Take two quantum fluctuations, big ones. The disturbance of space-time in one area equals the disturbance of space-time in the other in mass and form. Preserving form is the hard part.
One must avoid trying to create singular quantum events or you'll be sorry.
Since no studio could possible make a movie as simple or original as the "Blair Witch Project" any longer, they're blaming the success of the movie on the Net, calling it the "first Internet movie. Wait a minute... It's a great movie, but is it worth the cover of both "Time" and "Newsweek?" The hype is getting scarier than the movie.
The movie industry is in shock over the "Blair Witch Project," which is clobbering wannabe blockbusters like "Deep Blue Sea" and "The Haunting."
BWP looks to be one of the most profitable movies in modern times. It cost about $30,000 to make and is expected to earn as much as $140 million.
That kind of profit margin, unprecedented in modern filmmaking, sure gets the attention of the people who run the entertainment industry. And it's also send the media into digital over-Hype once again. The "Blair Witch Project" is a lot of fun. And it's truly original. But it's not a great movie, nor even a particularly frightening one.
Try telling an enthusiast that public transportation obsoletes biking or that Bally's obsoletes hiking or that the local genetically altered (just different not better) obsoletes hunting...
If you get shot on account of the last one, I'll take full responsibility gladly and proudly. Fucking Luddite.
I tend to be fearful of the overconfident cool voice of reason. Especially when it becomes pure reason, like Fascism and its constant push for progress.
I'm relatively indifferent about technology. If it empowers people impartially, except according to educated effort, hell yeah I like it.
I like Rand too. I hate her groupies. Marx would have loved Rand except she didn't buy into his brotherly love crap. It's odd considering they both hated the emotionalist garbage Hegel and his socialist friends were spewing.
And for the truly clueless, Rand was a Russian Immigrant. Let's see how long that takes to sink in.
No I think panic is ok. I'd rather see people slap themselves after they've panicked than those fools using their GPS-enabled car to drive off a bridge into the river. Or V-chipping our kids IQ's into oblivion.
My view:
Pure reason leads to fascism. Pure emotionalism leads to communism. Pure sensualism leads to anarchy.
So I personally do want to see people fight it out intellectually, emotionally, and sensually in slashdot.
It's called conscious learning which is quite difficult in the world we live in. It's like Julia says in 1984: "All this flag waving, cheering, and marching is just sex gone sour. If you're happy on the inside what could you care about Two Minutes Hate, Big Brother, or the war? They can't bear to see that."
God forbid a kid know about art movies, web jobs,
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Hate to tell you, but I learned the english language from a TRS-80 programming book.
Of course, MS BASIC may have impaired my intellect.
Of all the freudian lisps: 40 hrs a week
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Reminds me of my dear mother who thinks I watch the TV Guide channel.
It never occured to her I put it there so that when, if ever, I watch TV I want to see what's on.
Same way you assume that when parents aren't home cuz they work 40hrs a week, kids are watching TV.
Nonexistant causes disproved by nonamer.
Superficialist(aka Fascist for the slow) pure reas
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Is Buffy valuable information? Is Baywatch valuable information? The majority of TV and movies are not informational, they are meant to entertain/distract/attract-viewers-to-see-comercia ls
Let's see...
1.Well I know I didn't elect you as a judge. 2. Because you have an imbecilic ignorance of symbolism.
Vampires suck blood. Oh never seen anything resembling that? Try your local slum lord. HMO's.
Werewolves, oh sure there's no such thing as a being that is aware of its problems but cannot control those problems and drives its victims to inherit its disease. Try DRUG addicts. Try irresponsible alcoholics married with children AND WITH MORE COMING.
As for Baywatch...
1. I can't believe you threw Baywatch in the same bag with Buffy. 2. You can throw Lassie, Flipper, and Barney in with Baywatch.
try lifestyles of the curious and capable
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Oh please swallow your pride in sweat and drop that USA's low is better than x country's high. Our poor section is just as fucked as any other country's this isn't holy ground. It takes ideas, resources, and bright self-confident, self-sufficient people to make life comfortable.
We would have robots doing work for us allowing us to THINK, and be HUMAN.
I move my own boxes which will be AMD Athlons soon (something the majority has never heard of)
I've got Cx'es for the time being.
Of course, modern science today is built on the opposite goal.
Thanks to the net I can go from reading some source to starting a business with very little overhead.
I swear that upon the start of a company I will avoid the use of patents and trademarks and copyright saving them as al last resort as they constitute munitions in corporate war.
Hey, bring home some foreign movies for once!
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The 3-years crap has already been thrown out. Indivduals from childhood to old age should have full access to the world around them and be educated about how it works on all levels. You complain about the machine but not the content. What in hell stops you from teaching your kids the things you've learned.
What are you waiting for?
Public/private school is either useless or distorted (I'm glad I was exposed to diversity in high school, middle school, and college).
Summer camps are for procrastinating parents to further ignore their kids.
Sunday school and mindless bingo is for dumbing kids down.
And that volunteerism for volunteerism's sake crap is so people can be blinded that the world is getting better somehow. Kind of like running in place.
I personally think the first words kids should hear is "Sorry for bringing you into this world and we promise to prepare you for it well before you leave the house."
Get it right right already. Look at the fact that they constantly repeat commercials in a row to ge their point across.
How bout a parent's license!
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Stop demonizing information.
Technology empowers impartially. Human beings have got to wake up and use it or someone else claims the territory.
Imagine if only a small percentage had cars and the rest all had to ride buses to work. You'd literally have bus robberies just like the western train robberies. The simple fact that people can drive their own vehicle keeps most dangers in check.
Or look at how tenants reclaim their neighborhoods by getting out of their damned rocking chairs and keeping the community clean.
The fact is this is a small dent in a larger problem. No there's no conspiracies. Big brother is the common man.
Leaving children in front of the TV is irresponsible but it's not the tv itself that is the problem.
Kids can tackle computers much better than adults. You're CHEATING them if you only introduce them to the world at large too late.
If you cheat your kids because you don't understand the world, you're irresponsible.
Socialization requires some sort of context. Television isn't bad. Barney, Disney, PAX/Fascist TV, constant oldies, that's the problem. If you want to dumb down kids' natural abilities go ahead.
Don't be surprised at the outcome.
Human beings of all ages are impressionable.
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Note: The word impressionable gives me the creeps. Just like the ismising of everything to make it look important.
We are impressionable because it is an advantage. We can learn without preparation at any time we need or want to.
That factoid Compaq is producing is precisely what we human beings are anyway. The difference is that we are born with simplistic abilities to process information. Education about media NOT BANNING is what children and adults need.
The fact is a sharp mind can learn everything there is to know studying a minimum of 100 unique objects.
Lego's are just the beginning.
If it weren't for 10 hr/day 11 month school years, 40 hr a week jobs, and 8 hrs/day sleeping you wouldn't see all this crap.
I can tell you I didn't learn what I know from classrooms, summer camps, sunday school, or "yes, sir/ma'am".
Recess, lunch periods, and the right group of people (libraries help) that's what these kids need.
As a guy who does speak even when the issue doesn't even remotely affect him but still counts as worthy of speaking up, I can tell you you are in lala land.
People have been speaking up. The FCC gets its own/. effect when people are worried.
And you know what? Given the fact we're the last place on Earth that still has one toe out of the grave, I'd be making plans just to get things ready for 2001.
2000 is only a test of Emergency Broadcasting System. Anybody notice that doesn't happen anymore.
I do agree that the real Big Brother is the redneck next door who doesn't have a powerful position and is too scared or lazy to educate himself.
However, given the outrage over the CDA how come they keep coming back with more crap?
My question is how come more people aren't modifying the slashdot code more often for these political uptisings everybody wants to see happenning.
BTW, If the NSA got power from me how come on/. carries news on them.
I can understand a 3DGUI if you can show me some use. Otherwise it's almost trendy and useless as that random web browsing thing Netomat.
I suppose three-D would be great if an AIBO floating ball could move stuff between two floors of a house. A 3-D interface would be very useful to command the thing. Mix that with the Zoom-UI some people are working on.
The thing that I wonder about is: is it easy to click on a flat icon or turn and tumble an interface before you get to click.
Definitely a direct to hardware video system would be great like that in X 4.0.
But seriously speaking before we get to three-D windowing, how about a 3-D monitor? It would allow 3-D software to be so much simpler than what we see now.
Imagine a 3-D arrangement of voxels that have opacity values as well as color values.
No more Z-buffers but hard walls and models that are simply read from disk and projected without a lot of redundant recalculating to find what you can see through and what you can't. Only the faces of the cube would need Z-buffers.
The BSD license didn't protect BSD from harm. BSD is and has always been on the same growth curve as Linux. Just afterward it was set back two years.
I'd love to find the article for you. LinuxMall.com has it.
As for political platforms. Please look around. If IBM had open sourced their BIOS originally Phoenix wouldn't have had to go to court to protect their reverse engineered clean room BIOS.
The GPL is not about politics. It has the same purpose as the EULA. To control opportunity.
EULA controls to stifle opportunity. GPL controls to open it. Comrade Gates stifles opportunity.
Only the BSD needs court action. The GPL never goes to court.
The fact is the world we live in is hostile to exchange of information. They say things like "It's your life's work why should you share it?" Or "You are elite, no one else deserves it." Or my least favorite, "I would be offended if someone changed my code." That's about as scary as the psychological ties some people form with Tamagotchi pets. Of course the worst is the pet rock movement. Juvenile.
Information is fluid and material just like everything else. It is easily copied but thanks to the fact that people are afraid of books, a group of 200 people will have a harder time with a document than a group of 5.
Frankly, I would be happy if someone decided to change my code put it to their own use. It would not change my source. I know what I wrote. I don't have an ego void to fill. In fact sometimes the modifications can be a form of communication.
In the world we live in, you either hide information or make it available. As long as NSI and the threat of software patents exists I will continue to use the GPL. If they did not exist, the GPL and BSD not be needed.
I know why the BSD folks like their license. I understand. However, their approach is equivalent to putting up a site on the web and calling that publishing. Hello, you forgot the fact that most people buy into the idea that they are worthless and helpless and should have to depend on IBM,MS,AOL,Apple,SUN,etc.
Publicity is important so that people have a complete picture of the world.
Think about it the one who talks to the customer is the one gets to tell the story first.
As for your binary only distros, look at the distros every once in awhile. They're all binary only. They simply include the source for the kernel because it's not the distributors' business to decide what the buyer can do.
Slashdot Mirror
WILTS:
Sail: Small Manageable
Power: Solar radiation focused through a lens.
'Course there's always positional alchemy.
Take two quantum fluctuations, big ones. The disturbance of space-time in one area equals the disturbance of space-time in the other in mass and form. Preserving form is the hard part.
One must avoid trying to create singular quantum events or you'll be sorry.
Quoted from the horse's mouth
Since no studio could possible make a movie as simple or original as the "Blair Witch Project" any longer, they're blaming the success of the movie on the
Net, calling it the "first Internet movie. Wait a minute... It's a great movie, but is it worth the cover of both "Time" and "Newsweek?" The hype is getting
scarier than the movie.
The movie industry is in shock over the "Blair Witch Project," which is clobbering wannabe blockbusters like "Deep Blue Sea" and "The Haunting."
BWP looks to be one of the most profitable movies in modern times. It cost about $30,000 to make and is expected to earn as much as $140 million.
That kind of profit margin, unprecedented in modern filmmaking, sure gets the attention of the people who run the entertainment industry. And it's also send the media into
digital over-Hype once again. The "Blair Witch Project" is a lot of fun. And it's truly original. But it's not a great movie, nor even a particularly frightening one.
I don't see NSA on NBC, CNN, etc.
l less.
Computers as tools?
Try telling an enthusiast that public transportation obsoletes biking or that Bally's obsoletes hiking or that the local genetically altered (just different not better) obsoletes hunting...
If you get shot on account of the last one, I'll take full responsibility gladly and proudly. Fucking Luddite.
I tend to be fearful of the overconfident cool voice of reason. Especially when it becomes pure reason, like Fascism and its constant push for progress.
I'm relatively indifferent about technology. If it empowers people impartially, except according to educated effort, hell yeah I like it.
I like Rand too. I hate her groupies. Marx would have loved Rand except she didn't buy into his brotherly love crap. It's odd considering they both hated the emotionalist garbage Hegel and his socialist friends were spewing.
And for the truly clueless, Rand was a Russian Immigrant. Let's see how long that takes to sink in.
No I think panic is ok. I'd rather see people slap themselves after they've panicked than those fools using their GPS-enabled car to drive off a bridge into the river. Or V-chipping our kids IQ's into oblivion.
My view:
Pure reason leads to fascism.
Pure emotionalism leads to communism.
Pure sensualism leads to anarchy.
So I personally do want to see people fight it out intellectually, emotionally, and sensually in slashdot.
It's called conscious learning which is quite difficult in the world we live in.
It's like Julia says in 1984: "All this flag waving, cheering, and marching is just sex gone sour. If you're happy on the inside what could you care about Two Minutes Hate, Big Brother, or the war? They can't bear to see that."
Hate to tell you, but I learned the english language from a TRS-80 programming book.
Of course, MS BASIC may have impaired my intellect.
Reminds me of my dear mother who thinks I watch the TV Guide channel.
It never occured to her I put it there so that when, if ever, I watch TV I want to see what's on.
Same way you assume that when parents aren't home cuz they work 40hrs a week, kids are watching TV.
Nonexistant causes disproved by nonamer.
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Is Buffy valuable information? Is Baywatch valuable information? The majority of TV and movies are not informational, they are meant to entertain/distract/attract-viewers-to-see-comerci
Let's see...
1.Well I know I didn't elect you as a judge.
2. Because you have an imbecilic ignorance of symbolism.
Vampires suck blood. Oh never seen anything resembling that? Try your local slum lord. HMO's.
Werewolves, oh sure there's no such thing as a being that is aware of its problems but cannot control those problems and drives its victims to inherit its disease. Try DRUG addicts. Try irresponsible alcoholics married with children AND WITH MORE COMING.
As for Baywatch...
1. I can't believe you threw Baywatch in the same bag with Buffy.
2. You can throw Lassie, Flipper, and Barney in with Baywatch.
Oh please swallow your pride in sweat and drop that USA's low is better than x country's high.
Our poor section is just as fucked as any other country's this isn't holy ground. It takes ideas, resources, and bright self-confident, self-sufficient people to make life comfortable.
We would have robots doing work for us allowing us to THINK, and be HUMAN.
I move my own boxes which will be AMD Athlons soon (something the majority has never heard of)
I've got Cx'es for the time being.
Of course, modern science today is built on the opposite goal.
Thanks to the net I can go from reading some source to starting a business with very little overhead.
I swear that upon the start of a company I will avoid the use of patents and trademarks and copyright saving them as al last resort as they constitute munitions in corporate war.
The 3-years crap has already been thrown out. Indivduals from childhood to old age should have full access to the world around them and be educated about how it works on all levels. You complain about the machine but not the content. What in hell stops you from teaching your kids the things you've learned.
What are you waiting for?
Public/private school is either useless or distorted (I'm glad I was exposed to diversity in high school, middle school, and college).
Summer camps are for procrastinating parents to further ignore their kids.
Sunday school and mindless bingo is for dumbing kids down.
And that volunteerism for volunteerism's sake crap is so people can be blinded that the world is getting better somehow. Kind of like running in place.
I personally think the first words kids should hear is "Sorry for bringing you into this world and we promise to prepare you for it well before you leave the house."
Get it right right already. Look at the fact that they constantly repeat commercials in a row to ge their point across.
Stop demonizing information.
Technology empowers impartially. Human beings have got to wake up and use it or someone else claims the territory.
Imagine if only a small percentage had cars and the rest all had to ride buses to work. You'd literally have bus robberies just like the western train robberies. The simple fact that people can drive their own vehicle keeps most dangers in check.
Or look at how tenants reclaim their neighborhoods by getting out of their damned rocking chairs and keeping the community clean.
The fact is this is a small dent in a larger problem. No there's no conspiracies. Big brother is the common man.
Leaving children in front of the TV is irresponsible but it's not the tv itself that is the problem.
Kids can tackle computers much better than adults.
You're CHEATING them if you only introduce them to the world at large too late.
If you cheat your kids because you don't understand the world, you're irresponsible.
Socialization requires some sort of context. Television isn't bad. Barney, Disney, PAX/Fascist TV, constant oldies, that's the problem. If you want to dumb down kids' natural abilities go ahead.
Don't be surprised at the outcome.
Note: The word impressionable gives me the creeps. Just like the ismising of everything to make it look important.
We are impressionable because it is an advantage.
We can learn without preparation at any time we need or want to.
That factoid Compaq is producing is precisely what we human beings are anyway. The difference is that we are born with simplistic abilities to process information. Education about media NOT BANNING is what children and adults need.
The fact is a sharp mind can learn everything there is to know studying a minimum of 100 unique objects.
Lego's are just the beginning.
If it weren't for 10 hr/day 11 month school years, 40 hr a week jobs, and 8 hrs/day sleeping you wouldn't see all this crap.
I can tell you I didn't learn what I know from classrooms, summer camps, sunday school, or "yes, sir/ma'am".
Recess, lunch periods, and the right group of people (libraries help) that's what these kids need.
As a guy who does speak even when the issue doesn't even remotely affect him but still counts as worthy of speaking up, I can tell you you are in lala land.
/. effect when people are worried.
/. carries news on them.
People have been speaking up. The FCC gets its own
And you know what? Given the fact we're the last place on Earth that still has one toe out of the grave, I'd be making plans just to get things ready for 2001.
2000 is only a test of Emergency Broadcasting System. Anybody notice that doesn't happen anymore.
I do agree that the real Big Brother is the redneck next door who doesn't have a powerful position and is too scared or lazy to educate himself.
However, given the outrage over the CDA how come they keep coming back with more crap?
My question is how come more people aren't modifying the slashdot code more often for these political uptisings everybody wants to see happenning.
BTW, If the NSA got power from me how come on
50% of ignoramae (sp?) won't be able to tell the diff between KDE, GNOME, fvwm-95, or Win9x.
By pure chance we'll get half of these on our side.
25% of all morons.
50% won't know about the look but will feel the diff when they forget how to reboot cuz they don't have to.
25% + 50% = 75% of morons which is about 85% of the market according to Orwell's 1984.
That passes the crucial 60% spot according to stock experts, whatever those are.
75% of 85% = 63.75% And that doesn't include the clued-in.
so a likely 63.75% to 78.75%.
'Course this even more vapory than Berstananda's article.
sage.
Ok, fellas on the count of three:
Kernel bone is connected to the process bone.
Process bone is connected to the shell bone.
Shell bone is parallel to the GUI bone.
... ok you finish it, this is too cheesy.
sts.
So Berst reads but cannot resolve the totality of the subject he talks about.
Cyclops.
I can understand a 3DGUI if you can show me some use. Otherwise it's almost trendy and useless as that random web browsing thing Netomat.
I suppose three-D would be great if an AIBO floating ball could move stuff between two floors of a house. A 3-D interface would be very useful to command the thing. Mix that with the Zoom-UI some people are working on.
The thing that I wonder about is: is it easy to click on a flat icon or turn and tumble an interface before you get to click.
Definitely a direct to hardware video system would be great like that in X 4.0.
But seriously speaking before we get to three-D windowing, how about a 3-D monitor? It would allow 3-D software to be so much simpler than what we see now.
Imagine a 3-D arrangement of voxels that have opacity values as well as color values.
No more Z-buffers but hard walls and models that are simply read from disk and projected without a lot of redundant recalculating to find what you can see through and what you can't. Only the faces of the cube would need Z-buffers.
It's right there in my old Britannicas.
The problem is several do-nothings and get-noners disinterpreted his writing. And they mostly smoked Hegel, whom Marx criticised.
Marx made a fatal blunder:
He said reason doesn't exist because he didn't see anyone using it. Kind of like how the world doesn't exist at night.
Lovely. So when is our education system going to prepare the population so that they can be competent enough to explore the universe?
I say Open Free (speech) education/information NOW!
Why reinvent humans and make Borg when the population can't even do the math required in grocery stores? Scientific masturbation.
Anywho I escaped the education system.
The BSD license didn't protect BSD from harm. BSD is and has always been on the same growth curve as Linux. Just afterward it was set back two years.
I'd love to find the article for you. LinuxMall.com has it.
As for political platforms. Please look around. If IBM had open sourced their BIOS originally Phoenix wouldn't have had to go to court to protect their reverse engineered clean room BIOS.
The GPL is not about politics. It has the same purpose as the EULA. To control opportunity.
EULA controls to stifle opportunity. GPL controls to open it. Comrade Gates stifles opportunity.
Only the BSD needs court action. The GPL never goes to court.
The fact is the world we live in is hostile to exchange of information. They say things like "It's your life's work why should you share it?" Or "You are elite, no one else deserves it." Or my least favorite, "I would be offended if someone changed my code." That's about as scary as the psychological ties some people form with Tamagotchi pets. Of course the worst is the pet rock movement. Juvenile.
Information is fluid and material just like everything else. It is easily copied but thanks to the fact that people are afraid of books, a group of 200 people will have a harder time with a document than a group of 5.
Frankly, I would be happy if someone decided to change my code put it to their own use. It would not change my source. I know what I wrote. I don't have an ego void to fill. In fact sometimes the modifications can be a form of communication.
In the world we live in, you either hide information or make it available. As long as NSI and the threat of software patents exists I will continue to use the GPL. If they did not exist, the GPL and BSD not be needed.
I know why the BSD folks like their license. I understand. However, their approach is equivalent to putting up a site on the web and calling that publishing. Hello, you forgot the fact that most people buy into the idea that they are worthless and helpless and should have to depend on IBM,MS,AOL,Apple,SUN,etc.
Publicity is important so that people have a complete picture of the world.
Think about it the one who talks to the customer is the one gets to tell the story first.
As for your binary only distros, look at the distros every once in awhile. They're all binary only. They simply include the source for the kernel because it's not the distributors' business to decide what the buyer can do.
We need hardware manuals and we all know how useful the directory structure of software manuals is.
For example:
Chapter One: Interfacing
1. Sound
2. Video
3. Hard Drive
...
Chapter Two: Detection
1. Sound
2. Video
3. etc
Just an idea.