software is on the same path as music, kiddies. soon, the only way to make money on software is going to be the shipping of atoms, not just electrons...
It's not like any drugs alter your mind into a fertilizer/diesel bomb.
the daily pill-popping of modern consumers represents a very significant onslaught on the concscious productive reality of the nation to which they belong. whether it is prescription drug or street drug, any human 'consumer' who has a dependency on a product for which they have absolutely no personal understanding, while a very elite few do, is a danger to any nations economy.
most people have no clue what is in the pill. whatsoever. at all. it is a fragile trust, built around consumerist ideology. human consumers in the modern world have left explanation and manipulation of their mental sensibilities in the hands of a very few, privileged interests, who are 'allowed' to study the complexities of drug effects under terms nearly entirely of their own making, and make it 'consumerable' by the masses.
i do not believe it has been good for any nation to be under the influence of drugs, street or consumer, on a mass scale. it is simply not sustainable. when the percentage of the population of a country is high, most of the time, i don't believe it to be a healthy one, and this is really borne in the economic reality of any country, not just america, who has had a massive increase in (street & consumer) drug use.
as to the question of legalization of use and manufacture, i don't think anyone should be allowed to make money on drugs, period. drug manufacture, details, and science, should be open public data.
my ideal government would be 100% open, all the way, 100% zero tolerance for secrecy, and it would be a fundamental mandate, even, constitutionally, for the people to measure its government on this basis.
laws which prohibit their use and personal/private manufacture, allow much, much more money to be made, than a rule that said "any individual can manufacture mind-altering substances for their own personal use, trade is however strictly forbidden".
no money will be made, because anyone can just roll their own.
Even those who don't?? If you don't want to use something, don't buy it...
This is going to stop me being marketed drugs, how? Re-read this sentence:
Could you really imagine a world where corporations were allowed to market and sell devastatingly mind-altering drugs to anyone who wants to use them, even those that don't?
No matter how hard I try, even if I have a personal policy that drug use is forbidden, I will be marketed to - daily - by drug corporations who are selling the myth that their wares will cure my ills, and I will have to participate in a society where that marketing occurs in such rabid degree that it is now an 'acceptable fact' that drugs are good for curing mental problems.
Hype, because Americans, due to their proclivity for cults of personality and inability to dis-introvert themselves long enough to escape Club Med Nirvana and have a Real Look At The World, hyperbolically still consider theirs the greatest nation on Earth, irresponsibly, when in fact as a nation America is far, far, far less great than many others in an exceedingly expansive number of realms, such as education, agrigultural sciences, manufacturing, even 'entertainment'.. oh wait, militant mass programming of police-state-asseted inebriated peon hordes, America and its Gigantic Drug and Propaganda Apparatus is very great at that.. but in fact, the only bouyant export from the U.S., economically, is police force/forms of warfare, and we all know (those of us who were paying attention in History class) just how long police states can go before collapsing on themselves. (Hint: not very long.)
Every single one of those Shock and Awe weapons could've been used for far, far greater, peaceful purposes which would have made an awesome impact on world stability, but instead Americans allow their politicians to use its technology to destroy. [Is George W. Bush really the best America can do? Honest?]
Show me a cruise missile, and I'll show you a highly effective way of peacefully delivering a very badly needed water pump and medical supplies, to precisely where its needed, very rapidly. Show me a fleet of B52 bombers with heavy lift capabilities, and I'll show you a Dafur that didn't need to happen. 10,000 pounds of Uranium would do well to safely improve the condition of life for multiple millions of people, yet America prefers it be weaponized "just in case".
Crimes of America: Vietnam. Honduras, Nicuragua. Venezuela. Iraq "Highway of Death", Desert Storm. Afghanistan. Iraq War Two. Sure, you've got excuses for every one of these 'wars', but for every excuse to kill, there are also a hundred reasons not to kill thousands of people.
my mistake. If they did tax it, sell licences to deal, imagine the money they'd make.
Could you really imagine a world where corporations were allowed to market and sell devastatingly mind-altering drugs to anyone who wants to use them, even those that don't?
Oh, wait, we have that already. So in fact, its not difficult to 'imagine the money they would make', because drug-pimps are making trillions, annually.. legally, even.
Well, I'm not a scientist, just a lowly computer programmer, so take my rabblerousing with a grain of salt, but I often find myself asking the question: Does describing the quantum, mean that in fact quanta exist?
What if the "Law of Space" was, 'the more you look, the more there will be', and in fact the depth and breadth of the universe was defined by us doing the looking, not by the universe itself being looked at... Atoms weren't "real" until they were described, were they?
Governments so often believe they can wave a piece of paper and behavior stops
People behave this way, its not just a government thing.
Someone describing something does not make that thing so, yet our ethics and scientific communities seem deeply rooted in the 'this is the only way to describe something' mud.
Words are arbitrary, the meanings for these words are arbitrary, and we fail to accomodate for this arbitrary nature in all walks of life, not just government.
Its a human frailty that most of our language is designed to enhance our understanding of language, but in the course of using such language, we often forget that words have no power, whatsoever.
I'll bet $5 that this bill was passed by people who never even use EBay, but support it on the basis of the language of the bill itself. Shame!
Americans have the most to lose, after all their economy is mostly drastically over-inflated hype, and since every single American owes the world $50,000, of course you'd expect them to be whining and griping about the strength of other nations in comparison.
Americans: it is your own damn fault. Stop ignoring the crimes of your government.
Because in fact, one of the most powerful realms of the OSS sphere is: Build Systems. Not the Linux Kernel, not just Gnome or KDE, I'm talking the boring stuff: make, autotools, etc.
So there are a hundred different 'ways' to implement Linux, across the board, literally hundreds of different 'standards' for how to do things?
So what? This Is Not Broken. It is the intent of Open Source to promote such usage, which results in the condition.
What matters now is: a) Can the computer owne^H^H^H^Hadministrator build their own operating system, and b) Can you make it easy for others to build their own operating system like you do, too, in case you agree to share a standard with each other? Microsoft can say "No" to both of those questions, it is fundamental to their entire corporate nervous system that it is extraordinarily difficult to produce a Windows Build, but with Linux users, all they can say is a resounding "Yes!" in answer to both of those questions... this is entirely the point of Linux.
Linux/Free Software is a collection of Standards, offering an infinity of confusion and customization. That is the breadth of its offering, it is a characteristic of freely accepted and open standardization that an infinity of different ways of doing the same thing can now be easily attempted, by any individual.
This is Not A Weakness.
Its like, there are tons of different filesystem layouts, and you need to decide to use one. With Linux: Never forget that you can decide to use one, and participate in a standard, or you can decide to make (or implement) one, and form the basis of your own standard. This is a highly useful business tool, extraordinarily so.
The upper echelon of "Linux Usage" (and I mean: Actual Use, not just 'writing articles about') is the 'Roll Your Own' [Kernel+System] build system. At the center of that upper point, are the Build tools, and guess what: These are all open for a reason. The open-ness of these tools, is the primary feature of the software.
All the distribution vendors, in their witty quoting press release adjoiners, are trying to do, is protect their Build hegemony in the language of the market.. but it is the Open nature of the Build system, which makes or breaks a specific 'flavour' of the Linux viru^H^H^H^Hsystem.
If 'industry-leading opinion' is set at the 'Linux is killing itself' position on the dial (which probably doesn't go up to 11), then all those pundits have been ignoring such things as OpenStep, ROCK, Mepis, Gobo, etc. What these projects represent are the true fact of the matter: anyone can make their own make.
In light of such 'journalism' it is easy to see why organizations mis-understand how important it is, that any Linux admin worth his salt ought to know how to roll his own kernel, root filesystem,/dev, etc.
{corollary: it is the Linux Distribution Company Models that are broken. Wrong market to be pumping money into marketing!!}
or, are we looking merely at reflections of the universe at an earlier period of time, bouncing around the vast distances of space, a kind of 'holographic echo' of time?
sorta, 'earlier reflections of the universe, bouncing around the universe'..
.. welcome our new huge galatic power overlords From The Beginning, and remind them that as a cretinous fleck of a lifeform in a completely insignificant part of the known universe, us humans are good for nothing.
show me a laptop as nice as the powerbook, and i'll switch.
until then, i'm totally smitten with the architecture and the good design. my powerbook is as open as i -a programmer- need it to be. while still giving me 'total media experience' in the same package, on the beach, with my girl.. my powerbook even killed my TV!
the beauty of the linux, and i believe, the darwin lesson too, now, is that nobody controls the OS, the hardware belongs to the owner, they should always be able to do whatever they want with it. how the system is -sold- however, is up to Apple. and you gotta admit, they do a good job of it.
most Apple users aren't being restricted from doing things with their systems.. the same is true, for now, of PC users.. and i think that any 'distributor' worth their salt should realize by now, that their rather significant investments in so-called inventory management may as well be being applied to things, perhaps.. really show Apple whats up.
yeah, thats one thing you can say about america, they sure do reserve the right to continue to kill each other, somehow or another, without actually calling it 'civil war', tho' it may be..
Because some people might actually love their country, and want to make it a place they can be proud of.
Yes, but clearly not enough Americans do love their country, and even if there were more, it would be a guaranteed, forgone conclusion, that they wouldn't work together to achieve a common goal.
70+Million people didn't turn out to vote. Almost 2/3rds' of your country believes it has no bearing on the politics of your great nation.
this has got to be the worst advice ever. doesn't germany have like 14% unemployment or something horrible? the US only has 5% unemployment.
Errmm.. the German economy is in far better shape than the US economy. Though, I wouldn't expect many Americans to know, or be able to accept, this fact.
There has never been a better time to not live in the United States, and develop your citizenship skills in other nations. Nationalist pride has no place in the new world economy: the point of Globalization, is that it doesn't matter what the unemployment rate is like in "one country", there is a whole planets worth of countries to work in.
Closed-minded thinking is what put the US in the state its currently in with the rest of the world: bad credit, verging on bankrupcy, China, Brazil, and the EU just waiting for the inevitable collapse of the Holy U$ Dollar...
Slashdot Mirror
.. i can do it myself, therefore why do i need to see a commercial about it?
make hardware.
...
software is on the same path as music, kiddies. soon, the only way to make money on software is going to be the shipping of atoms, not just electrons
oh my god, you use an editor that lets you set the tab display? wow!!
seriously though, ''indent -ts4 -kr hw.c", think of
It's not like any drugs alter your mind into a fertilizer/diesel bomb.
the daily pill-popping of modern consumers represents a very significant onslaught on the concscious productive reality of the nation to which they belong. whether it is prescription drug or street drug, any human 'consumer' who has a dependency on a product for which they have absolutely no personal understanding, while a very elite few do, is a danger to any nations economy.
most people have no clue what is in the pill. whatsoever. at all. it is a fragile trust, built around consumerist ideology. human consumers in the modern world have left explanation and manipulation of their mental sensibilities in the hands of a very few, privileged interests, who are 'allowed' to study the complexities of drug effects under terms nearly entirely of their own making, and make it 'consumerable' by the masses.
i do not believe it has been good for any nation to be under the influence of drugs, street or consumer, on a mass scale. it is simply not sustainable. when the percentage of the population of a country is high, most of the time, i don't believe it to be a healthy one, and this is really borne in the economic reality of any country, not just america, who has had a massive increase in (street & consumer) drug use.
as to the question of legalization of use and manufacture, i don't think anyone should be allowed to make money on drugs, period. drug manufacture, details, and science, should be open public data.
my ideal government would be 100% open, all the way, 100% zero tolerance for secrecy, and it would be a fundamental mandate, even, constitutionally, for the people to measure its government on this basis.
laws which prohibit their use and personal/private manufacture, allow much, much more money to be made, than a rule that said "any individual can manufacture mind-altering substances for their own personal use, trade is however strictly forbidden".
no money will be made, because anyone can just roll their own.
Even those who don't?? If you don't want to use something, don't buy it...
This is going to stop me being marketed drugs, how? Re-read this sentence:
Could you really imagine a world where corporations were allowed to market and sell devastatingly mind-altering drugs to anyone who wants to use them, even those that don't?
No matter how hard I try, even if I have a personal policy that drug use is forbidden, I will be marketed to - daily - by drug corporations who are selling the myth that their wares will cure my ills, and I will have to participate in a society where that marketing occurs in such rabid degree that it is now an 'acceptable fact' that drugs are good for curing mental problems.
'over-inflated' == "spending more than you have"
.. oh wait, militant mass programming of police-state-asseted inebriated peon hordes, America and its Gigantic Drug and Propaganda Apparatus is very great at that.. but in fact, the only bouyant export from the U.S., economically, is police force/forms of warfare, and we all know (those of us who were paying attention in History class) just how long police states can go before collapsing on themselves. (Hint: not very long.)
... And on ... And on ... (not a single Geocities link there, buddy ..)
Hype, because Americans, due to their proclivity for cults of personality and inability to dis-introvert themselves long enough to escape Club Med Nirvana and have a Real Look At The World, hyperbolically still consider theirs the greatest nation on Earth, irresponsibly, when in fact as a nation America is far, far, far less great than many others in an exceedingly expansive number of realms, such as education, agrigultural sciences, manufacturing, even 'entertainment'
Every single one of those Shock and Awe weapons could've been used for far, far greater, peaceful purposes which would have made an awesome impact on world stability, but instead Americans allow their politicians to use its technology to destroy. [Is George W. Bush really the best America can do? Honest?]
Show me a cruise missile, and I'll show you a highly effective way of peacefully delivering a very badly needed water pump and medical supplies, to precisely where its needed, very rapidly. Show me a fleet of B52 bombers with heavy lift capabilities, and I'll show you a Dafur that didn't need to happen. 10,000 pounds of Uranium would do well to safely improve the condition of life for multiple millions of people, yet America prefers it be weaponized "just in case".
Crimes of America: Vietnam. Honduras, Nicuragua. Venezuela. Iraq "Highway of Death", Desert Storm. Afghanistan. Iraq War Two. Sure, you've got excuses for every one of these 'wars', but for every excuse to kill, there are also a hundred reasons not to kill thousands of people.
The list goes on
my mistake. If they did tax it, sell licences to deal, imagine the money they'd make.
Could you really imagine a world where corporations were allowed to market and sell devastatingly mind-altering drugs to anyone who wants to use them, even those that don't?
Oh, wait, we have that already. So in fact, its not difficult to 'imagine the money they would make', because drug-pimps are making trillions, annually.. legally, even.
Well, I'm not a scientist, just a lowly computer programmer, so take my rabblerousing with a grain of salt, but I often find myself asking the question: Does describing the quantum, mean that in fact quanta exist?
What if the "Law of Space" was, 'the more you look, the more there will be', and in fact the depth and breadth of the universe was defined by us doing the looking, not by the universe itself being looked at... Atoms weren't "real" until they were described, were they?
Governments so often believe they can wave a piece of paper and behavior stops
People behave this way, its not just a government thing.
Someone describing something does not make that thing so, yet our ethics and scientific communities seem deeply rooted in the 'this is the only way to describe something' mud.
Words are arbitrary, the meanings for these words are arbitrary, and we fail to accomodate for this arbitrary nature in all walks of life, not just government.
Its a human frailty that most of our language is designed to enhance our understanding of language, but in the course of using such language, we often forget that words have no power, whatsoever.
I'll bet $5 that this bill was passed by people who never even use EBay, but support it on the basis of the language of the bill itself. Shame!
Americans have the most to lose, after all their economy is mostly drastically over-inflated hype, and since every single American owes the world $50,000, of course you'd expect them to be whining and griping about the strength of other nations in comparison.
Americans: it is your own damn fault. Stop ignoring the crimes of your government.
Riiight... so we're facing the erosion of cultural diversity through advertising. See kiddies, this is why globalization is bad for your cornflakes!
Why?
... this is entirely the point of Linux.
.. but it is the Open nature of the Build system, which makes or breaks a specific 'flavour' of the Linux viru^H^H^H^Hsystem.
/dev, etc.
Because in fact, one of the most powerful realms of the OSS sphere is: Build Systems. Not the Linux Kernel, not just Gnome or KDE, I'm talking the boring stuff: make, autotools, etc.
So there are a hundred different 'ways' to implement Linux, across the board, literally hundreds of different 'standards' for how to do things?
So what? This Is Not Broken. It is the intent of Open Source to promote such usage, which results in the condition.
What matters now is: a) Can the computer owne^H^H^H^Hadministrator build their own operating system, and b) Can you make it easy for others to build their own operating system like you do, too, in case you agree to share a standard with each other? Microsoft can say "No" to both of those questions, it is fundamental to their entire corporate nervous system that it is extraordinarily difficult to produce a Windows Build, but with Linux users, all they can say is a resounding "Yes!" in answer to both of those questions
Linux/Free Software is a collection of Standards, offering an infinity of confusion and customization. That is the breadth of its offering, it is a characteristic of freely accepted and open standardization that an infinity of different ways of doing the same thing can now be easily attempted, by any individual.
This is Not A Weakness.
Its like, there are tons of different filesystem layouts, and you need to decide to use one. With Linux: Never forget that you can decide to use one, and participate in a standard, or you can decide to make (or implement) one, and form the basis of your own standard. This is a highly useful business tool, extraordinarily so.
The upper echelon of "Linux Usage" (and I mean: Actual Use, not just 'writing articles about') is the 'Roll Your Own' [Kernel+System] build system. At the center of that upper point, are the Build tools, and guess what: These are all open for a reason. The open-ness of these tools, is the primary feature of the software.
All the distribution vendors, in their witty quoting press release adjoiners, are trying to do, is protect their Build hegemony in the language of the market
If 'industry-leading opinion' is set at the 'Linux is killing itself' position on the dial (which probably doesn't go up to 11), then all those pundits have been ignoring such things as OpenStep, ROCK, Mepis, Gobo, etc. What these projects represent are the true fact of the matter: anyone can make their own make.
In light of such 'journalism' it is easy to see why organizations mis-understand how important it is, that any Linux admin worth his salt ought to know how to roll his own kernel, root filesystem,
{corollary: it is the Linux Distribution Company Models that are broken. Wrong market to be pumping money into marketing!!}
or, are we looking merely at reflections of the universe at an earlier period of time, bouncing around the vast distances of space, a kind of 'holographic echo' of time?
..
sorta, 'earlier reflections of the universe, bouncing around the universe'
.. welcome our new huge galatic power overlords From The Beginning, and remind them that as a cretinous fleck of a lifeform in a completely insignificant part of the known universe, us humans are good for nothing.
show me a laptop as nice as the powerbook, and i'll switch.
.. my powerbook even killed my TV!
.. the same is true, for now, of PC users .. and i think that any 'distributor' worth their salt should realize by now, that their rather significant investments in so-called inventory management may as well be being applied to things, perhaps .. really show Apple whats up.
until then, i'm totally smitten with the architecture and the good design. my powerbook is as open as i -a programmer- need it to be. while still giving me 'total media experience' in the same package, on the beach, with my girl
the beauty of the linux, and i believe, the darwin lesson too, now, is that nobody controls the OS, the hardware belongs to the owner, they should always be able to do whatever they want with it. how the system is -sold- however, is up to Apple. and you gotta admit, they do a good job of it.
most Apple users aren't being restricted from doing things with their systems
podcasting rocks. there is so much good music out there, for free, being put out by individuals who really do have talent.
if you're blowing podcast off on the basis of 'bleh', you're missing the beginning of something big.
the era of Brand Is Your Master is OVER. The People have killed it.
Microsoft is the New Microsoft. Don't ever forget that, peon hoard!!
(And if anyone else has any "New Microsoft" for sale, won't be long before Microsoft buy that too..)
i totally agree with you on nintendos' innovating, and i will even go so far as to Thank them for the vomit-inducing VirtualBoy.
wouldn't it be grand if they made a VirtualBoy2 that wasn't vomit-inducing, and in fact had two screens capable of decent 3D graphics.
DS "Eye-o-scope" Adapter, anyone?
yeah, like i trust the CIA world fact book any more, yo!
[hint: personal experience.]
yeah, thats one thing you can say about america, they sure do reserve the right to continue to kill each other, somehow or another, without actually calling it 'civil war', tho' it may be ..
dude, NSA doesn't need to worry about any of this shit, they're in the silicon, where they belong, in the first place.
Because some people might actually love their country, and want to make it a place they can be proud of.
Yes, but clearly not enough Americans do love their country, and even if there were more, it would be a guaranteed, forgone conclusion, that they wouldn't work together to achieve a common goal.
70+Million people didn't turn out to vote. Almost 2/3rds' of your country believes it has no bearing on the politics of your great nation.
this has got to be the worst advice ever. doesn't germany have like 14% unemployment or something horrible? the US only has 5% unemployment.
...
Errmm.. the German economy is in far better shape than the US economy. Though, I wouldn't expect many Americans to know, or be able to accept, this fact.
There has never been a better time to not live in the United States, and develop your citizenship skills in other nations. Nationalist pride has no place in the new world economy: the point of Globalization, is that it doesn't matter what the unemployment rate is like in "one country", there is a whole planets worth of countries to work in.
Closed-minded thinking is what put the US in the state its currently in with the rest of the world: bad credit, verging on bankrupcy, China, Brazil, and the EU just waiting for the inevitable collapse of the Holy U$ Dollar
i did not know my powerbook had that feature.
what other 'environment monitoring' features does it have?
You're a World Citizen. Be one.
Unless you've got a reason (sounds like you don't) to go 'back to the US of A', why not consider the options.
If you can handle 4 years in the Air Force, and Life In Japan, with a Wife In Japan, then the answer is obvious: move to Germany.
Globalization is a reality. There is no way we can prevent the New World Order from fruition. So, use it.