Well, actually, no, I'm not rigging it like I'm "happy" that some 'bigot' (faaark, I dunno, that was a looooong thread ago) was able to speak their mind and go unopposed.
I'm just saying, when someone says "Free and Open Tech can Help India" don't go fucking replying "India doesn't need yo' bitchass bigot help, mo-fo', we already smart!"
Free and Open Tech *can* help India, and thanks very much to the President of India for stating it, and here's to all the human beings who will have heard this wonderous nugget of news in the subcontinent, who then subsequently go on to rock. Maybe they will teach the *Ignorant *Few in the United States a thing or two about code. Great, cool.
As for you, 'hathan'h' whateverthegoose your name is, you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder, mate, if you think this has *anything* to do with you, personally.
You, personally, are insignificant in this thread; only what you say matters.
Assuming that someone is antagonistic when they profer a view which may actually help is pretty cowardly. I say, attack life with a challenge: try not to *ever* acknowledge bigotry. Especially when you use it to attack a 'group of people' whose views oppose yours.
Foul attacks on your character? I don't know you, all I was trying to say is that you shouldn't ignore the *FACT* about the India poor people situation when discussing these things - Linux has a *LOT* to give India with regards to this poblem.
I never said you didn't think there were poor people in India, I just said that your inability to account for the poor when criticizing what other people say about India is insensitive.
Fact is, if the world thinks that India is full of poor people, here's a news flash: its because it *IS* full of poor people, and the fortunate minority (such as yourself) who are able to support themselves ought to recognize that Linux/OSS can *help* with this problem. Minorities such as yourself (not starving in India? Then you're in the minority) ought not to be so knee-jerk about the situation in your country.
The promotion of leg-up style industry such as OSS/Linux supports, in India particularly, could only be a good thing. Detracting from the issue by turning this debate into an argument about "American attitude about India" is ignoring the fact, going off-topic, and... in my opinion... demonstrates a significant deficiency in character.
Ummm... I'm saying that the government of India has recognized that Linux is a tech booster that *doesn't require funding or investment* it simply requires motivation.
I not once mentioned that there is a license to be paid. I dunno where you got that from.
There *are* a lot of starving, hungry people in India, who have no chance whatsoever.
That you chose to ignore the details in the message - which is that the President of India is advocating the Linux/OSS mantra of DIY technology, and this might mean something to one of the 300,000 street kids in Delhi who would just *LOVE* to be able to get a job without having to first wade through hordes of pompous asses like you to get there.
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... but my first 'official' Linux CD distribution was Yggdrasil (prior to that, I dl'ed the linux tarball directly from funet.fi...) and it had, hands down, a fantastic 'live boot' feature. I used Yggdrasil Linux to rescue fragged FAT32 drives which DOS5.0 had given up on. Astounding!
It had X, even, and you could get it on the 'net. Alas, this was pre-browser days, so no NCSA Mosaic... well, not for the first Yggdrasil disk I tried, anyway.
They stopped doing live boot CD's because, I fear, they were ahead of their time - not everyone had a BIOS those days which allowed CD booting...
But, just so you know, Linux has *always* had great live boot CD distro's around, from day one.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about the effect which OSX has had on my OS chops, too... since I 'switched' to OSX (been a Unix junkie for years) I've definitely felt a general happiness come over me. I don't get bothered by OS stuff, I just see it for how it is.
So anyway, to cure my happiness, I got Plan9 for my BeBox, and as soon as I get a video card for it which actually works, then plan9 it is, baby... well, we'll see, anyway.;)
... to sync MP3 files from a URL, to either a) iPod, directly, or b) to a plugged-in Clie MS card.
This way I can point my app to http://www.ampfea.org/new_music.html (when that is also working) and get new music auto-magically hotsync'ed for me every week to my MP3 players of choice. Maybe I'll set things up nightly, if I can find some good new_music resources around.
Another app I want to write soon as I find the Clie SDK for WLAN is a WLAN-Hotsync for Clie that does the same thing - automatically gathers new MP3's for me to listen to.
At night, let the Clie use the WLAN for all its downloading needs, and wake up in the morning with a fresh music feed for the walk to work.:)
What's needed is for Independent Media to get together and formulate a standard URL/XMLDoc message format for announcing new tracks, and then they should promote software which makes it dead easy to use these message formats to update portable media players...
They'd better do it quick, or Apple will put it all in iTunes, and there won't be any need. But a new_music announcement scheme really needs to be Open, Standard, and Available to All.
And fell asleep half-way through. Granted, it was in German and I'm a native English speaker, but nevertheless.
The Matrix is tired violent film with 'supposed philosophical' value (as if every violent film wasn't pitched this way).
It is Formula Hollywood at its finest.
French film is better at this sort of thing. They don't have to market French films to White American Christians, like Hollywood does, and if you don't think this affects philsophical bias in film pitch, well then...
Religions are entirely composed of a common understanding among indidivuals. If there is *no* common understanding among individuals in the religious group, there is no group, and thus no religion.
Worship is, and has always been, a way to promote common understanding. Whether you could read or not, singing in the choir was something everyone could do to get a little more learnin'...
That's more like Taoism, which is best described, probably incorrectly, as a form of apathy wrapped in ancient dogma.
Of course, that is just my opinion having met 4 very, very apathetic, pathetic so-called "Tao'ists" over a period of 10 years. They really were hopeless to work with, and put me off studying the Tao until I'd matured a little more.
I saw the Dalai Lama a few years ago in LA, and it was a great event - truly an interesting crowd of people attended this event, and it was a very nice day.
He spoke on the need to recognize the infinite void in our lives which can only be described as "Eternity", and that as humans its our task to attempt to live outside the box which a single lifetime offers. I found it quite enriching, even though I am not a devout Buddhist (I am interested in all religious philosophy, frankly, not just one), and it certainly gave me a sense of calm for weeks to come knowing that the Buddhist movement was as alive as ever in Los Angeles. A city which needs more religion, frankly.
A statue does not 'worship' make. By this reckoning, you could say that America 'worships' the Bald Eagle.
Statues of Buddha are designed to simply identify Buddhist principles. If you see a Buddha in someones garden, you should be sure that there is a buddhist-style mentality involved in the tender of that garden - this is not worship, it is simply communication.
Religion certainly has its faults with worship, but to assume that all worship is bad, or at least, not based on some sort of common principle of understanding, is to assume the worst about religion.
You're perverting the sense and definition of religion here.
Religion is *supposed* to give you the tools to lead a calmer, less stresseful, happier life. If it doesn't, its not working as a religion.
Those who would stand to benefit from an un-calm, stressy society (WMH, Eli Lilli and Co.) seek to actively denigrate religions' potential for delivering calm, stressless people, and those who have bought the humanist party line from the last 20 years that "All Religion Is Bad, The pseudo-science of Psychology is the Only Way" support them in their effort to discount the positive effects which religion can have on a persons well-being.
All religion is not bad. Buddhists *do* lead happier lives than the anti-religion types... most of whom are pretty stressy people. I'm yet to meet a Buddhist (true buddhist, not dilletantes) who wasn't a happy, fun person to be around, generally.
Make your own determination of the value of religion in modern society if you will, but discount its worth and positive value at your own peril...
But, having a robot do something which is enhanced by mindless repetition is a natural robotic application. Then having that application be something that could enable political liberation is a interesting twist of the old "robots in service to humanity" ideals. I'm not so sure that those holding the reins are going to be so interested in this--call me cynical.
I'll see your cynicism and raise you some conspiracy.
Technology such as this just makes it easier to burn books.
"We've got it all digitized now, promise, go on, you can light them yourselves!"
If people start to remove money from the equation, what's left?
What are you, an insensitive imperialistic American pig dog!? (j/k)
What's left, of course, is motivation for the spirit of doing it. For the fundamental human quality known as 'endeavour', 'fortitude', or 'curiosity'.
There are plenty of things in life more valuable than money, greedo. And lots of the modern things you and I take for granted got that way in spite of it.
I have a Clie NX70V, and I have to say its a very convenient web-browsing platform... the screen is great, and the battery life is pretty decent too - I've had up to 5 hours with mine, in constant use, in an afternoon.
The camera isn't so bad. Think year 2000-quality cheap digital camera. There's a lot to be said for the form factor.
I just wish there were some sort of decent video conferencing app for WLAN-equipped NX70v's... that'd be superb.
Generally, and I say this about lots of computer industry things lately, I think its a case of 'us computer geeks' ignoring the fact that the computer market, and tech in general, is *HUGE*.
There are, as yet, completely untapped *millions* of consumers for products/devices like these - game consoles first, microwave ovens next, etc. - and as current generations grow families, the market is growing faster than we are keeping pace with it.
Its a fact often overlooked by computer geeks, but the plain truth of the matter is that there are a *lot* of places yet for computer technology to get to. Thus, the markets are growing.
Maybe not so much in the good ol' USofA, though, bless its War-lovin' heart... Duh, manufacturing is a *huuuuuuuge* industry, and theres a reason why its going oversees! Its easier to ship final product to local masses!
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Well, actually, no, I'm not rigging it like I'm "happy" that some 'bigot' (faaark, I dunno, that was a looooong thread ago) was able to speak their mind and go unopposed.
I'm just saying, when someone says "Free and Open Tech can Help India" don't go fucking replying "India doesn't need yo' bitchass bigot help, mo-fo', we already smart!"
Free and Open Tech *can* help India, and thanks very much to the President of India for stating it, and here's to all the human beings who will have heard this wonderous nugget of news in the subcontinent, who then subsequently go on to rock. Maybe they will teach the *Ignorant *Few in the United States a thing or two about code. Great, cool.
As for you, 'hathan'h' whateverthegoose your name is, you've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder, mate, if you think this has *anything* to do with you, personally.
You, personally, are insignificant in this thread; only what you say matters.
Assuming that someone is antagonistic when they profer a view which may actually help is pretty cowardly. I say, attack life with a challenge: try not to *ever* acknowledge bigotry. Especially when you use it to attack a 'group of people' whose views oppose yours.
I'm not defending any bigots.
I think you must just like to be pissed on.
Foul attacks on your character? I don't know you, all I was trying to say is that you shouldn't ignore the *FACT* about the India poor people situation when discussing these things - Linux has a *LOT* to give India with regards to this poblem.
... in my opinion ... demonstrates a significant deficiency in character.
I never said you didn't think there were poor people in India, I just said that your inability to account for the poor when criticizing what other people say about India is insensitive.
Fact is, if the world thinks that India is full of poor people, here's a news flash: its because it *IS* full of poor people, and the fortunate minority (such as yourself) who are able to support themselves ought to recognize that Linux/OSS can *help* with this problem. Minorities such as yourself (not starving in India? Then you're in the minority) ought not to be so knee-jerk about the situation in your country.
The promotion of leg-up style industry such as OSS/Linux supports, in India particularly, could only be a good thing. Detracting from the issue by turning this debate into an argument about "American attitude about India" is ignoring the fact, going off-topic, and
Ummm... I'm saying that the government of India has recognized that Linux is a tech booster that *doesn't require funding or investment* it simply requires motivation.
I not once mentioned that there is a license to be paid. I dunno where you got that from.
There *are* a lot of starving, hungry people in India, who have no chance whatsoever.
That you chose to ignore the details in the message - which is that the President of India is advocating the Linux/OSS mantra of DIY technology, and this might mean something to one of the 300,000 street kids in Delhi who would just *LOVE* to be able to get a job without having to first wade through hordes of pompous asses like you to get there.
... but my first 'official' Linux CD distribution was Yggdrasil (prior to that, I dl'ed the linux tarball directly from funet.fi...) and it had, hands down, a fantastic 'live boot' feature. I used Yggdrasil Linux to rescue fragged FAT32 drives which DOS5.0 had given up on. Astounding!
...
It had X, even, and you could get it on the 'net. Alas, this was pre-browser days, so no NCSA Mosaic... well, not for the first Yggdrasil disk I tried, anyway.
They stopped doing live boot CD's because, I fear, they were ahead of their time - not everyone had a BIOS those days which allowed CD booting
But, just so you know, Linux has *always* had great live boot CD distro's around, from day one.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about the effect which OSX has had on my OS chops, too ... since I 'switched' to OSX (been a Unix junkie for years) I've definitely felt a general happiness come over me. I don't get bothered by OS stuff, I just see it for how it is.
... well, we'll see, anyway. ;)
So anyway, to cure my happiness, I got Plan9 for my BeBox, and as soon as I get a video card for it which actually works, then plan9 it is, baby
... to sync MP3 files from a URL, to either a) iPod, directly, or b) to a plugged-in Clie MS card.
:)
This way I can point my app to http://www.ampfea.org/new_music.html (when that is also working) and get new music auto-magically hotsync'ed for me every week to my MP3 players of choice. Maybe I'll set things up nightly, if I can find some good new_music resources around.
Another app I want to write soon as I find the Clie SDK for WLAN is a WLAN-Hotsync for Clie that does the same thing - automatically gathers new MP3's for me to listen to.
At night, let the Clie use the WLAN for all its downloading needs, and wake up in the morning with a fresh music feed for the walk to work.
What's needed is for Independent Media to get together and formulate a standard URL/XMLDoc message format for announcing new tracks, and then they should promote software which makes it dead easy to use these message formats to update portable media players...
They'd better do it quick, or Apple will put it all in iTunes, and there won't be any need. But a new_music announcement scheme really needs to be Open, Standard, and Available to All.
Great, thanks, one more reason to become a vegetarian.
Well if that's the case, how about a loan? I'm sure you've got $2million at least to spare for my own little ... 'space' ... project.
LOL!!!!!!
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If I had mod points, this'd be +5 Funny already.
Into the
Is it teaching, or is it just inspiration?
You can't do what Rutan does without having serious doctrine, and amazing capital. I only hope this becomes apparent to those he inspires, fast.
Maybe we will get a chance at anti-g before we die.
And fell asleep half-way through. Granted, it was in German and I'm a native English speaker, but nevertheless.
...
The Matrix is tired violent film with 'supposed philosophical' value (as if every violent film wasn't pitched this way).
It is Formula Hollywood at its finest.
French film is better at this sort of thing. They don't have to market French films to White American Christians, like Hollywood does, and if you don't think this affects philsophical bias in film pitch, well then
Religions are entirely composed of a common understanding among indidivuals. If there is *no* common understanding among individuals in the religious group, there is no group, and thus no religion.
...
Worship is, and has always been, a way to promote common understanding. Whether you could read or not, singing in the choir was something everyone could do to get a little more learnin'
Correlation or not, to just bluntly state that 'religion doesnt make people happy' is just as stupid a stance to take given the evidence at hand.
That's more like Taoism, which is best described, probably incorrectly, as a form of apathy wrapped in ancient dogma.
Of course, that is just my opinion having met 4 very, very apathetic, pathetic so-called "Tao'ists" over a period of 10 years. They really were hopeless to work with, and put me off studying the Tao until I'd matured a little more.
I saw the Dalai Lama a few years ago in LA, and it was a great event - truly an interesting crowd of people attended this event, and it was a very nice day.
He spoke on the need to recognize the infinite void in our lives which can only be described as "Eternity", and that as humans its our task to attempt to live outside the box which a single lifetime offers. I found it quite enriching, even though I am not a devout Buddhist (I am interested in all religious philosophy, frankly, not just one), and it certainly gave me a sense of calm for weeks to come knowing that the Buddhist movement was as alive as ever in Los Angeles. A city which needs more religion, frankly.
A statue does not 'worship' make. By this reckoning, you could say that America 'worships' the Bald Eagle.
Statues of Buddha are designed to simply identify Buddhist principles. If you see a Buddha in someones garden, you should be sure that there is a buddhist-style mentality involved in the tender of that garden - this is not worship, it is simply communication.
Religion certainly has its faults with worship, but to assume that all worship is bad, or at least, not based on some sort of common principle of understanding, is to assume the worst about religion.
And that would be a mistake not worth making.
You're perverting the sense and definition of religion here.
...
Religion is *supposed* to give you the tools to lead a calmer, less stresseful, happier life. If it doesn't, its not working as a religion.
Those who would stand to benefit from an un-calm, stressy society (WMH, Eli Lilli and Co.) seek to actively denigrate religions' potential for delivering calm, stressless people, and those who have bought the humanist party line from the last 20 years that "All Religion Is Bad, The pseudo-science of Psychology is the Only Way" support them in their effort to discount the positive effects which religion can have on a persons well-being.
All religion is not bad. Buddhists *do* lead happier lives than the anti-religion types... most of whom are pretty stressy people. I'm yet to meet a Buddhist (true buddhist, not dilletantes) who wasn't a happy, fun person to be around, generally.
Make your own determination of the value of religion in modern society if you will, but discount its worth and positive value at your own peril
umm... 64 bits is not just a base size... its a place to store 2 32-bit words. which could be a timestamp+dataword, etc.
thats nice native register space. entire structs, even, what algorithmic fun is to be had!
either way i say bring on the 64bit tibook. apple already earn my $$$ just give us 5gig memory capabilities, too!
But, having a robot do something which is enhanced by mindless repetition is a natural robotic application. Then having that application be something that could enable political liberation is a interesting twist of the old "robots in service to humanity" ideals. I'm not so sure that those holding the reins are going to be so interested in this--call me cynical.
I'll see your cynicism and raise you some conspiracy.
Technology such as this just makes it easier to burn books.
"We've got it all digitized now, promise, go on, you can light them yourselves!"
If people start to remove money from the equation, what's left?
What are you, an insensitive imperialistic American pig dog!? (j/k)
What's left, of course, is motivation for the spirit of doing it. For the fundamental human quality known as 'endeavour', 'fortitude', or 'curiosity'.
There are plenty of things in life more valuable than money, greedo. And lots of the modern things you and I take for granted got that way in spite of it.
But it could be used for musical applications.
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Plenty of prior art in this area though, I'm afraid
I have a Clie NX70V, and I have to say its a very convenient web-browsing platform ... the screen is great, and the battery life is pretty decent too - I've had up to 5 hours with mine, in constant use, in an afternoon.
... that'd be superb.
The camera isn't so bad. Think year 2000-quality cheap digital camera. There's a lot to be said for the form factor.
I just wish there were some sort of decent video conferencing app for WLAN-equipped NX70v's
Generally, and I say this about lots of computer industry things lately, I think its a case of 'us computer geeks' ignoring the fact that the computer market, and tech in general, is *HUGE*.
There are, as yet, completely untapped *millions* of consumers for products/devices like these - game consoles first, microwave ovens next, etc. - and as current generations grow families, the market is growing faster than we are keeping pace with it.
Its a fact often overlooked by computer geeks, but the plain truth of the matter is that there are a *lot* of places yet for computer technology to get to. Thus, the markets are growing.
Maybe not so much in the good ol' USofA, though, bless its War-lovin' heart... Duh, manufacturing is a *huuuuuuuge* industry, and theres a reason why its going oversees! Its easier to ship final product to local masses!