truth be told, that $30k price-tag is mostly profit for the med-co's currently stiffing american hospitals out of cheap, quality, medical equipment.
in vietnam they have no such compunction. they don't mind building things which work, for cheap, and not screwing their customers for every last penny they can..
i say, great. american medical 'prowess' is propped up by insanely disproportionate profits. i daresay a few public hospitals in detroit could stand to DIY the ol' endoscope too, and save a few bucks for those AIDS drugs they've gotta stock up on in order to be 'qualified' for "Federal Support".
sheesh. no big surprise that things are cheaper outside of the worlds largest continent full of greedy, selfish pigs..
they're both of equal magnitude, dude.. there's nothing that makes one 'better' than the other, both men have done a lot for the world of synthesizers..
A real 'hack' of the O'Reilly fascism would've been to prove that the bozo filter doesn't work, get into the "Foo" camp, and simply go bozo.
Creating an 'alternative' is just falling even further into the Bozo filter trap. Only bozo's would knee-jerk insta-"fuck you", go off, and do their own thing. It's NIH'ism turned in on itself.
Is there a "Straight" filter at Bar camp, one wonders...
yeah, thats not as many japanese as you may think.. its certainly not more than the rice-eating variety. mcdonalds isn't totally popular in japan.. there is still a huge stigma to eating like an american..
if your boss can't understand that the productivity gained from sharing your code with others is as easily represented by your own case as it is for the flipside, then he's a stupid boss.
if you can't say 'look, here is a project that is only possible because people shared code', and 'shared code means more productivity, as this project demonstrates', then, just perhaps.. you should be a document writer, not a coder.
stuffy case making and argumentation aside, the only real test of GPL is the effect that GPL has on the productivity of a particular project.. because GPL isn't about keeping secrets, its about revealing all secrets, far and wide, and allowing those secrets to be improved upon in as productive manner as possible..
How can he convince his boss that this is a good idea?
i guess you don't know what stratification means. he can convince his boss its a good idea by showing him how, working together with other GPL'ed code, he was able to work better and faster...
oh, yeah, it could be.. but i know greenbacks are horded by the japanese as much as anyone, even more so than americans, so.. naturally.. its all good.
FedEx is global, dude. You can FedEx anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
What I think you mean to say is, go somewhere, but also make it a return trip. If I could have 45 minutes of weightlessness in between flying from Europe to Oceania, and again on the flipside, I'd probably be buying tickets to do so every 2 or 3 months or so..
Given the choice between guilt-tripping about feeding the American Mega-Corp monster your heard-earned yen, and providing needed greenbacks to your local silicon-pimp zaibatsu, the average Japanese will, simply, buy Japanese.
See, hegemony works two ways: for you, and against you. And until Microsoft do something about their utterly cheesy PR (yes folks, its true, people do actually see through the hype after the 3rd or 5th reboot..), and their general association as an utterly untrustorthy, bastard, bitch-slappin' Yankee company, the Japanese will always choose local over import. Simple. Sweet. To the point.
Under-estimate nationalism, in others and yourself, at your own peril...
Seriously, if you want to convince anyone of the 'superiority' of open source versus hidden source code, then simply write some glue code of your own which does something special.
That is to say, position yourself with GPL/OSS code in such a way that you prove that the open stratification of code, abstract on whatever levels you choose, is worth the effort. Write an app using GPL'ed API's that nobody else could've written, quite so quickly, if a deep and sudden understanding through direct study of contributed frameworks wasn't done first.
The way to profit from F/OSS begins with your own territory. Stake out a claim, find those who support your effort, apply their work to yours, and do it fast.
I wouldn't bother with 'reports' and 'presentations'.. thats all horseshit in the reality of "./configure ; make ; make install ;./run" style working processes. GPL and F/OSS are about code and code is all about what runs, not what someone 'thinks' about it.
Face reality: it ain't good enough until you've added your bit.
i wouldn't have this point of view if i wasn't australian.
australia is as good an "american colony" as you're going to get. the american defense-industry (carlyle group) rules australian culture with a velvet glove, and has done so for the last 5 decades..
sure, australians like to pretend australia is not an american colony, but.. it is.. and i'm only saying it because i'm australian, and have lived in the US for a long period of time, and this is my conclusion: the land down under is an american military asset.
Australians generally don't give a hoot about the intrusion of Big Brother/New World Order style mega-corps into their living rooms. For the most part, Australia is a textbook example of what globalists want: a mono-culture'd single-source-for-everything authority-fearing nation full of sheep.
You can't get a more "McDonnell Douglas'ed"/"Carlyle Group-ified" nation than Australia. As a nation, it leads the way for the idealization of globalist technology.. Aussies just don't give a damn about repression, as long as they've got their 'lifestyles' to adhere to...
as in, live CD's. as in, roll your own OS, stick whatever app you need in it, in whatever language you choose.
seriously, i've thought about it. the era of 'trusted software' starts with the total system build, and its at the point now where, to get your own full OS kit, frameworks, hardware support/tight driver integration, its pretty much easy. no need to chase the philosophy of language much further: build your own OSKit+AppPackage, boot it on whatever hardware you've got, run it, leave it alone.
honest, the new programming model isn't. its a build model, and reflects all hosted languages/kits/tools.
And, also, there is no such thing as "Linux", as in "Linux Desktop Build", or "Linux Distro-toy Blue", blah.
There are only builds of Linux. To assume that "Linux is _something_" and then defeat it with an argument is simply praying to straw men.
Sure, different groups, factions, cliques and charms of distributors out there are working on various efforts. But setting up this "Linux" thing and proving its 'wrong' is just attacking them all..
What matters with Linux is, whats it running on? Is it running? Is it doing the job you intended for it to do? There are plenty of ways to go about getting Linux a solid YES for those last two jobs, but the first and foremost question is: whats it running on?
"Growing pains" of software is another way of saying "no hardware control". Microsoft is aware of this (XBox Hegemony). "The Linux People" seem to be overlooking it. Ignore pop-cult predictions, and build, build, build..
All good Linux starts with a build. If you can't operate at a level of competence that allows you to build your own system and manage it under full control, starting with hardware, then what the hell are you doing in 'enterprise computing'?
"Hardware. Hardware, hardware, hardware." Linux starts at Hardware.
I wasn't watching around the clock, but I saw no evidence of any science being done at all on this mission.
i dunno, i saw them testing their new shuttle-patch materials, there was some science in that. things froze, got solid, didn't stick, etc. the chemists weren't totally right about everything in that experiment, either, neither were the engineers.
oh, okay, i'm being optimistic. but hey.. this was the 'patch' flight, man. over 100 other missions, and you're complaining about the 'return to flight' being 'not science enough'.
mothball the shuttle, yes. but only if you can replace it with something else in 6 to 12 months, i say, or at least keep the show on the road some other way (just buy Progress rockets, people, sheesh..)
.. I for one welcome our new remote-control weilding overlords, and remind them that, as a devoted member of their volleyball team, disco enclave, and cow wash, I'm perfectly qualified to serve drinks at their orgies, fresh coppertops and all..
Yeah. Thats a bad situation to be in, since your entire nation is at war.. and when the terrorists decide to fight back (they've stated they're going to..) then the nation is going to be very ill-prepared for it, eh?
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read the article. the only thing they 'bought' was the scope itself, which cost $800 .. i'm sure you can read between the lines on that one.
truth be told, that $30k price-tag is mostly profit for the med-co's currently stiffing american hospitals out of cheap, quality, medical equipment.
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in vietnam they have no such compunction. they don't mind building things which work, for cheap, and not screwing their customers for every last penny they can
i say, great. american medical 'prowess' is propped up by insanely disproportionate profits. i daresay a few public hospitals in detroit could stand to DIY the ol' endoscope too, and save a few bucks for those AIDS drugs they've gotta stock up on in order to be 'qualified' for "Federal Support".
sheesh. no big surprise that things are cheaper outside of the worlds largest continent full of greedy, selfish pigs
they're both of equal magnitude, dude .. there's nothing that makes one 'better' than the other, both men have done a lot for the world of synthesizers ..
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that said, i'd take an arp over a mini any day
A real 'hack' of the O'Reilly fascism would've been to prove that the bozo filter doesn't work, get into the "Foo" camp, and simply go bozo.
...
Creating an 'alternative' is just falling even further into the Bozo filter trap. Only bozo's would knee-jerk insta-"fuck you", go off, and do their own thing. It's NIH'ism turned in on itself.
Is there a "Straight" filter at Bar camp, one wonders
.. Czech Budweiser.
yeah, thats not as many japanese as you may think .. its certainly not more than the rice-eating variety. mcdonalds isn't totally popular in japan.. there is still a huge stigma to eating like an american..
if your boss can't understand that the productivity gained from sharing your code with others is as easily represented by your own case as it is for the flipside, then he's a stupid boss.
if you can't say 'look, here is a project that is only possible because people shared code', and 'shared code means more productivity, as this project demonstrates', then, just perhaps
stuffy case making and argumentation aside, the only real test of GPL is the effect that GPL has on the productivity of a particular project
How can he convince his boss that this is a good idea?
i guess you don't know what stratification means. he can convince his boss its a good idea by showing him how, working together with other GPL'ed code, he was able to work better and faster...
Sure it's not orangebacks?
.. but i know greenbacks are horded by the japanese as much as anyone, even more so than americans, so .. naturally .. its all good.
oh, yeah, it could be
FedEx is global, dude. You can FedEx anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
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What I think you mean to say is, go somewhere, but also make it a return trip. If I could have 45 minutes of weightlessness in between flying from Europe to Oceania, and again on the flipside, I'd probably be buying tickets to do so every 2 or 3 months or so
Its American. Duh.
Given the choice between guilt-tripping about feeding the American Mega-Corp monster your heard-earned yen, and providing needed greenbacks to your local silicon-pimp zaibatsu, the average Japanese will, simply, buy Japanese.
See, hegemony works two ways: for you, and against you. And until Microsoft do something about their utterly cheesy PR (yes folks, its true, people do actually see through the hype after the 3rd or 5th reboot..), and their general association as an utterly untrustorthy, bastard, bitch-slappin' Yankee company, the Japanese will always choose local over import. Simple. Sweet. To the point.
Under-estimate nationalism, in others and yourself, at your own peril...
Synthesizers.
I'll tell you what you should write: code.
./run" style working processes. GPL and F/OSS are about code and code is all about what runs, not what someone 'thinks' about it.
Seriously, if you want to convince anyone of the 'superiority' of open source versus hidden source code, then simply write some glue code of your own which does something special.
That is to say, position yourself with GPL/OSS code in such a way that you prove that the open stratification of code, abstract on whatever levels you choose, is worth the effort. Write an app using GPL'ed API's that nobody else could've written, quite so quickly, if a deep and sudden understanding through direct study of contributed frameworks wasn't done first.
The way to profit from F/OSS begins with your own territory. Stake out a claim, find those who support your effort, apply their work to yours, and do it fast.
I wouldn't bother with 'reports' and 'presentations'.. thats all horseshit in the reality of "./configure ; make ; make install ;
Face reality: it ain't good enough until you've added your bit.
Have you ever lived in Australia?
.. it is .. and i'm only saying it because i'm australian, and have lived in the US for a long period of time, and this is my conclusion: the land down under is an american military asset.
i wouldn't have this point of view if i wasn't australian.
australia is as good an "american colony" as you're going to get. the american defense-industry (carlyle group) rules australian culture with a velvet glove, and has done so for the last 5 decades..
sure, australians like to pretend australia is not an american colony, but
Australians generally don't give a hoot about the intrusion of Big Brother/New World Order style mega-corps into their living rooms. For the most part, Australia is a textbook example of what globalists want: a mono-culture'd single-source-for-everything authority-fearing nation full of sheep.
.. Aussies just don't give a damn about repression, as long as they've got their 'lifestyles' to adhere to ...
You can't get a more "McDonnell Douglas'ed"/"Carlyle Group-ified" nation than Australia. As a nation, it leads the way for the idealization of globalist technology
No we won't!
for sure there are japanese bbs'es from the 80's with such clan-boix behaviour.
the article is hype.
.. before Wolfenstein (saw it for that a few times), before Duke Nukem (non-3D), even before Jet Set Willy.
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Pacman had speed runners. Pitfall too. Speed running is at least as old as the 70's.
Maybe 'in the modern context of video games', where modern = 'anything since 1990', speed-running 'can be traced' to DOOM, but its an old sport.
speed running is what you did in the 70's when you already 'beat the game' a few times, and you had nothing else to play
total system build.
as in, live CD's. as in, roll your own OS, stick whatever app you need in it, in whatever language you choose.
seriously, i've thought about it. the era of 'trusted software' starts with the total system build, and its at the point now where, to get your own full OS kit, frameworks, hardware support/tight driver integration, its pretty much easy. no need to chase the philosophy of language much further: build your own OSKit+AppPackage, boot it on whatever hardware you've got, run it, leave it alone.
honest, the new programming model isn't. its a build model, and reflects all hosted languages/kits/tools.
Plain and simple.
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And, also, there is no such thing as "Linux", as in "Linux Desktop Build", or "Linux Distro-toy Blue", blah.
There are only builds of Linux. To assume that "Linux is _something_" and then defeat it with an argument is simply praying to straw men.
Sure, different groups, factions, cliques and charms of distributors out there are working on various efforts. But setting up this "Linux" thing and proving its 'wrong' is just attacking them all
What matters with Linux is, whats it running on? Is it running? Is it doing the job you intended for it to do? There are plenty of ways to go about getting Linux a solid YES for those last two jobs, but the first and foremost question is: whats it running on?
"Growing pains" of software is another way of saying "no hardware control". Microsoft is aware of this (XBox Hegemony). "The Linux People" seem to be overlooking it. Ignore pop-cult predictions, and build, build, build
All good Linux starts with a build. If you can't operate at a level of competence that allows you to build your own system and manage it under full control, starting with hardware, then what the hell are you doing in 'enterprise computing'?
"Hardware. Hardware, hardware, hardware." Linux starts at Hardware.
.. BeOS! .. OS/2! .. iTron! .. ???
I wasn't watching around the clock, but I saw no evidence of any science being done at all on this mission.
.. this was the 'patch' flight, man. over 100 other missions, and you're complaining about the 'return to flight' being 'not science enough'.
i dunno, i saw them testing their new shuttle-patch materials, there was some science in that. things froze, got solid, didn't stick, etc. the chemists weren't totally right about everything in that experiment, either, neither were the engineers.
oh, okay, i'm being optimistic. but hey
mothball the shuttle, yes. but only if you can replace it with something else in 6 to 12 months, i say, or at least keep the show on the road some other way (just buy Progress rockets, people, sheesh..)
What part of devoted member do you not comprehend?
No need for tin-foil baby, sign this pony UP!!
(yes, i admit, i would rather weild the whip, perhaps a chariot or two
.. I for one welcome our new remote-control weilding overlords, and remind them that, as a devoted member of their volleyball team, disco enclave, and cow wash, I'm perfectly qualified to serve drinks at their orgies, fresh coppertops and all ..
Yeah. Thats a bad situation to be in, since your entire nation is at war.. and when the terrorists decide to fight back (they've stated they're going to ..) then the nation is going to be very ill-prepared for it, eh?
Good thing I don't live there any more.