"Open source was the beginning. Free culture is what's happening next," Wikia CEO Gil Penchina said Monday, announcing the company's plans at the Le Web 3 conference in Paris on the future of social media.
Sorry to burst your bubble Gil, but here goes: Who's gonna unclog my toilet in thie "free culture"?
I think that the "Developers" chair-throwing speech is exactly why MS is #1. Other companies (especially OSS companies) need to get just as excited about supporting developers if they want anywhere near that kind of success.
As everybody knows, information wants to be "Free". "Free" information that is unencumbered by things like "facts" or advertiser bias is bad. Slashdot should be posting blogs about people's personal cell phone experiences. Those are much more useful.
Let's keep in mind that this entire project is still completely vaporware. I won't believe that any of this project is actually possible until I see it. Right now, it's still just a PR whore (Negropointe) making shit out of thin air.
In fact, I'm starting a new project. It's called the "$10 automobile project". The first guidelines for it is that every $10 car must 1. Fly 2. be able to be fueled by any substance, including garbage, rock, dirt, air, and water. 3. Navigate itself based on what the user is thinking he/she would like to go, and coordinating with the on-board GPS navigation system.
OK, now somebody write some news articles about me.
All of this "The Net IS the OS" stuff is just ridiculous. This kind of thing doesn't even have a chance until broadband is as ubiquitous and as reliable as electricity. I think that we're still a good 10 years out from this even beginning to happen.
Haven't you ever wondered whether it's the system we have now that leads to things like: externalities, global warming, and psychopathic corporations? -- Or was that all just the result of immutable, inner character flaws?
The system that we have in place has been proven throughout history to be the most effective system that there is. It's not perfect, but because of human flaws, communism simply doesn't work.
Scientists work hard, harder than you probably realize, and what do they do with their results? They give them away to the entire world in journal articles.
Pure scientists often do this, but not applied scientists. Some of the best applied scientists in the world work for GE, 3M, DuPont, Toyota, IBM, etc. That scientific work is most definitely NOT given away. Pure scientists give away their information for reasons outside of economic benefit (academia is a different world, entirely), but often, there is no direct economic benefit for knowing the age of the Sun, or the density of chlorophyll in loblolly pine needles.
why should we employ policemen and jails to prevent Windows or OSX being copied
Because they chose not to "share" their work, and that's their right. By forcing them to "share" their work, then that's coercision. That's taking somebody's work from them by force. That's very bad.
Uh, I hate to say it, but that's what a "receiver" is for. Get a good stereo receiver that handles video in addition to audio, and use that. I don't really know how this made it as a Slashdot article. I've had this set up at my place for, jeez, I dunno... a decade?
The only mysterious math here is the $100 for a working, rugged, wireless, mesh-enabled laptop. It's pure media whoring. Always has been, and that's all it's going to amount to.
Actually, I'm enjoying watching it fail because the guy doing it is a PR whore, pure and simple. It's an impossible thing to accomplish (you can't even get an MP3 player for $100), and it's goals are questionable. The only person benefitting is the guy who is trying to get this thing going (Nicholas Negroponte). There's really nothing admirable about this project, and I think that Nicholas Negroponte should get drummed out of MIT for this asinine project.
Gee, I hate to break it to you but you most likely drive a car that developed mostly in software.
Well, I do now, but I'm saving up for a car that wasn't designed by software. You see, a car with no microchips of any kind is a car that any regular person can fix. As soon as there's any kind of chip in there, you can't fix it yourself.
Look, you're missing the point. When one runs a business, one delegates. CEO's don't fix the delivery trucks or unclog the toilets. CEO's also don't set up mail servers. It's one of many thousands of pieces of any business that should be outsourced. Any company that has the president setting up mail servers simply won't grow past, oh I don't know... one person. It's not realistic in any way, shape, or form. You'd know that, if you actually had a job.
"Discredit people who care about privacy?" Dude, you're off your fuckin' rocker. Tons and tons and tons of companies outsource their email. Did you ever think that the people hosting email and other similar stuff know MORE about security than you or I could possibly know? Besides, I've got a business to run. I don't have time or money to babysit my own Exchange Server. Sorry, but you really have no idea what you're talking about.
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"Open source was the beginning. Free culture is what's happening next," Wikia CEO Gil Penchina said Monday, announcing the company's plans at the Le Web 3 conference in Paris on the future of social media.
Sorry to burst your bubble Gil, but here goes: Who's gonna unclog my toilet in thie "free culture"?
I think that the "Developers" chair-throwing speech is exactly why MS is #1. Other companies (especially OSS companies) need to get just as excited about supporting developers if they want anywhere near that kind of success.
As everybody knows, information wants to be "Free". "Free" information that is unencumbered by things like "facts" or advertiser bias is bad. Slashdot should be posting blogs about people's personal cell phone experiences. Those are much more useful.
Let's keep in mind that this entire project is still completely vaporware. I won't believe that any of this project is actually possible until I see it. Right now, it's still just a PR whore (Negropointe) making shit out of thin air.
In fact, I'm starting a new project. It's called the "$10 automobile project". The first guidelines for it is that every $10 car must 1. Fly 2. be able to be fueled by any substance, including garbage, rock, dirt, air, and water. 3. Navigate itself based on what the user is thinking he/she would like to go, and coordinating with the on-board GPS navigation system.
OK, now somebody write some news articles about me.
I'd say you're about 10 years behind the times, and I'm betting my business on it.
Oooh. I'm really sorry. I'm posting this message via dial-up.
All of this "The Net IS the OS" stuff is just ridiculous. This kind of thing doesn't even have a chance until broadband is as ubiquitous and as reliable as electricity. I think that we're still a good 10 years out from this even beginning to happen.
Haven't you ever wondered whether it's the system we have now that leads to things like: externalities, global warming, and psychopathic corporations? -- Or was that all just the result of immutable, inner character flaws?
The system that we have in place has been proven throughout history to be the most effective system that there is. It's not perfect, but because of human flaws, communism simply doesn't work.
Bingo! You're exactly right. Very well written and thought out.
Scientists work hard, harder than you probably realize, and what do they do with their results? They give them away to the entire world in journal articles.
Pure scientists often do this, but not applied scientists. Some of the best applied scientists in the world work for GE, 3M, DuPont, Toyota, IBM, etc. That scientific work is most definitely NOT given away. Pure scientists give away their information for reasons outside of economic benefit (academia is a different world, entirely), but often, there is no direct economic benefit for knowing the age of the Sun, or the density of chlorophyll in loblolly pine needles.
why should we employ policemen and jails to prevent Windows or OSX being copied
Because they chose not to "share" their work, and that's their right. By forcing them to "share" their work, then that's coercision. That's taking somebody's work from them by force. That's very bad.
Basically I have to get my act together to accomplish it though.
Your first step needs to quit with all of that silly Jesus shit.
Uh, I hate to say it, but that's what a "receiver" is for. Get a good stereo receiver that handles video in addition to audio, and use that. I don't really know how this made it as a Slashdot article. I've had this set up at my place for, jeez, I dunno... a decade?
Which one?
The only mysterious math here is the $100 for a working, rugged, wireless, mesh-enabled laptop. It's pure media whoring. Always has been, and that's all it's going to amount to.
Actually, I'm enjoying watching it fail because the guy doing it is a PR whore, pure and simple. It's an impossible thing to accomplish (you can't even get an MP3 player for $100), and it's goals are questionable. The only person benefitting is the guy who is trying to get this thing going (Nicholas Negroponte). There's really nothing admirable about this project, and I think that Nicholas Negroponte should get drummed out of MIT for this asinine project.
Not completely. They *usually* go hand-in-hand. Human beings really can only fix cars that were designed and manufactured pre-computer.
Gee, I hate to break it to you but you most likely drive a car that developed mostly in software.
Well, I do now, but I'm saving up for a car that wasn't designed by software. You see, a car with no microchips of any kind is a car that any regular person can fix. As soon as there's any kind of chip in there, you can't fix it yourself.
Really? You enjoy cars with no dashboard
No computer required.
Really? You enjoy cars with no... power steering
Yes. But, no computer required.
Really? You enjoy cars with no... anti-lock brakes
Yes.
Really? You enjoy cars with no... automatic transmission
Do you really enjoy cars with automatic transmissions?? Ugh.
Really? You enjoy cars with no... fuel gage
No computer required.
Really? You enjoy cars with no... speedometer
No computer required.
Whew, that was a complicated post.
Software is really the only black box in a car.
Yeah, and software isn't even necessary. If anything, I'd be interested in working on (and driving) a car with no software at all.
Merz says that while building a car today "is mainly software, until a certain point anyway,"
Not a car I would ever drive... I prefer my cars with *no* software.
Uh, whatever, dude.
Look, you're missing the point. When one runs a business, one delegates. CEO's don't fix the delivery trucks or unclog the toilets. CEO's also don't set up mail servers. It's one of many thousands of pieces of any business that should be outsourced. Any company that has the president setting up mail servers simply won't grow past, oh I don't know... one person. It's not realistic in any way, shape, or form. You'd know that, if you actually had a job.
No, there's no FOSS equivalent with all of the functionality.
But if it happened to you, you wouldn't be the first one it happened to.
No, but I also wouldn't care. It's just email. If you're doing mission-critical stuff with email, you've already screwed up.
So use something that doesn't require babysitting.
There are no Exchange equivalents on the market. Well, maybe Lotus Notes, but that's many more times more complicated than Exchange.
"Discredit people who care about privacy?" Dude, you're off your fuckin' rocker. Tons and tons and tons of companies outsource their email. Did you ever think that the people hosting email and other similar stuff know MORE about security than you or I could possibly know? Besides, I've got a business to run. I don't have time or money to babysit my own Exchange Server. Sorry, but you really have no idea what you're talking about.