It seems most people are casually interested in this, but this sort topic completely draws me in. I don't think of this as a novelty, instead wonder if this could possibly be one of the most important things to personal development ever.
To me, there are two kinds of power for a life form: internal power and external power. Most people focus on external power, gaining money, respect, friends... whatever. But as important to me is gaining power over myself. If I can gain a small degree of control over my emotions, the direction of my thoughts, I am very happy. If we could feed our brains self-generated bliss, why do anything else? So I guess I am pseudo-buddhist.
It's hard to have direct insight into our own thought and emotion processes. That's why friends and family are so important, to give us an external view of ourselves that it is very hard for us to achieve on our own.
A device that can truely let me listen to my own mind, even if only a small aspect of it, I would consider extremely valuable.
I should go google for Neurofeedback hobbyist projects.
Sure, fringe will exist... but what about the access to it? If internet providers become content providers, they can certainly also become content filterers... they have the legal right (at this point... who knows what crazy wackiness the US justice department will invent next?), I believe.
I agree that a very important lesson for everyone (not just children) to learn is restraint, but I don't believe that morality should be taught.
I don't really like the idea that children need to be taught good from bad. My belief is that a person's ability to discern between good and bad is mostly innate, with a bit gained from personal emotional experience, perhaps. Children may do bad things, but that's only because they don't fully realize the consequences of their actions. Stories that illustrate consequences, such as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" seem not only more effective than giving children ultimatums backed with threats of punishment, but also more moral. Children are people, too. Give them freedom of choice growing up and they will be more responsible later, I believe.
Wow.... does this mean that one day the amount of bandwidth used in downloading a movie will exceed the amount of bandwidth used for actually searching for the thing on gnutella?
I have discovered that around half of the websites where I have to put in information about myself to get a free account have the privacy agreement written in a modifiable text field. Every time I find one of these I delete all the text before I click the "I have read and agree with the above terms" button. Just out of principle, ya know.
Hey wait.... I have an idea... what if I change the text to say that any time my personal information is sold to a company, the website owner has to pay me a $500 fee? Hmmm.....
I do think it's important to express yourself well, however I don't understand how the idea prevails that "proper" grammar and spelling have anything to do with how well an idea is expressed.
I ain't happy with this stoopid attitude. Anyone can understand that.
I don't like this attitude that there is one right way to approach engineering and science, and that's rigid adherence to the slow and tedious process you learned in school.
I believe (from my admittedly limited world view) that many brilliant people do a lot of great thinking by intuition, not by arthmetic. I have heard from some (legitimate? who knows) source that Einstein had trouble with math.
Yes, setting up some nice looking equations and testing out your device or theory certainly is good for reassuring yourself, but I think in this circumstance the only way to prove it works is to do it.
I think this guy has a good idea of the concepts involved in launching himself and is being thoughtful and careful in his approach. And it seems like he's got some very respectable (to the parent poster's limited view of who is respectable) supporters.
Finally, I have to say that the reason I made this post at all is because I feel that this guy probably is a little bit of a crackpot, and I can relate to him (I would describe myself as a crackpot as well) and that finally it is us crackpots who have the really "good" ideas on this planet and who actually get stuff done because we ignore people like the parent poster.
Once again, people need to be told that there is more than one axis in political thought. It's not just about "Left" vs. "Right".
Sadly enough, it seems most people are just able to make the distiction of "Us" vs. "Them", and then assign a "Left" or "Right" label to each as seems fashionable.
Another labels that often seem to be confused are liberal and libertarian. It might be beneficial to some to take this quiz for a more in depth view of their political stance.
Publish it to get money? I'd crack electronic money transfers, and make much, much more money than if I had published.
Damn... why does everyone have to go and think inside the box? (the box, in this case being legality and possibly, morality)
Is the logic of legalese.
Obligation to protect its reputation? That's like saying I'm obligated to protect myself when some attacks me. Obligation doesn't seem the foremost motivation in these cases.
From the limited material I have read, it sounds like the Xbox is not much less than a PC. Running linux on PCs wasn't too difficult, last time I checked.
Yes, there is probably something hardwired in the Xbox's bios to prevent other OSs from loading, but my bet is that there will be a simple way around it. Complex devices are very hard to make secure.
-"We should be leading the way in genetic engineering technology, not following. "
Americans should be leading technology? Americans shouldn't be leading anything. Aside from America's land (space and resources), America has no unique and positive qualities. There is nothing special whatsoever about the American people.
Imagine if the Japanese people had U.S. territory and Americans Japan. The world would be so much a better place.
Why do people living in America proudly identify themselves as "American"? Qualities of personality that come to my mind immediately as American would be wastefulness, laziness, ignorance and belligerence.
Note: I live, was born in America. But sociologically I am completely unamerican.
good to see you posted A.C.
Implying threats to the chairman of Microsoft is like implying threats to the U.S. president... or maybe it's worse, since Microsoft is above the law?
Why is there so much scorn for the typical american? I think we have something to learn from them, as it is usually conceeded that they are _happy_. What is more important than that?
It seems the most unnatural, abitrary and difficult-to-uphold rules are made when people try and decide what is fair.
I don't know why some people believe that laws, justice, and government should be "fair". Who believes that life is fair all the time? Why should human institutions be more "fair" than life?
Fairness for all is completely impractical and even counter-intuitive. When people talk about fairness, they are inevitably talking about what they want, and trying to rationalize why they should have it.
Anyway, to get on to intellectual property:
You don't own ideas. All ideas are based upon existing ideas that others came up with. Ever hear Newton's famous quote that says something about how he believes that if he had achieved important discoveries, it was only because he stood on the shoulders of giants? I think it's true enough, but if we were to develop laws in the modern system based upon Newton's belief, we'd have profit from every new idea being drained into royalties from all the ideas it was based upon (and recursion from there on).
If you want to keep an idea for yourself, then don't communicate it to anyone else in any form. You can't believe that mommy/daddy/government is always going to be there for you, protecting you against what happens naturally.
One factor of the issue that I have not seen addressed, is the fact that CRTs produce a whole bunch of electromagnetic radiation. I don't know how much, and it would be nice to see it quantitized.
I would guess it would be a pretty large amount. I mean, think about it, the CRT is mostly a big phreakin electron gun, aimed at your head. Even if most of these electrons stay on the right side of the glass, a few must slip through.
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I am suprised Nikolai Tesla remained as healthy as he did when he was letting AC pass through him all the time. I think he also found X-rays to be relaxing, and would bathe in them for long periods of time. Mmm, nothing like some good eccentricity.
By the way, Tesla was much more influential to today's uses of electricity than Edison was. There was actually a rivalry between the two. If you read about it, you'll find that Edison was a bastard, and does not deserve half the credit he gets in today's sad failure called "public school".
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It seems most people are casually interested in this, but this sort topic completely draws me in. I don't think of this as a novelty, instead wonder if this could possibly be one of the most important things to personal development ever.
To me, there are two kinds of power for a life form: internal power and external power. Most people focus on external power, gaining money, respect, friends... whatever. But as important to me is gaining power over myself. If I can gain a small degree of control over my emotions, the direction of my thoughts, I am very happy. If we could feed our brains self-generated bliss, why do anything else? So I guess I am pseudo-buddhist.
It's hard to have direct insight into our own thought and emotion processes. That's why friends and family are so important, to give us an external view of ourselves that it is very hard for us to achieve on our own.
A device that can truely let me listen to my own mind, even if only a small aspect of it, I would consider extremely valuable.
I should go google for Neurofeedback hobbyist projects.
Sure, fringe will exist... but what about the access to it? If internet providers become content providers, they can certainly also become content filterers... they have the legal right (at this point... who knows what crazy wackiness the US justice department will invent next?), I believe.
I agree that a very important lesson for everyone (not just children) to learn is restraint, but I don't believe that morality should be taught.
I don't really like the idea that children need to be taught good from bad. My belief is that a person's ability to discern between good and bad is mostly innate, with a bit gained from personal emotional experience, perhaps. Children may do bad things, but that's only because they don't fully realize the consequences of their actions. Stories that illustrate consequences, such as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" seem not only more effective than giving children ultimatums backed with threats of punishment, but also more moral. Children are people, too. Give them freedom of choice growing up and they will be more responsible later, I believe.
Wow.... does this mean that one day the amount of bandwidth used in downloading a movie will exceed the amount of bandwidth used for actually searching for the thing on gnutella?
I have discovered that around half of the websites where I have to put in information about myself to get a free account have the privacy agreement written in a modifiable text field. Every time I find one of these I delete all the text before I click the "I have read and agree with the above terms" button. Just out of principle, ya know.
Hey wait.... I have an idea... what if I change the text to say that any time my personal information is sold to a company, the website owner has to pay me a $500 fee? Hmmm.....
I do think it's important to express yourself well, however I don't understand how the idea prevails that "proper" grammar and spelling have anything to do with how well an idea is expressed.
I ain't happy with this stoopid attitude. Anyone can understand that.
I don't like this attitude that there is one right way to approach engineering and science, and that's rigid adherence to the slow and tedious process you learned in school.
I believe (from my admittedly limited world view) that many brilliant people do a lot of great thinking by intuition, not by arthmetic. I have heard from some (legitimate? who knows) source that Einstein had trouble with math.
Yes, setting up some nice looking equations and testing out your device or theory certainly is good for reassuring yourself, but I think in this circumstance the only way to prove it works is to do it.
I think this guy has a good idea of the concepts involved in launching himself and is being thoughtful and careful in his approach. And it seems like he's got some very respectable (to the parent poster's limited view of who is respectable) supporters.
Finally, I have to say that the reason I made this post at all is because I feel that this guy probably is a little bit of a crackpot, and I can relate to him (I would describe myself as a crackpot as well) and that finally it is us crackpots who have the really "good" ideas on this planet and who actually get stuff done because we ignore people like the parent poster.
Once again, people need to be told that there is more than one axis in political thought. It's not just about "Left" vs. "Right".
Sadly enough, it seems most people are just able to make the distiction of "Us" vs. "Them", and then assign a "Left" or "Right" label to each as seems fashionable.
Another labels that often seem to be confused are liberal and libertarian. It might be beneficial to some to take this quiz for a more in depth view of their political stance.
"its about as good as win2k running KDE"
hehe... that's how I read it.
Publish it to get money? I'd crack electronic money transfers, and make much, much more money than if I had published.
Damn... why does everyone have to go and think inside the box? (the box, in this case being legality and possibly, morality)
Is the logic of legalese.
Obligation to protect its reputation? That's like saying I'm obligated to protect myself when some attacks me. Obligation doesn't seem the foremost motivation in these cases.
From the limited material I have read, it sounds like the Xbox is not much less than a PC. Running linux on PCs wasn't too difficult, last time I checked.
Yes, there is probably something hardwired in the Xbox's bios to prevent other OSs from loading, but my bet is that there will be a simple way around it. Complex devices are very hard to make secure.
Of course that might just have been a typo, considering your word, "advalible".
-"We should be leading the way in genetic engineering technology, not following. "
Americans should be leading technology? Americans shouldn't be leading anything. Aside from America's land (space and resources), America has no unique and positive qualities. There is nothing special whatsoever about the American people.
Imagine if the Japanese people had U.S. territory and Americans Japan. The world would be so much a better place.
Why do people living in America proudly identify themselves as "American"? Qualities of personality that come to my mind immediately as American would be wastefulness, laziness, ignorance and belligerence.
Note: I live, was born in America. But sociologically I am completely unamerican.
good to see you posted A.C. Implying threats to the chairman of Microsoft is like implying threats to the U.S. president... or maybe it's worse, since Microsoft is above the law?
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Why is there so much scorn for the typical american? I think we have something to learn from them, as it is usually conceeded that they are _happy_. What is more important than that?
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loosing all hope is an ideal
It seems the most unnatural, abitrary and difficult-to-uphold rules are made when people try and decide what is fair.
I don't know why some people believe that laws, justice, and government should be "fair". Who believes that life is fair all the time? Why should human institutions be more "fair" than life?
Fairness for all is completely impractical and even counter-intuitive. When people talk about fairness, they are inevitably talking about what they want, and trying to rationalize why they should have it.
Anyway, to get on to intellectual property: You don't own ideas. All ideas are based upon existing ideas that others came up with. Ever hear Newton's famous quote that says something about how he believes that if he had achieved important discoveries, it was only because he stood on the shoulders of giants? I think it's true enough, but if we were to develop laws in the modern system based upon Newton's belief, we'd have profit from every new idea being drained into royalties from all the ideas it was based upon (and recursion from there on).
If you want to keep an idea for yourself, then don't communicate it to anyone else in any form. You can't believe that mommy/daddy/government is always going to be there for you, protecting you against what happens naturally.
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loosing all hope is an ideal
One factor of the issue that I have not seen addressed, is the fact that CRTs produce a whole bunch of electromagnetic radiation. I don't know how much, and it would be nice to see it quantitized. I would guess it would be a pretty large amount. I mean, think about it, the CRT is mostly a big phreakin electron gun, aimed at your head. Even if most of these electrons stay on the right side of the glass, a few must slip through. -------- Off topic: I am suprised Nikolai Tesla remained as healthy as he did when he was letting AC pass through him all the time. I think he also found X-rays to be relaxing, and would bathe in them for long periods of time. Mmm, nothing like some good eccentricity. By the way, Tesla was much more influential to today's uses of electricity than Edison was. There was actually a rivalry between the two. If you read about it, you'll find that Edison was a bastard, and does not deserve half the credit he gets in today's sad failure called "public school".
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loosing all hope is an ideal