If the US army didn't care about their soldiers they wouldn't be doing something like this. Soldiers are valuable and the US has reached a decision where they would rather expend steel than lives. Now, what really matters is that the US army is trying to encourage a higher quality of life for it's members.
Those brave kids are giving their lives right now for what they believe in. They deserve all the kinds of support that can practically be provided.
You know, I don't know. Isn't that the problem? I know what helped me a lot when I ran SuSE was the table of equivalents that used to be available at: linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtm l but isn't anymore so you can find it on the coralized on the wayback machine here:
http://web.archive.org.nyud.net:8090/web/200402021 11451/http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft- en/table.shtml
So your right most good software is already available but I off the top of my head still don't know where I could get windows viewers for.djvu files too... Visibility I guess.
Instead of paying rapt attention to what Microsoft is doing what I would like to see the OSS community do is consciously form more organizations that would as an express purpose chip away at Microsoft's software base. What I mean by this is make sure your program runs on Windows for now. Get people using OSS and used to the idea so that the next time average-joe needs some software he'll search for an OSS program first. Then once that mindshare has been established begin to work towards the more core functions like the OS itself. Who knows, Microsoft might at some point simply open up the source of Windows to counter a loss of control to OSS if they see that their customers are truly ready to abandon ship. And to build that feeling in customers give them options - if all their useful software is OSS then they can swap out the lower levels (like Linux for Windows) without feeling any transition pain at all because their software applications didn't change at all only the plumbing did.
Ballmer's right, it is all about developers. OSS developers can introduce OSS values into the Windows "ecosystem" for lack of a better word and see what happens.
I wish Slashdot would let you edit your posts so that I could have said "Beneficial does not also mean prudent" and changed the stazi thing from "its could be" to "it could also evolve into".
Come on buddy, mentioning terrorists is like the latest fad in political correctness subscribers - you must agree or your helping the terrorists. Yes, terrorists use the Internet to communicate, but, so do literally billions of people who are not terrorists. Should they be spied upon benignly at first and maybe less so when abuse(s) finally occur? It's still not as simple as that however as the Internet is used to commit far more crimes a day than terrorists use it for so there should be some kind of forensic tools available to ordering agencies like law enforcement but the use of the software needs oversight and it morally shouldn't be a blanket system unless the risks truly justify that all the way back to the voters in opinion. This kind of thing creeps me out, its could be the software equivalent of the Stasi in old East Germany.
Another way to look at it is donors are helping someone who would otherwise not have their own child to love through a theraputic process that allows the reciever to conceive. Whether or not you agree with the ethical/legal concensus achieved so far is a different argument. Onwards, if the child feels a need to contact me in the first place because its a human and being human it may feel some qualitative feeling of comfort in meeting the next person up in it's lineage that goes back in an unbroken chain to algae give or take a billionish years ago. Your right, I would be a donor not a parent - but if the child wanted to see me I wouldn't be so callous as to not give it an audience.
You know, and I'm only speaking for myself here, if my biological offspring were with it enough to do this by themselve(s) then I would actually love to hear from them and see where it went from there. Seriously, the best complement a child can pay to a parent is being exceptionally competent within the age they live in. This kid is definately an Information Age personality. Cool kid.
The impression I've been building as I read each example of this kind of crap is that the US through organizations such as the WTO and internally with "IP" laws is trying to grab as big a piece of the pie as it can in the initial Information Age. Nobody knows what the future is going to be like in 20 years but it's a safe bet that if you weight the rules to favor your nation (which doesn't neccessarily mean individuals within it) so that you "own" everything then stategicaly you should be better off. If something like this idea isn't making it's way through the machinery of the US government then they must simply be incompetent or playing pork barrel games.
You know, in China which tends towards the opposite of US IP laws, every motivated individual still has their stuff but as you work up into business organizations they simply have different rules that make things work their way. For example, music piracy is (more) rampant in China so instead of record labels sitting back and raking in the dough there are no record labels and artists are paid through corporate sponsorships - different systems that accomplish the same effect of getting a person their music.
Years before Stack existed I was using PowerPacker on my Amiga 500 to compress and decompress files transparently to the filesystem. So even before Stac the idea had prior art.
Not meant in a mean way but good. I was IP banned from slashdot for requesting that user ID 1 have it's password mailed to it. I did it because I don't know of any other way to get a user's screen name given a user number. I just wanted to see who was registered as 1. When I tried to get myself unbanned through email communications to make a long story short I was told "tough luck". So hopefully what everyone - slashdot, blizzard, etc. could hopefully learn from this is to just chill out.
Like Taco says, it's not being "punished" for something that's the problem but rather it's the lack of recourse when it does happen.
What would be even more insidious is the idea of some kind of intelligence amplified so greatly verses your own that you could be just going about your merry way doing every thing of your own free will but in a human imperceivable way completely controlled by said super-intelligence.
See the Empire Ship entry on Orion's Arm for a snippet that refers to the idea.
That kind of remote control would really suck.
With the industrial revolution the urban population exploded - in only a short generation and a war or two, society had transformed from an agrarian rural lifestyle to urban industrial specialists. Machinery was the enabler, when one person could produce an amount of food that it previously took maybe a hundred people to produce then it provided the ability for a small machine-augmented rural population to feed larger city populations. Now in North America urban population far outweighs the rural population. Only a brief hundred years or so ago things were completely different.
I used SuSE 8-9 for about 10 months. My first real install of Linux. Installing software was my biggest challenge - yes, installing software. RPM's not being built with your filesystem defaults, compilers not installed by default, and even some binary only programs that wanted an older version of glibc. About 2 months ago I tried Kubuntu and synaptic (yes I install both kde and gnome) was just beautiful. Almost made me cry;). Anyway I did switch back to Windows about a month ago because a graphics library I needed was only available for it.
You know, I'm not trying to be mean when I say that I think that most people don't consider themselves "stuck" on Windows. I think they just consider it more as just a "computer" with no real concept of differentiation between operating systems.
Some posters seem to think that 10 buttons are too much for a mouse but I think I'd like it if my next mouse had twice as many buttons on it. A hand held input device (a.k.a. mouse) is leaps and bounds ahead of any keyboard out there ergonomically. What I would like to see are functions such as task switching (alt-tab), ok, cancel, minimize, maximize, and like basic functions used while interacting with the operating system. Having them convieniently and literally at your finger tips would allow the more efficient and transparent manipulation of the command functions of the operating system.
The Windows Icon Mouse Pointer system would have to have some of it's qualifying actions loosened, for example, having ok and cancel mouse buttons active when the pointer is within the dialog box instead of requiring that it needed to be above the actual button graphic. This leads to a more generalized notion that the operating system could be manipulated in a context orientated manner. Like today's Wizards on megasteroids. As you went from screen-to-screen within the context of a wizard paradigm have the buttons on the mouse change functions depending on the screen or context you were currently at. It would have to follow some logical system to be useful otherwise you'd probably be constantly looking at your "mouse" to see what was written on the button display at the moment. If it was ever to take hold maybe our children will take a mouse interface course much as we take touch typing courses today.
:) Assuming you do have the money and brains, that's only a smidgen of what life's about in my view. I definately possess more than shenanigans but I doubt my ego is as well developed as yours.;) But, back to the point - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This is slashdot. Every wanker here personally wrote 5 quintillion lines of source code for HAL 9000-TehRoxxorEdition. Such a project as yours should have generated copius documentation/discussion - is any of it accessible today on the web?
Me thinks that if you really had a 3d card like that in 1990 you would be filthy stinking rich by now. Oh, and locked in the gaming market with a fully developed 3d engine before quake was written. And I probably spelled shenanigens wrong. Sue me.
I think they're backporting the subsystems so that there will be enough of a userbase for developers to target the api's. This bridges the transition between the operating systems. And eventually everyone will have Vista anyway/too.
I think it's too late to stop a population boom. 10 years ago the world population was 5 billion, now it's six billion so there's 1 billion kid's under 10 out there. In another 10 years they're going to start having their own children and their grandparents (not to mention parents) still have 30 years left of the natural life span left!
Man it's too late, exponential growth. Can't keep going forever though - naturally there will be a calamity, wars or combination of like circumstances (greenhouse gases, oil shortages, water shortages, desertification, environmental contamination, etc.) that will lead to a die-off.
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If the US army didn't care about their soldiers they wouldn't be doing something like this. Soldiers are valuable and the US has reached a decision where they would rather expend steel than lives. Now, what really matters is that the US army is trying to encourage a higher quality of life for it's members.
Those brave kids are giving their lives right now for what they believe in. They deserve all the kinds of support that can practically be provided.
You know, I don't know. Isn't that the problem? I know what helped me a lot when I ran SuSE was the table of equivalents that used to be available at: linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtm l but isn't anymore so you can find it on the coralized on the wayback machine here:
1 11451/http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft- en/table.shtml
.djvu files too... Visibility I guess.
http://web.archive.org.nyud.net:8090/web/20040202
So your right most good software is already available but I off the top of my head still don't know where I could get windows viewers for
I'll get right on that.
;)
Instead of paying rapt attention to what Microsoft is doing what I would like to see the OSS community do is consciously form more organizations that would as an express purpose chip away at Microsoft's software base. What I mean by this is make sure your program runs on Windows for now. Get people using OSS and used to the idea so that the next time average-joe needs some software he'll search for an OSS program first. Then once that mindshare has been established begin to work towards the more core functions like the OS itself. Who knows, Microsoft might at some point simply open up the source of Windows to counter a loss of control to OSS if they see that their customers are truly ready to abandon ship. And to build that feeling in customers give them options - if all their useful software is OSS then they can swap out the lower levels (like Linux for Windows) without feeling any transition pain at all because their software applications didn't change at all only the plumbing did.
Ballmer's right, it is all about developers. OSS developers can introduce OSS values into the Windows "ecosystem" for lack of a better word and see what happens.
STASI, Stasi! Where's the suggestion box.
I wish Slashdot would let you edit your posts so that I could have said "Beneficial does not also mean prudent" and changed the stazi thing from "its could be" to "it could also evolve into".
Come on buddy, mentioning terrorists is like the latest fad in political correctness subscribers - you must agree or your helping the terrorists. Yes, terrorists use the Internet to communicate, but, so do literally billions of people who are not terrorists. Should they be spied upon benignly at first and maybe less so when abuse(s) finally occur? It's still not as simple as that however as the Internet is used to commit far more crimes a day than terrorists use it for so there should be some kind of forensic tools available to ordering agencies like law enforcement but the use of the software needs oversight and it morally shouldn't be a blanket system unless the risks truly justify that all the way back to the voters in opinion. This kind of thing creeps me out, its could be the software equivalent of the Stasi in old East Germany.
We live in different worlds.
Another way to look at it is donors are helping someone who would otherwise not have their own child to love through a theraputic process that allows the reciever to conceive. Whether or not you agree with the ethical/legal concensus achieved so far is a different argument. Onwards, if the child feels a need to contact me in the first place because its a human and being human it may feel some qualitative feeling of comfort in meeting the next person up in it's lineage that goes back in an unbroken chain to algae give or take a billionish years ago. Your right, I would be a donor not a parent - but if the child wanted to see me I wouldn't be so callous as to not give it an audience.
You know, and I'm only speaking for myself here, if my biological offspring were with it enough to do this by themselve(s) then I would actually love to hear from them and see where it went from there. Seriously, the best complement a child can pay to a parent is being exceptionally competent within the age they live in. This kid is definately an Information Age personality. Cool kid.
The impression I've been building as I read each example of this kind of crap is that the US through organizations such as the WTO and internally with "IP" laws is trying to grab as big a piece of the pie as it can in the initial Information Age. Nobody knows what the future is going to be like in 20 years but it's a safe bet that if you weight the rules to favor your nation (which doesn't neccessarily mean individuals within it) so that you "own" everything then stategicaly you should be better off. If something like this idea isn't making it's way through the machinery of the US government then they must simply be incompetent or playing pork barrel games.
You know, in China which tends towards the opposite of US IP laws, every motivated individual still has their stuff but as you work up into business organizations they simply have different rules that make things work their way. For example, music piracy is (more) rampant in China so instead of record labels sitting back and raking in the dough there are no record labels and artists are paid through corporate sponsorships - different systems that accomplish the same effect of getting a person their music.
...Stac compression comes to mind...
Years before Stack existed I was using PowerPacker on my Amiga 500 to compress and decompress files transparently to the filesystem. So even before Stac the idea had prior art.
Not meant in a mean way but good. I was IP banned from slashdot for requesting that user ID 1 have it's password mailed to it. I did it because I don't know of any other way to get a user's screen name given a user number. I just wanted to see who was registered as 1. When I tried to get myself unbanned through email communications to make a long story short I was told "tough luck". So hopefully what everyone - slashdot, blizzard, etc. could hopefully learn from this is to just chill out.
Like Taco says, it's not being "punished" for something that's the problem but rather it's the lack of recourse when it does happen.
What would be even more insidious is the idea of some kind of intelligence amplified so greatly verses your own that you could be just going about your merry way doing every thing of your own free will but in a human imperceivable way completely controlled by said super-intelligence.
See the Empire Ship entry on Orion's Arm for a snippet that refers to the idea.
That kind of remote control would really suck.
... you'd have to figure out how to attatch electrodes behind the lobes of someone's ears ...
Duh! Everyone knows in the 23rd century The Law regulators are installed at birth.
With the industrial revolution the urban population exploded - in only a short generation and a war or two, society had transformed from an agrarian rural lifestyle to urban industrial specialists. Machinery was the enabler, when one person could produce an amount of food that it previously took maybe a hundred people to produce then it provided the ability for a small machine-augmented rural population to feed larger city populations. Now in North America urban population far outweighs the rural population. Only a brief hundred years or so ago things were completely different.
rofl.
I used SuSE 8-9 for about 10 months. My first real install of Linux. Installing software was my biggest challenge - yes, installing software. RPM's not being built with your filesystem defaults, compilers not installed by default, and even some binary only programs that wanted an older version of glibc. About 2 months ago I tried Kubuntu and synaptic (yes I install both kde and gnome) was just beautiful. Almost made me cry ;). Anyway I did switch back to Windows about a month ago because a graphics library I needed was only available for it.
You know, I'm not trying to be mean when I say that I think that most people don't consider themselves "stuck" on Windows. I think they just consider it more as just a "computer" with no real concept of differentiation between operating systems.
Some posters seem to think that 10 buttons are too much for a mouse but I think I'd like it if my next mouse had twice as many buttons on it. A hand held input device (a.k.a. mouse) is leaps and bounds ahead of any keyboard out there ergonomically. What I would like to see are functions such as task switching (alt-tab), ok, cancel, minimize, maximize, and like basic functions used while interacting with the operating system. Having them convieniently and literally at your finger tips would allow the more efficient and transparent manipulation of the command functions of the operating system.
The Windows Icon Mouse Pointer system would have to have some of it's qualifying actions loosened, for example, having ok and cancel mouse buttons active when the pointer is within the dialog box instead of requiring that it needed to be above the actual button graphic. This leads to a more generalized notion that the operating system could be manipulated in a context orientated manner. Like today's Wizards on megasteroids. As you went from screen-to-screen within the context of a wizard paradigm have the buttons on the mouse change functions depending on the screen or context you were currently at. It would have to follow some logical system to be useful otherwise you'd probably be constantly looking at your "mouse" to see what was written on the button display at the moment. If it was ever to take hold maybe our children will take a mouse interface course much as we take touch typing courses today.
:) ;) But, back to the point - extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. This is slashdot. Every wanker here personally wrote 5 quintillion lines of source code for HAL 9000-TehRoxxorEdition. Such a project as yours should have generated copius documentation/discussion - is any of it accessible today on the web?
Assuming you do have the money and brains, that's only a smidgen of what life's about in my view. I definately possess more than shenanigans but I doubt my ego is as well developed as yours.
Me thinks that if you really had a 3d card like that in 1990 you would be filthy stinking rich by now. Oh, and locked in the gaming market with a fully developed 3d engine before quake was written. And I probably spelled shenanigens wrong. Sue me.
I think they're backporting the subsystems so that there will be enough of a userbase for developers to target the api's. This bridges the transition between the operating systems. And eventually everyone will have Vista anyway/too.
I think it's too late to stop a population boom. 10 years ago the world population was 5 billion, now it's six billion so there's 1 billion kid's under 10 out there. In another 10 years they're going to start having their own children and their grandparents (not to mention parents) still have 30 years left of the natural life span left!
Man it's too late, exponential growth. Can't keep going forever though - naturally there will be a calamity, wars or combination of like circumstances (greenhouse gases, oil shortages, water shortages, desertification, environmental contamination, etc.) that will lead to a die-off.
For the content not how it's conveyed to you.