vendors for the smaller capacity drives. Since it's flash it doesn't need a battery. 64Meg about $84 bucks.
Oh, btw, we already knew these existed, those who saw the 'documentary' called Lake Placid!
Check your turn signal
Please turn off your Highbeams
The closer you get, the slower I drive
Those failing:
My lawyer can beat your lawyer
Of course, as a good samaritan, you could drive around educating other drivers...
Vehicle powered by Microsoft Windows, subject to sudden stops
DMCA & SSSCA: be afraid, be very very afraid.
AMD coming out with new Athlon CPU in ... 4 days, 3 hours, 22 minutes, 15 seconds.
The government learns evil from the best: RIAA & MPAA
I've been coding for over 20 years and I've seen some beauties, and I'm sure others have as well. Like the guy who put about 500 lines of Java in one Try - Catch. I'd suggest they screen their contributors better. Use a carrot and very gentle stick approach and be certain to encourage coders to think "what could happen here and how should I handle it?" whenever writing.
Maybe some sensors jammed into every nook and cranny of your engine, too, for data acquisition and observation.
Tie it into a GPS, put some big servos on your steering column and have it drive you back home when you're too drunk %-)
Who said anything about Linux? How about them AOLers who drift over to MSN? Assume for a moment that some day MSN decides to play coy and tell people they have a defective browser and the way to fix it is to get IE and dump AOL altogether. That's just on scenario.
Properly channelled paranoia is insight.
For fun, go to your favorite unix shell and whois microsoft.com
BTW there's stuff that pops up for slashdot.org, yahoo.com and google.com
Sure, it stinks to high heaven like a typically corrupt monopolist move (but they wouldn't do that would they?), and consider how ISP's have been switching over to MSN as their default portal for users, this would be an error. Right? Yes, just like putting the fox in the hen house and nailing the door shut. You can count on him to look after the best interest of the chickens.
This alleged ongoing effort to lock people into everything Microsoft would be an open admission that their software and systems are so bad that they can't sell on their own merits. But they wouldn't do these things, thus admitting to that, would they?
Sure, but keep in mind they're spending $250 Million to sell the public on this thing. That's almost $1 per citizen of the US. Think about how much lucre they've raised in selling something to the public that, after taxes, expenses, dividends, Bill's new house, etc, that they can actually afford $1 per person to try to convince them that the sun won't shine quite as well, the birds won't sing as well, and apple pie won't taste as well without XP on your computer (and you're really backward if you don't have a PC, yet, but there's hope and a vendor willing to set that right, assuming you're not some commie who doesn't believe in having lots of posessions and debt.)
The art of sales is convincing people they need something they really don't. Lucky me, my TV is off for a while so I don't have to see the commercials. (c=
As soon as I could read by myself I got caught up in those old Reader's Digest hard bound classics (which you don't see much anymore), some where a bit grim, but I suspect, like myself, childrens ability to grasp plots and follow stories is much greater than a lot of adults give kids credit for. I think the fact there were 7-8 year olds reading those Harry Potter tomes should attest to that.
I think when I have kids I'll start them on Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Fritz Lieber and JRR Tolkien before they get into kindergarden.