Do you own a car? I probably don't need to ask. You live in the US. Over this side there are plenty of places where you really don't need that thing.
I'm just saying that there are places where you can have sufficiently high standards of living regardless of how many tons of stuff you own and buy.
Another example. I'm slightly neurotic person. If I lived in US, I would have to pay (or work) for a huge health insurance. Here I can be sure (at least for now) that whatever exotic disease I get caught up with, I can have the treatments I need. Even if I don't work 10h/day for a give all, take all tech firm.
Maybe the original poster should have referred to the built-in greed in American society. Single workers may not be greedy, but the existing institutions rarely seem to acknowledge other motivators than monetary well being. This has created the environment where corporations and policies support competitive non-restricted society and each other.
That "fancy-smancy-socialist-touchy-feely exposure" is just the thing that allows the whole society in whole to keep up conversation using other values than BOTTOM LINE.
Besides, who says you (and your pals) need to live in California. Life is much cheaper just some few hundred KM from there. Maybe you would not have many of the things you enjoy now, but at least you would not starve. Maybe your current company would even allow you to work over internet.
Probably irrelevant, but a fortune came to my mind when reading that submission:
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he
sat hacking at the PDP-6.
"What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."
"Why is the net wired randomly?", inquired Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play".
At this Minsky shut his eyes, and Sussman asked his teacher "Why do
you close your eyes?"
"So that the room will be empty."
At that momment, Sussman was enlightened.
FUD, but Halloween:FUD not effective vs Free sw ?!
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Quote from halloween documents, part 1:
Loosely applied to the vernacular of the software industry, a product/process is long-term credible if FUD tactics can not be used to combat it.
OSS is Long-Term Credible
Wonder what made them change their position since
we have now clearly seen some pure FUD. (and also direct attacks on free development process, as (I believe was) suggested by the halloween memos).
So what has changed? Some new strategy that has not yet leaked or just pure panic? Do they now have som scary strategy unfolding that will be evident when it is too late?
Anybody remember those research results telling that Internet is less than 20 (I think it was about 16 or sth.) clicks wide. (Any site is reachable with less than 20 clicks)
As long as most of the world does not see things like the perverted US legal system does, there will always be some short path to DeCSS (or what ever).
How will the court decide wheter some link to a page linking to (repeat N times) illegal material was an accident and not a knowingly committed crime.
Maybe the code could be put behind a chain of links so that only the first link would be in US and the rest of the chain would reside in other more enlightened countries.
Then maybe a special method could be implemented in browser, that follows the chain of links one after another. The browser could pick the correct following links by some unrelated key word like css_sucks or by using some smart heuristics.
Picture clouds of documents containing descriptively named links hosted in some nice litle country. These documents could serve as hubs for personal web crawlers searching for the information the user wants.
Way too many projects (and other things) are judged by their external appearance and|or actions of a short time span. Every project that has other goals than shipping on time or producing giga $, makes me a happier person.
Things that are implemented well and sound neat or just are cool justify their own existence.
I checked out some development pages and I saw enthusiastic people talking about fine grained details of their creation. The project is clearly not motivated by greed and better yet it's not even motivated by the need for popularity from people like a certain Suck author.
Hack value is good. Well and modularry implemented features are good. Motivation by internal value|beauty is good.
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I just spent all my moderation points and ignored
this, but this one certainly needs it. INSIGHTFUL would be proper.
I'm just saying that there are places where you can have sufficiently high standards of living regardless of how many tons of stuff you own and buy.
Another example. I'm slightly neurotic person. If I lived in US, I would have to pay (or work) for a huge health insurance. Here I can be sure (at least for now) that whatever exotic disease I get caught up with, I can have the treatments I need. Even if I don't work 10h/day for a give all, take all tech firm.
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That "fancy-smancy-socialist-touchy-feely exposure" is just the thing that allows the whole society in whole to keep up conversation using other values than BOTTOM LINE.
Besides, who says you (and your pals) need to live in California. Life is much cheaper just some few hundred KM from there. Maybe you would not have many of the things you enjoy now, but at least you would not starve. Maybe your current company would even allow you to work over internet.
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Quote from halloween documents, part 1:
Loosely applied to the vernacular of the software industry, a product/process is long-term credible if FUD tactics can not be used to combat it. OSS is Long-Term Credible
Wonder what made them change their position since we have now clearly seen some pure FUD. (and also direct attacks on free development process, as (I believe was) suggested by the halloween memos).
So what has changed? Some new strategy that has not yet leaked or just pure panic? Do they now have som scary strategy unfolding that will be evident when it is too late?
This is cool, but
:)
I didn't know about msttcorefonts before.
I just haven't
taken the time to read through all package descriptions. (Some x K of them)
There should be a categorised
list of cool packages somewhere and msttcorefonts
should be in there
Anybody remember those research results telling that Internet is less than 20 (I think it was about 16 or sth.) clicks wide. (Any site is reachable with less than 20 clicks)
As long as most of the world does not see things like the perverted US legal system does, there will always be some short path to DeCSS (or what ever).
How will the court decide wheter some link to a page linking to (repeat N times) illegal material was an accident and not a knowingly committed crime.
Maybe the code could be put behind a chain of links so that only the first link would be in US and the rest of the chain would reside in other more enlightened countries.
Then maybe a special method could be implemented in browser, that follows the chain of links one after another. The browser could pick the correct following links by some unrelated key word like css_sucks or by using some smart heuristics.
Picture clouds of documents containing descriptively named links hosted in some nice litle country. These documents could serve as hubs for personal web crawlers searching for the information the user wants.
Pete
Way too many projects (and other things) are judged by their external appearance and|or actions of a short time span. Every project that has other goals than shipping on time or producing giga $, makes me a happier person.
Things that are implemented well and sound neat or just are cool justify their own existence.
I checked out some development pages and I saw enthusiastic people talking about fine grained details of their creation. The project is clearly not motivated by greed and better yet it's not even motivated by the need for popularity from people like a certain Suck author.
Hack value is good. Well and modularry implemented features are good. Motivation by internal value|beauty is good.
Go Mozilla, Go!
Pete