> Many of us see religion as the "opiate of the masses". Faith > truly does offer some solace from the void that ultimately lies > before us. But those of us who do not believe in heaven often see > those that do as weak mentally, since we feel they cannot standup > to the ultimate end of their existence.
Funny thing is, being a Roman Catholic in a Catholic country (Costa Rica), I've seen the opposite - sort of.
Many of the atheists I know seem to choose not to believe in God, because our religion burdens us with guilt and chores. Also, many people have converted to "lighter" forms of christianism, apparently for the same reasons.
This, of course, is just what I've seen in my small corner of humanity. YMMV.
Err... putting Japan and China in the same bag is akin to saying the U.S., Mexico and surrounding areas are all alike.
Besides, if you read the story, the entities mentioned are Ministries and two _very_ big corporations (Sony and Matsushita) - highly unlikely to be pirating software.
I respect your views but, as a longtime solaris AND linux user, I have to say I disagree. Solaris is much better than Linux in certain aspects and viceversa. For most of my needs Linux is the best choice (price, feature and performance-wise). For some applications, though, Linux does not come near the scalability and stability of sun boxen with solaris ( GNU/Solaris:-) ? )
It all boils down to selecting and using the appropriate tool for each and every task and associated circumstances - including luser and sysadmin comfort.
>no problem... How do you set up your LCD display and have a digital audio link to your stereo?
You don't. You plug in a (also secondhand) monitor and a pair of speakers. Now you have much more to play with for a much lower price.
> and only really dumb or really rich people buy hardware from think geek
Nice to know. I've only bought mugs and t-shirts from thinkgeek - do I qualify for the "dumb" label:-)
> I bought my audiotron for $199.95 from one of the online resellers.
Would you please post a link? I was unable to find anything under ~ $250.00 (except on ebay). I'm not calling you a liar, I just think it'd be important to support your claim.
> if you want it to look good and be easy to use it's cheaper to get a rio reciever or audiotron.
looks and ease are, of course, a matter of taste - quite hard to use as arguments, IMHO.
Urrk. Audiotron@Thinkgeek ~ $300. I think I'll stick to getting cheap second-hand pentium-MMXs and just letting the network be the comp... err... the network be the stereo.
Other than culture (which is, of course, important), there's the issue of jurisdiction.
The U.S. is, as far as I know (do please correct me if I wrong), the only first world country which allows its laws and law enforcement officers extend beyond its territory without requesting permission / cooperation / assitance / consent from the country whose borders are being violated.
People talk about the U.S. becomming a police state, but I'm even more worried about its seeming taste for being the global police.
Actually the idea is not all that bad. I have a Swiss Knife (Victorinox Cybertool) and I use the lower end of the pliers to cut the staple and, of course, the pliers themselves to bend, position and tighten the thingy (staple-per? jumple?). I used to lose hard disk jumpers in droves, so I've had a bunch of bent staples working the position for years at a time. And the geekness factor is there too:-P
No, it wouldn't. The lag would be too high, as you have a skip on every wireless hop. If you want to have features like security or, for instance, static IP addresses, it would be even worse, as the extra complexity would have to be handled by servers (or routers or other thing-a-ma-bobs, just not the radios) at every access point.
That way, no one would have to pay a monthly fee for broadband Internet accessThat way, no one would have to pay a monthly fee for broadband Internet access
This would only be possible with a *huge* (think worldwide, actually) movement. So big it would probably collapse under it's own size. Remember there's interference from the different access points, and they are not really standardized on stuff like how to switch a mobile from one node to the next (actually, many do not even *have* the option).
Now, if you could coordinate efforts to standardize "handover" (node switching) and fight interference (these two issues are related, actually, so you'd be better off solving both simultaneously), you'd still have to achieve enough node density, which means more radios, antennas and servers, which raises the cost again.
All in all, I don't think it's going to happen soon. If ever. But for _users_ to be able to access the Net at moderate to good speeds here and there, it beats the hell out of cellular.
So the thing seems to be pretty accurate, based on the "tick" frequency, and they talk about a lot of uses for it. However, nothing is said about the size of the monster. This is important because, if it could be made small (and cheap) enough and the "ticks" could be used to draw a sync. signal from, PetaHz computers do not seem too far away.
I know this might sound like wishful thinking, but they do talk about using the technology for many menial tasks, so, why not?
Hurry up! You've been modded up to 3, and people will start visiting your site! Strike a deal w/somebody and set up some banner adds on your tip jar page! Maybe you could, at the very least, capitalize on the slashdot effect!
To bad "Interpretation" is not spelled with an "U", because then the first letters of each one of the words mentioned would spell ABUSE. I think a lot of the problems with paying for stuff can be summarized with that word. People do not like to be abused, but they'll try to abuse any system as much as possible, specially with the degree of impunity and anonymity available on the Internet.
Longer answer: It's a security framework with hooks to a lot of things. If you'd read at least the introduction you'd have seen that it does, indeed, contain support for SSL, PGP and many other standard security/encryption/ham-and-cheese-sandwich technologies. Actually it's the MacOS X implementation of the OpenGroup standard. I do not know (did not find information more like it), however, if they _did_ implement the whole schmiel.
Longer longer answer: read the OpenGroup documentation. Download the code. Read the code. Come back and tell us about it.
And then you could also state: "Why do we spend gazillions on other kinds of research when the money would be best used to solve world hunger" or something like that.
To me it is a matter of width vs. depth. We need to answer all kinds of questions, if we all focus on just _some_ issues all kinds of interesting and important matters would never get found out.
Did anyone notice the poll on the sidebar? They ask which strategy for finding extraterrestrial life could be most fruitful. Get back on the page and vote!
It's a shame they did not include two obvious choices in the poll, though:
Chanting barefoot in the dessert until they come to get you.
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> Many of us see religion as the "opiate of the masses". Faith
> truly does offer some solace from the void that ultimately lies
> before us. But those of us who do not believe in heaven often see
> those that do as weak mentally, since we feel they cannot standup
> to the ultimate end of their existence.
Funny thing is, being a Roman Catholic in a Catholic country (Costa Rica), I've seen the opposite - sort of.
Many of the atheists I know seem to choose not to believe in God, because our religion burdens us with guilt and chores. Also, many people have converted to "lighter" forms of christianism, apparently for the same reasons.
This, of course, is just what I've seen in my small corner of humanity. YMMV.
>Is Linux Torvalds going to dress in traditional
> Viking battle gear and bash down their front
> door?
I don't think he would. RMS might, though
Err... putting Japan and China in the same bag is akin to saying the U.S., Mexico and surrounding areas are all alike.
Besides, if you read the story, the entities mentioned are Ministries and two _very_ big corporations (Sony and Matsushita) - highly unlikely to be pirating software.
I respect your views but, as a longtime solaris AND linux user, I have to say I disagree. Solaris is much better than Linux in certain aspects and viceversa. For most of my needs Linux is the best choice (price, feature and performance-wise). For some applications, though, Linux does not come near the scalability and stability of sun boxen with solaris ( GNU/Solaris :-) ? )
It all boils down to selecting and using the appropriate tool for each and every task and associated circumstances - including luser and sysadmin comfort.
>no problem... How do you set up your LCD display and have a digital audio link to your stereo?
:-)
You don't. You plug in a (also secondhand) monitor and a pair of speakers. Now you have much more to play with for a much lower price.
> and only really dumb or really rich people buy hardware from think geek
Nice to know. I've only bought mugs and t-shirts from thinkgeek - do I qualify for the "dumb" label
> I bought my audiotron for $199.95 from one of the online resellers.
Would you please post a link? I was unable to find anything under ~ $250.00 (except on ebay). I'm not calling you a liar, I just think it'd be important to support your claim.
> if you want it to look good and be easy to use it's cheaper to get a rio reciever or audiotron.
looks and ease are, of course, a matter of taste - quite hard to use as arguments, IMHO.
Urrk. Audiotron@Thinkgeek ~ $300. I think I'll stick to getting cheap second-hand pentium-MMXs and just letting the network be the comp... err... the network be the stereo.
Instead of playing with the location bar, you could just press F2 and use the Go To Page field. It won't "go to" until you're done editing the URL.
It could be Norwegian, too. The translation would change a bit: "Quiet little [old] hat-man".
Euphemism is right if you take the word "gnome" to be perjorative. You could also say it is the P.C. term for gnome ;-)
Other than culture (which is, of course, important), there's the issue of jurisdiction.
The U.S. is, as far as I know (do please correct me if I wrong), the only first world country which allows its laws and law enforcement officers extend beyond its territory without requesting permission / cooperation / assitance / consent from the country whose borders are being violated.
People talk about the U.S. becomming a police state, but I'm even more worried about its seeming taste for being the global police.
Actually the idea is not all that bad. I have a Swiss Knife (Victorinox Cybertool) and I use the lower end of the pliers to cut the staple and, of course, the pliers themselves to bend, position and tighten the thingy (staple-per? jumple?). I used to lose hard disk jumpers in droves, so I've had a bunch of bent staples working the position for years at a time. And the geekness factor is there too :-P
I assure you that the people who planned this are still alive. Funny how the "masterminds" never do the suicide runs.
I'd really like to know how you can assure such a thing. You point to no evidence or data whatsoever to support your claim.
because we have money to eat
No wonder people from the U.S. have nutrition problems, if they keep eating money and all.
that it's a lot easier to write a security fix when you have the source code.
If the entire Internet was on a wireless network.
No, it wouldn't. The lag would be too high, as you have a skip on every wireless hop. If you want to have features like security or, for instance, static IP addresses, it would be even worse, as the extra complexity would have to be handled by servers (or routers or other thing-a-ma-bobs, just not the radios) at every access point.
That way, no one would have to pay a monthly fee for broadband Internet accessThat way, no one would have to pay a monthly fee for broadband Internet access
This would only be possible with a *huge* (think worldwide, actually) movement. So big it would probably collapse under it's own size. Remember there's interference from the different access points, and they are not really standardized on stuff like how to switch a mobile from one node to the next (actually, many do not even *have* the option).
Now, if you could coordinate efforts to standardize "handover" (node switching) and fight interference (these two issues are related, actually, so you'd be better off solving both simultaneously), you'd still have to achieve enough node density, which means more radios, antennas and servers, which raises the cost again.
All in all, I don't think it's going to happen soon. If ever. But for _users_ to be able to access the Net at moderate to good speeds here and there, it beats the hell out of cellular.
So the thing seems to be pretty accurate, based on the "tick" frequency, and they talk about a lot of uses for it. However, nothing is said about the size of the monster. This is important because, if it could be made small (and cheap) enough and the "ticks" could be used to draw a sync. signal from, PetaHz computers do not seem too far away.
I know this might sound like wishful thinking, but they do talk about using the technology for many menial tasks, so, why not?
Hurry up! You've been modded up to 3, and people will start visiting your site! Strike a deal w/somebody and set up some banner adds on your tip jar page! Maybe you could, at the very least, capitalize on the slashdot effect!
To bad "Interpretation" is not spelled with an "U", because then the first letters of each one of the words mentioned would spell ABUSE. I think a lot of the problems with paying for stuff can be summarized with that word. People do not like to be abused, but they'll try to abuse any system as much as possible, specially with the degree of impunity and anonymity available on the Internet.
Just face it: humans are predators.
803 words according to wc :D
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: It's a security framework with hooks to a lot of things. If you'd read at least the introduction you'd have seen that it does, indeed, contain support for SSL, PGP and many other standard security/encryption/ham-and-cheese-sandwich technologies. Actually it's the MacOS X implementation of the OpenGroup standard. I do not know (did not find information more like it), however, if they _did_ implement the whole schmiel.
Longer longer answer: read the OpenGroup documentation. Download the code. Read the code. Come back and tell us about it.
s/primitive/clean and simple/g :D
Seriously, though, I'd hold my horses before going with Slackware on Sparc, at least until Slackware 7.2 is realeased.
and the Internet
> I doubt Linux even runs on
> any laptops that don't have
> at least a PCMCIA-II slot
But it does. Very well. And, of course, Slackware from floppy disks is the way to go in such cases.
And then you could also state: "Why do we spend gazillions on other kinds of research when the money would be best used to solve world hunger" or something like that.
To me it is a matter of width vs. depth. We need to answer all kinds of questions, if we all focus on just _some_ issues all kinds of interesting and important matters would never get found out.
Just my 2 devaluated cents.
It's a shame they did not include two obvious choices in the poll, though: