You've probably spent much more time in engineering/sciences than in the humanities. Five minutes with the students and faculty in the Philosphy, Sociology, Anthropology, or History departments and you'll find out how deep the Anti-Americanism runs.
I'm not an american but I am a university student, and I'll take a solid semester of humanities brainwashing over 5 minutes of business/marketing bullcrap. I took a CS/Admin class (CS270-Information Systems Management--It's a prerequisite for CS271-COBOL) and I swear it dropped my IQ by like 2 points alone. Five minutes with the students and faculty in Marketing or Administration will make you wish you were instead surrounded by pot smoking hippie communist liberals.
You know, using the collective intelligence or will of either the leader or people of two nations, combined with the experience of other countries and peoples in similar positions, to tread a path that benifits the most and harms the least of all possible paths? I'm sure force works, but is it the *only* way of going about things? Hardly. Am I saying that we shouldn't use force? Not in this post; let's assume it's an acceptable way of doing things.
You sir are totally closeminded and totally need to get out more.
I'm going to have to agree with you here, and yes, I took things an order of magnitude out of context further than necessary. Spammers use others time, machines, and service and really are annoying as all hell especially to ISP's (although mabye when european law forces ISP's to log 12 months of data, an increase in spam might stop this law from being taken seriously).
However I will warn people to wary themselves of the slippery slope; there isn't as much ground between 'crucify the spammer' and being on the cross yourself as one might think, especially if you're vocal like I sometimes can be, and in these strange times.
Where one of our friends gives a post a +1 moderation which is ONLY seen by his fans, and we can then rank this as something other than +1 if we want mabye.
If you agreed with the rating then you could highlight it, and you could
Or mabye I've spent too much time with and would be best served by StumbleUpon
"What happened to the promise that we would have more free time, more time to spend exploring other interests and spending time with family?"
When 'we' is the entire world, perhaps we have. I'm not sure of the numbers either way, but I'd venture a guess that as a whole, there are more person-hours spent exploring other interests, spent in 'free time', spent 'with the family' than ever before. The catch? The people in totalitarian regiemes are getting some, and the western white collars have to work harder(since they maintain an insignificant portion of the population, they can be considerred irrelevant).
You and everyone you know could on average lose 99% of their family time, but as a species we could easily be gaining a stronger family or at least more time with adults spending with children in a family-like-environment (read: daycare instead of television, television instead of gangs, gangs instead of alone on the street).
Not sure either way, but I think you are looking too small. I think the percentages might not be changing, but I think there is more free hours of time now than there was, say, 30 years ago. And remember, the law of diminishing returns pretty much guarantees that we're going to have to, on average, work harder just to break even year by year, so even if we're doing the same amount of work *as a species* we're doing ok(if you ignore the running low of oil part).
My family's computer was located *in the kitchen*, where my family ate dinner, where my dad would be watching television, and where my mom was cooking, or doing a puzzle or something. If I had accessed any 'inapropriate' material then, it would have had to have been right under the eyes of either one of my parents or one of my siblings. I'm pretty cocky, but at 8 I was nowhere near that cocky. It's usually only when a child has a more or less private computer that they start getting into trouble. (Just like it's only when youth can have physical privacy that they tend to fuck--but they can be are really good at finding that sometimes).
Secondly I have a seen a rule that I think needs to be used more.
If I ever have a child, and at 8, they can build a computer from spare parts, load the operating system, load the packet drivers, find a proper network cable, open a network connection, and continue to load something more graphical than lynx, then they are ready to look at whatever porn they want if they so choose to, communicate with whatever pedophile they chose to, or anything else they chose to. Unassisted by the parent except perhaps via a small allowance, and help with certain basic hardware and network theory. They should be warned before they connect to the internet that there is a lot of both dangerous people, stupid people, and things wierder than could be previously imagined online.
I reached that stage somewhere around 17. The child should know not to trust strangers long before that age, although this part might just be needless paranoia on my part. I don't trust people and that has really haunted me in my life and politics.
Now that being said, I want to avoid telling everyone how to raise their kids; do whatever the hell you want, but this approach employs a fairly decent test on the childs development, and is not utilized nearly enough.
I release stuff in ogg vorbis because that's what my tools create, and ogg vorbis is a totally free format, not so that everyone with an ipod or windows media player can play it. ITMS can at any time impliment ogg vorbis support if they so choose, and I'm sure the ogg people will help with support if they so require. It's smaller than wav and doesn't lock you in nearly as much as wma or the equivilent on mac. In 2055, after the US government falls, and once north america is thrown into anarchy, using late-90's technology, a personal generator or solar cell, I should still be able to record and play an ogg vorbis file, using free software developed running on hardware built in the late-90's. While mp3 also might be capable of this, it is non-free, and therefor not acceptable to support. (What makes mp3 so popular? The fact that everyone uses it, that its files are small, and decent of quality. If everyone used ogg vorbis, ogg vorbis would be popular- there's only one way to change this: Musicians releasing ogg vorbis files).
If you want mp3s encode them from the ogg vorbis files yourself. Or if it's a newer project encode from wav samples(if I still have them). I'll host them.
...you know...the 'mandatory suicide' stuff is utterly unfinished scraps, most of which doesn't sound all that good. This is not the same thing as releasing an album online. And I certianly didn't release an album online using bittorrent, which is a superior album distribution system which should be blatantly shown to be beyond a shadow of a doubt useful to everyone. I have never successfully released a full album online, although material from all my albums (including my best stuff, not included in the above link) have found their way online. Had Past Tense been a finished work in 2000 and released online as I had planned, I would have really have showed up these musicians. However, the Past Tense project tanked, and with it my first chance to do something that at least I don't think had really been done before (creating a double-cd album, distributing online, using nothing more than a home computer and mabye a pay-server for distribution).
It is false that nobody has ever heard of jeff cliff, by example, since I have heard of him(hell, I am him).
But your point still stands (even though I've been approached for movie soundtracks). Mod parent up.
well obviously we've found that the lack of pirates is causing the growth of RIAA executives, in turn the growth of RIAA executives is causing global warming. So yes, the lack of pirates are the cause of global warming *by* causing the growth of RIAA execs.
;)
Not that I'll ever get that far in academia, but If I did; I do consider it perfectly normal for 50% failure/drop rate with 35% not able to advance in the field without retaking the class. In fact I consider it perverse for anything else to happen.
don't think mass production goes against that at all. Alvin Toffler's book 'future shock' outlined a very different mass production than most people think of; A Toffleresque mass production might very well be more like what you are looking for. Unless I misunderstood what you're getting at, or what he was getting at. It would be a continually redefining, upgrading superprocess. A mechanism of creations of pure uniqueness, addressing the needs of more and more people and leaving out fewer and fewer. Add in 'decentralization' and I think we are getting somewhere.
Myself? I'm going to put serious effort into learning FORTRAN.
Because for every secretary that could be employed to type the words that I am writing, there could be another secretary that could be the secretary's secretary, typing up things like what I am writing for tse. Therefor production of any text which is not typed by a secretary typing for a secretary should be charged a "secretary's secretary tax", to support those poor secretaries of secretaries who lose money due to the single-secretary writing of text.
Technically, if it is true that all people will die, then it is also true that some people will die. Universal affirmatives can be converted to existential(particular) affirmatives validly.
Summary:
P::= people will die
where _A is the universal quantifier and _E is the existential quantifier and ~o is a logical implication,
_A
_A P ~o _E P
:. P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian_logic
Not sure about Perpetual Motion & Duke Nukem Forever, but
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Microsoft Linux...oh come on. That'll never happen. It's far more likely that SCO will beat IBM than that ever happening.
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You've probably spent much more time in engineering/sciences than in the humanities. Five minutes with the students and faculty in the Philosphy, Sociology, Anthropology, or History departments and you'll find out how deep the Anti-Americanism runs.
I'm not an american but I am a university student, and I'll take a solid semester of humanities brainwashing over 5 minutes of business/marketing bullcrap. I took a CS/Admin class (CS270-Information Systems Management--It's a prerequisite for CS271-COBOL) and I swear it dropped my IQ by like 2 points alone. Five minutes with the students and faculty in Marketing or Administration will make you wish you were instead surrounded by pot smoking hippie communist liberals.
You know, using the collective intelligence or will of either the leader or people of two nations, combined with the experience of other countries and peoples in similar positions, to tread a path that benifits the most and harms the least of all possible paths? I'm sure force works, but is it the *only* way of going about things? Hardly. Am I saying that we shouldn't use force? Not in this post; let's assume it's an acceptable way of doing things.
You sir are totally closeminded and totally need to get out more.
I'm going to have to agree with you here, and yes, I took things an order of magnitude out of context further than necessary. Spammers use others time, machines, and service and really are annoying as all hell especially to ISP's (although mabye when european law forces ISP's to log 12 months of data, an increase in spam might stop this law from being taken seriously).
However I will warn people to wary themselves of the slippery slope; there isn't as much ground between 'crucify the spammer' and being on the cross yourself as one might think, especially if you're vocal like I sometimes can be, and in these strange times.
Where one of our friends gives a post a +1 moderation which is ONLY seen by his fans, and we can then rank this as something other than +1 if we want mabye. If you agreed with the rating then you could highlight it, and you could
Or mabye I've spent too much time with and would be best served by StumbleUpon
"What happened to the promise that we would have more free time, more time to spend exploring other interests and spending time with family?"
When 'we' is the entire world, perhaps we have. I'm not sure of the numbers either way, but I'd venture a guess that as a whole, there are more person-hours spent exploring other interests, spent in 'free time', spent 'with the family' than ever before. The catch? The people in totalitarian regiemes are getting some, and the western white collars have to work harder(since they maintain an insignificant portion of the population, they can be considerred irrelevant). You and everyone you know could on average lose 99% of their family time, but as a species we could easily be gaining a stronger family or at least more time with adults spending with children in a family-like-environment (read: daycare instead of television, television instead of gangs, gangs instead of alone on the street).
Not sure either way, but I think you are looking too small. I think the percentages might not be changing, but I think there is more free hours of time now than there was, say, 30 years ago. And remember, the law of diminishing returns pretty much guarantees that we're going to have to, on average, work harder just to break even year by year, so even if we're doing the same amount of work *as a species* we're doing ok(if you ignore the running low of oil part).
First they came for the child pornography wierdos
and I did not speak out
because I did not look at child Pornography
Then they came for the spammers
and I did not speak out
because I did not spam
Then they came for the GNAA
and I did not speak out
because I was not a troll
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me
My family's computer was located *in the kitchen*, where my family ate dinner, where my dad would be watching television, and where my mom was cooking, or doing a puzzle or something. If I had accessed any 'inapropriate' material then, it would have had to have been right under the eyes of either one of my parents or one of my siblings. I'm pretty cocky, but at 8 I was nowhere near that cocky. It's usually only when a child has a more or less private computer that they start getting into trouble. (Just like it's only when youth can have physical privacy that they tend to fuck--but they can be are really good at finding that sometimes).
Secondly I have a seen a rule that I think needs to be used more.
If I ever have a child, and at 8, they can build a computer from spare parts, load the operating system, load the packet drivers, find a proper network cable, open a network connection, and continue to load something more graphical than lynx, then they are ready to look at whatever porn they want if they so choose to, communicate with whatever pedophile they chose to, or anything else they chose to. Unassisted by the parent except perhaps via a small allowance, and help with certain basic hardware and network theory. They should be warned before they connect to the internet that there is a lot of both dangerous people, stupid people, and things wierder than could be previously imagined online.
I reached that stage somewhere around 17. The child should know not to trust strangers long before that age, although this part might just be needless paranoia on my part. I don't trust people and that has really haunted me in my life and politics.
Now that being said, I want to avoid telling everyone how to raise their kids; do whatever the hell you want, but this approach employs a fairly decent test on the childs development, and is not utilized nearly enough.
slashdot core -> science -> geology -> quicksand -> lightning sand -> princess bride.
:)
Or possibly
slashdot -> technology -> dvd -> use of dvds -> specific use of dvd's -> princess bride on DVD.
See, there is some relevance, but it's almost practically elipson.
Of course the real diagram for me is as follows
slashdot core -> science -> geology -> quicksand -> lightning sand -> princess bride -> sydney -> my dismal failure at finding a girlfriend -> slashdot
details. I will not use java, for anything, so long as licenses like theirs are forced upon it. With java, you are always a second class citizen.
ntz0r!
lameness filters suck
That's a first. I wrote a reply to the parent and posted to you. My mistake, sorry. I don't think even the preview could have saved me there.
I release stuff in ogg vorbis because that's what my tools create, and ogg vorbis is a totally free format, not so that everyone with an ipod or windows media player can play it. ITMS can at any time impliment ogg vorbis support if they so choose, and I'm sure the ogg people will help with support if they so require. It's smaller than wav and doesn't lock you in nearly as much as wma or the equivilent on mac. In 2055, after the US government falls, and once north america is thrown into anarchy, using late-90's technology, a personal generator or solar cell, I should still be able to record and play an ogg vorbis file, using free software developed running on hardware built in the late-90's. While mp3 also might be capable of this, it is non-free, and therefor not acceptable to support.
(What makes mp3 so popular? The fact that everyone uses it, that its files are small, and decent of quality. If everyone used ogg vorbis, ogg vorbis would be popular- there's only one way to change this: Musicians releasing ogg vorbis files).
If you want mp3s encode them from the ogg vorbis files yourself. Or if it's a newer project encode from wav samples(if I still have them). I'll host them.
...you know...the 'mandatory suicide' stuff is utterly unfinished scraps, most of which doesn't sound all that good. This is not the same thing as releasing an album online. And I certianly didn't release an album online using bittorrent, which is a superior album distribution system which should be blatantly shown to be beyond a shadow of a doubt useful to everyone. I have never successfully released a full album online, although material from all my albums (including my best stuff, not included in the above link) have found their way online. Had Past Tense been a finished work in 2000 and released online as I had planned, I would have really have showed up these musicians. However, the Past Tense project tanked, and with it my first chance to do something that at least I don't think had really been done before (creating a double-cd album, distributing online, using nothing more than a home computer and mabye a pay-server for distribution).
But thanks for the plug schnitz0r.
It is false that nobody has ever heard of jeff cliff, by example, since I have heard of him(hell, I am him).
But your point still stands (even though I've been approached for movie soundtracks). Mod parent up.
well obviously we've found that the lack of pirates is causing the growth of RIAA executives, in turn the growth of RIAA executives is causing global warming. So yes, the lack of pirates are the cause of global warming *by* causing the growth of RIAA execs.
;)
Not that I'll ever get that far in academia, but If I did; I do consider it perfectly normal for 50% failure/drop rate with 35% not able to advance in the field without retaking the class. In fact I consider it perverse for anything else to happen.
have far too much faith in engineers. Every time I get in any sort of elevator or building, I fear for my life.
don't think mass production goes against that at all. Alvin Toffler's book 'future shock' outlined a very different mass production than most people think of; A Toffleresque mass production might very well be more like what you are looking for. Unless I misunderstood what you're getting at, or what he was getting at. It would be a continually redefining, upgrading superprocess. A mechanism of creations of pure uniqueness, addressing the needs of more and more people and leaving out fewer and fewer. Add in 'decentralization' and I think we are getting somewhere.
Myself? I'm going to put serious effort into learning FORTRAN.
Because for every secretary that could be employed to type the words that I am writing, there could be another secretary that could be the secretary's secretary, typing up things like what I am writing for tse. Therefor production of any text which is not typed by a secretary typing for a secretary should be charged a "secretary's secretary tax", to support those poor secretaries of secretaries who lose money due to the single-secretary writing of text.
by that I mean, _A _A P ~o _E P :. _E P
Technically, if it is true that all people will die, then it is also true that some people will die. Universal affirmatives can be converted to existential(particular) affirmatives validly. ::= people will die
:. P
Summary:
P
where _A is the universal quantifier and _E is the existential quantifier and ~o is a logical implication,
_A
_A P ~o _E P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelian_logic
for a second there I actually thought about what you were saying and it's screwing up my nicely memorized trig equations.
T --> P.
P --> T.
It's obviously a loop. A circle. Sure! Technology drives porn, and porn drives technology. It's only a question of *how much*. Why not?!!
Not sure about Perpetual Motion & Duke Nukem Forever, but ...oh come on. That'll never happen. It's far more likely that SCO will beat IBM than that ever happening.
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Mabye he got a Free iPod!*
*I do not support in any way the Free Ipod jerks who have spammed the hell out of the gnutella/email networks.