"The solution is obvious, encourage more nations to become wealthy by helping them become free."
So, BushCo should just keep trucking the troops into every non-democratic country to enforce democracy at gunpoint? I mean, Iraq and Afghanistan are such "Cataclysmic Successes" [Bush, 2004] and we all know that our humanitarian efforts are applauded by the international community.
I'm sure most non-G8 countries are lining up to be the next,a href="http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Ce ntralAmerica.html">El Salvador, Columbia, Honduras, Nicauragua et al. I mean America is only acting in everyones best interest when they assisinate DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADERS who happen to be communist or socialist and surplant them with their own corporate owned "Democratic" puppet.
I'm sorry to sound trite, but your notion of a "simple solution" is so utterly niave and devoid of a clue that if you were in front of me at this moment, I'd be laughing hysterically while back handing you. Your statement is so stupid as to be both laughable and violently aggravating.
Someday you might decide to turn off Fox, pick up a book on US Foriegn policy in developing countries and realize that most countries hate us. Not for our freedom or SUV driving big Mac eating way of life, but for our policy of expolitation, assasination, political subversion and hypocritical support of biological warfare and terrorism where and when it serves out needs.
Actually, my simple plan would be for the US to get the fuck out of everyones face and go back to it's pre-WWI stance of isolationism and work on our domestic policy and our own problems instead of creating new ones for everyone else. Hahaha -- Like that will ever happen.
Hahahaha, you know, I never felt it my place to ask "why". But, if I ever heard that a similar scenario was the case, I would have a hard time doubting it.
Ohhhh no no no. Eugenics got it's start in the 1860's and has much more to it than just "racial" issues. And it really took root after Freud stepped in with hiis Psychoanalytics. I posted along this same subject matter here in a previous reply to my parent post
Thing is, once you arrive at a "solution" to most of mans ails through genetics, there is the immediate temptation to eradicate non-implemented devices to the current architecture. Thus, for success to be merited via metrics, no on must ail. Rather than waiting a few generations, business and political agendas may revert back to simple eugenic formulas (the precurser to gene-therapy -- which was the real goal of the "Master Race", but non-existent tech at the time) to eradicate the un-processed from the system to take claim to success and impose a structures system around the "safe and simple" system created to ensure our best interests.
Hence my bit in the linked post about voting Democratic, as the Replicans at this time seem the most hell bent on conforming society to their ideals (the neocons at least and thus Bush). So with the advent of the "miracles" of gene therapy, there is the problem of idealism and corporate profit, hence the present danger of abuse and a revert to the doctrines of 100 years ago... and though you may laugh, history DOES repeat itself, and in shorter and shorter cycles it would seem.
I had a neighbor who I cut his wifi because he was so freakin' paranoid about someone warjamming his connection from the sidewalk. Anyway, this guy is gone, hasn't been able to get a job etc etc... thus, had to vacate his loft. sorry to see a guy with 15 years admin experience... but there's a limit to how much good intentioned paranoia can be tolerated in a corporate atmosphere. So while he was in a sense right... he was flat out wrong. And it cost him his livelyhood.
I hung out with him frequently because me and him got along. When he aboned his wifi and went back to ethernet. I asled him what that was about. He mentioned that he was unable to "absolutely secure his wifi network". My rhetoric to him was "Why the %^&** would someone want to sit out on the sidewalk and warjam your wifi? I mean.. what do you matter and why would anyone give a %^&%?". His answer? "The spammers man... they're everywhere and will take whatever they can get. And I run windows here as well as Red Hat". Right answer but wrong again. Sure, we'll be seeing that in says to come, wardriving for network access to attack and then spam... say a year or two from now. But his appproach seemed to me to be a major "WTF", even with WEP and MacAddressed access combined, all they could do is warjam. So who gives a rats ass. The spammers as always will be looking for easy targets. Who'd want to collect a gig of data from some dude in downtown SF to hack his wifi AND manage to clone a mac address? I mean he had a lesser DSL connection than me!!! Sure more machines, but still.. every admin should be paranoid, but not too paranoid to be able to live with reality.
As long as you're going to be using gene therapy to bring the world's genes into a better state, at least. The problem with Nazi Germany was that their method for creating a master race was based around simple husbandry - those with genes percieved as inferior are not permitted to breed into the master race.
Thank you for bringing that up so I may touch upon that without being (i hope) off topic.
Gene selection and euthenasia were hand in hand for the first part of our century... hence Huxley's book "Brave New World". Desired genetic traits for the "Intellectual Class" were kept in social cell and had Government Sponsered orgies for the sake of deliberate Intercourse.. or shall I say.. satisfaction. In the meantime however, all children were born via "test tubes" not any form of forced inception, but entirely based upon "desired gentic traits" ie: the template I briefly mentioned.
Huxley's foresight into the matter was based around events and technology of the current day. The US State of California was as adament about Genetic Selection as Hitler was and supported a system of Eugenics based upon social class and "state of desired mental attribute" as proscribed by mental therapists in the early 20th Century into the near-min 20th Century. This is a very lengthy topic however and one that is not very popular to discuss. So I would recommend as a starting point this link to SFGate which is an unashamed freethinking rag spun off from the SF Chronical. See link here. While that may sum it up in a very limited Fashion, you may care to Google Search for a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=California+Hi tler+Eugenics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Eugeni cs in America. The Golden Sate is not as golden as it may seem:) and while we're discussing dissions based upon the subject of late 19th and early 20th century psychology, why not look at the story of Francis Bean.
I'd recommend renting a very happy movie of your choice to put into the DVD player after reading all that... for it will probably leave you introspective, sickened and depressed to a degree and likely take you a week to digest and leave you voting Democratic.
Yes it was. But insight need not be perfect. The fact the man saw a genetic defect providing the key was the point. Wether that defect lay in man or virii is hardly the case. And yes, I though of brining that up -- the bit about genetic mutation in the virii itself -- but it's been nearly a decade since I read Virtual Light (still have it on my shelf) but didn't care for specifics.
How I was reflecting on Gibsons Virtual Light over my morning coffee this morning and now I hear about the mutant gene that practically fulfills Gibsons prophecy regarding the therapy.
Personally, I would undergo genetic therapy and have my chioldren (when/if I have them) undergo such a therapy if made available. I think this particular finding an excellent example of how far the field of genetics has gone and the promise it shows. The flip side of course being the perils of falling into the Nazi idealism of creating a master race from a genetic template considered desirable.
Mind you I didn't read the article. But my point has nothing and everything to do with that.
As far as the field of "Earthquake Prediction" goes or any metric forecast for the fact of the matter, this is the first time I have heard of results before an announcement of intent. And I wholeheartedly applaud that.
It's great to see an endeavor that "just does" without yapping it up to create the hype and controversy. Mind you, I understand it's NASA and thus publicly funded, but still, they rely upon Congressional approval for funding. I simply find it amazing to see this research performed under the radar until proven results were found. Such a course of conduct is quite admirable and after seeing hype after hype about other disperately related projects that talked up computational predictions of natural phenomena only to produce such an obscene amount of false positives as to be utterly useless....But then again, who knows, maybe they did hype it up some time ago... however, this is the first I have heard of this effort.
The only reason you'd want to incorporate is to be more readily able to pass as a business rather that posing as yourself, and subvert any visa related work laws by entering into a direct corp to corp agreement rather than falling into an IR35 contract situation. The fundamental difference is of classification. Rather than being "hired" as a contractor, you are selling a service under international trade. By law all you'd be liable for is whatever taxers owed under the country of your incorporation and current citenship and what ever trade tarrifs applied (tarrifs are usually imposed on goods not services) That's pretty much all I feel qualified to tell you with any degree of confidence.
It is possible to immigrate to a country, though how I'm not certain yet as I have no real knowledge there. And it is possible to incorporate in other countries without being a resident and that incorporation can acquire properties and a base of operation in that country. Thus, you could be a US citizen, but live abroad -- having a wife and kids in the mix might make things more difficult, since without first immigrating to a new country, you'd have to keep making sure everyone's visas got restamped periodically to maintain an active visitor status and avoid deportation (which would be sure to piss both your client and wife off). The laws surrounding that are diverse, and once again... I'm not qualified to be authoritative on that matter.
So here's a couple links to get you started in your research: General UK Contracting over view
You should read this as being the "contracting agency" not the contractor. It gives a good picture of what it means to contract in the UK and most of Europe as well as Taiwan since most the labor laws in those places are similar.
As you can see, contractors are fairly regulated there (I've heard many wanting to come to America where it's less regulated). So as you can see, not being a "person" who contracts but being a business entity which sells a consulting service avoids much of the tax confusion that would ensue
Anyway, I hope that helped. One thing you might want to consider is residence swapping. I plan on picking destinations and swapping my loft for an apt in the UK or Germany for 2-3 month periods to avoid the cost of hotels or having to sign a lease on a place only to find out it's not going to work out (I haven't done this work abroad thing myself). Basically, my goal is to start small and uncommited, get a feel for it and start working bigger.
Hey -- 1st off I'd like to say I keep responding because you make very good and intellegent points.
With that out of they way, let the debate continue;)
Yeah, right. You haven't worked in the software development organization of a Fortune 500 company, have you?
-- This point I'll concede, I've been solely an independent contractor for 12 years, Atari (in '93, when everyone already thought they were dead) being one of them. What they did with the property I created was never divulged, nor was it any of my business. So yeah, I've never seen the internals other than what they wanted me to see.
Funny though how after Atari got divied up between both Midway and Infogrames (the latter which also took the name as theirs and is now ATARI proper) there is all of a sudden the emergence of most if not all classic Atari Games in the works as a port to PS2/3 and Xbox. This all within a year and a half of the acquisition of the IP rights to ATARI, who had significant legacy code pior to it's final breath being acquired. And a complete port no less, all to debut quit shortly. And this conversion done by people who had no knowledge of said IP on the internal systems.
So I now end my digression and cut to the chase -- Apple should not have a tremendous effort in locating an asset of their own making and one that was dicontinued only a few years ago. Sure, it might take hours to acquire from archives, but it's far from lost.
There's knowing what licenses you have, and then there's knowing what code uses them. These are not the same thing, not by a long shot. Making sure that the newton code was scrubbed of any potential patent liabilities before release could easily eat up two or three man-years of engineering time
Isn't this what paralegals are for? And isn't that what we have project and product managers for? If not, why employ a small army of them? If you only maintain a library of licenses/contracts/agreements with out crossrefrences and a database of notation as to what exactly they were good for, then what exactly have you been paying people to do? I have P.A.'s and the like that come through and take great pride in organizing my documents/contracts/notes and other items into neat and concise volumes with supurb organization. Additionally, these people are not what I would consider "professional" as I am rather cheap;). So if I can get clear, sensical volumes and crossreferencing performed on the cheap, then why can't a work group at Apple offer signifactly better? If I had a library of IP and Industry agreements and no one could say what it was for, or meant or related to, heads would be rolling out the door in 5 seconds flat. That would be entirely derelict of ones professional duties.
Point is, if you conceed to licensing, you automatically make note of where that license was implemented, no company licenses without reason or intent to utilize said patent without knowing full well where that IP get's put to use and how it was put to use. Something as revolutionary as the Newton, which was the first PDA to market should have quite a library of it's own on who put in what from where, if only because Apple needed to cover it's ass.
Let me go way out on a limb here, and guess... Anyone who might actually *use* it?
As I said, put it out under the GPL with a clear and concise statement that it is for the intent to allow for the code to exist under the OSS community but without any gaurantee of fitness.
Those concerned with current development would be those who have been involved with the Newton for a number of years. And of course Apple could just play it safe and distribute the last source tree that went "gold" -- not that that ensures validity, but is a safer bet than releasing source from the last known state of revision.
And beside, have you ever looked at the Quake 3 source? I downloaded
If it made my longterm customers happy, I'd look into it.
As for your points, they are quite weak.
-- 1) finding the code,
"uhhh yeah, it might on some CD in a box, in a dwarer in the basdement of one of our campus facilities" is not an answer you'd ever get from a software centric corporation EVER. It might take them an hour or two to dig it up at most. But don't fool yourself into thinking they buried away anything that contains ant form of intellectual property.
2) determining whether it embodies any patents that Apple licenses from other parties
-- Patent licenses should be well documented by any intellegent corporation, if not, they are cruisin' for a bruisin'. If they didn't license and thus infringe, then they might have a case for not opening up the source.
3) seeing if it builds Who gives a rats ass? Put it all under the GPL. That bit at the top? You know, about "NO GAURANTEE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR USE" covers all that quite nicely.
4) documenting it
-- Once again who gives a rats ass? You want it, you got it, as is, no gaurantee or warranty implies. You do with it as thou wilt, you want support? Tough, figure it out on your own, but to be good sports, here's whatever in house tech docs we have on it, you figure it out.
So I guess, it would cost them a total of 20k to release it. That includes finding it, reviewing all patent licenses packaging it a.bin or.hex distribution and updating the site to add the download page and all the appropriate links to said page. While that may sound big to you, apple can literally afford to wipe it's ass on that chump change.
And what would they get in return? The undying gratitude of both Newton zealots and the OSS community as a whole. That my friend is a kaboodle of goodwill that is worth more than dollars.
I hate to post a reply to my own post, but it seems a pattern or argument has emerged.
Thus before posting a reply, please consult this post I have made in reponse to others sorry.. I do prefer to be more personal, but most you guys sound alike and prefer not to be original to each and every "redundant" argument when one simple rebuttal will suffice.
So at this point is it "economically unfeasable" for Apple to Open Source the entire Newton OS and not just the toolkit??? Or has Jobs just beenn hedging his bets?
I do not disagree with his stance on cellphones, but rather -- the closed door attitude and let die attitude from a "open source" advocate.
Oh, I can... but as I said to another poster, the tact Jobs has taken is harsh.
And while I agree with all your point, and can even give small link to validate your comment, would it be so hard for Apple to Open Source the entire Newton OS and not just the toolkit??? Or is that asking too much? Sounds like Jobs just hedging the bet at everyones expense.
I remember long ago reading the story of "a man without a country"... though I can't recall the story -- it was a reading done at my early years (3rd or 4th grade) in what I found since to be a very high-end public school. But being an independant software developer for the last 12 years (I'm very early 30's) I can say that after being without an "employer" for most my adult life, I am prepared to be without a country, since I am a corporation and can do business where ever I feel, for as far as business goes, I am an "entity", not a "citizen/consumer". Thus I could reside in Tahiti, and hold corporate bank/credit accounts abroad and do business where I please without being "tied" to any place in particular as far as living environs and citizenship.
Yes, the new "people" whom the USA is "by and for" is the corporate entities, as such, I have chosen to do all transactions as an "entity" (rentals, purchases) so I as a "citizen" will not be tracked... of course I myself have no credit, but my corporation does. Thusly, I am free of personal investigations via anti-terror, since the government will dare not pry into the dealings of a real citizen, namely my incorporation. I feel safe for now (I do not feel fear, but I do feel concerned), but being 32 and not having traveled the world, feel it in my best personal interest both politically and intellectually.
As I responed to another poster commenting on my parent post, I covered my hopes for the iPhone.
And I should add that the iPod will never be a full PDA since the "pad" is a very limited point of user input.
I hate to sound condescening, but please read the entire post and put it into context.
Letting a user base hang for years on end without any support it a very harsh tact to take. But not one I find surprising from Apple. But since when does a little sympathy for the neglected mean failure to see the path of corporate decision? And as the topic stated, "Lucas, meet Jobs. Jobs, meet Lucas" both Lucas and Jobs have their minds made up on their ideals, consumer be damned. A valid point or no?
... or the fact that my original post is both +5 and FUNNY. When 5 years ago it would have most likely been -1 TROLL. Enjoy your new found freedom to wear the tinfoil hat:)
However I never mentioned the Skully/Jobs adversity, though it did come to mind. However, being a high level contractor, I know how such petty drama takes life of it's own in a corporate atmosphere... lord knows, I've seen the demise of one director to be passed on to the next or on the extreme occassion I've gone from one CTO to the next. In all circumstances, most have tried to suplant the predecessors goals with their own (which can bring forth my contracts termination through no fault of my own). So I could always see the point to the lore of Jobs shitcanning Newton because it was a "Skullyism" but as a practical person, I never take sides unless I know the facts of the matter.
Hence, my neglect to bring up anything other than the facts, which is that Jobs has consistantly ignored an Apple PDA solution since re-taking a place at the helm despite a zealous and active user base.
My point was that there is a group that is both verbal and actionable in their support yet Jobs has consistantly chosen to ignore that group.
But to reference your point about "The future being in Phones" I did end my comment about my hopes that the iPhone synching with current OS X applications via bluetooth or.mac.
However, if they choose bluetooth (the obvious choice) I fear having to leave Verizon, my carrier for several years (and the best quality of service IMO) for another such as AT&T or *cough* Sprint (whom I despise)... So I can only hope and pray that Verizon recants their opposition to Bluetooth. Because a phone that integrates with my Macs is something that I would *HAVE* to have, carrier be damned....But my faith in that is practically non-existant because they dont even advertise the merlin CDMA PDMCIA card that is the only Mac compatable CDMA card for cellular data access (since WiMAx is yet to be a reality)... So while Jobs flips off the Newton, Verizon flips off the entire Macintosh user base. So, I'm pretty certain that if the iPhone is ever released I'll have to switch carriers.
This is out of hand. Newton is 10 year old hardware that has an adamant user base that consistantly reaches over backwards to keep alive. Yet this hardware device is one that Jobs is staunchly against and has consistantly given the middle finger to.
What gives? The only other person besides Jobs who so fearlessly tells a fan base to go collectively screw themselves is Lucas. Being a very technical user who has 2 mac laptops, a G5 desktop and an iPod, I could definitely put a Newton device to good use.
I can only hope that Apple current dealings with Motorola's cellular device division is working on an intigrated OS X compatable PDA for the iPhone to allow users to bluetooth and/or websynch (.mac account?) data from iTunes, Mail.app, Calandar and AddressBook.
TEH TERRISTS R CUMMING, TEH TERRISTS R CUMMING QUICK -- GRAB ANKLES, BEND N INSERT HED INTO ASSSSSS!!!@#@#!~!!!
Ohhhh fux0r -- it's so dark -- there must be black ops in here!!!!
This story is yet another prime example of why I am seriously considering expatrioting myself from this fear mongering society of irrational and doctrines of hysteria enfored by skittle colored terror alerts.
I had a conspiracy theory that I made as a "joke" back in the 9/11 days that the twin towers attack was "allowed" in the same way that the British allowed Nazi airstrikes because they didn't want the Nazi's to know that they could see them coming via a new tech called "radar" Only this time, instead of strategizing against an outernationalist enemy, they are strategizing against US citizens by inciting a state of controlled panic to leverage measures to restrict our liberties and nullify the constition. You see... the constitution has loopholes that allow for secrecy of public information and "temporary" revocation of rights in the event of "war time" needs. So the obvious exploit is to start a never ending war and exploit those holes in our national charter to rootkit the entirity of the constitution.
At the time I considered it an item that would make you laugh then make you think... but as time has gone on, I'm laughing less and thinking more.
Funny how military applications get the first use of new technology.
The refrigerator was an invention first used in naval vessels long before anyone thought of putting them in the home.
Of course, nuclear fission was also a military technology before they got to work making it a source of energy rather than one of mass destruction.
CDMA was first implemented by the US military several decades before any civilian application....and the list goes on.
Seem that even though any practical use of antimatter is still far off, it would have a dramatically more profound impact on society as a whole if it were used as an energy source for a spacecraft rather than "yet another gun" to point at our heads.
But, the rational of fear and destruction always trumps the need for man to advance the whole of mankind. If the article is indeed correct about the mass/energy ratio, antimatter looks like a means to finally be able to colonize other rocks in our solar system and increase the changes of our civilization surviving a man-made or natural cataclysm.
As explained here Kerry's offer was part of a diplomatic process to try to keep Iran from producing fissile material while at the same time strengthening the bonds with a country we have had severe differences with for over 20 years by ginving them what they calim they want for ligitimate purposes. This is a strong move as it shows that by rejecting the offer, Iran may indeed be intending to develop fissile material. And in that event it also stands to get the support of the UN and EU if things do break down and it is proven that Iran is becoming nuclear capable and military action must be made we wont have to do all the dirty work.
Kerry opposes nuclear energy here because that's his constituency. If a large part of the public oppose nukes, it's his perogative to uphold that view. That doesn't mean he has to be a cartoon character and always oppose it in every circumstance.
Hahaha, it does work. I've been to San Rafael and had just that experience. Guess if enough people mispronounce something, it becomes the way to pronounce it.
But thats nothing new... most Americans say "ishew" when they mean to say "is-sew" or "skedule" when they mean "shedule". So technically most americans can't even speak english properly. And if you did start speaking proper english, most people here would look at you funny.
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"The solution is obvious, encourage more nations to become wealthy by helping them become free."
,a href="http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Ce ntralAmerica.html">El Salvador, Columbia, Honduras, Nicauragua et al. I mean America is only acting in everyones best interest when they assisinate DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADERS who happen to be communist or socialist and surplant them with their own corporate owned "Democratic" puppet.
So, BushCo should just keep trucking the troops into every non-democratic country to enforce democracy at gunpoint? I mean, Iraq and Afghanistan are such "Cataclysmic Successes" [Bush, 2004] and we all know that our humanitarian efforts are applauded by the international community.
I'm sure most non-G8 countries are lining up to be the next
I'm sorry to sound trite, but your notion of a "simple solution" is so utterly niave and devoid of a clue that if you were in front of me at this moment, I'd be laughing hysterically while back handing you. Your statement is so stupid as to be both laughable and violently aggravating.
Someday you might decide to turn off Fox, pick up a book on US Foriegn policy in developing countries and realize that most countries hate us. Not for our freedom or SUV driving big Mac eating way of life, but for our policy of expolitation, assasination, political subversion and hypocritical support of biological warfare and terrorism where and when it serves out needs.
Actually, my simple plan would be for the US to get the fuck out of everyones face and go back to it's pre-WWI stance of isolationism and work on our domestic policy and our own problems instead of creating new ones for everyone else.
Hahaha -- Like that will ever happen.
Hahahaha, you know, I never felt it my place to ask "why".
But, if I ever heard that a similar scenario was the case, I would have a hard time doubting it.
Ohhhh no no no.
... and though you may laugh, history DOES repeat itself, and in shorter and shorter cycles it would seem.
Eugenics got it's start in the 1860's and has much more to it than just "racial" issues. And it really took root after Freud stepped in with hiis Psychoanalytics. I posted along this same subject matter here in a previous reply to my parent post
Thing is, once you arrive at a "solution" to most of mans ails through genetics, there is the immediate temptation to eradicate non-implemented devices to the current architecture. Thus, for success to be merited via metrics, no on must ail. Rather than waiting a few generations, business and political agendas may revert back to simple eugenic formulas (the precurser to gene-therapy -- which was the real goal of the "Master Race", but non-existent tech at the time) to eradicate the un-processed from the system to take claim to success and impose a structures system around the "safe and simple" system created to ensure our best interests.
Hence my bit in the linked post about voting Democratic, as the Replicans at this time seem the most hell bent on conforming society to their ideals (the neocons at least and thus Bush). So with the advent of the "miracles" of gene therapy, there is the problem of idealism and corporate profit, hence the present danger of abuse and a revert to the doctrines of 100 years ago
I had a neighbor who I cut his wifi because he was so freakin' paranoid about someone warjamming his connection from the sidewalk. Anyway, this guy is gone, hasn't been able to get a job etc etc... thus, had to vacate his loft. sorry to see a guy with 15 years admin experience... but there's a limit to how much good intentioned paranoia can be tolerated in a corporate atmosphere. So while he was in a sense right... he was flat out wrong. And it cost him his livelyhood.
... say a year or two from now. But his appproach seemed to me to be a major "WTF", even with WEP and MacAddressed access combined, all they could do is warjam. So who gives a rats ass. The spammers as always will be looking for easy targets. Who'd want to collect a gig of data from some dude in downtown SF to hack his wifi AND manage to clone a mac address? I mean he had a lesser DSL connection than me!!! Sure more machines, but still.. every admin should be paranoid, but not too paranoid to be able to live with reality.
I hung out with him frequently because me and him got along. When he aboned his wifi and went back to ethernet. I asled him what that was about. He mentioned that he was unable to "absolutely secure his wifi network". My rhetoric to him was "Why the %^&** would someone want to sit out on the sidewalk and warjam your wifi? I mean.. what do you matter and why would anyone give a %^&%?". His answer? "The spammers man... they're everywhere and will take whatever they can get. And I run windows here as well as Red Hat". Right answer but wrong again. Sure, we'll be seeing that in says to come, wardriving for network access to attack and then spam
As long as you're going to be using gene therapy to bring the world's genes into a better state, at least. The problem with Nazi Germany was that their method for creating a master race was based around simple husbandry - those with genes percieved as inferior are not permitted to breed into the master race.
... hence Huxley's book "Brave New World". .. or shall I say .. satisfaction. In the meantime however, all children were born via "test tubes" not any form of forced inception, but entirely based upon "desired gentic traits" ie: the template I briefly mentioned.
i tler+Eugenics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Eugeni cs in America. The Golden Sate is not as golden as it may seem :) and while we're discussing dissions based upon the subject of late 19th and early 20th century psychology, why not look at the story of Francis Bean.
... for it will probably leave you introspective, sickened and depressed to a degree and likely take you a week to digest and leave you voting Democratic.
Thank you for bringing that up so I may touch upon that without being (i hope) off topic.
Gene selection and euthenasia were hand in hand for the first part of our century
Desired genetic traits for the "Intellectual Class" were kept in social cell and had Government Sponsered orgies for the sake of deliberate Intercourse
Huxley's foresight into the matter was based around events and technology of the current day. The US State of California was as adament about Genetic Selection as Hitler was and supported a system of Eugenics based upon social class and "state of desired mental attribute" as proscribed by mental therapists in the early 20th Century into the near-min 20th Century. This is a very lengthy topic however and one that is not very popular to discuss. So I would recommend as a starting point this link to SFGate which is an unashamed freethinking rag spun off from the SF Chronical. See link here. While that may sum it up in a very limited Fashion, you may care to Google Search for a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=California+H
I'd recommend renting a very happy movie of your choice to put into the DVD player after reading all that
Yes it was. But insight need not be perfect.
The fact the man saw a genetic defect providing the key was the point. Wether that defect lay in man or virii is hardly the case.
And yes, I though of brining that up -- the bit about genetic mutation in the virii itself -- but it's been nearly a decade since I read Virtual Light (still have it on my shelf) but didn't care for specifics.
How I was reflecting on Gibsons Virtual Light over my morning coffee this morning and now I hear about the mutant gene that practically fulfills Gibsons prophecy regarding the therapy.
Personally, I would undergo genetic therapy and have my chioldren (when/if I have them) undergo such a therapy if made available. I think this particular finding an excellent example of how far the field of genetics has gone and the promise it shows.
The flip side of course being the perils of falling into the Nazi idealism of creating a master race from a genetic template considered desirable.
Mind you I didn't read the article.
...But then again, who knows, maybe they did hype it up some time ago... however, this is the first I have heard of this effort.
But my point has nothing and everything to do with that.
As far as the field of "Earthquake Prediction" goes or any metric forecast for the fact of the matter, this is the first time I have heard of results before an announcement of intent.
And I wholeheartedly applaud that.
It's great to see an endeavor that "just does" without yapping it up to create the hype and controversy. Mind you, I understand it's NASA and thus publicly funded, but still, they rely upon Congressional approval for funding. I simply find it amazing to see this research performed under the radar until proven results were found. Such a course of conduct is quite admirable and after seeing hype after hype about other disperately related projects that talked up computational predictions of natural phenomena only to produce such an obscene amount of false positives as to be utterly useless.
The only reason you'd want to incorporate is to be more readily able to pass as a business rather that posing as yourself, and subvert any visa related work laws by entering into a direct corp to corp agreement rather than falling into an IR35 contract situation. The fundamental difference is of classification.
Rather than being "hired" as a contractor, you are selling a service under international trade. By law all you'd be liable for is whatever taxers owed under the country of your incorporation and current citenship and what ever trade tarrifs applied (tarrifs are usually imposed on goods not services) That's pretty much all I feel qualified to tell you with any degree of confidence.
It is possible to immigrate to a country, though how I'm not certain yet as I have no real knowledge there. And it is possible to incorporate in other countries without being a resident and that incorporation can acquire properties and a base of operation in that country. Thus, you could be a US citizen, but live abroad -- having a wife and kids in the mix might make things more difficult, since without first immigrating to a new country, you'd have to keep making sure everyone's visas got restamped periodically to maintain an active visitor status and avoid deportation (which would be sure to piss both your client and wife off). The laws surrounding that are diverse, and once again... I'm not qualified to be authoritative on that matter.
So here's a couple links to get you started in your research:
General UK Contracting over view
You should read this as being the "contracting agency" not the contractor. It gives a good picture of what it means to contract in the UK and most of Europe as well as Taiwan since most the labor laws in those places are similar.
A basic summary of IR35 regulations
Some links to further docs regarding IR35 Some handy need to know stuff.
As you can see, contractors are fairly regulated there (I've heard many wanting to come to America where it's less regulated). So as you can see, not being a "person" who contracts but being a business entity which sells a consulting service avoids much of the tax confusion that would ensue
Anyway, I hope that helped.
One thing you might want to consider is residence swapping.
I plan on picking destinations and swapping my loft for an apt in the UK or Germany for 2-3 month periods to avoid the cost of hotels or having to sign a lease on a place only to find out it's not going to work out (I haven't done this work abroad thing myself). Basically, my goal is to start small and uncommited, get a feel for it and start working bigger.
Hope that helps.
Hey -- 1st off I'd like to say I keep responding because you make very good and intellegent points.
;)
;). So if I can get clear, sensical volumes and crossreferencing performed on the cheap, then why can't a work group at Apple offer signifactly better? If I had a library of IP and Industry agreements and no one could say what it was for, or meant or related to, heads would be rolling out the door in 5 seconds flat. That would be entirely derelict of ones professional duties.
With that out of they way, let the debate continue
Yeah, right. You haven't worked in the software development organization of a Fortune 500 company, have you?
-- This point I'll concede, I've been solely an independent contractor for 12 years, Atari (in '93, when everyone already thought they were dead) being one of them. What they did with the property I created was never divulged, nor was it any of my business. So yeah, I've never seen the internals other than what they wanted me to see.
Funny though how after Atari got divied up between both Midway and Infogrames (the latter which also took the name as theirs and is now ATARI proper) there is all of a sudden the emergence of most if not all classic Atari Games in the works as a port to PS2/3 and Xbox. This all within a year and a half of the acquisition of the IP rights to ATARI, who had significant legacy code pior to it's final breath being acquired. And a complete port no less, all to debut quit shortly. And this conversion done by people who had no knowledge of said IP on the internal systems.
So I now end my digression and cut to the chase -- Apple should not have a tremendous effort in locating an asset of their own making and one that was dicontinued only a few years ago.
Sure, it might take hours to acquire from archives, but it's far from lost.
There's knowing what licenses you have, and then there's knowing what code uses them. These are not the same thing, not by a long shot. Making sure that the newton code was scrubbed of any potential patent liabilities before release could easily eat up two or three man-years of engineering time
Isn't this what paralegals are for? And isn't that what we have project and product managers for? If not, why employ a small army of them? If you only maintain a library of licenses/contracts/agreements with out crossrefrences and a database of notation as to what exactly they were good for, then what exactly have you been paying people to do? I have P.A.'s and the like that come through and take great pride in organizing my documents/contracts/notes and other items into neat and concise volumes with supurb organization. Additionally, these people are not what I would consider "professional" as I am rather cheap
Point is, if you conceed to licensing, you automatically make note of where that license was implemented, no company licenses without reason or intent to utilize said patent without knowing full well where that IP get's put to use and how it was put to use. Something as revolutionary as the Newton, which was the first PDA to market should have quite a library of it's own on who put in what from where, if only because Apple needed to cover it's ass.
Let me go way out on a limb here, and guess... Anyone who might actually *use* it?
As I said, put it out under the GPL with a clear and concise statement that it is for the intent to allow for the code to exist under the OSS community but without any gaurantee of fitness.
Those concerned with current development would be those who have been involved with the Newton for a number of years.
And of course Apple could just play it safe and distribute the last source tree that went "gold" -- not that that ensures validity, but is a safer bet than releasing source from the last known state of revision.
And beside, have you ever looked at the Quake 3 source?
I downloaded
If it made my longterm customers happy, I'd look into it.
.bin or .hex distribution and updating the site to add the download page and all the appropriate links to said page.
As for your points, they are quite weak.
-- 1) finding the code,
"uhhh yeah, it might on some CD in a box, in a dwarer in the basdement of one of our campus facilities" is not an answer you'd ever get from a software centric corporation EVER.
It might take them an hour or two to dig it up at most. But don't fool yourself into thinking they buried away anything that contains ant form of intellectual property.
2) determining whether it embodies any patents that Apple licenses from other parties
-- Patent licenses should be well documented by any intellegent corporation, if not, they are cruisin' for a bruisin'. If they didn't license and thus infringe, then they might have a case for not opening up the source.
3) seeing if it builds
Who gives a rats ass? Put it all under the GPL.
That bit at the top? You know, about "NO GAURANTEE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR USE" covers all that quite nicely.
4) documenting it
-- Once again who gives a rats ass?
You want it, you got it, as is, no gaurantee or warranty implies.
You do with it as thou wilt, you want support? Tough, figure it out on your own, but to be good sports, here's whatever in house tech docs we have on it, you figure it out.
So I guess, it would cost them a total of 20k to release it. That includes finding it, reviewing all patent licenses packaging it a
While that may sound big to you, apple can literally afford to wipe it's ass on that chump change.
And what would they get in return?
The undying gratitude of both Newton zealots and the OSS community as a whole. That my friend is a kaboodle of goodwill that is worth more than dollars.
I hate to post a reply to my own post, but it seems a pattern or argument has emerged.
Thus before posting a reply, please consult this post
I have made in reponse to others
sorry.. I do prefer to be more personal, but most you guys sound alike and prefer not to be original to each and every "redundant" argument when one simple rebuttal will suffice.
please refer to this post in rebuttal by myself
sorry.. I do prefer to be more personal, but most you guys sound alike.
So at this point is it "economically unfeasable" for Apple to Open Source the entire Newton OS and not just the toolkit???
Or has Jobs just beenn hedging his bets?
I do not disagree with his stance on cellphones, but rather -- the closed door attitude and let die attitude from a "open source" advocate.
Oh, I can... but as I said to another poster, the tact Jobs has taken is harsh.
And while I agree with all your point, and can even give small link to validate your comment, would it be so hard for Apple to Open Source the entire Newton OS and not just the toolkit??? Or is that asking too much? Sounds like Jobs just hedging the bet at everyones expense.
I remember long ago reading the story of "a man without a country" ... though I can't recall the story -- it was a reading done at my early years (3rd or 4th grade) in what I found since to be a very high-end public school. But being an independant software developer for the last 12 years (I'm very early 30's) I can say that after being without an "employer" for most my adult life, I am prepared to be without a country, since I am a corporation and can do business where ever I feel, for as far as business goes, I am an "entity", not a "citizen/consumer". Thus I could reside in Tahiti, and hold corporate bank/credit accounts abroad and do business where I please without being "tied" to any place in particular as far as living environs and citizenship.
Yes, the new "people" whom the USA is "by and for" is the corporate entities, as such, I have chosen to do all transactions as an "entity" (rentals, purchases) so I as a "citizen" will not be tracked... of course I myself have no credit, but my corporation does. Thusly, I am free of personal investigations via anti-terror, since the government will dare not pry into the dealings of a real citizen, namely my incorporation. I feel safe for now (I do not feel fear, but I do feel concerned), but being 32 and not having traveled the world, feel it in my best personal interest both politically and intellectually.
As I responed to another poster commenting on my parent post, I covered my hopes for the iPhone.
And I should add that the iPod will never be a full PDA since the "pad" is a very limited point of user input.
I hate to sound condescening, but please read the entire post and put it into context.
Letting a user base hang for years on end without any support it a very harsh tact to take. But not one I find surprising from Apple. But since when does a little sympathy for the neglected mean failure to see the path of corporate decision? And as the topic stated, "Lucas, meet Jobs. Jobs, meet Lucas" both Lucas and Jobs have their minds made up on their ideals, consumer be damned. A valid point or no?
... or the fact that my original post is both +5 and FUNNY. :)
When 5 years ago it would have most likely been -1 TROLL.
Enjoy your new found freedom to wear the tinfoil hat
Thank you for the reply.
.mac.
... So I can only hope and pray that Verizon recants their opposition to Bluetooth. Because a phone that integrates with my Macs is something that I would *HAVE* to have, carrier be damned. ...But my faith in that is practically non-existant because they dont even advertise the merlin CDMA PDMCIA card that is the only Mac compatable CDMA card for cellular data access (since WiMAx is yet to be a reality) ... So while Jobs flips off the Newton, Verizon flips off the entire Macintosh user base. So, I'm pretty certain that if the iPhone is ever released I'll have to switch carriers.
However I never mentioned the Skully/Jobs adversity, though it did come to mind. However, being a high level contractor, I know how such petty drama takes life of it's own in a corporate atmosphere... lord knows, I've seen the demise of one director to be passed on to the next or on the extreme occassion I've gone from one CTO to the next. In all circumstances, most have tried to suplant the predecessors goals with their own (which can bring forth my contracts termination through no fault of my own). So I could always see the point to the lore of Jobs shitcanning Newton because it was a "Skullyism" but as a practical person, I never take sides unless I know the facts of the matter.
Hence, my neglect to bring up anything other than the facts, which is that Jobs has consistantly ignored an Apple PDA solution since re-taking a place at the helm despite a zealous and active user base.
My point was that there is a group that is both verbal and actionable in their support yet Jobs has consistantly chosen to ignore that group.
But to reference your point about "The future being in Phones" I did end my comment about my hopes that the iPhone synching with current OS X applications via bluetooth or
However, if they choose bluetooth (the obvious choice) I fear having to leave Verizon, my carrier for several years (and the best quality of service IMO) for another such as AT&T or *cough* Sprint (whom I despise)
Comrade, you are mistaken, Oceana has always been our Allie, we have always been at war with Eurasia. I'll have report this to the Ministry of Love.
This is out of hand. Newton is 10 year old hardware that has an adamant user base that consistantly reaches over backwards to keep alive. Yet this hardware device is one that Jobs is staunchly against and has consistantly given the middle finger to.
What gives?
The only other person besides Jobs who so fearlessly tells a fan base to go collectively screw themselves is Lucas. Being a very technical user who has 2 mac laptops, a G5 desktop and an iPod, I could definitely put a Newton device to good use.
I can only hope that Apple current dealings with Motorola's cellular device division is working on an intigrated OS X compatable PDA for the iPhone to allow users to bluetooth and/or websynch (.mac account?) data from iTunes, Mail.app, Calandar and AddressBook.
TEH TERRISTS R CUMMING, TEH TERRISTS R CUMMING
QUICK -- GRAB ANKLES, BEND N INSERT HED INTO ASSSSSS!!!@#@#!~!!!
Ohhhh fux0r -- it's so dark -- there must be black ops in here!!!!
This story is yet another prime example of why I am seriously considering expatrioting myself from this fear mongering society of irrational and doctrines of hysteria enfored by skittle colored terror alerts.
I had a conspiracy theory that I made as a "joke" back in the 9/11 days that the twin towers attack was "allowed" in the same way that the British allowed Nazi airstrikes because they didn't want the Nazi's to know that they could see them coming via a new tech called "radar" Only this time, instead of strategizing against an outernationalist enemy, they are strategizing against US citizens by inciting a state of controlled panic to leverage measures to restrict our liberties and nullify the constition.
You see... the constitution has loopholes that allow for secrecy of public information and "temporary" revocation of rights in the event of "war time" needs. So the obvious exploit is to start a never ending war and exploit those holes in our national charter to rootkit the entirity of the constitution.
At the time I considered it an item that would make you laugh then make you think... but as time has gone on, I'm laughing less and thinking more.
Funny how military applications get the first use of new technology.
...and the list goes on.
The refrigerator was an invention first used in naval vessels long before anyone thought of putting them in the home.
Of course, nuclear fission was also a military technology before they got to work making it a source of energy rather than one of mass destruction.
CDMA was first implemented by the US military several decades before any civilian application.
Seem that even though any practical use of antimatter is still far off, it would have a dramatically more profound impact on society as a whole if it were used as an energy source for a spacecraft rather than "yet another gun" to point at our heads.
But, the rational of fear and destruction always trumps the need for man to advance the whole of mankind. If the article is indeed correct about the mass/energy ratio, antimatter looks like a means to finally be able to colonize other rocks in our solar system and increase the changes of our civilization surviving a man-made or natural cataclysm.
As explained here Kerry's offer was part of a diplomatic process to try to keep Iran from producing fissile material while at the same time strengthening the bonds with a country we have had severe differences with for over 20 years by ginving them what they calim they want for ligitimate purposes. This is a strong move as it shows that by rejecting the offer, Iran may indeed be intending to develop fissile material. And in that event it also stands to get the support of the UN and EU if things do break down and it is proven that Iran is becoming nuclear capable and military action must be made we wont have to do all the dirty work.
Kerry opposes nuclear energy here because that's his constituency. If a large part of the public oppose nukes, it's his perogative to uphold that view. That doesn't mean he has to be a cartoon character and always oppose it in every circumstance.
Hahaha, it does work. I've been to San Rafael and had just that experience. Guess if enough people mispronounce something, it becomes the way to pronounce it.
But thats nothing new... most Americans say "ishew" when they mean to say "is-sew" or "skedule" when they mean "shedule". So technically most americans can't even speak english properly.
And if you did start speaking proper english, most people here would look at you funny.