Just because we are (inevitably) steeped in Christian culture does not meen that every religion (here on earth) conforms to the same basic models.
In the given question of how religions would respond to this 'new' reality, I think would fair quite nicely. Budism and Hinduism would have little if any problem with this, and would probably brag about their general philosophy of univeralism. Jews would find some 2,000 year old comment, saying that they always knew this. Muslims would most likely be outraged. Aithiests would have an absolute fit, when they translated the alien pledge of aliegence. And the Georga school board may finally allow the teaching of evolution (that the Aliens came from apes).
The basic need for faith, in something, by far exceeds the need to keep ones world view intelectualy honest.
And maybe that's a good thing.
ps. Even if *WHEN* we discover ET, that doesn't prove or disprove anything other than ETs do exist, and really prefer M&Ms over Reeces-Peeces.
"It was deliberately designed to protect users who are invariably too incompetent to pick their own colors but are smart enough to memorize shift-clicks and keystrokes or edit the registry to get Nautilus to work the way they like."
With the massive outflow of programming jobs to other countries isnt' the usual policy to tax FORIGN work, makeing the domestic stuff more competitive?
I'm not even suggesting that much, but this is the REVERSE!
Let's get this straight. I do custom programming work for a customer. I pay Sales Tax, Corporate Income Tax, and Sales Tax. And even though they are tools/ingrediants for resale, I also pay takes on codec libraries, compilers, and computers.
Now, as if it's some soft of sin tax (luxury items, copanies that polute, cigarettes) they want to tax us again because... why?
Buisnesses want low upfront costs that can be spread over several years. At the moment we do with leasing, and that has major flaw. (such as upgrades, while your still in lease)
In the meen time software vendors (other than MS as well) want the ability to write applications and sell them as a service. What you thought the ASP market was dead? Not by a long shot! The tech just aint here yet.
Longhorn enables this beautifully. Clear seperation of interface from buisness logic. Off loading of the heavy rendering to the client machine. Low low bandwidth. RDP is just snack to keep us from running to Citrix and Linux.
I highly doubt these specs. The basis of Longhorn is the Network as the Computer. (it should be called, MS get's slapped with a clue stick) While I can imagine them demanding a big honking vid card (but no more than what's out today), and some specialty encryption chips, I can't see what advtage having a mini-cray on your desk helps you to remote access a UI, which is little more than a sophisiticated web page.
Since when does military spending result in a lack of research into pure sciences?
Hello: Cryptography, Atomic Energy, COMUTING, space exploration.
I meen the list goes on and on. Granted they aren't interested in finding the answeres to the universe, their trying to build a better way to kill eachother. But there are some greate laws of physics to be learned in killing one another; not to mention medical sciences, that wind up curring more people than killing.
As far as US schools being dismall, well the truth is they are getting pretty bad everywhere in the world. Time to think about single family incomes and home schooling.
Were all brainwashed tootz. We dont' have a choice in the matter. We do however have a choice in who brainwashes us.
BTW: If you don't like the way things work in America might I suggest you vote with your feet? It's more practicle than trying to force 320 million other people, who don't agree with you, to do things your way. No one is forceing you to stay, and emigration to other countries is often much easier than emigration policies in the US. So either get thee to Berlitz, or get thee to buisness school, your choice.
I am outside the country, and I will tell you this. The US has massive buisness and hightech advantages over the rest of the word. Stemming not only from America's relatively unique culture (yes, there is culture in the US), but also it's massivley agressive and competative buisness support industries; which I'm sorry but don't really exist out side the US.
Americans ARE allowed to fail, without massive pressure. This is something not found in places like Asia (also known for having the worlds highest suicide rates). Remember Failure is the single most important ingrediant in Success. If you do not take failure well, you will never be a winner in business.
Americans are HIGHLY individualistic, and have thick skins. They(we) don't get bent out of shape over personal failures, or insults. Note to Americans: Most other cultures do not take well to being 'teased'.
Americans are risk takers, in the extreme (go find me another country with a higher rate of gambling addiction).
Americans are work aholics; it's not tacky to ask an American what he/she does for a living, and in many cases even how much he/she makes. Americans define themselves by their work.
Americans are brash, loud, and arogant. All great ways to get noticed.
Americans have NO idea what the world is like outside their shores. It's a double edge sword. If Americans were poor they'd stay that way, but since their wealthy, the world tends to emulate them. Meaning they are always the leed dog.
Will it always be that way? Every dog has his day. But that day, is not today.
If the underlying system is Debian, then who cares if it's a "different distro". All debian file systems adhere to a common standard, so fork it all you like, as long as they are all intercompatible.
Don't you recall the Browser Wars? System vendors made a huge deal over wanting to have control over their users interaction with the desktop. Customizing it to their own specifications (both DELL and Compaq were big into this). Then MS made them sign contracts preventing them from doing that (or at least limiting it severly), to prevent them from putting Netscape on the desktop. MS was more concerened with making sure users knew this was a MS Brand computer than a DELL Brand computer. (that's been strategy since day one in the DOS days)
This is where the infinent strength of Linux really lies, in configurability to a company's or user's specifications. And in the end it will be THIS kind of functionality that puts Linux over MS, because the big boys want to "Customize" the users experience, giving the user a reason to buy a DELL(tm) System, rather than a Beige Box(tb). There is no faster or cheaper rought (buisnesses will 90% of the time follow the path of least resistance).
It's all about the Tools.
Create an expoitable market by creating the necesary tools. Make it cheap/easey. And let MS give the major System Vendors the reason they need to make a change.
Caviate: 1 in 10, have the characteristics necessary to desire shallow men.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Re:Not a real world example.
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Given the warm and caring nature hinted at in the narrative itself, we can conclude that this individual probably married a woman of comparable intelligence, as he lacks the characteristics necessary to desire a shallow woman lacking in intelligence.
Let's be clear about this. NO MAN lacks the characteristics necessary to desire shallow women.
As a professional programer I can tell you that beyond a shadow of a doubt you are a moron.
There is nothing out side of the internet, and TV moved inside the net a long time ago!
What do you think we live in sir? The 3rd world? We have Google!!
Transportation is exactly that, a way of transporting you between various connections that would otherwise be unaccesable do to inconvienent firewalls.
Grow up. Close the door. And be soothed by the soft mellow glow of your world.
Server shmerver, when do I get to buy it on a Thinkpad?
The same thing happened with OS/2. Great OS, but the company would make you yank your own teeth out with rusty pliers before the would send it to you. Instead they would shove their own competition down your throte (that' "other" OS).
stick the knife in your pocket, and cup it in your hand (inside your pocket) as you go through the metal detector. Your hand is basicaly a bag of water, and it sheilds the little bit of mettal in the knife. The metal detector is set NOT to go off when a human walks through, or any other ugly bags of salty water.
Not to mention that OOffice comes out of the "box" with full language support. Last I checked MSOffice need seperate copies to handle each language. Not even taking Hebrew as a special issue, you have to consider that Israel is very diverse linguisticly. In addition to Hebrew you have English (the official language of business in Israel), Russian (20% of the population), Arabic (another 20%), Tai, Farsi (Irainian Jews), Bedoiun (not kidding), Ethiopian, Hindi, and more.
Your typical Israeli office has native speakers of at least 5-6 languages.
The ability to nativize a desktop/office suite on the fly is tremendously important here.
Look I'm all for finding ways of policing that don't end in needless death. But this is what we all feared would happen as Non-Lethal weapons started croping up.
There is no fear of using this!
Mass intrusion into your rights as an individual bassed soley because it "can be done" and because it "makes the job of law enforecment easier".
This is going to get more and more common as computers come to control everything. If those computers are mandated to obey master systems then imagine the kind of problems that could arise. Not only from hackers or common crooks that come to take advantage of the standardized technology, but how EASY it becomes to implement gov't controls into our lives. See: Patriot Act If this tech was in the public consiousness before 911 how long do you think it would take to make it a law?
I'm not advocating moving to the hills and shunning technology. What I am saying is that as the computer becomes the network, and the network finds it's way into everything, we have to start asking serious ethical questions like: What will this add to my life, and what will it take away? Is it worth it?
trust me. being in the keneset is no proof of not being israeli.
but that same quote could apply to most any country in the world. Wellcome to the paradox of beurocracy. Can't live with it, can't run a gov't without it.
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Note that your reason for getting up doesn't have to be anything more than "I want to make myself happy today", just as long as it's something.
I guess thats not such a bad thing. I just wouldn't want to hang out with that person.
Just because we are (inevitably) steeped in Christian culture does not meen that every religion (here on earth) conforms to the same basic models.
In the given question of how religions would respond to this 'new' reality, I think would fair quite nicely. Budism and Hinduism would have little if any problem with this, and would probably brag about their general philosophy of univeralism. Jews would find some 2,000 year old comment, saying that they always knew this. Muslims would most likely be outraged. Aithiests would have an absolute fit, when they translated the alien pledge of aliegence. And the Georga school board may finally allow the teaching of evolution (that the Aliens came from apes).
The basic need for faith, in something, by far exceeds the need to keep ones world view intelectualy honest.
And maybe that's a good thing.
ps. Even if *WHEN* we discover ET, that doesn't prove or disprove anything other than ETs do exist, and really prefer M&Ms over Reeces-Peeces.
"It was deliberately designed to protect users who are invariably too incompetent to pick their own colors but are smart enough to memorize shift-clicks and keystrokes or edit the registry to get Nautilus to work the way they like."
We have achieved GUI parity with the MAC!!
With the massive outflow of programming jobs to other countries isnt' the usual policy to tax FORIGN work, makeing the domestic stuff more competitive?
I'm not even suggesting that much, but this is the REVERSE!
Let's get this straight. I do custom programming work for a customer. I pay Sales Tax, Corporate Income Tax, and Sales Tax. And even though they are tools/ingrediants for resale, I also pay takes on codec libraries, compilers, and computers.
... why?
Now, as if it's some soft of sin tax (luxury items, copanies that polute, cigarettes) they want to tax us again because
You forgot #6: Remote computing.
Buisnesses want low upfront costs that can be spread over several years. At the moment we do with leasing, and that has major flaw. (such as upgrades, while your still in lease)
In the meen time software vendors (other than MS as well) want the ability to write applications and sell them as a service. What you thought the ASP market was dead? Not by a long shot! The tech just aint here yet.
Longhorn enables this beautifully. Clear seperation of interface from buisness logic. Off loading of the heavy rendering to the client machine. Low low bandwidth. RDP is just snack to keep us from running to Citrix and Linux.
I highly doubt these specs. The basis of Longhorn is the Network as the Computer. (it should be called, MS get's slapped with a clue stick) While I can imagine them demanding a big honking vid card (but no more than what's out today), and some specialty encryption chips, I can't see what advtage having a mini-cray on your desk helps you to remote access a UI, which is little more than a sophisiticated web page.
Speaking of eating Irish babys....
Since when does military spending result in a lack of research into pure sciences?
Hello: Cryptography, Atomic Energy, COMUTING, space exploration.
I meen the list goes on and on. Granted they aren't interested in finding the answeres to the universe, their trying to build a better way to kill eachother. But there are some greate laws of physics to be learned in killing one another; not to mention medical sciences, that wind up curring more people than killing.
As far as US schools being dismall, well the truth is they are getting pretty bad everywhere in the world. Time to think about single family incomes and home schooling.
So brags the author of the link. Then the webserve get's slashdoted as every nerd in the world tries to read that HUGE article on one page.
Were all brainwashed tootz. We dont' have a choice in the matter. We do however have a choice in who brainwashes us.
BTW: If you don't like the way things work in America might I suggest you vote with your feet? It's more practicle than trying to force 320 million other people, who don't agree with you, to do things your way. No one is forceing you to stay, and emigration to other countries is often much easier than emigration policies in the US. So either get thee to Berlitz, or get thee to buisness school, your choice.
Is he overly optimistic? yes.
Is he wrong? No.
I am outside the country, and I will tell you this. The US has massive buisness and hightech advantages over the rest of the word. Stemming not only from America's relatively unique culture (yes, there is culture in the US), but also it's massivley agressive and competative buisness support industries; which I'm sorry but don't really exist out side the US.
Americans ARE allowed to fail, without massive pressure. This is something not found in places like Asia (also known for having the worlds highest suicide rates). Remember Failure is the single most important ingrediant in Success. If you do not take failure well, you will never be a winner in business.
Americans are HIGHLY individualistic, and have thick skins. They(we) don't get bent out of shape over personal failures, or insults. Note to Americans: Most other cultures do not take well to being 'teased'.
Americans are risk takers, in the extreme (go find me another country with a higher rate of gambling addiction).
Americans are work aholics; it's not tacky to ask an American what he/she does for a living, and in many cases even how much he/she makes. Americans define themselves by their work.
Americans are brash, loud, and arogant. All great ways to get noticed.
Americans have NO idea what the world is like outside their shores. It's a double edge sword. If Americans were poor they'd stay that way, but since their wealthy, the world tends to emulate them. Meaning they are always the leed dog.
Will it always be that way? Every dog has his day. But that day, is not today.
It makes excelent sense.
If the underlying system is Debian, then who cares if it's a "different distro". All debian file systems adhere to a common standard, so fork it all you like, as long as they are all intercompatible.
Don't you recall the Browser Wars? System vendors made a huge deal over wanting to have control over their users interaction with the desktop. Customizing it to their own specifications (both DELL and Compaq were big into this). Then MS made them sign contracts preventing them from doing that (or at least limiting it severly), to prevent them from putting Netscape on the desktop. MS was more concerened with making sure users knew this was a MS Brand computer than a DELL Brand computer. (that's been strategy since day one in the DOS days)
This is where the infinent strength of Linux really lies, in configurability to a company's or user's specifications. And in the end it will be THIS kind of functionality that puts Linux over MS, because the big boys want to "Customize" the users experience, giving the user a reason to buy a DELL(tm) System, rather than a Beige Box(tb). There is no faster or cheaper rought (buisnesses will 90% of the time follow the path of least resistance).
It's all about the Tools.
Create an expoitable market by creating the necesary tools. Make it cheap/easey. And let MS give the major System Vendors the reason they need to make a change.
Caviate: 1 in 10, have the characteristics necessary to desire shallow men.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Given the warm and caring nature hinted at in the narrative itself, we can conclude that this individual probably married a woman of comparable intelligence, as he lacks the characteristics necessary to desire a shallow woman lacking in intelligence.
Let's be clear about this. NO MAN lacks the characteristics necessary to desire shallow women.
As a professional programer I can tell you that beyond a shadow of a doubt you are a moron.
There is nothing out side of the internet, and TV moved inside the net a long time ago!
What do you think we live in sir? The 3rd world? We have Google!!
Transportation is exactly that, a way of transporting you between various connections that would otherwise be unaccesable do to inconvienent firewalls.
Grow up. Close the door. And be soothed by the soft mellow glow of your world.
Oh please! this is common friggen knowledge. I was just getting my whine on (sob, sob, I so miss OS/2).
Will someon PLEASE MOD ME DOWN!
Or at least mod me for something other than Insightful, it just makes slashdot look bad.
Server shmerver, when do I get to buy it on a Thinkpad?
The same thing happened with OS/2. Great OS, but the company would make you yank your own teeth out with rusty pliers before the would send it to you. Instead they would shove their own competition down your throte (that' "other" OS).
stick the knife in your pocket, and cup it in your hand (inside your pocket) as you go through the metal detector. Your hand is basicaly a bag of water, and it sheilds the little bit of mettal in the knife. The metal detector is set NOT to go off when a human walks through, or any other ugly bags of salty water.
And it only has 1 wheel! It will revolutionize the... the... the... well it will revolutionize something!
Not to mention that OOffice comes out of the "box" with full language support. Last I checked MSOffice need seperate copies to handle each language. Not even taking Hebrew as a special issue, you have to consider that Israel is very diverse linguisticly. In addition to Hebrew you have English (the official language of business in Israel), Russian (20% of the population), Arabic (another 20%), Tai, Farsi (Irainian Jews), Bedoiun (not kidding), Ethiopian, Hindi, and more.
Your typical Israeli office has native speakers of at least 5-6 languages.
The ability to nativize a desktop/office suite on the fly is tremendously important here.
I believe VNC comes with the distro
Look I'm all for finding ways of policing that don't end in needless death. But this is what we all feared would happen as Non-Lethal weapons started croping up.
There is no fear of using this!
Mass intrusion into your rights as an individual bassed soley because it "can be done" and because it "makes the job of law enforecment easier".
This is going to get more and more common as computers come to control everything. If those computers are mandated to obey master systems then imagine the kind of problems that could arise. Not only from hackers or common crooks that come to take advantage of the standardized technology, but how EASY it becomes to implement gov't controls into our lives. See: Patriot Act If this tech was in the public consiousness before 911 how long do you think it would take to make it a law?
I'm not advocating moving to the hills and shunning technology. What I am saying is that as the computer becomes the network, and the network finds it's way into everything, we have to start asking serious ethical questions like: What will this add to my life, and what will it take away? Is it worth it?
I'm just noticing that not one anti-israel poster has been anything other than anonymous. Of course by posting this I invite contridiciton.
kay sara sara.
correction:
trust me. being in the keneset is no proof of not being israeli
should read
trust me. being in the keneset is no proof of not being anti-semetic.
heheeheh (fingers faster than brain... must find coffee)
trust me. being in the keneset is no proof of not being israeli.
but that same quote could apply to most any country in the world. Wellcome to the paradox of beurocracy. Can't live with it, can't run a gov't without it.