But forcing the wealthy into the same schools strikes me as an obviously bad answer (intuitively, emperically, etc).
..Because the rich are naturally better.
You might even have an evolutionary arguement for this one, but that would be your only chance.
Sorry, but your posts reflect such a obvious, sad bias. I've heard a number of people defend their wealth. The problem is they always start from a different place in the argument (much like life). They start with the assumption that everyone is like them (it's a common mistake, Freud) and go from there. The differences, especially in America, in growing up "with money" and not are extreme, too extreme to understand without extensive study, and experience. By "with money" I mean having enough money, continuously, for food, clothing, and shelter. And NOTHING else. There are many people who live below that line. Unless your life is much different than the thousands of people I know from your socio-economic class, these have never been a concern for you. Until they have you have no business talking about this subject.
Maybe they just changed productivity. I can't hand a 200,000 record table to a person or even a group of people and have them hand pick out duplicates and expect to see the result within the week. This takes a matter of hours with a medium power (today) desktop computer. Maybe it just doesn't apply to certain industries, but, like I said in my other post, my job would have been impossible to do in a company our size 10 years ago (at least at the volume I do now). Maybe computers don't increase productivity for people who don't USE them (salesmen, secretaries) but for me, and the artists (who have G3s) at work, a faster computer can double the amount of work we can do, because the work itself is processor intensive.
but I am completely convinced that current copyright law in the US hurts consumers more than it helps producers, and as such is a bad law that ought to be changed for the better.
Agreed, our current laws only exist the limit the supply of the product and therefore create value through scarcity. This is an unnatural situation given the nature of the product. The laws should be changed accordingly. Or at least the people should be educated about an alternative...
The Solow paradox says that computers don't seem to add anything to the productivity statistics. That either means computers aren't as useful as we think, or the statistics are wrong. I tend to think it's a little of both, but the result is that MS doesn't do a whole lot for the economy.
I've seen these Solow statistics, and I don't buy 'em. Maybe its just that Moore's law has made what I do possible on desktop machines. Ten years ago it would have taken desktop machines days if not weeks to do what I can do in a single day. Not that I do that much, but it still wouldn't have been possible without the overlal speed increase of computers, and networking, and now, the Internet.
I don't think this report/study takes into account the tremendous amount of work that is now done by robots. Not the big shiny metal ones, the ones that live and work in our machines. Programs and such. My little army does the work of at least 200 people, every day. I recently started an in-house data entry company, on one machine.
When I hear that Microsoft is *Shipping* a Linux port of Office, I'm gonna party. Everyone in the office will look at me funny, but, heh, what else is gnu.
Don't make it illegal. Here's a crazy idea to become legal. Use Free Software. This could be a MAJOR advocacy point. What? You want to be a law abiding citizen? Here use this. Yep, give it to as many friends as you want. Hell, burn it to a CD, make a pretty box, get announced on/., and go public, everybodies doin' it.
Software's value is zero (Demand/Supply). The sooner the law realizes that the better. The same with IP. We need some serious restructuring of these laws to allow for an infinite product. Capitalism and an infinitely renewable procucts make for a dangerous mix.
He doesn't have enough time. He has about a year left in his tenure. Right now he is fighting hard for low-power radio. The radio industry says it will interfere, minority groups (the ones who could now have radio stations) say that it won't with another set of independant tests. Kennard is also fighting with congress over ownership caps. Ownership of cable, which AT&T might be violating, and network coverage, both from the CBS/Viacom and Clear Channal/AMFM mergers (That's over a 1,200 radio stations/35 TV stations in the U.S.).
Kennard is plenty busy to try and even BEGIN to tackle the Internet. Trust me, this will be a big issue. The next FCC Chairman will most likely tackle the 'Net. And, correct me if I'm wrong, the President appoints (nominates) the position. So VOTE, dammit.
Which quickly leads to death and,,umm,,,malcontent.
Do under others as you would have them do you.a.k.a. the "Golden Rule"
I like cybersquatting, but I think that sometimes it crosses the line. Most of the cases I've seen so far have been pretty fair, IMHO. It's easy to raise a ruckus nowaways. Most of the good ones are taken. Of course the new addition of.rec.comp.biz, whatever will make this issue even more important. try freshmeat.net.org.com
Not that I'm compaining, JC should be getting kickbacks from every 3d card manufacturer for creating a market for them. Great interview. Anyone who can say NT is better, for game developement than linux, on/. and not get flamed to all hell is a special kind of coder. I was actually looking forward to this one. Good job/.
Think big bang. Think all of reality in a peapod. Time is still. Or is it. Boom, everything starting spreading, growing, like a little flower. Now think about the sign we have for infinity. ya'know that twisty thingy. Now look at all the patterns of life in death in nature. Fron half-life to earthquakes (hehe). Now think of black holes. Sucking in everything, even other black holes. mmm, black holes. Now think of matter all compacting to one space, one time, one peapod. Rinse, repeat.
Throw in free will and chaos (quantum craziness) and you have a hell of a fun game.
Time is God. or at least what most people think of it as. They are nearly interrchangable. "It is all done through X." "X is all-powerful. all-knowing, and everywhere."
They are both understood at about the same level "God does not Exist!!" (That's was the major philosophical break for thr ren.). The given of the equation.
That's my personal philosophy at least, it goes on, but not here. Gotta website comin' soon...
There was a link from/. a few weeks ago. They testified in front of Fred Thompson, the newest Actor turned Politico. He, after taking a clue-by-four across the temple, called them "American heroes." (Note: the clue was the total vulnerability and shaky infrastructure our multi-trillion dollar economy is built upon) (i'd give it a link, but it took more than 30 seconds to find one:).
Why should any of you (we) care what image is being portrayed of us. I mean it's not like any of us would call ourselves "hackers" or anything. It's not like any of us spend any time on computers. (/sarcasm)
I watched the show, or I should say it was on the TV in the same room (I'm a multi-media-vore). Most of the guys on it were idiots. Shamrock was a joke, he wasn't picking up a Mysterious Disk, he was trying to hide his crystal. Ever see a group of folks with police scanners, just hanging out. Deep red eyes and shifty as hell. He was in jail for "possession with intent to distribute" and some other "information-related" stuff. It is really sad that this was one of the images portrayed, a freakin' meth dealer, nice job MTV. Mantis, (the black kid) was by far the most positive image. He seemed intelligent, and lo and behold, they actually showed a CLI on his screen (UNIX-type files), most of the other shots were GUI's (and mostly win). At the very least he knew how to dress and interact in "normal" life. A positive image, surprise, surprise. He also mentioned that now he was a good guy, mostly, but good and bad mean different things to different people. He was the only one quoted "information wants to be free", which he mentioned in passing.
The other kid (Chameleon, his hair dyed blue for camo), who talked to Bin-Laden's agent and was awakened one morning with a gun in his face (his mom backs up the story So I'll give it the benny of the doubt) was the other side of the story. I'd guess he has other "issues", seemed like a pretty normal script kiddie who found something interesting, investigated and got slammed back into reality. With enough of 'em out there, one or two are bound to get into trouble.
Serena, while attractive, was totally out of her element, had no clue, no idea what questions to ask, and a total lack of anything resembling a grasp on any single idea represented in the half-hour (with 7 min. of commercials) tidbit. At the end of the show, during the credits, she couldn't login, and started immediately blaming "hackers!, grr". How many times, as a percentage, is a user not being able to login attributable to getting cracked? 1%, maybe 2?
I wouldn't even call it a full meal of info, just some random images, noise if you will. Unfortunately the younger generations of TV viewers often pick the signal out of the crap and this signal was crap.
I'm not sure where this post turned into a full-on review, but I watched the show so I figured I should share.
Actually the diversion wasn't too far off. The original story was about Jobs => Pixar => Bad American animation => Anime discussion. BTW: thanks for giving me some titles to go find.
Re:Cracking is a crime. Period.
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Don't forget about cigarettes and beer. Combined with the drug companies they would love to see a "Drug Free America!"!
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But forcing the wealthy into the same schools strikes me as an obviously bad answer (intuitively, emperically, etc).
..Because the rich are naturally better.
You might even have an evolutionary arguement for this one, but that would be your only chance.
Sorry, but your posts reflect such a obvious, sad bias. I've heard a number of people defend their wealth. The problem is they always start from a different place in the argument (much like life). They start with the assumption that everyone is like them (it's a common mistake, Freud) and go from there. The differences, especially in America, in growing up "with money" and not are extreme, too extreme to understand without extensive study, and experience. By "with money" I mean having enough money, continuously, for food, clothing, and shelter. And NOTHING else. There are many people who live below that line. Unless your life is much different than the thousands of people I know from your socio-economic class, these have never been a concern for you. Until they have you have no business talking about this subject.
Go see "American Beauty", the above post is what it's all about, a fine film.
Maybe they just changed productivity. I can't hand a 200,000 record table to a person or even a group of people and have them hand pick out duplicates and expect to see the result within the week. This takes a matter of hours with a medium power (today) desktop computer. Maybe it just doesn't apply to certain industries, but, like I said in my other post, my job would have been impossible to do in a company our size 10 years ago (at least at the volume I do now). Maybe computers don't increase productivity for people who don't USE them (salesmen, secretaries) but for me, and the artists (who have G3s) at work, a faster computer can double the amount of work we can do, because the work itself is processor intensive.
but I am completely convinced that current copyright law in the US hurts consumers more than it helps producers, and as such is a bad law that ought to be changed for the better.
Agreed, our current laws only exist the limit the supply of the product and therefore create value through scarcity. This is an unnatural situation given the nature of the product. The laws should be changed accordingly. Or at least the people should be educated about an alternative...
The Solow paradox says that computers don't seem to add anything to the productivity statistics. That either means computers aren't as useful as we think, or the statistics are wrong. I tend to think it's a little of both, but the result is that MS doesn't do a whole lot for the economy.
I've seen these Solow statistics, and I don't buy 'em. Maybe its just that Moore's law has made what I do possible on desktop machines. Ten years ago it would have taken desktop machines days if not weeks to do what I can do in a single day. Not that I do that much, but it still wouldn't have been possible without the overlal speed increase of computers, and networking, and now, the Internet.
I don't think this report/study takes into account the tremendous amount of work that is now done by robots. Not the big shiny metal ones, the ones that live and work in our machines. Programs and such. My little army does the work of at least 200 people, every day. I recently started an in-house data entry company, on one machine.
Anyway, I think that report is bunk.
When I hear that Microsoft is *Shipping* a Linux port of Office, I'm gonna party. Everyone in the office will look at me funny, but, heh, what else is gnu.
Don't make it illegal. Here's a crazy idea to become legal. Use Free Software. This could be a MAJOR advocacy point. What? You want to be a law abiding citizen? Here use this. Yep, give it to as many friends as you want. Hell, burn it to a CD, make a pretty box, get announced on /., and go public, everybodies doin' it.
Software's value is zero (Demand/Supply). The sooner the law realizes that the better. The same with IP. We need some serious restructuring of these laws to allow for an infinite product. Capitalism and an infinitely renewable procucts make for a dangerous mix.
He doesn't have enough time. He has about a year left in his tenure. Right now he is fighting hard for low-power radio. The radio industry says it will interfere, minority groups (the ones who could now have radio stations) say that it won't with another set of independant tests. Kennard is also fighting with congress over ownership caps. Ownership of cable, which AT&T might be violating, and network coverage, both from the CBS/Viacom and Clear Channal/AMFM mergers (That's over a 1,200 radio stations/35 TV stations in the U.S.).
Kennard is plenty busy to try and even BEGIN to tackle the Internet. Trust me, this will be a big issue. The next FCC Chairman will most likely tackle the 'Net. And, correct me if I'm wrong, the President appoints (nominates) the position. So VOTE, dammit.
At one time, all unused acres of land DID belong to the government. Much of Michigan's...
*cough*Indians*cough*
Eventually, the people will buy up all the domain names.
hmmm...lets see 40?(chars)^26 = 4.503599627370496e+41 (calc)
* $35/year = $1.5762598695796736e+43/year. I don't think the species can make all the payments...
(+-1 Nitpick)
Mal, your sig belies your leanings.
,,umm,,,malcontent.
.rec .comp .biz, whatever will make this issue even more important. .org .com
Do unto others what has been done to you
Which quickly leads to death and
Do under others as you would have them do you.a.k.a. the "Golden Rule"
I like cybersquatting, but I think that sometimes it crosses the line. Most of the cases I've seen so far have been pretty fair, IMHO. It's easy to raise a ruckus nowaways. Most of the good ones are taken. Of course the new addition of
try freshmeat.net
Should be interesting...
The Dragonlance movie that is. Death knights are cool and kender are what hobbits should have been (taunting little thieves)
"You will feel the need to upgrade your machine every 2 years...simply to play id's latest game"
/. and not get flamed to all hell is a special kind of coder. I was actually looking forward to this one. Good job /.
at least thats how it worked for me
Before id's FPS 386-16
Doom-486-25 => DoomII-486dx2-50 => Quake-p100(voodoo1) => QuakeII-p200 => Quake3-pII450(voodoo3)
Not that I'm compaining, JC should be getting kickbacks from every 3d card manufacturer for creating a market for them. Great interview. Anyone who can say NT is better, for game developement than linux, on
...there were some good jokes told in Afganistan today, but I didn't hear 'em.
If you want to be heard, Identify yourself. Be accountable.
I'm sure they'd be MUCH more interested in what happened to Elvis, don't ya think. What with the Perfectly Normal Beasts and all that.
I said {NT}
Think big bang. Think all of reality in a peapod. Time is still. Or is it. Boom, everything starting spreading, growing, like a little flower.
Now think about the sign we have for infinity. ya'know that twisty thingy. Now look at all the patterns of life in death in nature. Fron half-life to earthquakes (hehe). Now think of black holes. Sucking in everything, even other black holes. mmm, black holes. Now think of matter all compacting to one space, one time, one peapod. Rinse, repeat.
Throw in free will and chaos (quantum craziness) and you have a hell of a fun game.
Coming soon to your Playstation10^9
Time is God. or at least what most people think of it as. They are nearly interrchangable. "It is all done through X." "X is all-powerful. all-knowing, and everywhere."
They are both understood at about the same level "God does not Exist!!" (That's was the major philosophical break for thr ren.). The given of the equation.
That's my personal philosophy at least, it goes on, but not here. Gotta website comin' soon...
Maybe they should have said "because anything else would be much less probable".
lol
That's just the kind of thing a kid would understand.
If you believed in chaos theory would god "be" the dice?
It only slows down if you're looking on from the outside, inside it you don't notice.
got an antecedent for "he"? (the person He stands for)
There was a link from /. a few weeks ago. They testified in front of Fred Thompson, the newest Actor turned Politico. :).
He, after taking a clue-by-four across the temple, called them "American heroes." (Note: the clue was the total vulnerability and shaky infrastructure our multi-trillion dollar economy is built upon)
(i'd give it a link, but it took more than 30 seconds to find one
umm, it's very difficult to get "complete" privacy on the 'Net. Just ask your ISP what your favorite pr0n site is, they probably know.
Why should any of you (we) care what image is being portrayed of us. I mean it's not like any of us would call ourselves "hackers" or anything. It's not like any of us spend any time on computers.
(/sarcasm)
I watched the show, or I should say it was on the TV in the same room (I'm a multi-media-vore). Most of the guys on it were idiots. Shamrock was a joke, he wasn't picking up a Mysterious Disk, he was trying to hide his crystal. Ever see a group of folks with police scanners, just hanging out. Deep red eyes and shifty as hell. He was in jail for "possession with intent to distribute" and some other "information-related" stuff. It is really sad that this was one of the images portrayed, a freakin' meth dealer, nice job MTV.
Mantis, (the black kid) was by far the most positive image. He seemed intelligent, and lo and behold, they actually showed a CLI on his screen (UNIX-type files), most of the other shots were GUI's (and mostly win). At the very least he knew how to dress and interact in "normal" life. A positive image, surprise, surprise. He also mentioned that now he was a good guy, mostly, but good and bad mean different things to different people. He was the only one quoted "information wants to be free", which he mentioned in passing.
The other kid (Chameleon, his hair dyed blue for camo), who talked to Bin-Laden's agent and was awakened one morning with a gun in his face (his mom backs up the story So I'll give it the benny of the doubt) was the other side of the story. I'd guess he has other "issues", seemed like a pretty normal script kiddie who found something interesting, investigated and got slammed back into reality. With enough of 'em out there, one or two are bound to get into trouble.
Serena, while attractive, was totally out of her element, had no clue, no idea what questions to ask, and a total lack of anything resembling a grasp on any single idea represented in the half-hour (with 7 min. of commercials) tidbit. At the end of the show, during the credits, she couldn't login, and started immediately blaming "hackers!, grr". How many times, as a percentage, is a user not being able to login attributable to getting cracked? 1%, maybe 2?
I wouldn't even call it a full meal of info, just some random images, noise if you will. Unfortunately the younger generations of TV viewers often pick the signal out of the crap and this signal was crap.
I'm not sure where this post turned into a full-on review, but I watched the show so I figured I should share.
Actually the diversion wasn't too far off. The original story was about Jobs => Pixar => Bad American animation => Anime discussion. BTW: thanks for giving me some titles to go find.
Don't forget about cigarettes and beer. Combined with the drug companies they would love to see a "Drug Free America!"!