If your brain talked directly to your computer, now that would be fast and much less labor intensive.
When you type, you slow down everything inorder to focus your random sporadic thoughts into one concise clear communication.
I often find myself rewording everything and going back to fix spelling mistakes before hitting "submit". With a direct connection to my brain a computer would blow up due to indecision or conflicting desires.
I can barely handle tabbed browsing. Imagine how many "tabs" would be open at the same time with a direct brain connect.
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The part of the article that really stated everything right on the nose was on the last page (did you get there? I did)
Yeah I got there, it really demonstrated the one-sidedness of the article. Its not appopriate for a journalist to put in their 2 cents. They are
supposed to report, not ask us questions or present their own political views.
Not to say I disagree with the viewpoint, I just think it lacks tact and demonstrates poor journalistic ability.
Am i to be 'liberated' next?
Have you done anything stupid lately?
Firstly, please, don't call the US ``America''. America is a continent of over 20 countries.
No one else in the Americas seems to have a problem understanding that when America is mentioned it means the USA. Whats you're problem?
USAns are afraid?
Well, fear is the best way to control your citizenry and it seems the rest of the world. Even you are afraid of being liberated for waking the giant with a big stick.
Michael Moore's movies and books outline the
fear pedaling of the US media and the US gov.
very well.
The average lifespan of an Empire is 300 years.
The US has been an empire for a much shorter time.
pay with its own existance for the oil its looting
Wow, I thought everything else you said was over the top...I guess we all have to go gather up the animals and get on that arc thingy, huh?
progress...If you allow copyright to avoid the public domain you end up with a nation of lazy idiots living off the endeavors of their ancestors.
The society can't progress if the sons and daughters of our most brilliant citizens don't need to contribute.
Most the people here think it would be really
cool to have worked on the greatest hydroelectric plant on the planet.
What I, and it seems some of them, take issue with, is shoddy craftsmanship. The idea is that if you're
going to build something you build it right, the first time.
In modern society, that requires massive amounts of research (simulation), analysis, and proper funding and materials.
If anyone remembers the High Answan Dam in
Egypt, it had the same premise. "Build the biggest best hydroelectric dam in the world." It now works at less than 25% of the power level it was designed for because the engineers didn't take into account the type of stone they were building the dam on. The stone was porous and THAD never fills up to full capacity because the engineers didn't think it through...the water just seeps away
Reports of Shoddy craftsmanship or poor planning should never be swept under the rug, especially when human life is at stake.
This project had the potential for being a masterpiece of engineering, but the corruption
of the Chinese government and the workers on this
project are probably going to see it go the way of the High Answan Dam, a failure.
So, there you go, a little enlightenment from "a racist, extorting, Imperialist American". Maybe you should be one too!
As long as we continue to develop OSS applications that run on both platforms, the consumer won't know when their operating systems is switched to linux, they'll have everything that they had before working the same way they learned it, on the newest upgrade of the system.
quality, selection, guarantee...
Soon, as media capacity keeps growing, we'll all have every song ever produced as a wav file on our cell phones and this won't matter, but for now,
the guarantee that the song I want is going to
be there at decent quality, and named correctly, would lead me to buy a song for 99 cents rather than "steal it" (hypothetical).
If I was given the lyrics and scores along with the songs I purchased I'd be even more inclined to by them all as one package for 99 cents.
I might even pay 10$ for a set of the song, its lyrics, scores, and all remakes of it with the
same information.
Yes. The men I know wants to be able to build a society from scratch all by himself. The women I know tends to depend on someone else being around to help do this. individual::community
Its international waters and there
is no real jurisdiction.
I guess that what I'm saying is vigilante justice
is the only means at their disposal and they can
try to fight this war.
But considering most musicians I've encountered are scared of "the internet" and "computers", its like sending a house-wife into a warzone with a bb-gun. They aren't prepared for the war.
Its about the money and if Ford, or GM had a monopoly they'd do it. Lucky for us they make
horrible cars compared to Toyota and Honda.
Henry Ford primed the economic pump by paying
his workers more than they deserved so that they would be able to afford his product. It was economic genius.
But these are the days of the Microsoft monopoly.
No open source software project can afford to pay the patent holder for their discovery.
Therefore, even if half the innovations in the world are done by OSS, the other half would be cost based. And therefore unaccessible to the OSS community for the specified number of years.
Also note, the patent process is an expensive one that an independent OSS software guru probably doesn't want to bother with. This leaves it open for commercial interests to claim as their own. In many cases, the OSS software guru can't afford the Lawyers to dispute the claim.
There will always be a new toy that requires software. You may not need it but you'll probably want it.
If I'm not automating my house...I'm programming my robot or my Tivo. Or my picture frame with a thousand pictures in it. Or my stereo, my kid's toys, my website, my car has a thousands programs running around in it as does my TV and the network that took it to me.
If I'm not doing that, I'm coding gui's to easily access data from a mySQL database to store my book or movie collection, easily accessible.
There are a thousand and one things that can be improved by a little software. And someone will
find a way to market these little things in a pretty package to other people who can't bother with it.
Yes, open source is thinking for the long term, but there's always some new gadget that people must have and it must do X Y and Z.
There was even one company who it ended up being discovered was hacking me!
How do you know someone else didn't use your computer to hack, having nothing to do with IPsec?
Sounds like IPsec is fine and you're just a bad sys admin. (or you use Microsoft Products).
After installation, ZERO host configuration is required for OE! A Linux box running 2.00 will encrypt all IP packets to other OE capable boxes whenever possible, provided you publish a key and IPsec gateway information in DNS." Nice.
Zero Configuration implies no work done by user.
You contradict that in the rest of your post.
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If your brain talked directly to your computer, now that would be fast and much less labor intensive.
When you type, you slow down everything inorder to focus your random sporadic thoughts into one concise clear communication.
I often find myself rewording everything and going back to fix spelling mistakes before hitting "submit". With a direct connection to my brain a computer would blow up due to indecision or conflicting desires.
I can barely handle tabbed browsing. Imagine how many "tabs" would be open at the same time with a direct brain connect.
The part of the article that really stated everything right on the nose was on the last page (did you get there? I did)
Yeah I got there, it really demonstrated the one-sidedness of the article. Its not appopriate for a journalist to put in their 2 cents. They are supposed to report, not ask us questions or present their own political views.
Not to say I disagree with the viewpoint, I just think it lacks tact and demonstrates poor journalistic ability.
seem like a great anchoring point for coral to me.
Perhaps a decent way to stop erosion as well.
really, moderators suck today.
step 1: calm down. step 2: google
Am i to be 'liberated' next?
Have you done anything stupid lately?
Firstly, please, don't call the US ``America''. America is a continent of over 20 countries.
No one else in the Americas seems to have a problem understanding that when America is mentioned it means the USA. Whats you're problem?
USAns are afraid?
Well, fear is the best way to control your citizenry and it seems the rest of the world. Even you are afraid of being liberated for waking the giant with a big stick.
Michael Moore's movies and books outline the fear pedaling of the US media and the US gov. very well.
The average lifespan of an Empire is 300 years. The US has been an empire for a much shorter time.
pay with its own existance for the oil its looting
Wow, I thought everything else you said was over the top...I guess we all have to go gather up the animals and get on that arc thingy, huh?
I'm going to build a Beowulf Cluster of Army Personel!
So, yeah.
The enemy kills one of our soldiers.
The enemy takes his gear. The enemy uses the gear to find out where the president is and goes to assassinate him. Boom Instant Failure.
progress...If you allow copyright to avoid the public domain you end up with a nation of lazy idiots living off the endeavors of their ancestors.
The society can't progress if the sons and daughters of our most brilliant citizens don't need to contribute.
I'm not particularly angry at anyone.
Most the people here think it would be really cool to have worked on the greatest hydroelectric plant on the planet.
What I, and it seems some of them, take issue with, is shoddy craftsmanship. The idea is that if you're going to build something you build it right, the first time.
In modern society, that requires massive amounts of research (simulation), analysis, and proper funding and materials.
If anyone remembers the High Answan Dam in Egypt, it had the same premise. "Build the biggest best hydroelectric dam in the world." It now works at less than 25% of the power level it was designed for because the engineers didn't take into account the type of stone they were building the dam on. The stone was porous and THAD never fills up to full capacity because the engineers didn't think it through...the water just seeps away
Reports of Shoddy craftsmanship or poor planning should never be swept under the rug, especially when human life is at stake.
This project had the potential for being a masterpiece of engineering, but the corruption of the Chinese government and the workers on this project are probably going to see it go the way of the High Answan Dam, a failure.
So, there you go, a little enlightenment from "a racist, extorting, Imperialist American". Maybe you should be one too!
IGNORE THEM. They are irrelevant.
As long as I can find software to do anything I want to do on Freshmeat for either platform, there is no problem.
As long as we continue to develop OSS applications that run on both platforms, the consumer won't know when their operating systems is switched to linux, they'll have everything that they had before working the same way they learned it, on the newest upgrade of the system.
The power lies in the Applications, not the Base.
Big Bad Evil Empire(tm)
Are you talking about the United States?
quality, selection, guarantee... Soon, as media capacity keeps growing, we'll all have every song ever produced as a wav file on our cell phones and this won't matter, but for now, the guarantee that the song I want is going to be there at decent quality, and named correctly, would lead me to buy a song for 99 cents rather than "steal it" (hypothetical). If I was given the lyrics and scores along with the songs I purchased I'd be even more inclined to by them all as one package for 99 cents. I might even pay 10$ for a set of the song, its lyrics, scores, and all remakes of it with the same information.
Yes. The men I know wants to be able to build a society from scratch all by himself. The women I know tends to depend on someone else being around to help do this. individual::community
First set of armor I had at age 10.:-)
Diamond Armor +15
Diamond Shield +15
Diamond Helm
Diamond Sword +15
Did I mention this was my very first session playing and I was an ArchAngel, "Winged Human"?
As a perl programmer I just read that as "What!?"
As if you could ever understand perl code without reading the #'s that explain it...
laws in cyberspace?
people say what they want, do what they want
Its international waters and there is no real jurisdiction.
I guess that what I'm saying is vigilante justice is the only means at their disposal and they can try to fight this war.
But considering most musicians I've encountered are scared of "the internet" and "computers", its like sending a house-wife into a warzone with a bb-gun. They aren't prepared for the war.
MONOPOLY
There are no "good" multinational corporations.
Its about the money and if Ford, or GM had a monopoly they'd do it. Lucky for us they make horrible cars compared to Toyota and Honda.
Henry Ford primed the economic pump by paying his workers more than they deserved so that they would be able to afford his product. It was economic genius.
But these are the days of the Microsoft monopoly.
No open source software project can afford to pay the patent holder for their discovery.
Therefore, even if half the innovations in the world are done by OSS, the other half would be cost based. And therefore unaccessible to the OSS community for the specified number of years.
Also note, the patent process is an expensive one that an independent OSS software guru probably doesn't want to bother with. This leaves it open for commercial interests to claim as their own. In many cases, the OSS software guru can't afford the Lawyers to dispute the claim.
There will always be a new toy that requires software. You may not need it but you'll probably want it.
If I'm not automating my house...I'm programming my robot or my Tivo. Or my picture frame with a thousand pictures in it. Or my stereo, my kid's toys, my website, my car has a thousands programs running around in it as does my TV and the network that took it to me.
If I'm not doing that, I'm coding gui's to easily access data from a mySQL database to store my book or movie collection, easily accessible.
There are a thousand and one things that can be improved by a little software. And someone will find a way to market these little things in a pretty package to other people who can't bother with it.
Yes, open source is thinking for the long term, but there's always some new gadget that people must have and it must do X Y and Z.
There was even one company who it ended up being discovered was hacking me!
How do you know someone else didn't use your computer to hack, having nothing to do with IPsec?
Sounds like IPsec is fine and you're just a bad sys admin. (or you use Microsoft Products).
After installation, ZERO host configuration is required for OE! A Linux box running 2.00 will encrypt all IP packets to other OE capable boxes whenever possible, provided you publish a key and IPsec gateway information in DNS." Nice.
Zero Configuration implies no work done by user.
You contradict that in the rest of your post.
Europe? never heard of it....
Is that like one of those imaginary places in the Dr. Suess books, where everyone destroyed everything before they became smart and moved to America?