What's your average speed on a congested highway? Probably 30 mph.
Also, these cars will have a control system API, a standard width, and are presumably a way to carry power from the track to the cars. Other than that, they can be as individual as, well, individuals, right down to including a small engine to recharge the batteries.
-russ
This is no different than an interstate
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This is no different (in the respect you object to) than an interstate, and people use them all the time. Once you get on the on-ramp, there's no exit until, um, the next exit. In the side bar, the inventor says that the train will stop every three miles and disassemble itself.
-russ
Cool. Glad to see you reading/.. Yes, you must understand that many of the posters have absolutely no clue whatsoever. It helps greatly to read with a threshold of one. People who can't be bothered to log in rarely have anything worthwhile to say.
So when are we going to get something like The Incredible Machine for Linux? There's a lot of Linux boxes in people's homes. Kids have a lower chance of hurting the machine if it's a Linux box. It's gotten to the point where I had to tell my son, "If you download something off the net, and it toasts your Windows 98 configuration, you have to fix it yourself."
-russ
Look at your leg. See that bulgey thing below your knee, in the back? That's the linear motor that powers your ankle. The dinosaur robot has *no* motors in its legs. None.
-russ
And this is going to work exactly *how* if I rip a CD, decode the MP3 into a.wav file, and burn an audio CD with it? Or even, God Forbid, download the MP3 from the Internet? Do any of these people think for more than a few seconds about these things?
-russ
IMHO, the moderation system should disallow "Flamebait" moderation on a posting with no replies, to prevent stupid moderators from marking posts as "Flamebait" which have in fact attracted no flames at all.
I mean, like, "duh".
-russ
Watermarking is STUPID and WILL FAIL
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Watermarking is STUPID and WILL FAIL in the marketplace. Why? Because it's an intrinsic threat to customers. "By the way, if we think you copied our stuff, we're going to sue you for infringement." Who the hell is going to be stupid enough to buy your product, when you're threatening to sue them?
So okay, the only people who are going to buy your product are those who see a benefit from taking the risk that your watermarking system will succeed. In other words, your only customers will be people who PLAN to copy and plan to destroy your watermarking system.
Oh great, so your only customers are going to be thieves. THAT is the nightmare scenario, but it's not one created by the market, it's one created by YOUR OWN EXECUTIVES.
Sigh. Those who do not understand failures of technology are doomed to reinvent them.
-russ
Yep. I'd definitely hit a "Don't show me this ad." And cuz I like the cute and cuddly Mr.'s Hemos and Taco, I'd also click on a "Not seeing the ads for stuff you're trying to buy?" button. That's where we go into a form and click on buttons for stuff we are actively trying to buy but not seeing ads for on slashdot.
Yes, some of us actually buy things, and WANT to see ads for them.
-russ
Why didn't the Romans manage to do what we did? Why didn't the Chinese? Why didn't the Indians? All of those societies were far more developed far earlier, and yet none of them managed to conquer famines. Your theory doesn't explain their lack of development.
-russ
Well, no, there are no easy answers to how to develop the third world *quickly*. The easy answer is "Do it like we did it. Take several hundred years of negotiations, invention, and saving". Most people are looking for an answer which produces results faster than that.
-russ
Man, oh man, oh many, you are a hopeless case, aren't you?
By "capital" he doesn't mean money. Capital is not money. Capital is saved wealth. Money is just a thing which is easily tradable. Anything could function (better or worse) as a money. Money, being a thing, is not "debt". Where did you get that crazy idea from? Oh, I see, Griffin. Well, why did you accept that crazy idea into your brain?
Essentially, you are against saving. You would rather that people live like the animals of the woods, eating when food is available, and starving when it is not. YOU are welcome to live like that. Nobody is stopping you. Most people would prefer not to live that way, though. That's why socialists have to use force to get people to live in a socialist society. Note: Sweden (the canonical "socialist" society) is not socialist at all. It is a market capitalist society with high government expenditures. A socialist society is marked by a lack of a market (go read your socialist literature if you think I'm nuts). The extent to which socialists support the market, is the extent to which capitalists have persuaded socialists that socialism does not work.
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"Money" is just something that people generally will trade anything for, and will accept in trade for anything else. Money, being a thing, has its own intrinsic value which, like anything else, goes up and down in price. Money will always exist, because it is needed to keep the cost of trading things low.
If I write my own additions to a GPL'ed program, and I share the binaries, the GPL requires that I share the source to my additions also. My own code was not "freely given to [me]".
-russ
What fantasy world is this person living in? Perhaps they have a list of the links in the civil action. Perhaps all of those links are gone. That doesn't mean that it's become difficult to get a copy of the DeCSS code.
-russ
The Open Source Movement is content to co-exist with proprietary software--that is why I do not support it. The Free Software Movement has a more ambitious goal, to replace proprietary software with free software that respects your freedom.
It should be clear from this paragraph that RMS is only interested in his own freedom, not your freedom. In particular, not your freedom to refuse to share.
-russ
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What's your average speed on a congested highway? Probably 30 mph.
Also, these cars will have a control system API, a standard width, and are presumably a way to carry power from the track to the cars. Other than that, they can be as individual as, well, individuals, right down to including a small engine to recharge the batteries.
-russ
This is no different (in the respect you object to) than an interstate, and people use them all the time. Once you get on the on-ramp, there's no exit until, um, the next exit. In the side bar, the inventor says that the train will stop every three miles and disassemble itself.
-russ
Cool. Glad to see you reading /.. Yes, you must understand that many of the posters have absolutely no clue whatsoever. It helps greatly to read with a threshold of one. People who can't be bothered to log in rarely have anything worthwhile to say.
So when are we going to get something like The Incredible Machine for Linux? There's a lot of Linux boxes in people's homes. Kids have a lower chance of hurting the machine if it's a Linux box. It's gotten to the point where I had to tell my son, "If you download something off the net, and it toasts your Windows 98 configuration, you have to fix it yourself."
-russ
This matches my experience with her on the Com-Priv mailing list.
-russ
Look at your leg. See that bulgey thing below your knee, in the back? That's the linear motor that powers your ankle. The dinosaur robot has *no* motors in its legs. None.
-russ
And this is going to work exactly *how* if I rip a CD, decode the MP3 into a .wav file, and burn an audio CD with it? Or even, God Forbid, download the MP3 from the Internet? Do any of these people think for more than a few seconds about these things?
-russ
IMHO, the moderation system should disallow "Flamebait" moderation on a posting with no replies, to prevent stupid moderators from marking posts as "Flamebait" which have in fact attracted no flames at all.
I mean, like, "duh".
-russ
Watermarking is STUPID and WILL FAIL in the marketplace. Why? Because it's an intrinsic threat to customers. "By the way, if we think you copied our stuff, we're going to sue you for infringement." Who the hell is going to be stupid enough to buy your product, when you're threatening to sue them?
So okay, the only people who are going to buy your product are those who see a benefit from taking the risk that your watermarking system will succeed. In other words, your only customers will be people who PLAN to copy and plan to destroy your watermarking system.
Oh great, so your only customers are going to be thieves. THAT is the nightmare scenario, but it's not one created by the market, it's one created by YOUR OWN EXECUTIVES.
Sigh. Those who do not understand failures of technology are doomed to reinvent them.
-russ
Yep. I'd definitely hit a "Don't show me this ad." And cuz I like the cute and cuddly Mr.'s Hemos and Taco, I'd also click on a "Not seeing the ads for stuff you're trying to buy?" button. That's where we go into a form and click on buttons for stuff we are actively trying to buy but not seeing ads for on slashdot.
Yes, some of us actually buy things, and WANT to see ads for them.
-russ
First, abolish the NSA. They're a leftover from the cold war, whose interests are detrimental to freedom.
-russ
The man page is dead, simply because there are more HTML browsers than nroff browsers.
See Dan Bernstein's slashdoc standard.
-russ
Why didn't the Romans manage to do what we did? Why didn't the Chinese? Why didn't the Indians? All of those societies were far more developed far earlier, and yet none of them managed to conquer famines. Your theory doesn't explain their lack of development.
-russ
Not true. The Romans had all the forests and coal of europe. It's not resources.
-russ
Well, no, there are no easy answers to how to develop the third world *quickly*. The easy answer is "Do it like we did it. Take several hundred years of negotiations, invention, and saving". Most people are looking for an answer which produces results faster than that.
-russ
Man, oh man, oh many, you are a hopeless case, aren't you?
By "capital" he doesn't mean money. Capital is not money. Capital is saved wealth. Money is just a thing which is easily tradable. Anything could function (better or worse) as a money. Money, being a thing, is not "debt". Where did you get that crazy idea from? Oh, I see, Griffin. Well, why did you accept that crazy idea into your brain?
Essentially, you are against saving. You would rather that people live like the animals of the woods, eating when food is available, and starving when it is not. YOU are welcome to live like that. Nobody is stopping you. Most people would prefer not to live that way, though. That's why socialists have to use force to get people to live in a socialist society. Note: Sweden (the canonical "socialist" society) is not socialist at all. It is a market capitalist society with high government expenditures. A socialist society is marked by a lack of a market (go read your socialist literature if you think I'm nuts). The extent to which socialists support the market, is the extent to which capitalists have persuaded socialists that socialism does not work.
-russ
"Money" is just something that people generally will trade anything for, and will accept in trade for anything else. Money, being a thing, has its own intrinsic value which, like anything else, goes up and down in price. Money will always exist, because it is needed to keep the cost of trading things low.
Read Von Mises' _Human Action_
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So why is capitalism not ascendant everywhere? Your theory doesn't explain all the facts.
-russ
I didn't say he was consistent with himself.
I said that it's clear that he doesn't want people to have the freedom to refuse to share their code.
-russ
If I write my own additions to a GPL'ed program, and I share the binaries, the GPL requires that I share the source to my additions also. My own code was not "freely given to [me]".
-russ
All the DeCSS links are gone??
What fantasy world is this person living in? Perhaps they have a list of the links in the civil action. Perhaps all of those links are gone. That doesn't mean that it's become difficult to get a copy of the DeCSS code.
-russ
Pretty much everybody in the world knows that USA is responsible for more deaths than Nazi Germany during WWII,
There is no evidence for this -- neither that "everbody knows", nor that it is true.
-russ
If I give you the name of something, I have not given you the thing itself. Isn't that clear enough?
-russ
Damn. It's only August of '97. They filed in April of '97.
-russ
I've got prior art on their stupid patent, dating back to 1998 or something like that.
-russ
The Open Source Movement is content to co-exist with proprietary software--that is why I do not support it. The Free Software Movement has a more ambitious goal, to replace proprietary software with free software that respects your freedom.
It should be clear from this paragraph that RMS is only interested in his own freedom, not your freedom. In particular, not your freedom to refuse to share.
-russ