There is a vast difference between free exchange of goods and ideas and touting the idea that people are useful only if they play the sharing game. I agree with you in the fact that no man is an island, but to suggest (which I think the author has indirectly) that people exist to serve humanity is sick.
Unfortunate that the goal of the exersize is to try to show that the basis of life is what the group gains, without any value given to the individual. "...A person alone...is nearly useless, a brain in a bottle". Useless to whom?
Sounds like "From each according to his ability..."
yep, I'm a dvorak uzer too.:) This is one area in which 'doze 9.11 (wfw 3.11) vastly outperforms LiNuKs, with 'doze I was able to switch it in less than 30 seconds without reboot. Linux took a bit longer and because the kernel is shit, It should be possible to do one mapping per user but there seemed to be only one for the entire system and the thing maps it differently in each environment such as X or possibly any game but I can't play games on linux because the soundcard doesn't work and I can't find or install any games. DOS does it okay but any program with its own keyboard driver gets hosed.:( I LOVE DOS!!!
They would obviously need more chemical volume than that provided by dead bodies for food, but they would probably have access to a lot of organic material that would also work. Even though the skies are dark, there would still be simple plant and animal life which could be used as food for the "batteries." Regenerating the dead just makes the process more efficient. Would you rather spend valuable film time explaining everything rather than giving us all those cool FX and action sequences? Not me. And if you're picking at this minor nit, I hope you don't think too highly of the Star Wars films in which spaceships make SOUND and execute aerodynamic maneuvers in space!!!
The Wall of Science. It has been a long time since I've heard or seen a reference from Firesign Theater...You must be old...just kidding. I loved Doom and did not play it untill Doom2 and it took me a long time to like Quake or Quake II. I still like Quake the best. The music and sound give it a "bad dream" quality that gives me goose bumps. If you know of any where to get a hold of any Firesign Theatre or Phil Austin give me a shout...Thanks
I don't think this quote really has much to do with what DA is about. There is the freedom to be sick- one that everyone supports- and then there is shirking responsibility. I'm sure franklin has another insipid quote about this. At any rate by acting responsibly and understanding that if everyone followed the DA's "ideals" of laziness then society would collapse, one certainly does not give up freedom. If anything he preserves it, for in anarchy a lot more freedom would be lost than having to go to work every day (if you can consider this oppression under the working conditions for most of the people who post to this site and would participate in such an event)- how much freedom would you have if there were no food, or internet connection
As far as the US economy being good because of oppression, etc. you may be right to an extent, but this has little to do with the argument that you present.
Methinks moving parts isn't as much of a worry as one might think. Every -man since the transistor radio has had SOME moving parts, so we just make them more efficient with power. After all, CD players spin merrily along for hours before their batteries die. -Bob
The author suggests that the 'benevolent dictator' already in place should assign the points that earn the $. Instead, individual coders could vote for each coder's points. The downside is that someone might get his friends in and have them vote for him and he votes for them. This could be partially alleviated by having the number of votes one is allowed to place proportionate to the amount of credit already recieved. This model has to be jumpstarted by a benevolent dictator, however.
License under GPL, LGPL or BSD. Customers are given the option to buy trading cards in support of specific developers whose exploits are listed next to the Quantity and ORDER NOW! controls.
These cards could be good for various levels of tech support (not necessarily from the developer) or just grant the user freedom from guilt (not to mention something to stick on her computer).
This would work especially well for games and be good for other IP products such as MP3 files.
Let's say DA has their way and the economy collapses. Then what? What usually happens when an economy collapses? You get fascism, totalitarianism, and war. What does DA have to say about that? Will everyone just magically become socialist if a capitalist economy collapses?
This is an idea you might expect to hear from a seventh grader.
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Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
Anybody think there are any chances of the IBM Micodrive thingy getting adapted some strange way to work on a rio???
I know this comment is too late for anybody to actually read it, but so what... this film blew me away. Some of the acting is a little wooden, but then again if you'd been floating in a vat of fluid for most of your life you might be a little wooden too, as if the you're numbed by the intensity of the real world.
As I was reading all of these posts, I remembered that I had won a copy of The Ultimate Doom a long time ago. I went on a little quest and found my cd, I now have hours of fun ahead of me!
Read the texts. Look at the sites on their "Links" page. It's primarily a prank, folks. They're performance artists. That doesn't mean some people aren't going to really phone in sick, just that their purpose is less political and more like a pie in a billionaire's face.
If you do a little rewriting of the movie, you can get around that sillyness. The thermodynamic impossibilities of humans as batteries (waste heat is like, so inefficient) can be substituted for using humans for computational power to run the AIs and the Matrix.
'nuff said
Also, who noticed that the story tried to parallel the story of Buddha as best it could, with the night-sea journey, etc:)
How many of you complaining about commercial software make your money working for a commercial software company? I'd bet most of you.
Even Boch's is shareware. Sure the source is out there, but it's not GPL'd or NPL'd or whatever the fun license of the day is. Go jump on him! It almost seems to me that he's angry because someone did what he was trying to do, but did it better. (yeah, I know it's not exactly the same, but close enough for the point to be made).
Commercial software is not the enemy, it's a way to make a living.
Bad commercial software is the enemy. I, for one, think $300 is cheap...much less than a whole new machine and much more useful.
I use linux because it's better, not because it's free.
The big deal for my company was two or three full days of unexpected, unscheduled, unenjoyable work for 1 Security person, 2 PC techs, and 6 help desk staff persons. The real kicker is that we don't even use Outlook as an email client. We still believed that we should remove all malicious virus' from our systems. We certainly don't want to be infecting other systems with a virus due to our carelessness or lack of digital hygene. So now you add up all the time WASTED on virus eradication PLUS the time lost to other projects (yeah we have a few scheduled in 1999) and the Mellisa "prank" was extremely costly. I realize that we cannot send this guy a bill for this time wasted so I am clinging to the hope he gets what he deserves in some darkened corner of a jail cell.
Yeah, we could go the MS route and tell OEMs "Hey, do whatever you want to our OS to make your POS hardware work--no one will notice an extra crash or two".
OR we could provide quality Free (speech) software that is so tempting big business gobbles it up. And then the OEMs have to play by OUR rules.
Furthermore, you are sorely mistaken that the usual excuse for Free alternatives is that no Linux port exists. If that was the case, Linux itself wouldn't exist in the first place. The real reason for creating a Free alternative is twofold:
1) Because no Free alternative exists 2) The same reason sex is good: it creates population diversity upon which natural selection works
Yes! This is my favorite game ever. I loved Doom and all but System Shock was the only game that ever completely sucked me into its plot and took over my life until I finished it. It did have a small but fervent following but overall didn't get the glory it deserved.
Now System Shock 2 is in the works... hopefully they won't mess too much with the original combination of FPS, RPG and sci-fi storytelling that made the original so amazing.
Sad sad sad. it's only a bloody film. I'm going to wait until the crowds start thinning out. Hell I tried to see the Matrix last night, but the whole place was just so busy, there were no parking spaces.
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Posted by hrearden:
There is a vast difference between free exchange of goods and ideas and touting the idea that people are useful only if they play the sharing game. I agree with you in the fact that no man is an island, but to suggest (which I think the author has indirectly) that people exist to serve humanity is sick.
Maybe I am reading into it too much...
Posted by hrearden:
Unfortunate that the goal of the exersize is to try to show that the basis of life is what the group gains, without any value given to the individual. "...A person alone...is nearly useless, a brain in a bottle". Useless to whom?
Sounds like "From each according to his ability..."
Posted by hrearden:
Reminds me of some of my eccentric relatives. Too many words, and too many weird paradigms.
Posted by Alonzo The Great:
:( I LOVE DOS!!!
yep, I'm a dvorak uzer too.:) This is one area in which 'doze 9.11 (wfw 3.11) vastly outperforms LiNuKs, with 'doze I was able to switch it in less than 30 seconds without reboot. Linux took a bit longer and because the kernel is shit, It should be possible to do one mapping per user but there seemed to be only one for the entire system and the thing maps it differently in each environment such as X or possibly any game but I can't play games on linux because the soundcard doesn't work and I can't find or install any games. DOS does it okay but any program with its own keyboard driver gets hosed.
Posted by Nick Carraway:
They would obviously need more chemical volume than that provided by dead bodies for food, but they would probably have access to a lot of organic material that would also work. Even though the skies are dark, there would still be simple plant and animal life which could be used as food for the "batteries." Regenerating the dead just makes the process more efficient. Would you rather spend valuable film time explaining everything rather than giving us all those cool FX and action sequences? Not me. And if you're picking at this minor nit, I hope you don't think too highly of the Star Wars films in which spaceships make SOUND and execute aerodynamic maneuvers in space!!!
Posted by Stanks:
Oh my god,
A 17 inch monitor, AND a DVD Player?
When will the PC world Catch up to those trailblazers at Apple? Next thing you know, they'll put floppys on the things!
*Sarcasm included*
Posted by rcdc:
The Wall of Science. It has been a long time since I've heard or seen a reference from Firesign Theater...You must be old...just kidding. I loved Doom and did not play it untill Doom2 and it took me a long time to like Quake or Quake II. I still like Quake the best. The music and sound give it a "bad dream" quality that gives me goose bumps. If you know of any where to get a hold of any Firesign Theatre or Phil Austin give me a shout...Thanks
Posted by Saint Whorrak:
I'm just picturing a jogger, a bouncing MP3 unit, perhaps a stumble or two, and head crashes galore...
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
I don't think this quote really has much to do with what DA is about. There is the freedom to be sick- one that everyone supports- and then there is shirking responsibility. I'm sure franklin has another insipid quote about this. At any rate by acting responsibly and understanding that if everyone followed the DA's "ideals" of laziness then society would collapse, one certainly does not give up freedom. If anything he preserves it, for in anarchy a lot more freedom would be lost than having to go to work every day (if you can consider this oppression under the working conditions for most of the people who post to this site and would participate in such an event)- how much freedom would you have if there were no food, or internet connection
As far as the US economy being good because of oppression, etc. you may be right to an extent, but this has little to do with the argument that you present.
Posted by BobGetzburg:
Methinks moving parts isn't as much of a worry as one might think. Every -man since the transistor radio has had SOME moving parts, so we just make them more efficient with power. After all, CD players spin merrily along for hours before their batteries die.
-Bob
Posted by linuxizer:
The author suggests that the 'benevolent dictator' already in place should assign the points that earn the $. Instead, individual coders could vote for each coder's points. The downside is that someone might get his friends in and have them vote for him and he votes for them. This could be partially alleviated by having the number of votes one is allowed to place proportionate to the amount of credit already recieved. This model has to be jumpstarted by a benevolent dictator, however.
License under GPL, LGPL or BSD. Customers are given the option to buy trading cards in support of specific developers whose exploits are listed next to the Quantity and ORDER NOW! controls.
These cards could be good for various levels of tech support (not necessarily from the developer) or just grant the user freedom from guilt (not to mention something to stick on her computer).
This would work especially well for games and be good for other IP products such as MP3 files.
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
Let's say DA has their way and the economy collapses. Then what? What usually happens when an economy collapses? You get fascism, totalitarianism, and war. What does DA have to say about that? Will everyone just magically become socialist if a capitalist economy collapses?
This is an idea you might expect to hear from a seventh grader.
Posted by The [not so] Little Hacker:
Anybody think there are any chances of the IBM Micodrive thingy getting adapted some strange way to work on a rio???
Posted by Dean Collins:
I know this comment is too late for anybody to actually read it, but so what... this film blew me away. Some of the acting is a little wooden, but then again if you'd been floating in a vat of fluid for most of your life you might be a little wooden too, as if the you're numbed by the intensity of the real world.
Posted by pawt:
As I was reading all of these posts, I remembered that I had won a copy of The Ultimate Doom a long time ago. I went on a little quest and found my cd, I now have hours of fun ahead of me!
-Scott
Posted by Dean Collins:
Read the texts. Look at the sites on their "Links" page. It's primarily a prank, folks. They're performance artists. That doesn't mean some people aren't going to really phone in sick, just that their purpose is less political and more like a pie in a billionaire's face.
Posted by Phantom of the Operating Syste:
:)
If you do a little rewriting of the movie, you can get around that sillyness. The thermodynamic impossibilities of humans as batteries (waste heat is like, so inefficient) can be substituted for using humans for computational power to run the AIs and the Matrix.
'nuff said
Also, who noticed that the story tried to parallel the story of Buddha as best it could, with the night-sea journey, etc
-phantom
Posted by The Mongolian Barbecue:
What a moron. Did he even try to cover his tracks?
Posted by fowler@clearcommerce.com:
How many of you complaining about commercial software make your money working for a commercial software company? I'd bet most of you.
Even Boch's is shareware. Sure the source is out there, but it's not GPL'd or NPL'd or whatever the fun license of the day is. Go jump on him! It almost seems to me that he's angry because someone did what he was trying to do, but did it better. (yeah, I know it's not exactly the same, but close enough for the point to be made).
Commercial software is not the enemy, it's a way to make a living.
Bad commercial software is the enemy. I, for one, think $300 is cheap...much less than a whole new machine and much more useful.
I use linux because it's better, not because it's free.
Posted by Disillusional Dennis:
The big deal for my company was two or three full days of unexpected, unscheduled, unenjoyable work for 1 Security person, 2 PC techs, and 6 help desk staff persons. The real kicker is that we don't even use Outlook as an email client. We still believed that we should remove all malicious virus' from our systems. We certainly don't want to be infecting other systems with a virus due to our carelessness or lack of digital hygene. So now you add up all the time WASTED on virus eradication PLUS the time lost to other projects (yeah we have a few scheduled in 1999) and the Mellisa "prank" was extremely costly. I realize that we cannot send this guy a bill for this time wasted so I am clinging to the hope he gets what he deserves in some darkened corner of a jail cell.
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
Yeah, we could go the MS route and tell OEMs "Hey, do whatever you want to our OS to make your POS hardware work--no one will notice an extra crash or two".
OR we could provide quality Free (speech) software that is so tempting big business gobbles it up. And then the OEMs have to play by OUR rules.
Furthermore, you are sorely mistaken that the usual excuse for Free alternatives is that no Linux port exists. If that was the case, Linux itself wouldn't exist in the first place. The real reason for creating a Free alternative is twofold:
1) Because no Free alternative exists
2) The same reason sex is good: it creates population diversity upon which natural selection works
Posted by FascDot Killed My Previous Use:
I'd like to run multiple *Linux* virtual machines to test out things like drivers, networking code and suspected cracker software.
Posted by Julian Cross:
Yes! This is my favorite game ever. I loved Doom and all but System Shock was the only game that ever completely sucked me into its plot and took over my life until I finished it. It did have a small but fervent following but overall didn't get the glory it deserved.
Now System Shock 2 is in the works... hopefully they won't mess too much with the original combination of FPS, RPG and sci-fi storytelling that made the original so amazing.
Posted by stodge:
Sad sad sad. it's only a bloody film. I'm going to wait until the crowds start thinning out. Hell I tried to see the Matrix last night, but the whole place was just so busy, there were no parking spaces.