Why does this instantly have to be a "logic failure" in his regard?
In my opinion, this move by the Founder of LULA is an -ethical- move, not a 'logical' one. As a means of stating an ethical stance, he is using his figure-head position to defeat itself, in protest over a criminal American war, and the war machine that is propagating it.
Where does the impulse to 'defeat and belittle' this person, for making an _ETHICAL_ stand, come from? Those who have a very poor sense of ethics, in my opinion, are going to come to the wrong conclusion here - that this was 'a dumb move'... but from the standpoint of demonstrating an ethical position that is above the general 'mob-think' mode of most of the populace, this seems to have been quite an honorable move.
For that, I applaud him. If only _more_ Americans were willing to stand above the crowd and focus on the ethical dilemna of their situation, rather than just being so-called knee-jerk smart-ass Consumericans whose only 'guidance' seem to be primitive 'law' about how intelligent a person can be on the basis of 'logic reasoning skills'...
just how knee-jerk america's educated technorati are about differing opinions
yeah, this is really tragic, actually. so many reactionary meat-heads, whose entire purpose seems solely the demonstration of 'elite logical skills' as a pejorative means.
robotic intellectual elitism is pretty prevalent in modern American society. "if you can't argue, you're not worth shit", it would appear is in mode...
800 pages of politics set in the 17th century sounds kind of interesting to me.
but that may just be because i'm burned out on microsoft-weilding zaibatsu's building and using technology which a) yes, of course is feasible, but b) ain't here yet. god, do we need -another- 'advanced' computing metaphor story here people? i don't freakin' think so. booo-oring.
give me the dissentry of the 17th century over snowcrashin' in the 21st century, any day.
-Program the meters to randomly go "Joe Public, you are fined One Credit for violation of the pimp-diddy-diddy clause..." (Additional "Read-The-Article-And-Paid-Attention" Bonus: only do it whenever someone walks by...)
Thing is though, that the definition of 'embedded system' is changing. You don't, actually, have a lot of problems -these days- putting as much RAM in a system as you need.
The frenetic slathery pace of PC-slave parts manufacturing has done a lot for cheap high-power specs in small places.
Sort of feels, now, like anyone in 'embedded' who still goes on and on about 'squeezing every little bit of RAM' is a bit long-tooth.
Wow, that is actually a very interesting question.
In some parts of the States, the differentiation between whether your house was a "stock design" (i.e. from a catalog), or was designed "by Architect", actually has an influence on the value of your property.
Interesting cultural thread... and I agree: Americans should move to Malaysia, and live like Malaysians do... it would be good for the rest of the world!
The fact that the exploit was released 'in sync' with the release of the security-hole details, does not prove that the author of the exploit -used the now-public security details- to write the exploit!
This faulty argument is made on the presumption that 'all exploits occur as soon as they are found'... "Crackers" can sit on known deep exploits, and 'discard' their implementations once it goes into script-kiddy land (which is where this TCP-Window hack is, yay...) with a published non-anonymous document in a public forum.
I warrant that we should, at a high priority, learn to manage our technology on a grander scale (TCP Window could seriously teach us this lesson, hard...) particularly given our dependance... but then, i'll bet that this is fixed pretty fast. if indeed CISCO is the biggest target, then that makes them pretty much -also- the key cog in the big wheels that will have to turn to fix this.
in any case, time to go feed the pigeons, heh heh...
well, you can't beat OSX for pure musical-creation pleasure. yet.
i'm not saying linux is 'superb' in this regard of user apps... just that as an embedded system force, it is being felt all over the place.
if you read the article, one of the points is the utter scale-ability of linux, from embedded to mega-server... i just wanted to say, that in the music tools business this is -also- being duly noted (not just routers and hubs and such) and understood by the industry as a whole...
but like i say, OSX is pretty good music nirvana. some of the OSX-only -native- apps are sweet! if you're looking for instantly creative and cheap, check out Intuem, for example...
(and in the meantime, i'd suggest keeping an intel box around, just in case you see sudden leaps in linux audio... which may very well happen...)
yeah, fair enough... you know how much crude oil goes into producing blinky-light crap so that Consumericans can feel good about their shopping habits and whether or not something is 'cool'?
you know where that oil is coming from?
all i'm saying is, there is no justification for decadence... and this sort of trash just screams it.
what is annoying is that people love this junk. its junk! give you a 'kick' in life for about a month, and then after that it just becomes yet more trash in an already over-trashed lifestyle (computers).
i know its gonna sound like a flame, but i find it ultra-decadent that anyone gives a shit about their mousepads having 'colors' when there are far, far more important things going on in life, which, with just.0000005% of the attention that goes towards this consumer rubbish, could be improved a great deal...
still. you have to give Romans their wine, or they go to war. oh, wait...
"is becoming a bigger and bigger source of stress and anxiety to the gaming industry as time goes by"
its true... trade shows... or rather, the insipient demand for new products to be released at the trade show... puts a lot of stress on mfr's. time and again, i've been to trade shows/conventions where new products were announced, proto's were made, and then 4 months later, the project is -still- not ready for public release. this screws with markets, and is generally unhealthy.
at this years music messe, my company (a leading musical instrument manufacturer) opted not to participate - we all still went to the show, and enjoyed it very much - but since we've long since stopped timing our product releases to the show period of the year (and only release things when they're -ready- i.e. manufacturing is producing shelf-storable product), we no longer feel a demand as a mfr to invest so heavily in the show.
its a double-edged sword, though. a lot of customers expect new stuff at the show. nevertheless, it feels better as a company not to have to cater to the mob-think that trade shows == target product release date. 'its ready when its ready' is definitely not something you'll hear much at a trade show... but its the best policy for tech mfr's...
bleh. you don't impress me with your smug cookie-cutter elitism. it didn't work for the romans, it won't work for you.
if the US dollar wasn't so inflated, there wouldn't be such a massively disproportionate balance of wealth in the world. the same may be true of other currencies (ukp), but a shift of wealth from $ to , in many markets, is going to hurt the U.S. and given the amount of New Friends the US has been making for itself lately, i can see many different markets dumping greenbacks as their standard...
linux has some of the coolest audio tech around. okay, it may be totally under-the-radar right now, and borg-fudders may not be so willing to pry into things, but once you have linux doing audio over firewire like it does something-over-everything-else, then its game over on any 'driver' issues.
want easy audio in linux right now? get a usb sound card. yup, thats right. usb-audio works great, and paired up with jackd, you can quit 'worrying about some magic achilles heal' that may have just popped up out of somewhere...
Globalism is a defense against Nationalism. Its either one of the other.
Me, I choose to remain completely Nation-neutral, but in reality I can only afford to do this because of Big Business. Fact is, I'm just as much a member of the Corporate Fascist State as anyone is... I'm just trying to point out that being "American" in the face of "Globalism" is going to be a losing argument in the years to come, and does nobody any good...
No matter what happens to that debt, the US doesn't get bought up or sold off.
oh my god. Clue Alert: What do you think it is, exactly, thats happening to your Country RIGHT NOW? It is being bought up, and very big parts of it are being sold off...
Clueless American Proles who have no idea what their politicians are doing are the reason why your country is in such a craph shape.
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Why does this instantly have to be a "logic failure" in his regard?
... but from the standpoint of demonstrating an ethical position that is above the general 'mob-think' mode of most of the populace, this seems to have been quite an honorable move.
...
In my opinion, this move by the Founder of LULA is an -ethical- move, not a 'logical' one. As a means of stating an ethical stance, he is using his figure-head position to defeat itself, in protest over a criminal American war, and the war machine that is propagating it.
Where does the impulse to 'defeat and belittle' this person, for making an _ETHICAL_ stand, come from? Those who have a very poor sense of ethics, in my opinion, are going to come to the wrong conclusion here - that this was 'a dumb move'
For that, I applaud him. If only _more_ Americans were willing to stand above the crowd and focus on the ethical dilemna of their situation, rather than just being so-called knee-jerk smart-ass Consumericans whose only 'guidance' seem to be primitive 'law' about how intelligent a person can be on the basis of 'logic reasoning skills'
Robots don't know much about ethics.
just how knee-jerk america's educated technorati are about differing opinions
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yeah, this is really tragic, actually. so many reactionary meat-heads, whose entire purpose seems solely the demonstration of 'elite logical skills' as a pejorative means.
robotic intellectual elitism is pretty prevalent in modern American society. "if you can't argue, you're not worth shit", it would appear is in mode
800 pages of politics set in the 17th century sounds kind of interesting to me.
but that may just be because i'm burned out on microsoft-weilding zaibatsu's building and using technology which a) yes, of course is feasible, but b) ain't here yet. god, do we need -another- 'advanced' computing metaphor story here people? i don't freakin' think so. booo-oring.
give me the dissentry of the 17th century over snowcrashin' in the 21st century, any day.
Riiiight ... coz in Soviet India, Cowpat Post-It stick on You!
Whatever. Its not bloat if it does the job its supposed to do, for the budget specified.
Nowadays, embedded system isn't always "lean, mean, computing device", is all I'm trying to say.
When I started programming, 4k of RAM was a -lot-.
-Program the meters to randomly go "Joe Public, you are fined One Credit for violation of the pimp-diddy-diddy clause..." (Additional "Read-The-Article-And-Paid-Attention" Bonus: only do it whenever someone walks by...)
Thing is though, that the definition of 'embedded system' is changing. You don't, actually, have a lot of problems -these days- putting as much RAM in a system as you need.
...
The frenetic slathery pace of PC-slave parts manufacturing has done a lot for cheap high-power specs in small places.
Sort of feels, now, like anyone in 'embedded' who still goes on and on about 'squeezing every little bit of RAM' is a bit long-tooth.
I mean, look at what PIC's have become, even
Wow, that is actually a very interesting question.
... and I agree: Americans should move to Malaysia, and live like Malaysians do ... it would be good for the rest of the world!
In some parts of the States, the differentiation between whether your house was a "stock design" (i.e. from a catalog), or was designed "by Architect", actually has an influence on the value of your property.
Interesting cultural thread
... it would be tough to design a transport protocol that is still simple ...
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Two words for you: Cell Architecture
Gah! This is typical reactionary thinking.
... "Crackers" can sit on known deep exploits, and 'discard' their implementations once it goes into script-kiddy land (which is where this TCP-Window hack is, yay...) with a published non-anonymous document in a public forum.
...
The fact that the exploit was released 'in sync' with the release of the security-hole details, does not prove that the author of the exploit -used the now-public security details- to write the exploit!
This faulty argument is made on the presumption that 'all exploits occur as soon as they are found'
I warrant that we should, at a high priority, learn to manage our technology on a grander scale (TCP Window could seriously teach us this lesson, hard...) particularly given our dependance... but then, i'll bet that this is fixed pretty fast. if indeed CISCO is the biggest target, then that makes them pretty much -also- the key cog in the big wheels that will have to turn to fix this.
in any case, time to go feed the pigeons, heh heh
To which Steve "The good-looking non-monkey-lovin' one" Jobs whined^H^H^H^H^H^Hreplied:
"Bite my shiny metal iPlatformWar, Miiis-ter Gaaa-tes..."
Ermm... ermm .... In Soviet Russia, ermm ...
well, you can't beat OSX for pure musical-creation pleasure. yet.
... just that as an embedded system force, it is being felt all over the place.
... i just wanted to say, that in the music tools business this is -also- being duly noted (not just routers and hubs and such) and understood by the industry as a whole ...
...
... which may very well happen ...)
i'm not saying linux is 'superb' in this regard of user apps
if you read the article, one of the points is the utter scale-ability of linux, from embedded to mega-server
but like i say, OSX is pretty good music nirvana. some of the OSX-only -native- apps are sweet! if you're looking for instantly creative and cheap, check out Intuem, for example
(and in the meantime, i'd suggest keeping an intel box around, just in case you see sudden leaps in linux audio
yeah, fair enough... you know how much crude oil goes into producing blinky-light crap so that Consumericans can feel good about their shopping habits and whether or not something is 'cool'?
you know where that oil is coming from?
all i'm saying is, there is no justification for decadence... and this sort of trash just screams it.
"red weed", i.e. that of the foreign scourge in War of the Worlds, a novel by H.G. Wells, some would say rather well read
i won't do a google, i'm pretty sure you know what that is.
linux is being felt in a major way in this realm, too.
it truly is a red weed situation.
what is annoying is that people love this junk. its junk! give you a 'kick' in life for about a month, and then after that it just becomes yet more trash in an already over-trashed lifestyle (computers).
.0000005% of the attention that goes towards this consumer rubbish, could be improved a great deal ...
...
i know its gonna sound like a flame, but i find it ultra-decadent that anyone gives a shit about their mousepads having 'colors' when there are far, far more important things going on in life, which, with just
still. you have to give Romans their wine, or they go to war. oh, wait
"is becoming a bigger and bigger source of stress and anxiety to the gaming industry as time goes by"
... trade shows ... or rather, the insipient demand for new products to be released at the trade show ... puts a lot of stress on mfr's. time and again, i've been to trade shows/conventions where new products were announced, proto's were made, and then 4 months later, the project is -still- not ready for public release. this screws with markets, and is generally unhealthy.
... but its the best policy for tech mfr's ...
its true
at this years music messe, my company (a leading musical instrument manufacturer) opted not to participate - we all still went to the show, and enjoyed it very much - but since we've long since stopped timing our product releases to the show period of the year (and only release things when they're -ready- i.e. manufacturing is producing shelf-storable product), we no longer feel a demand as a mfr to invest so heavily in the show.
its a double-edged sword, though. a lot of customers expect new stuff at the show. nevertheless, it feels better as a company not to have to cater to the mob-think that trade shows == target product release date. 'its ready when its ready' is definitely not something you'll hear much at a trade show
bleh. you don't impress me with your smug cookie-cutter elitism. it didn't work for the romans, it won't work for you.
...
if the US dollar wasn't so inflated, there wouldn't be such a massively disproportionate balance of wealth in the world. the same may be true of other currencies (ukp), but a shift of wealth from $ to , in many markets, is going to hurt the U.S. and given the amount of New Friends the US has been making for itself lately, i can see many different markets dumping greenbacks as their standard
linux has some of the coolest audio tech around. okay, it may be totally under-the-radar right now, and borg-fudders may not be so willing to pry into things, but once you have linux doing audio over firewire like it does something-over-everything-else, then its game over on any 'driver' issues.
...
want easy audio in linux right now? get a usb sound card. yup, thats right. usb-audio works great, and paired up with jackd, you can quit 'worrying about some magic achilles heal' that may have just popped up out of somewhere
Yeah, ummm
In case you didn't know, the world is switching to Euro's. In the markets that -count-
Let's just simplify it and say that no one will be left standing and world-wide human suffering would be incalculable.
Now I'm starting to hear glee
Yeah. I thought that as well. I mean, just who is this Cory guy, anyway, and why is he so special that he gets away with such narcissism?
Up yours white-meat, I can get a 10-year work permit visa for India in 3 days
Globalism is a defense against Nationalism. Its either one of the other.
... I'm just trying to point out that being "American" in the face of "Globalism" is going to be a losing argument in the years to come, and does nobody any good ...
Me, I choose to remain completely Nation-neutral, but in reality I can only afford to do this because of Big Business. Fact is, I'm just as much a member of the Corporate Fascist State as anyone is
No matter what happens to that debt, the US doesn't get bought up or sold off.
...
oh my god. Clue Alert: What do you think it is, exactly, thats happening to your Country RIGHT NOW? It is being bought up, and very big parts of it are being sold off
Clueless American Proles who have no idea what their politicians are doing are the reason why your country is in such a craph shape.
Americans: DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR POLITICIANS!!!