When you are locked away of most web sites of some interest beacuse you don't use passport then perhaps you will feel that some degree of force is been applied...
I'm not terribly worried by any "unfair and deceptive practices" that may ensue with regard to privacy. Any information given to Microsoft is done so in a completely voluntary manner: any leak of that information would certainly become well-known in a very short amount of time.
Q: Hod did Pinochet in Chile managed to get all the commies after the 1972 coup?
A. He got the list of members of the Socialist Party. The members of the part gave their details willingly.
The point: you never know how information about you is going to be used, so unless it is absolutely unavoidable, you should not give it away, specialy to a for-profit entity, because think: what would be their priority: your privacy or their bottom line?
What the green movements are oposing is the introduction of GM crops without proper assesment of the consequences. They don;t claim they are bad for your health, they claim we don't know and that more research is needed.
Given the fact that a lot (most?) processed food have already GM stuff anyway, and knowing how ignoratn we are about these matters, I think is only wise that every fanily has the choice to decide wether they want to risk or not any possible problems.
As we know, most generalizations are wrong (except this one of course).
Where goverments are forced to participate in enterprises that normaly would be better left to the private sector is when the social costs of letting capitalism run unchecked are unacceptable.
A few examples:
-In rural communities all around the world some services are not introduced or even whitdramwn because they are not profitable, this include transport, banking, and ironicaly even telecommunications (if you live in Nowhereville, pop. 100, you can sit waiting for your broadband access until hell freezes).
-Some Oil comapnies in 3rd world countries could work more eficently laying off 50% of its personel and if they were in private hands would generate huge profits, nevertheless it is unacceptable to lay off 50% of employed people in poor countries.
And now, some examples of whay private is not always better:
-Microsoft.
-The British Rail Industry was privatised in the mid 90's, todays private trains are a disaster, all this after the intial "investors" sold their share at big profits and left the company and after several years of compromising security in order to make more profits. Several tens of peopls have paid with their lives for this.
Enough for know, tired of fighting blanket generalizations.
We as a species protect what you call "less efective" genotypes because it has an evolutionary advantage: keeps the minds of brilliant people active, no possible source of knowledge is wasted.
Thanks to that, Stephen Hawkings is alive, he gave us all his new (mostly correct) ways to look at the universe. All this knowledge could save our neck as a species one day in the future.
If you think he is thinking about AI in terms of silicon chips with today's technics you are either naive or pretty unimaginative.
He knows we will create intelligent machines that will think faster and more acurately than we do.
We are sending machines to space today that have the cognocitive ability of a grashopper in terms of decission making, we have computer programs that can beat most humans at playing the most intelectual of all games (chess) and that has been with only 50 years of serious, widespread computing enhancement and research.
This guy is thinking in what is going to happen in 10000 or 100000 thousend years. By then silicon machines will most probably be remembered as a rarity if at all.
I do not care if XP is the best OS under the Sun, I refuse to put more money in a company with the dubious moral attitude of MS regarding the computer market, its clients and what competition should be.
It is also important that people that do know how to use a computer keep alive alternatives to MS, otherwise there is absolutely no chance that there will be solutions available when the time comes to break the MS "embrace". (example: sooner or later most goverments around the world will realize how foolish it is to depend on one company for the format in which they are storing information. Most sensible goverments are horrified to thing to delegate responsibility of strategical resources in the hands of private, foreign companies. Most goveerments will sooner or later realize that MS is a foreign company and that they have them by the b@@11s because MS holds the key to access their own information).
For me the only real thing when it comes to music is live music itself. Music is a social thing, not an egoistic one.
Vinyl, CDs and MP3s are not more than a convenience and only insecure people need to advertise themselves in such a poor manner with a CD collection of 500 volumes that basic logic says the never listen to....
The way Forth is designed is not the way we learn to read, mathematics or many other things.
What is great to make the language compact and efficent is just plain horrible when a human tries to read the code.
I can have a go to try to understand code in other languages written by programmers with little regard for the people that will read the code. Such programmers writing Forth make the task impossible.
Perhaps when all the "popular" implementations adhere to a same standard that allows code portability?
Or when some good Forth references (not some lost web pages here and there) are published?
If that does not motivate....
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... then nothing will do.
I would be the first to offer time and effort for such a system. Just imagine, contribute to put somebody in space and bring him back safely. Now, that would be something.....
High culture promoted?
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High culture -- the traditional, respectable, well-funded kind -- gets covered and criticized in the other media. But upstart culture, especially low cyberculture, can be wondrous stuff, an explosition of idiosyncratic voices that gives birth to this website and to Seanbaby.com. Interesting, valuable, fragile and endangered, Seanbaby.com is in its unique way, very significant
Can you kindly tell us what is that "high culture" you are talking about?
Classical Music, Opera or Ballet perhaps? No coverage of the media.
Serious books aiming to more than provide a nice reading for your summer holidays? No, those are not covered by the media either.
Painting, architecture? No, one hour per week in CNN does not count as coverage.
So what is that "high culture" that MS-AOL-The BIG MEDIA are promoting?
Anyway, in UNIX/Linux (and I guess even in Winblows with a proper scripting language installed) to write an script of a few lines to make the conversion should not be big deal.
is there any legal action we can take against the court in a defamation of character suit? It's obvious they have just degraded us and our cause without a viable reason.
In Singapore Members of Parliment and oposition politicians are rutinarely sued by goverment officials for doing things like expressing an opinion during a political campaign.
They go as far as to try to sue journalists in foreign countries for publishing something that is not favorable to them, but I disgress...
It is important that members of the goverment (the judiciary is part of the goverment) can carry out their duties unimpended by frivolus suits related to their work as a goverment person from the state or the public in general.
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RTFF reagarding USENET before making these assertions so lightly ....1
When you are locked away of most web sites of some interest beacuse you don't use passport then perhaps you will feel that some degree of force is been applied ...
The ones I have not read.
Sorrrryyyyyy.
Still the decision is dumb.
Which part of the word ScienceFiction you don't understand?
... ;-)
My bet is Science
(having said that, the prize is also available for fantasy books, to which HP rightly belongs and as such is a worthy winner).
Which part of the word ScienceFiction do the Hugo Award jury don't understand?
My bet is Science....
Thing s will change, it is just a metter of time and horrors.
Just recently the UK goverment has been questioned very heavily about why they are using MS only technologies for a supposses "goverment portal'.
After many complains they had to make sure alternative browser could use it when at the beginning (oh surprise) only IE would work.
Each Outlook outage wisens up a few more people.
I'm not terribly worried by any "unfair and deceptive practices" that may ensue with regard to privacy. Any information given to Microsoft is done so in a completely voluntary manner: any leak of that information would certainly become well-known in a very short amount of time.
Q: Hod did Pinochet in Chile managed to get all the commies after the 1972 coup?
A. He got the list of members of the Socialist Party. The members of the part gave their details willingly.
The point: you never know how information about you is going to be used, so unless it is absolutely unavoidable, you should not give it away, specialy to a for-profit entity, because think: what would be their priority: your privacy or their bottom line?
What the green movements are oposing is the introduction of GM crops without proper assesment of the consequences. They don;t claim they are bad for your health, they claim we don't know and that more research is needed.
Given the fact that a lot (most?) processed food have already GM stuff anyway, and knowing how ignoratn we are about these matters, I think is only wise that every fanily has the choice to decide wether they want to risk or not any possible problems.
As we know, most generalizations are wrong (except this one of course).
Where goverments are forced to participate in enterprises that normaly would be better left to the private sector is when the social costs of letting capitalism run unchecked are unacceptable.
A few examples:
-In rural communities all around the world some services are not introduced or even whitdramwn because they are not profitable, this include transport, banking, and ironicaly even telecommunications (if you live in Nowhereville, pop. 100, you can sit waiting for your broadband access until hell freezes).
-Some Oil comapnies in 3rd world countries could work more eficently laying off 50% of its personel and if they were in private hands would generate huge profits, nevertheless it is unacceptable to lay off 50% of employed people in poor countries.
And now, some examples of whay private is not always better:
-Microsoft.
-The British Rail Industry was privatised in the mid 90's, todays private trains are a disaster, all this after the intial "investors" sold their share at big profits and left the company and after several years of compromising security in order to make more profits. Several tens of peopls have paid with their lives for this.
Enough for know, tired of fighting blanket generalizations.
We as a species protect what you call "less efective" genotypes because it has an evolutionary advantage: keeps the minds of brilliant people active, no possible source of knowledge is wasted.
Thanks to that, Stephen Hawkings is alive, he gave us all his new (mostly correct) ways to look at the universe. All this knowledge could save our neck as a species one day in the future.
If you think he is thinking about AI in terms of silicon chips with today's technics you are either naive or pretty unimaginative.
He knows we will create intelligent machines that will think faster and more acurately than we do.
We are sending machines to space today that have the cognocitive ability of a grashopper in terms of decission making, we have computer programs that can beat most humans at playing the most intelectual of all games (chess) and that has been with only 50 years of serious, widespread computing enhancement and research.
This guy is thinking in what is going to happen in 10000 or 100000 thousend years. By then silicon machines will most probably be remembered as a rarity if at all.
I do not care if XP is the best OS under the Sun, I refuse to put more money in a company with the dubious moral attitude of MS regarding the computer market, its clients and what competition should be.
It is also important that people that do know how to use a computer keep alive alternatives to MS, otherwise there is absolutely no chance that there will be solutions available when the time comes to break the MS "embrace". (example: sooner or later most goverments around the world will realize how foolish it is to depend on one company for the format in which they are storing information. Most sensible goverments are horrified to thing to delegate responsibility of strategical resources in the hands of private, foreign companies. Most goveerments will sooner or later realize that MS is a foreign company and that they have them by the b@@11s because MS holds the key to access their own information).
When Cds replaced vinyl discs.
Oh! They are of worst quality.
Oh! Nobody has a player.
As they say, the rest is history.
For me the only real thing when it comes to music is live music itself. Music is a social thing, not an egoistic one.
Vinyl, CDs and MP3s are not more than a convenience and only insecure people need to advertise themselves in such a poor manner with a CD collection of 500 volumes that basic logic says the never listen to....
I wish I could ....
Just add up two numbers, write it down in English (or whatever is your language):
2 plus 2 equals four
Now, design a language that says
2 2 plus equals four
The first member of the equality is completely different. That is what make it difficult to understand.
COmputer languages don't grow in isolation, they have to adapt to the person, not the other way around.
The way Forth is designed is not the way we learn to read, mathematics or many other things.
What is great to make the language compact and efficent is just plain horrible when a human tries to read the code.
I can have a go to try to understand code in other languages written by programmers with little regard for the people that will read the code. Such programmers writing Forth make the task impossible.
Does everybody also put fake addresses ?
Where there any black slave owners?
That is illegal everywhere with the exception of Botswana, Afghanistan and Micronesia.
Perhaps when all the "popular" implementations adhere to a same standard that allows code portability?
Or when some good Forth references (not some lost web pages here and there) are published?
... then nothing will do.
I would be the first to offer time and effort for such a system. Just imagine, contribute to put somebody in space and bring him back safely. Now, that would be something.....
High culture -- the traditional, respectable, well-funded kind -- gets covered and criticized in the other media. But upstart culture, especially low cyberculture, can be wondrous stuff, an explosition of idiosyncratic voices that gives birth to this website and to Seanbaby.com. Interesting, valuable, fragile and endangered, Seanbaby.com is in its unique way, very significant
Can you kindly tell us what is that "high culture" you are talking about?
Classical Music, Opera or Ballet perhaps? No coverage of the media.
Serious books aiming to more than provide a nice reading for your summer holidays? No, those are not covered by the media either.
Painting, architecture? No, one hour per week in CNN does not count as coverage.
So what is that "high culture" that MS-AOL-The BIG MEDIA are promoting?
And when are you going to listen to all that? ;-)
Anyway, in UNIX/Linux (and I guess even in Winblows with a proper scripting language installed) to write an script of a few lines to make the conversion should not be big deal.
You are right....
I pity you now....
Good luck!
is there any legal action we can take against the court in a defamation of character suit? It's obvious they have just degraded us and our cause without a viable reason.
In Singapore Members of Parliment and oposition politicians are rutinarely sued by goverment officials for doing things like expressing an opinion during a political campaign.
They go as far as to try to sue journalists in foreign countries for publishing something that is not favorable to them, but I disgress...
It is important that members of the goverment (the judiciary is part of the goverment) can carry out their duties unimpended by frivolus suits related to their work as a goverment person from the state or the public in general.