Savage is an RTS/FPS/RPG hybrid. The setting is a post-apocalyptic world where the Legion of Man and the Beast Horde battle for supremacy. There are two teams in a game of Savage2, both of which will expand to capture resources, kill enemy players and NPCs, and build up their bases to unlock new technology or magic to try to crush the enemy base. Victory is achieved in Savage 2 when you destroy the enemy command center.
Part of what makes Savage 2 unique is the role of "commander" - a unit who plays from the RTS perspective and helps organize his team's efforts to defeat the enemy. Commanders can build structures, buff allies, debuff enemies and most importantly play as master tactician with a great view of the battlefield. A lot has been done to ensure that the commander is not overpowered or able to ruin a game for his team."
It is completely free to play and has a native Linux client. The community is rather small at the moment, because it has a bit of a learning curve, but once you mastered it (and that shouldn't be a problem for any Linux user), it is one of the best multiplayer games.
Note that the other games S2 games has developed also have native Linux clients. Check out Savage 2 for example which is a great game and available for Linux for free:
The more research is put into "discovering" more physical or psychical disorders the more will be found, thus enlarging the amount of people that ar sick, anormal or plain mad, while the leftover amount of healthy, normal, sane people is getting smaller. Strange feeling being the only one normal left over in a crazy world, huh? This is how science can make a society sicker in one sense which is btw. totally contradictory to the increasing life expectancy we can measure. I think the only thing we can learn from this, and this could be good news, is that It is anormal to be normal and normal to be anormal (In the statistical sense of averaging in every repect). So better start coping with the ones being different than ourselves instead of condeming them. And maybe even realize that most of this worlds population would judge your "normal" behaviour as highly suspect, maybe even mad.
From the CNN article: More than 30 human disorders are already associated with changes to genes of chromosome 22. These include a form of leukemia, disorders of fetal development and the nervous system, and schizophrenia. From the introduction: some of 22's genes can cause "heart defects, immune system disorders, cancers, schizophrenia and mental retardation." Is it just me or is there not a big difference between causation and association? Seems to me along the line of correlation vs. causation. Anyway, I believe that scientists have still a long way to go before they find the genes that cause certain disorders. And then they will still have to prove that these genes are in no way responsible for any other functions in the human body to safely alter them. Seeing all the good possible uses for medicine it still gives me the creeps how through the use of genetics and monocausal argumentation a new "scientifically backed" racism could emerge again. Now don't scream technophobe but how would you all react once the genes allegedly causing things like alcoholism, homosexuality, autism, criminalism, lazyness or whatever unwanted psychic or physical trait you can think off where identified? Have we got our ethics ready to handle this or will it be "what can be done will be done"? On whom will we test genetic engineering for a better race? The inhabitants of prisons, mental institutions, military institutions or just unwanted embryos? Will we allow babys to live with these disorders? Will we allow people to work without mandatory testing of genetic normality? History has shown that scientists have often produced technology that was later misused by the willing. Hopefully this time they think more before they hand this Pandoras box to the masses.
1. Some people think that you can gain any desired value "through the exchange of goods or services". This, to my mind, very capitalistic assumption cannot be upheld and is ultimately dangerous. You can not always buy friends, love, beauty, time, longevity etc. Sometimes these things are just given to you, without the need to repay for the value. Remember the meaning of gift (present) as in superior ability given to you by the arbitrary mixture of your parents chromosomes.
2. Criticizing (looks horrible that word - is it spelled correctly?) captitalism does not imply favouring communism. Actually communism and capitalism in their extremest senses have as political theories been historically disproven - think Manchester.
3. Your idealistic presentation of the free market ( Simply put, no exchange of goods or services will occure unless both parties benefit.) is utopian. You surely must agree that there is sometimes a difference between what you consider benefitial and what would really benefit you (Ever been ripped off?). In a free market you can wonderfully benefit from other peoples stupidity. You get the money they get that happy-fuzzy feeling. You as a smart man of course would never buy the Golden Gate Bridge or "loose 20 kilos in a week through dehydration" pills. But stupid people do - and they need the same protection from the free market forces than any other weak part of a community (Of course the best protection would be making them smart but then some people would lose some status - so better stick with status symbols and social darwinism). Get into your head that the privileges you live with where first given to you and that not all men are created as equal as your free market propaganda makes you believe.
4. To disprove your generalization of why people write Open Software. Many people write software for themselves to solve a problem they encounter. Giving the software away later on comes easy to them because they already had their benefit through solving the problem and see no reason why others should not benefit also. To believe that the only (possible) motivation for writing free software is a happy-fuzzy feeling or level of status is just plainly ignorant in light of the fact that some of the greatest free sofware was written not because some guy lacked fuzzy feelings or status but because he feeled that society as a whole lacked something. Of course you could argument that this guy indirectly gained something through the advancement of society and that this unconsciously motivated him. But I am sure he would consider this insinuating.
Uff i wanted to make a funny post and now this has turned into a rehash of RMS vs. ESR argumentation, oh well still hungover;-)
Since Linux is just like every other drug - dangerous for those little people that need to be protected from the forces of evil and guided towards the light side - it is perfectly understandeable that this clause is in Corels EULA. Hey how about disallowing computer use for minors in general (Or maybe just free software cause it doesnt follow capitalist traditions, which must be installed into the next generations). I think 18 is not enough let them get 21 till they get to ride that wicked kernel.
Corel is just stupid on this one. Have they not understood that you need to get kids addicted early to make the addiction last a lifetime?
Just like with guns show them early that you need to be paranoid and protective and whoahey the signs of fear will show up when grown up too. God for the national economy that (sells guns and lowers the social security expenses).
Woops, gotten offtopic but am in rant mood (Hung over cause European;-) Need a linux prohibition anyone?)
I seem to remember, that at least several years ago, that Germany had a three-track system based on exams. Those that performed well, got taxpayer-funded tuition. Those that did not, were shunted off to other schools. If that's correct, it's pretty dangerous compared to a system where a student on the edge can at least talk to Admissions staff and possibly convince them otherwise. The three track system you referr to is way before university. There are three levels of schools for children between 11 and 18. Haupt, Real and Gymnasium. Germany being a federal state where education is handled by the individual states many different implementations are existant. Generally you can say that in more conservative areas children are more separated out by performance. In other areas the parents have a big say to what schoold their kids go. Unfortunately we still see something similar as in the States here: poorer people or foreigners have a much higher percentage in the "lower" schools. But there is a big discussion going on how this can be changed and these people be more integrated. After this you have the classical three-track system: Company education mixed with further schooling (Here usually people from Haupt/Real school go), University (Fachhochschule for more practical oriented studies, Hochschule for more theoretical oriented studies) and also the Volksschule for grownups(Erwachsenenbildung). In all these ways of educating the government has alot of influence, mainly through funding. In the end we have a more widespread but at the end points no so excellent or bad education, I like it because the graphs more represent the gaussian curve (normal distribution). And again to your last point. And this is just anedoctal so no real evidence. After my family moved back to germany (1986) all of my sisters had to go back a year, cause the american education just wasn't up to par. I was lucky and got through, being a smart ass. Still I had to go to another school than the one i wanted to go to, cause i lost my latin in the States. Later on I was able to talk the principal into letting me in again, since latin was not mandatory anymore after 11th grade. Germany has grown up, people are not shunted off to other schools, but there are big efforts to pick the people up where they are and teach them how to learn not memorize.
Looking at nature selection is sometimes random. (Poor strong rich animals happening to build their house in an earthquake area and dying of it). But seriously. Selection should not be random on a human scale, i agree. But (there is always a but:-)) is the wealth of your parents not a random value? What about the problems of measuring intelligence (The proposed IQ has been through several fractions already, emotional, linguistical, mathematical etc.). How do you measure how likely one has success as a CEO or politician? The idea in sports where these things can be measured more easily is to give stronger ones a handicap to even out the race at the beginning (golf for example). How can a race (for economical or whatever success) be fair when you are allowed to buy yourself a better starting point? And to get back to your point, I too think that not every person is fit for positions as CEOs or managers or marathon runners - it still surprises me though why so many CEOs have a long history of failures, yet survive in their game, while a sportsman who never wins a race will never go to the olympics. Excuse me for using the old race/life metaphor, but i guess i am just envious of some of these lonely loosers on the top of the mountain...;-)
I always wonder why you literally have to buy yourself a good education in the United States. Now do not flame me yet, I lived two years in that country and was lucky enough my parents lived in a rich suburb, making the schools rather good (though coming from europe it was easy to get good grades anyway). And I know there is a large scholarship system (larger than in germany) covering those exceptionally bright. But what about those mediocre intelligent, monetary poor people? Do they not at least deserve as good an education as those mediocre intelligent but monetary rich? Is intellectual elitism (as it has displayed it's face quite often on/.) really that strongly embedded or should the end of that pledge that they make you say in school rather be "with liberty, justice and education for all who have money" as I usually thought when I listened to that brainwash.
Both of these issues ultimately hinge on whether source code is speech. And we already have one court saying it is and another saying that it isn't. Correct me if I am wrong, but I have a feeling that the abstraction can be taken higher: Is information or the medium that carries it or services acompanying (?spelling?) that information the part of a sale that is actually sold? Or in other words: Can the laws of possesion (pertaining to tools or weapons or such), covering their use and distribution, be applied to the information that these objects inherently carry?
He should never have been equated with Nazism It was the Nazis who took his philosophy in need of some philosophical backup of their madness. If Singer would have been around he would have been equally misused. That is probably why people think these ideas are dangerous, fearing those who would take any arguments to go their way: destroying those who they through some moral standard see unfit (not good enough) for life. I do not quite agree though with the rest of your interpretation. Morality is to my feelings part of everday experience (you too sometimes say: "Well done" to some action or judge the deed of another). I think where Nietzsche can be valuable is the question if morality is question to perception or if there might be a definite set of morals all humans need to agree on (as told to us by some gos or prophets philosophers or whatever). Might we be allowed to acknowledge that some action was good in one place and time and bad in another or for another? How can we cope with the perception that everybody glues together their on set of morals and acts in their own ethical way? And why should there be a need that there should one grand unified theory about science, morals, life, the universe and all the rest. Sorry all questions no answers. But your post too much sounded like "And the Moral is: No Moral" And the superman you talk about too much sounds like god - he needs no morals cause all he does is good by definition anyway. So is it the old story again, the king (god,superman) is dead, long live the king(god,superman)? But this shouldn't be a discussion about Nietzsche anyway - did u read his biographies?
Same happened to me (only with netscape, though;-(), but anyway her a shorter version.
This essay reminds me of some reactions to a german philosophers (sloteterdijk) essay. He wrote an essay about genetically breeding the master race, in essence some ideas of nietzsche and plato about change in humanity in light of the new (perceived) genetic possibilities of biology. Also some discussion voices with the old kill-words like Genocide, Racism, Faschism. It is always these self-contradicting (verbal) actions that make me so dizzy. (aka "only ppl with my views are subject to the freedom of speech"). For an in depth discussion see the zeits archive. Now this is in german, so use babelfish or whatever. And do not flame me because u think i support this essay. I actually do not and think it is written to touch the taboos.
Just as SMOFs miss the halcyon days when everyone read every SF book available, so will we soon reach the day when it's no longer possible to buy every Linux game; the rabble will well and truly have crashed the party. If Windows stays the main development platform for a while and the Linux game developers only port the games that have proven to be a market success we might have the chance of getting a higher quality level, allthough at the cause of later release dates, for linux games - which could do some good.
Loki also has been working on open-source projects to improve how well Linux handles JPEG graphics files. Eh? Can someone explain this one to me? They published an open source installer for Linux and (methinks) also some libraries for showing mpeg films. Check out their website for more information.
Actually there has always been a demand for rugged computers. Field workers, scientists, military et al have always had the need to use computers in unfriendly environments. I remember a 286 AT with a small TV-Tube as Monitor in rough metal casing. But this was probably more like carrying a car engine.
Is there any information out as how it handles the different distributions and windomanager/desktop environment menus? There is also a project zenguin that is supposed to handle the same probs. But their page doen't seem to be updated frequently. Any info about their progress?
What is so bad about a jackass? Isn't that an animal like a donkey? They are stubborn and carry alot of weight for weak humans. If they don not want to walk a path they stop and only by hurtng them you might get them to move. And no I do not write prose in german. I am a little man aspiring to be an artist. But then again they didn't let me into arts school so I'll go for politics and after that world domination. And since christian faith does not bother me i even reply to ACs like you. Let me guess your next reply: "You just like really have to not be a total like jackass" No worries name calling broadens my frogsmile even more.
I tried to read that when studying philosophy, actually. But then you find in his introduction where he got his Inspiration from: David Hume. And that guy really wrote some amazing things about Experience and how it furthers personal knowledge and the sciences. And thanx for calling me a jackass - but i knew that too allready IA IA HA HA.o.
How about some disclaimers with nice trunklets of truth from other sciences and such.. WARNING Consuming nothing but this product might lead to dehydration. DANGER Stopping to breathe while watching this programme might render your children parentless. WARNING Dividing the cirumference by the diameter of this soda can top might lead to a large loss in time. DANGER Spitting on this piece of bread after it magickally turned into flesh will by the powers of god allmighty lead to a nasty everlasting time in a hot spot. WARNING Trying to memorize this edition of Kant's "Critique of true Reason" might lead to a lot of confusion and brain cell loss.
Sure we still have slaves, all called Mark btw. They have to sit in front of a computer all day and solve other peoples problems with no pay and only bread and water. The female slaves all called Pfennig get to work in wonderful areas like supermarkets, cleaning etc. besides having to care for their slave kids all called hope. But thank God for the Euro. By the year 2001 or so all the Marks will be replaced by peaceloving free Euros and all will be happy ever after.
I overheard this dialogue in a Franchise PC Shop here in Berlin: "Does it have Windows? No, but a Linux Boot Partition. But I want Windows. That will cost you 300 Marks more then." I giggled all the way home.
As this crap about the Yast license comes up now and again - here the text in full - even if it bothers u. I have bolded out some stuff that i find interesting or problematic. What do ESR and RS think about this license anyway? Read it then make your judgements: YaST Copyright (c) 1995 - 98 S.u.S.E. GmbH, Furth (Germany)
The object of this licence is the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) program, the name YaST, together with S.u.S.E. Linux, the Linux Distribution of S.u.S.E. GmbH, all programme derived from YaST and all works or names derived in full or in part thereof together with the use, application, archiving, reproduction and passing on of YaST, all programs derived from YaST and all works derived in full or in part thereof. The YaST program and all sources is the intellectual property of S.u.S.E. GmbH within the meaning of the Copyright Law. The name YaST is a registered trademark of S.u.S.E. GmbH. In the following S.u.S.E. GmbH is the licensor and every user or processor of YaST or works derived in full or in part thereof, together with every person who reproduces, distributes or archives YaST or S.u.S.E. Linux, is the licensee of S.u.S.E. GmbH.
The following licence terms are recognised as a result of the processing, use, application, archiving reproduction and dissemination of YaST. distribute or to amend YaST or works derived from it. These actions are forbidden by the copyright act, if this licence is not recognised. If this licence is recognised and complied with in full, it is also valid even without the written consent of the Licensee.
1. Usage YaST and S.u.S.E. Linux may be used for personal and commercial purposes if the copyright and licence terms of the installed packages and programmes are observed. The use of YaST, even if a modified version is used, does NOT exempt in particular the Licensee from the duty to take due care with regard to the licence terms of the packages or programmes installed through YaST or works based on it.
2. Processing All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on the opening screen, stating that S.u.S.E. GmbH is not providing any support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by S.u.S.E. GmbH are deemed to be a "Modified Version". The Licensee is based on the YaST programme is created, provided that the following conditions are satisfied.
a) Every amendment must have a note in the source with date and operator. The amended sources must be made available for the user in accordance with section 3) together with the unamended licence.
b) The Licensee is obliged to make all work distributed by him which is derived as a whole or in part from YaST or parts of YaST to third parties as a whole under the terms of this licence without royalties.
c) The amendment of this licence by a Licensee, even in part, is forbidden.
S.u.S.E. GmbH reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of a modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this.
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I hope you meant you babble sarcastically - otherwise i would have to say that you represent what causes europeans often to have a prejudice against citicens of the United States of America: Ignorance of present ongoings outside their State or Country, Ignorance of present ongoings inside their State or Country, unquestioned repetition of authorities and their views and clichees (aka religious leaders etc.), a backward nationalism, that ignores the possibility of a people to learn and remember. But then again i hope this was meant to be sarcasm or irony or whatever and if not then pray to your god to send down some brain - open your eyes and question your authorities, please.o.
Yeah, since there is no god left to call it after, lets have Douglas Adams, the man who travelled the universe and time the most anyway, give it the name. Rupert sounds nice and just think of all the revenue from having all those books (star atlanten( that is the german plural for atlas - sorry if it isnt the english one) etc.) printed and sold all over.o.
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Check out Savage 2:
http://www.savage2.com/en/main.php
From their FAQ:
"What is Savage? What type of game is it?
Savage is an RTS/FPS/RPG hybrid. The setting is a post-apocalyptic world where the Legion of Man and the Beast Horde battle for supremacy. There are two teams in a game of Savage2, both of which will expand to capture resources, kill enemy players and NPCs, and build up their bases to unlock new technology or magic to try to crush the enemy base. Victory is achieved in Savage 2 when you destroy the enemy command center.
Part of what makes Savage 2 unique is the role of "commander" - a unit who plays from the RTS perspective and helps organize his team's efforts to defeat the enemy. Commanders can build structures, buff allies, debuff enemies and most importantly play as master tactician with a great view of the battlefield. A lot has been done to ensure that the commander is not overpowered or able to ruin a game for his team."
It is completely free to play and has a native Linux client. The community is rather small at the moment, because it has a bit of a learning curve, but once you mastered it (and that shouldn't be a problem for any Linux user), it is one of the best multiplayer games.
Note that the other games S2 games has developed also have native Linux clients.
Check out Savage 2 for example which is a great game and available for Linux
for free:
http://www.savage2.com/en/
Or this or this?
Check out the icons at kde-look.org
The more research is put into "discovering" more physical or psychical disorders the more will be found, thus enlarging the amount of people that ar sick, anormal or plain mad, while the leftover amount of healthy, normal, sane people is getting smaller. Strange feeling being the only one normal left over in a crazy world, huh? This is how science can make a society sicker in one sense which is btw. totally contradictory to the increasing life expectancy we can measure. I think the only thing we can learn from this, and this could be good news, is that
It is anormal to be normal and normal to be anormal (In the statistical sense of averaging in every repect).
So better start coping with the ones being different than ourselves instead of condeming them. And maybe even realize that most of this worlds population would judge your "normal" behaviour as highly suspect, maybe even mad.
From the CNN article:
More than 30 human disorders are already associated with changes to
genes of chromosome 22. These include a form of leukemia, disorders
of fetal development and the nervous system, and schizophrenia.
From the introduction:
some of 22's genes can cause "heart defects, immune system disorders, cancers, schizophrenia
and mental retardation."
Is it just me or is there not a big difference between causation and association? Seems to me along the line of correlation vs. causation. Anyway, I believe that scientists have still
a long way to go before they find the genes that cause certain disorders. And then they will still have to prove that these genes are in no way responsible for any other functions in the human body to safely alter them. Seeing all the good possible uses for medicine it still gives me the creeps how through the use of genetics and monocausal argumentation a new "scientifically backed" racism could emerge again. Now don't scream technophobe but how would you all react once the genes allegedly causing things like alcoholism, homosexuality, autism, criminalism, lazyness or whatever unwanted psychic or physical trait you can think off where identified? Have we got our ethics ready to handle this or will it be "what can be done will be done"? On whom will we test genetic engineering for a better race? The inhabitants of prisons, mental institutions, military institutions or just unwanted embryos? Will we allow babys to live with these disorders? Will we allow people to work without mandatory testing of genetic normality?
History has shown that scientists have often produced technology that was later misused by the
willing. Hopefully this time they think more before they hand this Pandoras box to the masses.
I have to disagree.
;-)
1. Some people think that you can gain any desired value "through the exchange of goods or services". This, to my mind, very capitalistic assumption cannot be upheld and is ultimately dangerous.
You can not always buy friends, love, beauty, time, longevity etc. Sometimes these things are just given to you, without the need to repay for the value. Remember the meaning of gift (present) as in superior ability given to you by the arbitrary mixture of your parents chromosomes.
2. Criticizing (looks horrible that word - is it spelled correctly?) captitalism does not imply favouring communism. Actually communism and capitalism in their extremest senses have as political theories been historically disproven - think Manchester.
3. Your idealistic presentation of the free market ( Simply put, no exchange of goods or services will occure unless both parties benefit.) is utopian. You surely must agree that there is sometimes a difference between what you consider benefitial and what would really benefit you (Ever been ripped off?). In a free market you can wonderfully benefit from other peoples stupidity. You get the money they get that happy-fuzzy feeling. You as a smart man of course would never buy the Golden Gate Bridge or "loose 20 kilos in a week through dehydration" pills. But stupid people do - and they need the same protection from the free market forces than any other weak part of a community (Of course the best protection would be making them smart but then some people would lose some status - so better stick with status symbols and social darwinism). Get into your head that the privileges you live with where first given to you and that not all men are created as equal as your free market propaganda makes you believe.
4. To disprove your generalization of why people write Open Software. Many people write software for themselves to solve a problem they encounter. Giving the software away later on comes easy to them because they already had their benefit through solving the problem and see no reason why others should not benefit also. To believe that the only (possible) motivation for writing free software is a happy-fuzzy feeling or level of status is just plainly ignorant in light of the fact that some of the greatest free sofware was written not because some guy lacked fuzzy feelings or status but because he feeled that society as a whole lacked something. Of course you could argument that this guy indirectly gained something through the advancement of society and that this unconsciously motivated him. But I am sure he would consider this insinuating.
Uff i wanted to make a funny post and now this has turned into a rehash of RMS vs. ESR argumentation, oh well still hungover
Since Linux is just like every other drug - dangerous for those little people that need to be protected from the forces of evil and guided towards the light side - it is perfectly understandeable that this clause is in Corels EULA. Hey how about disallowing computer use for minors in general (Or maybe just free software cause it doesnt follow capitalist traditions, which must be installed into the next generations). I think 18 is not enough let them
;-) Need a linux prohibition anyone?)
get 21 till they get to ride that wicked kernel.
Corel is just stupid on this one. Have they not understood that you need to get kids addicted early to make the addiction last a lifetime?
Just like with guns show them early that you need to be paranoid and protective and whoahey the signs of fear will show up when grown up too. God for the national economy that (sells guns and
lowers the social security expenses).
Woops, gotten offtopic but am in rant mood (Hung over cause European
I seem to remember, that at least several years ago, that Germany had a three-track system based on exams.
Those that performed well, got taxpayer-funded tuition. Those that did not, were shunted off to other schools. If
that's correct, it's pretty dangerous compared to a system where a student on the edge can at least talk to
Admissions staff and possibly convince them otherwise.
The three track system you referr to is way before university. There are three levels of schools for children between 11 and 18. Haupt, Real and Gymnasium. Germany being a federal state where education is handled by the individual states many different implementations are existant. Generally you can say that in more conservative areas children are more separated out by performance. In other areas the parents have a big say to what schoold their kids go. Unfortunately we still see something similar as in the States here: poorer people or foreigners have a much higher percentage in the "lower" schools. But there is a big discussion going on how this can be changed and these people be more integrated. After this you have the classical three-track system: Company education mixed with further schooling (Here usually people from Haupt/Real school go), University (Fachhochschule for more practical oriented studies, Hochschule for more theoretical oriented studies) and also the Volksschule for grownups(Erwachsenenbildung). In all these ways of educating the government has alot of influence, mainly through funding. In the end we have a more widespread but at the end points no so excellent or bad education, I like it because the graphs more represent the gaussian curve (normal distribution). And again to your last point. And this is just anedoctal so no real evidence. After my family moved back to germany (1986) all of my sisters had to go back a year, cause the american education just wasn't up to par. I was lucky and got through, being a smart ass. Still I had to go to another school than the one i wanted to go to, cause i lost my latin in the States. Later on I was able to talk the principal into letting me in again, since latin was not mandatory anymore after 11th grade. Germany has grown up, people are not shunted off to other schools, but there are big efforts to pick the people up where they are and teach them how to learn not memorize.
Looking at nature selection is sometimes random. (Poor strong rich animals happening to build their house in an earthquake area and dying of it). But seriously. Selection should not be random on a human scale, i agree. But (there is always a but :-)) is the wealth of your parents not a random value? What about the problems of measuring intelligence (The proposed IQ has been through several fractions already, emotional, linguistical, mathematical etc.). How do you measure how likely one has success as a CEO or politician? ;-)
The idea in sports where these things can be measured more easily is to give stronger ones a handicap to even out the race at the beginning (golf for example).
How can a race (for economical or whatever success) be fair when you are allowed to buy yourself a better starting point?
And to get back to your point, I too think that not every person is fit for positions as CEOs or managers or marathon runners - it still surprises me though why so many CEOs have a long history of failures, yet survive in their game, while a sportsman who never wins a race will never go to the olympics.
Excuse me for using the old race/life metaphor, but i guess i am just envious of some of these lonely loosers on the top of the mountain...
I always wonder why you literally have to buy yourself a good education in the United States. Now do not flame me yet, I lived two years in that country and was lucky enough my parents lived in a rich suburb, making the schools rather good (though coming from europe it was easy to get good grades anyway). And I know there is a large scholarship system (larger than in germany) covering those exceptionally bright. But what about those mediocre intelligent, monetary poor people? Do they not at least deserve as good an education as those mediocre intelligent but monetary rich? Is intellectual elitism (as it has displayed it's face quite often on /.) really that strongly embedded or should the end of that pledge that they make you say in school rather be "with liberty, justice and education for all who have money" as I usually thought when I listened to that brainwash.
Both of these issues ultimately hinge on whether source code is speech. And we already have one court saying it is
and another saying that it isn't.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I have a feeling that the abstraction can be taken higher: Is information or the medium that carries it or services acompanying (?spelling?) that information
the part of a sale that is actually sold? Or in other words: Can the laws of possesion (pertaining to tools or weapons or such), covering their use and distribution, be applied to the information that these objects inherently carry?
He should never have been equated with Nazism
It was the Nazis who took his philosophy in need of some philosophical backup of their madness. If Singer would have been around he would have been equally misused. That is probably why people think these ideas are dangerous, fearing those who would take any arguments to go their way: destroying those who they through some moral standard see unfit (not good enough) for life.
I do not quite agree though with the rest of your interpretation. Morality is to my feelings part of everday experience (you too sometimes say: "Well done" to some action or judge the deed of another). I think where Nietzsche can be valuable is the question if morality is question to perception or if there might be a definite set of morals all humans need to agree on (as told to us by some gos or prophets philosophers or whatever). Might we be allowed to acknowledge that some action was good in one place and time and bad in another or for another? How can we cope with the perception that everybody glues together their on set of morals and acts in their own ethical way? And why should there be a need that there should one grand unified theory about science, morals, life, the universe and all the rest. Sorry all questions no answers. But your post too much sounded like "And the Moral is: No Moral" And the superman you talk about too much sounds like god - he needs no morals cause all he does is good by definition anyway. So is it the old story again, the king (god,superman) is dead, long live the king(god,superman)?
But this shouldn't be a discussion about Nietzsche
anyway - did u read his biographies?
Same happened to me (only with netscape, though ;-(), but anyway her a shorter version.
This essay reminds me of some reactions to a german philosophers (sloteterdijk) essay. He wrote an essay about genetically breeding the master race, in essence some ideas of nietzsche and plato about change in humanity in light of the new (perceived) genetic possibilities of biology. Also some discussion voices with the old kill-words like Genocide, Racism, Faschism. It is always these self-contradicting (verbal) actions that make me so dizzy. (aka "only ppl with my views are subject to the freedom of speech"). For an in depth discussion see the zeits archive. Now this is in german, so use babelfish or whatever. And do not flame me because u think i support this essay. I actually do not and think it is written to touch the taboos.
Just as SMOFs miss the halcyon days when everyone read every SF book available, so will we soon reach the day when it's
no longer possible to buy every Linux game; the rabble will well and truly have crashed the party.
If Windows stays the main development platform for a while and the Linux game developers only port the games that have proven to be a market success we might have the chance of getting a higher quality level, allthough at the cause of later release dates, for linux games - which could do some good.
Loki also has been working on open-source projects to improve how well Linux handles JPEG graphics files.
Eh? Can someone explain this one to me?
They published an open source installer for Linux and (methinks) also some libraries for showing mpeg films. Check out their website for more information.
Actually there has always been a demand for rugged computers. Field workers, scientists, military et al have always had the need to use computers in unfriendly environments. I remember a 286 AT with a small TV-Tube as Monitor in rough metal casing. But this was probably more like carrying a car engine.
Is there any information out as how it handles the
different distributions and windomanager/desktop environment menus?
There is also a project zenguin that is supposed to handle the same probs. But their page
doen't seem to be updated frequently. Any info
about their progress?
What is so bad about a jackass?
Isn't that an animal like a donkey?
They are stubborn and carry alot of
weight for weak humans. If they
don not want to walk a path they
stop and only by hurtng them you
might get them to move. And no
I do not write prose in german.
I am a little man aspiring to
be an artist. But then again they
didn't let me into arts school so
I'll go for politics and after that
world domination. And since christian
faith does not bother me i even
reply to ACs like you. Let me guess
your next reply:
"You just like really have to not
be a total like jackass" No worries
name calling broadens my frogsmile
even more.
I tried to read that when studying philosophy, actually. But then you find in his introduction .o.
where he got his Inspiration from: David Hume.
And that guy really wrote some amazing things
about Experience and how it furthers personal
knowledge and the sciences.
And thanx for calling me a jackass - but i
knew that too allready IA IA HA HA
How about some disclaimers with nice trunklets of truth from other sciences and such..
WARNING
Consuming nothing but this product might lead to dehydration.
DANGER
Stopping to breathe while watching this programme
might render your children parentless.
WARNING
Dividing the cirumference by the diameter of this
soda can top might lead to a large loss in time.
DANGER
Spitting on this piece of bread after it magickally turned into flesh will by the powers
of god allmighty lead to a nasty everlasting time
in a hot spot.
WARNING
Trying to memorize this edition of Kant's "Critique of true Reason" might lead to
a lot of confusion and brain cell loss.
Any more?
Sure we still have slaves, all called Mark btw. They have to sit in front of a computer all day and solve other peoples problems with no pay and only bread and water. The female slaves all called Pfennig get to work in wonderful areas like supermarkets, cleaning etc. besides having to care for their slave kids all called hope. But thank God for the Euro. By the year 2001 or so all the Marks will be replaced by peaceloving free Euros and all will be happy ever after.
I overheard this dialogue in a Franchise PC Shop here in Berlin: "Does it have Windows? No, but a Linux Boot Partition. But I want Windows. That will cost you 300 Marks more then." I giggled all
the way home.
As this crap about the Yast license comes up now and again - here the text in full - even if it bothers u. I have bolded out some stuff that i find interesting or problematic. What do ESR and RS think about this license anyway? Read it then make your judgements:
YaST Copyright (c) 1995 - 98 S.u.S.E. GmbH, Furth (Germany)
The object of this licence is the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) program,
the name YaST, together with S.u.S.E. Linux, the Linux Distribution of
S.u.S.E. GmbH, all programme derived from YaST and all works or names
derived in full or in part thereof together with the use, application,
archiving, reproduction and passing on of YaST, all programs derived
from YaST and all works derived in full or in part thereof. The YaST
program and all sources is the intellectual property of S.u.S.E. GmbH
within the meaning of the Copyright Law. The name YaST is a registered
trademark of S.u.S.E. GmbH. In the following S.u.S.E. GmbH is the
licensor and every user or processor of YaST or works derived in full
or in part thereof, together with every person who reproduces,
distributes or archives YaST or S.u.S.E. Linux, is the licensee of
S.u.S.E. GmbH.
The following licence terms are recognised as a result of the processing,
use, application, archiving reproduction and dissemination of YaST.
distribute or to amend YaST or works derived from it. These actions are
forbidden by the copyright act, if this licence is not recognised. If
this licence is recognised and complied with in full, it is also valid
even without the written consent of the Licensee.
1. Usage
YaST and S.u.S.E. Linux may be used for personal and commercial
purposes if the copyright and licence terms of the installed packages
and programmes are observed. The use of YaST, even if a modified
version is used, does NOT exempt in particular the Licensee from the
duty to take due care with regard to the licence terms of the
packages or programmes installed through YaST or works based on it.
2. Processing
All programmes derived from YaST and all works derived from it in full
or parts thereof are to be filled on the opening screen with the clear
information "Modified Version". Moreover the operator give his name on
the opening screen, stating that S.u.S.E. GmbH is not providing any
support for the "Modified Version" and is excluded from any liability
whatsoever. Every amendment to the sources which are not conducted by
S.u.S.E. GmbH are deemed to be a "Modified Version". The Licensee is
based on the YaST programme is created, provided that the following
conditions are satisfied.
a) Every amendment must have a note in the source with date and
operator. The amended sources must be made available for the user
in accordance with section 3) together with the unamended licence.
b) The Licensee is obliged to make all work distributed by him which
is derived as a whole or in part from YaST or parts of YaST to
third parties as a whole under the terms of this licence without
royalties.
c) The amendment of this licence by a Licensee, even in part, is
forbidden.
S.u.S.E. GmbH reserves the right to accept parts or all amendments of
a modified version of YaST into the official version of YaST free of
charge. The Licensee has no bearing on this.
3. Dissemination
It is forbidden to reproduce or distribute data carriers which have
written consent of S.u.S.E. GmbH or S.u.S.E. Linux. Distribution of
the YaST programme, its sources, whether amended or unamended in full
or in part thereof, and the works derived thereof for a charge require
the prior written consent of S.u.S.E. GmbH.
All programmes derived from YaST, and all works derived thereof as a
whole or parts thereof may only be disseminated with the amended
sources and this licence in accordance with 2b). Making YaST or
works derived thereof available free of charge together with S.u.S.E.
Linux on FTP Servers and mailboxes is permitted if the licences on the
software are observed.
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it and S.u.S.E. Linux. The S.u.S.E. GmbH guarantee only covers
fault-free data carriers.
S.u.S.E. GmbH will provide YaST and S.u.S.E. Linux "AS IT IS" without
any guarantee whatever that it is fit for a specific purpose or use.
In particular S.u.S.E. is not liable for lost profit, savings not
made, or damages from the claims lodged by third parties against the
indirect consequential losses, in particular not for the loss or
production of recorded data.
The observance of the respective licences and copyrights of the
installed software is incumbent solely upon the user of YaST and
S.u.S.E. Linux.
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those negotiated in this licence. An infringement against this
licence automatically terminates the rights of the Licensee. However
the right of third parties who have received copies or rights under
this licence from the Licensee, are not terminated as long as all
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is subject to conditions, or obligations as a result of a court
judgement, patent terms, licence terms, or another reason, and these
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part, the Licensee shall only be exempted in full or in part from
this licence and its terms with the express prior written consent
of S.u.S.E. S.u.S.E. is entitled to withhold its consent without
giving reasons. 6. Additional restrictions.
If the distribution or use of YaST and S.u.S.E. Linux or parts of
S.u.S.E. Linux is restricted in a state either by patents or by
interfaces protected by copyright, S.u.S.E. GmbH can specify an
explicit geographic restriction of the distribution of YaST and
S.u.S.E. Linux or parts of S.u.S.E. Linux, in which these states
are fully or partially excluded from distribution. In such a case
this licence includes the whole or partial restriction as if it was
written down in this licence.
I hope you meant you babble sarcastically - otherwise i would have to say that you represent what causes europeans often to have a prejudice against citicens of the United States of America: .o.
Ignorance of present ongoings outside their State or Country, Ignorance of present ongoings inside their State or Country, unquestioned repetition of authorities and their views and clichees (aka religious leaders etc.), a backward nationalism, that ignores the possibility of a people to learn and remember. But then again i hope this was meant
to be sarcasm or irony or whatever and if not then pray to your god to send down some brain - open your eyes and question your authorities, please
Yeah, since there is no god left to call it after, lets have Douglas Adams, the man who travelled the universe and time the most anyway, give it the name. Rupert sounds nice and just think of all the revenue from having all those books (star atlanten( that is the german plural for atlas - sorry if it isnt the english one) etc.) printed and sold all over .o.