One of the articles other analogies was that airplanes are also very complicated pieces of equipment and they don't fail with anywhere near the regularity that computers do. This IMO is a fairly valid point despite the cost differences.
I'm not so sure about that. For most of human history, life hasn't changed much from one generation to another and because of that the older generations had a lot of lessons to teach the younger. But for the past few hundred years change has been coming faster and faster and it's getting to the point now where the world our parents and grandparents grew up in has almost nothing to do with ours.
Are old people useless? No. Do they have nothing worthwhile to teach us? Again, no. But the similarities between the way they worked, played, and lived and the way we do now are few and far between.
What about the part of most software LA's that allows you to make a backup copy of the disk. If the company put some sort of copy protection on the disk could you be sued for circumventing it to make a backup the company already said you were allowed to make? I apologize if that's not too clear, it's still early. Basically can someone say "Sure you can make a copy of the disk but if you circumvent our copy protection we'll sue your ass." and still have it be legally binding?
I disagree. First you build the automated factory spending money to buy it fast. Then use the enhanced production to produce your missile base and you'll still have it done faster than if you started the missile base first.
Of course this assumes your either playing psilons or have traded for one of the technologies since they both occupy the same spot on the tech tree.
Good point. I would suggest that for the foreseeable future we could just say that whoever gets to it first owns it. Even if you wanted to just land on every asteroid you could find, there would still be billions of them left out there unclaimed. If someone wants to waste their time claiming every hunk of rock they can touch who are we to stop them?
The biggest problem with this is that in many cases of human gene research the person the genes came from doesn't get anything at all. Doesn't 2 billion years of evolution count as prior art?
The fact remains that the EC system makes some peoples votes more important than others by virtue of where they live. We modified the constitution with a civil rights ammendment so that noone would be discriminated against on the basis of where they live or other factors beyond their control.
Although I do realize that splitting the electoral votes is a decision to be made by the states,I think that in order to better represent their own people the states should change their outdated electoral system.
One of the other reasons Bush won so many small states was because Gore didn't bother campaigning there! He couldn't possibly win those states with their overwhelming Republican leanings and so the people there never even got to hear his arguments in many cases. The same applies for Bush with the more urban states. He didn't spend much time on them because our EC system is a zero-sum game, you win it all or you get nothing. If bush had gotten his 42% (these are purely imaginary percentages because I'm too lazy to look them up) in California and that translated into almost half of that state's votes then I think the people of California would have been more fairly represented than giving all of their votes to the guy who won 56% of the state (again don't beat me up on the exact numbers).
So if you live in S. Dakota your vote is more important than mine because you're more "diverse"? What a load of crap!
It's fairly ridiculous to assign the most powerful position in the world by votes from states which are arbitrarily divided on the basis of landmarks. Look at a map most states borders are defined by a river or mountain range.
The greater number of people in this country chose Al Gore and our current system of election pays no attention to that.
That's a bad analogy. Using library, administrator, root or any other obvious password is roughly equivalent to leaving your doors unlocked and painting a sign on your house that says "I'm not home, steal whatever you want".
You could always get a DLT library. I don't have any idea what they cost since we got ours before I started working here but it holds 15 DLT tapes for 1050 GB of storage compressed. Although I agree that the cost of tapes is just scary.
Not trying to get in a flame war here since I don't support either of them but didn't Bush serve in the Texas air national guard during the vietnam war while Gore was actually in Vietnam. I think Gore was a reporter or something but he was still closer to the action than Bush was.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your not just making this stuff up but what the hell does all that mean?
What is a facia level one consultant? What is a production-strata level product? What is the Galelio Zanith method?
I think most of us who care about this just like playing old games our pcs and aren't facia level one consultants like you (whatever that means).
I think your confusing communism with socialism. Socialism is a belief that the government should try to make sure that everyone has a fair chance at the neccesities such as health care and education. Communism is an economic system whereby the government controls most if not all of the nations industry. Sweden with one of the highest standards of living in the world is a socialist country. China with one of the lowest is a communist country.
So he must be a black hat because he didn't release the details of the exploit to the general public thereby allowing other hackers to do real damage before it's patched?
It's a timescale issue, physical changes of that magnitude would take evolution hundreds of millenia, according to Hawking we've got a thousand years at the most.
Scanning Tunneling Microscope IIRC. It's a type of electron microscope that uses one of quantum mechanics weirder behaviors: tunneling, to detect individual atoms.
Have you SEEN Halo?! As much as I dislike the thought Halo will still have the best graphics on the market 6 months after it's released.
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I think what Katz was objecting to was the attitude that anyone who doesn't want to play on the company softball team is instantly regarded as being "the weird guy" like I'm going to come into work with an assault rifle or something. I spend enough hours with these people that I really don't want to hang out after work with them and if that makes me a freak then so be it. I don't need to spend my after work hours dodging leather-covered missiles to feel like a member of the company.
So the protestant bible does mention guns then? "And Moses came down from the mountain bearing 2 tablets and a full-stock AK-47 with night-sight attachment"
On how much you like your job, but if you feel strongly about it tell them you won't sign such a broad patent application because you designed a much more specific product. They can fire you but I don't think they can make you sign it.
The job market at the moment is such that a competent IT professional who feels they are being mistreated can find another job at higher pay in less than a month in most cases. I'm all for geek solidarity but if I feel exploited I won't need a union to get satisfaction. I'll just say "Here's the root password, good luck to you all!".
While I agree that a lot of "Information Age" hype is intended to sell books and stocks, I have to disagree on it changing the way people live and produce.
For starters millions of people worldwide are now employed in the production and manipulation of information with no physical result whatsoever, ie. they don't actually make anything but the information itself is a commodity. Add to that the increasing numbers of people who work from home or remotely of their employer, relying on information age communications to keep them up to date.
The Information Age is only starting to exert its influence on our lives but already it is affecting millions of people in first-world nations and it will continue to have a greater effect on human economic activity in the next 20 years.
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One of the articles other analogies was that airplanes are also very complicated pieces of equipment and they don't fail with anywhere near the regularity that computers do. This IMO is a fairly valid point despite the cost differences.
I'm not so sure about that. For most of human history, life hasn't changed much from one generation to another and because of that the older generations had a lot of lessons to teach the younger. But for the past few hundred years change has been coming faster and faster and it's getting to the point now where the world our parents and grandparents grew up in has almost nothing to do with ours.
Are old people useless? No. Do they have nothing worthwhile to teach us? Again, no. But the similarities between the way they worked, played, and lived and the way we do now are few and far between.
What about the part of most software LA's that allows you to make a backup copy of the disk. If the company put some sort of copy protection on the disk could you be sued for circumventing it to make a backup the company already said you were allowed to make? I apologize if that's not too clear, it's still early. Basically can someone say "Sure you can make a copy of the disk but if you circumvent our copy protection we'll sue your ass." and still have it be legally binding?
I disagree. First you build the automated factory spending money to buy it fast. Then use the enhanced production to produce your missile base and you'll still have it done faster than if you started the missile base first.
Of course this assumes your either playing psilons or have traded for one of the technologies since they both occupy the same spot on the tech tree.
Good point. I would suggest that for the foreseeable future we could just say that whoever gets to it first owns it. Even if you wanted to just land on every asteroid you could find, there would still be billions of them left out there unclaimed. If someone wants to waste their time claiming every hunk of rock they can touch who are we to stop them?
Cool, but which one would win in a robot battle to the death!?
The biggest problem with this is that in many cases of human gene research the person the genes came from doesn't get anything at all. Doesn't 2 billion years of evolution count as prior art?
The fact remains that the EC system makes some peoples votes more important than others by virtue of where they live. We modified the constitution with a civil rights ammendment so that noone would be discriminated against on the basis of where they live or other factors beyond their control.
Although I do realize that splitting the electoral votes is a decision to be made by the states,I think that in order to better represent their own people the states should change their outdated electoral system.
One of the other reasons Bush won so many small states was because Gore didn't bother campaigning there! He couldn't possibly win those states with their overwhelming Republican leanings and so the people there never even got to hear his arguments in many cases. The same applies for Bush with the more urban states. He didn't spend much time on them because our EC system is a zero-sum game, you win it all or you get nothing. If bush had gotten his 42% (these are purely imaginary percentages because I'm too lazy to look them up) in California and that translated into almost half of that state's votes then I think the people of California would have been more fairly represented than giving all of their votes to the guy who won 56% of the state (again don't beat me up on the exact numbers).
So if you live in S. Dakota your vote is more important than mine because you're more "diverse"? What a load of crap!
It's fairly ridiculous to assign the most powerful position in the world by votes from states which are arbitrarily divided on the basis of landmarks. Look at a map most states borders are defined by a river or mountain range.
The greater number of people in this country chose Al Gore and our current system of election pays no attention to that.
This is fsckin' hillarious!
That's a bad analogy. Using library, administrator, root or any other obvious password is roughly equivalent to leaving your doors unlocked and painting a sign on your house that says "I'm not home, steal whatever you want".
You could always get a DLT library. I don't have any idea what they cost since we got ours before I started working here but it holds 15 DLT tapes for 1050 GB of storage compressed. Although I agree that the cost of tapes is just scary.
Not trying to get in a flame war here since I don't support either of them but didn't Bush serve in the Texas air national guard during the vietnam war while Gore was actually in Vietnam. I think Gore was a reporter or something but he was still closer to the action than Bush was.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your not just making this stuff up but what the hell does all that mean?
What is a facia level one consultant? What is a production-strata level product? What is the Galelio Zanith method?
I think most of us who care about this just like playing old games our pcs and aren't facia level one consultants like you (whatever that means).
I think your confusing communism with socialism. Socialism is a belief that the government should try to make sure that everyone has a fair chance at the neccesities such as health care and education. Communism is an economic system whereby the government controls most if not all of the nations industry. Sweden with one of the highest standards of living in the world is a socialist country. China with one of the lowest is a communist country.
So he must be a black hat because he didn't release the details of the exploit to the general public thereby allowing other hackers to do real damage before it's patched?
It's a timescale issue, physical changes of that magnitude would take evolution hundreds of millenia, according to Hawking we've got a thousand years at the most.
I don't think the article was written for the luddites benefit.
Scanning Tunneling Microscope IIRC. It's a type of electron microscope that uses one of quantum mechanics weirder behaviors: tunneling, to detect individual atoms.
Have you SEEN Halo?! As much as I dislike the thought Halo will still have the best graphics on the market 6 months after it's released.
I think what Katz was objecting to was the attitude that anyone who doesn't want to play on the company softball team is instantly regarded as being "the weird guy" like I'm going to come into work with an assault rifle or something. I spend enough hours with these people that I really don't want to hang out after work with them and if that makes me a freak then so be it. I don't need to spend my after work hours dodging leather-covered missiles to feel like a member of the company.
So the protestant bible does mention guns then? "And Moses came down from the mountain bearing 2 tablets and a full-stock AK-47 with night-sight attachment"
On how much you like your job, but if you feel strongly about it tell them you won't sign such a broad patent application because you designed a much more specific product. They can fire you but I don't think they can make you sign it.
The job market at the moment is such that a competent IT professional who feels they are being mistreated can find another job at higher pay in less than a month in most cases. I'm all for geek solidarity but if I feel exploited I won't need a union to get satisfaction. I'll just say "Here's the root password, good luck to you all!".
While I agree that a lot of "Information Age" hype is intended to sell books and stocks, I have to disagree on it changing the way people live and produce.
For starters millions of people worldwide are now employed in the production and manipulation of information with no physical result whatsoever, ie. they don't actually make anything but the information itself is a commodity. Add to that the increasing numbers of people who work from home or remotely of their employer, relying on information age communications to keep them up to date.
The Information Age is only starting to exert its influence on our lives but already it is affecting millions of people in first-world nations and it will continue to have a greater effect on human economic activity in the next 20 years.