Now there is a damn good idea, dump what the RIAA values even as much as their money, their products.
Dump a few million britney spears/metallica CD's into the potomac!
But before we dump em, make sure we rip em!
...that was my point.
That the US and other countries have and will do these things. The previous poster seemed to think these things were unique to India.
The use of the US in the post was merely an example, most of the points I made, are a global condition, in that EVERY country is likely to do them at some point in history, or has already.
The US first developed nuclear weapons, and are the only country to drop them in anger.
But that was OK.
The US had above ground testing for decades.
But that was OK too.
The US has had an Arms Race, that at times threatened all the world with nuclear destruction.
but that was OK.
The US has a space programme, but thats OK too, cause noone else gets to play if we can't help it.
Let go dude, other countries experience and perceive the same threats as the US has in the past and will continue to act in similar ways. They will expand arsenals, they will develop advanced technology, they will wage war, covert and overt. The threats are just from different sources that pose no threat to the US. That doesn't make those threats unimportant.
Considering that any true advances into space for mankind, beyond one international space station, will have to be achieved by the budgets and manpower of multiple nations, I cannot see why you wouldn't want another nation to become experienced in space based operations.
It increases the global experience base, it increases the chances for technological breakthroughs, it increases the potential, numbers & extent for space based experiments.
If america thinks only it has the right to push into the cosmos, on the tiny budget allotted to NASA by its government, then I would say it is mistaken, and we will be earth bound for longer if it puts up a fight.
Sure India faces many domestic crisis, but every country does at one point, and given a new round of fuel crisis on the horizon, I might make the assumption that soon we might all have domestic crisis to deal with as nations.
We don't need a space race, what we need is an ounce of cooperation across nations, more then ISS, a global effort mounted by as many nations as possible. It shouldn't be an indian space programme, or a US space programme, it should be a human space programme.
As a College Football player, I gotta say, not everyone wants to end up in the NFL after playing NCAA, I play for the enjoyment of the game, and once I've got my engineering degree, adios football, hello some other country. NFL/XFL its all too commercial, any league that has a TV Timeout has gone too far.
In the UK and Australia they have amateur leagues(no endorsements, no TV coverage, no BS), I might go play there to keep fit(My fat D Tackle ass loves burgers too much), have fun, good for stress relief too.
screw a career in the NFL/XFL, It's not worth betting your career on your body.
You also have to consider high stress situations though, the pilot was able to bring the aircraft down safely in a mechanical failure sure, but it was a simulation, if he were actually in the plane though, it would be likely he might make all sorts of muscular "mistakes" nthrough adrenaline not to mention an aircraft with a dead turbine doesn't always move so gently, factor in turbulence from uneven half powered flight, a stressed aviator, a hundred screaming passengers, a co pilot uttering obscenties every 5.5 seconds... I'd say this technology has a long way to go before it could learn coherant muscular instructions from a pilot in these situations.
bad it might misinterpret signals, worse it might ignore the excessive movements of a stressed pilots hands.
give the tech 2-5 years, and it might even be up to combat situations, for now though, I'd stick to the sims
Why is it that whenever a problem raises its ugly head in the US, does everyone race to get a lawyer for a few hundred dollars an hour.
Noone negotiates without one, noone seems to be able to manage at all in the business world with out one.
This model is flawed, its not only self perpetuating, but brings great riches to one sector of the community(legal that is) while sucking dry all others, including individuals.
It is quickly becomming obvious that the US has more laws then it does justice, the patents issue seems to derive straight from that, patents arent really a method of protecting profits, they are an excuse to sue when someone copies your design. Note I said when, not if. Especially in the case of patents on current widespread technologies, that multiple companies are producing.
The result is a legal community run amok, growing fat and rich on a culture that seems to not want to fix this ability to sue everything that crawls or walks. Some individuals feel that it is their opportunity to grow rich quickly through a lawsuit in their favour, while corporations see it merely as a matter of sue to scare, allowing fear to drive competition away and to keep their product on top.
Royalties are also a factor of course, but only through the same fear factor of pay or else legal woes will bang at your door.
So wtf is your solution I hear you snarl?
Don't have one, but one should be sought, one that is actually equitable, one that is fair to all parties and is not subject to petty party politics, fat corporations, or open to abuse.
The model is out there, just needs to be thought out and created. The computer community is not new to fixing the unfixable, or creating complex systems that improve on the old. The alternative is not attractive.
The drive for a new legal system, including corporate and patent law should start from here, by us, for I believe our industry has the most to gain from a reformed justice system, if only because our industry is now growing beyond the bounds of antiquated laws and concepts of law, and our community is quickly realizing the real limits of the law in the real world, it rarely goes after the true thugs and corporations, but it does go after those individuals that threaten those corporate interests.
If the price of freedom is the blood of patriots, and every civilization needs a little revolution now and then, the next revolution will be fought by lawyers, and the only blood spilt will be that of their clients wallets.
Actually the majority of information systems in Federal and State governments do use MS products. I've worked in two Federatl Departments and two State Departments recently, and due to deals with EDS and Compaq, almost everything rolls with MS.
..which is more nuts, the columnist or the concept.
I feel something needs to be cleared up here for some of the citizens of the US who write books and columns while under the influence of narcisism.
The Internet is a self serve communication medium, its interactive, it requires you to click and select what you read or view. It doesnt pump play boy into your head via CNN Endorsed Gamma rays.
Kids are great at finding nudity, a PC is rarely needed cause kids are also really great at shop lifting magazines. So we can turn off the net tommorrow, it stops nothing. Besides, its hard to cram your dads PC into the bathroom for 3 hours at a time.
Are there peadophiles out there? Yeah sure as hell, but they would exist if there was an internet or not. Amazingly enough, much of the worlds ills existed far before the Internet, or indeed before the the US was founded.
Now we have addressed the entire realm of internet censorship by using logic to realise nudity and sicko's exist outside of a PC, and that it doesnt use nanotech to pry open your eyelids late at night and make you watch it.
Next on the list is the US.
You are not the entire internet, it is a global network, so why should the US government beat the internet with its giant patented morality stick, especially seeing they could only legally regulate their own content. Foreign content would still be unregulated unless you block the rest of the worlds packets.
The Corporations
Well who else is gonna own it.. you? me? nope.
someone has to own it, it isnt a charity. Someone has to pay the bills, attract the aolusers and host the sites, build the technology. Someone has gotta maintain the network, someone has to pay us goons to do this work, or we wont be able to buy our pentium IV's and Geforce 2 cards...
The world governments could own it and pay us, but i prefer working for money and not food tokens.
Alternatively we can go back to plastic cups & string, strung out across the atlantic to a plastic cup node, manned by 14,000,000 child workers who repeat the hisses and squeaks to other cups and other nodes.
I say to every politician who cant build their own LAN or overclock their CPU, who wants to regulate the internet, shut up, go away, sit down, write some policies on trees and crap.
I say to their proponents, youre all downsized, shoo shoo.
I say to the columnist, go back from whence thou came. And I can say this, cause the net isnt regulated. Atleast until someone listens to these nuts.
(This is a dissenting View and should be moderated down, it contains nothing more then detailed observations of Amerikans.)
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its out on dvd in australia, try ezydvd.com.au and take advantage of the exchange rate aus dollar is worth 51 cents US
Now there is a damn good idea, dump what the RIAA values even as much as their money, their products. Dump a few million britney spears/metallica CD's into the potomac! But before we dump em, make sure we rip em!
i hadn't realised the US had been nuked this week, if anyone needs me, I'll be in my bunker
...that was my point. That the US and other countries have and will do these things. The previous poster seemed to think these things were unique to India. The use of the US in the post was merely an example, most of the points I made, are a global condition, in that EVERY country is likely to do them at some point in history, or has already.
so let me see...
The US first developed nuclear weapons, and are the only country to drop them in anger.
But that was OK.
The US had above ground testing for decades.
But that was OK too.
The US has had an Arms Race, that at times threatened all the world with nuclear destruction.
but that was OK.
The US has a space programme, but thats OK too, cause noone else gets to play if we can't help it.
Let go dude, other countries experience and perceive the same threats as the US has in the past and will continue to act in similar ways. They will expand arsenals, they will develop advanced technology, they will wage war, covert and overt. The threats are just from different sources that pose no threat to the US. That doesn't make those threats unimportant.
Considering that any true advances into space for mankind, beyond one international space station, will have to be achieved by the budgets and manpower of multiple nations, I cannot see why you wouldn't want another nation to become experienced in space based operations.
It increases the global experience base, it increases the chances for technological breakthroughs, it increases the potential, numbers & extent for space based experiments.
If america thinks only it has the right to push into the cosmos, on the tiny budget allotted to NASA by its government, then I would say it is mistaken, and we will be earth bound for longer if it puts up a fight.
Sure India faces many domestic crisis, but every country does at one point, and given a new round of fuel crisis on the horizon, I might make the assumption that soon we might all have domestic crisis to deal with as nations.
We don't need a space race, what we need is an ounce of cooperation across nations, more then ISS, a global effort mounted by as many nations as possible. It shouldn't be an indian space programme, or a US space programme, it should be a human space programme.
As a College Football player, I gotta say, not everyone wants to end up in the NFL after playing NCAA, I play for the enjoyment of the game, and once I've got my engineering degree, adios football, hello some other country. NFL/XFL its all too commercial, any league that has a TV Timeout has gone too far. In the UK and Australia they have amateur leagues(no endorsements, no TV coverage, no BS), I might go play there to keep fit(My fat D Tackle ass loves burgers too much), have fun, good for stress relief too. screw a career in the NFL/XFL, It's not worth betting your career on your body.
You also have to consider high stress situations though, the pilot was able to bring the aircraft down safely in a mechanical failure sure, but it was a simulation, if he were actually in the plane though, it would be likely he might make all sorts of muscular "mistakes" nthrough adrenaline not to mention an aircraft with a dead turbine doesn't always move so gently, factor in turbulence from uneven half powered flight, a stressed aviator, a hundred screaming passengers, a co pilot uttering obscenties every 5.5 seconds... I'd say this technology has a long way to go before it could learn coherant muscular instructions from a pilot in these situations. bad it might misinterpret signals, worse it might ignore the excessive movements of a stressed pilots hands. give the tech 2-5 years, and it might even be up to combat situations, for now though, I'd stick to the sims
Why is it that whenever a problem raises its ugly head in the US, does everyone race to get a lawyer for a few hundred dollars an hour. Noone negotiates without one, noone seems to be able to manage at all in the business world with out one. This model is flawed, its not only self perpetuating, but brings great riches to one sector of the community(legal that is) while sucking dry all others, including individuals. It is quickly becomming obvious that the US has more laws then it does justice, the patents issue seems to derive straight from that, patents arent really a method of protecting profits, they are an excuse to sue when someone copies your design. Note I said when, not if. Especially in the case of patents on current widespread technologies, that multiple companies are producing. The result is a legal community run amok, growing fat and rich on a culture that seems to not want to fix this ability to sue everything that crawls or walks. Some individuals feel that it is their opportunity to grow rich quickly through a lawsuit in their favour, while corporations see it merely as a matter of sue to scare, allowing fear to drive competition away and to keep their product on top. Royalties are also a factor of course, but only through the same fear factor of pay or else legal woes will bang at your door. So wtf is your solution I hear you snarl? Don't have one, but one should be sought, one that is actually equitable, one that is fair to all parties and is not subject to petty party politics, fat corporations, or open to abuse. The model is out there, just needs to be thought out and created. The computer community is not new to fixing the unfixable, or creating complex systems that improve on the old. The alternative is not attractive. The drive for a new legal system, including corporate and patent law should start from here, by us, for I believe our industry has the most to gain from a reformed justice system, if only because our industry is now growing beyond the bounds of antiquated laws and concepts of law, and our community is quickly realizing the real limits of the law in the real world, it rarely goes after the true thugs and corporations, but it does go after those individuals that threaten those corporate interests. If the price of freedom is the blood of patriots, and every civilization needs a little revolution now and then, the next revolution will be fought by lawyers, and the only blood spilt will be that of their clients wallets.
Actually the majority of information systems in Federal and State governments do use MS products. I've worked in two Federatl Departments and two State Departments recently, and due to deals with EDS and Compaq, almost everything rolls with MS.
"The very essence of being conscious is an ability to behave in a random fashion, also known as free will. "
You want random?, use windows98 for a bit