How much better would we communicate if we were forced to stop what we were doing with our hands? Trying to hold a conversation with someone who is cooking or using a computer is usually pretty pointless. Granted, with early humans, most communication was probably just quick warnings and requests, so while applicable to our culture, it really wasn't to theirs.
Although how many cavewomen do you suppose got frustrated with their mate for nodding and grunting noncommitally when she tried to communicate with him while he was sharpening his tools?
Suppose that early humans had the mental abilites for communication, but not the physical abilites for speach. How do you suppose they would have communicated? Almost certainly with their hands. Sure, it isn't always convienient in the Hearing culture; that is probably a large reason why the Deaf culture is different.
Well, you see, I was watching Johnny's dad fix his car, and he dropped the propane torch, and it went right by my arm. Luckily, the gizmo was there to protect my arm, but it got wrecked. Then, wouldn't you believe it? I tripped over a lug nut, and fell, and the gizmo, being weakened from the heat, got bent. So then we were playing baseball, see, and I got hit by a pitch, which broke it the rest of the way off!
Sure, monkeys can be tought to do things. But the monkey isn't going to figure it out in the first place. Problem solving is coming up with a solution, not using a learned solution.
But it's hard to see how a complex culture could develop without speech.
Sign Language. Deaf communities often have cultures very different from the Hearing people in the same environment. Culture requires the ability to communicate; not necessarily audibly. Parots can talk. They cannon communicate.
I suspect that they would find that the ability to communicate, to solve more complex logical problems, to feel emotion, and a concept of right and wrong all started about the same time. The sixth day.
I think Walmart is the company that could best challenge Microsoft Window's monopoly. They are big enough not to cave to Microsoft. They are diverse enough that loosing wouldn't kill them. They have a huge customer base and lots of stores. If Walmart sold you a computer, it would be cheap. They could preinstall any software they sell on the shelves. If you have a problem with it, you can just bring it to a Walmart. You're never that far from one in the US. If selling Lindows and Manrake increases their hardware sales, would they consider writing their own operating system? or maybe just Walmart Linux?
I hope linux doesn't become a widely used desktop os. I like it how it is. Mass use hurts things. It brought spam to email. It brought lawyers to the web. It brought aol'ers to irc.
It just comes back to X11. It is great for what it was designed for. It was not, however, designed for the desktop. He's right, its ugly and slow. A local framebuffer that supported the latest hardware and had a good fontbuffer would do more for Linux than anything else would. I'd even pay for it.
Great. Just make it known thats what the policy is.
Don't adversite Always On, Always Fast, Unlimited Internet and then provide Usually On, Only Fast from 1am to 8am and 5pm to 7pm, Limted No mta/sshd/ftpd/vncserver Internet. (Yes, I'm talking to you RoadRunner.)
A news log web site by a couple of geeks is going to have bugs. Whats the worst that happens? You need to get your news somewhere else for an hour. Whaa>
A large corporation in possesions of millions of people's credit card information is a whole different deal.
Okay, I've heard this one to many times, and am sick of it. Information does not want to be free. Information doesn't want anything. It is just information. _You_ want information to be free. BigCompanyInc wants information to be theirs.
I agree, ICANN has some major problems, and needs to be killed and replaced. But informatin wanting to be free has nothing to do with, or with anything else.
(Yeah, I just hit the KarmaKap half an hour ago so I don't care anymore. Mod me down.)
Sorry, I was being lazy. I should have said *BSD/ GNU/Linux. Apple has done a fantastic job of making a UNIX usable by the masses. They are at the point I would expect Mandrake to be in 5 years, and Apple is progressing faster than Mandrake. (If only they used a more UNIX-ish file system layout.) I never would have recommended mac/os =9.x to anyone. I hated it. I would recommend osX to anyone considering Windows.
It used to be, when my [non-geek] friends asked me what kind of computer to buy, I told them to play around with Windows 95/98/2k and MacOS, and go with whatever they feel more comfortable with. (Yeah, I know this post will get modded down because I don't push *n?x, but they wouldn't be able to or want to use it.) If the only Microsoft option is Windows XP I'll just tell them to go buy and iMac or iBook. Microsoft isn't going to change its practices unless people STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS.
Because here in the United States, the big beauracracies bought too many politicians. They know they can get away with making ridiculous rules in their favor.
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No. Your whole system will have crapped out after 3 minutes with a compile error, just waiting for you to come back on Monday.
Why is the link on "where it all went wrong" and not on "article"?
Just a thought.
How much better would we communicate if we were forced to stop what we were doing with our hands? Trying to hold a conversation with someone who is cooking or using a computer is usually pretty pointless. Granted, with early humans, most communication was probably just quick warnings and requests, so while applicable to our culture, it really wasn't to theirs.
Although how many cavewomen do you suppose got frustrated with their mate for nodding and grunting noncommitally when she tried to communicate with him while he was sharpening his tools?
Suppose that early humans had the mental abilites for communication, but not the physical abilites for speach. How do you suppose they would have communicated? Almost certainly with their hands. Sure, it isn't always convienient in the Hearing culture; that is probably a large reason why the Deaf culture is different.
Well, you see, I was watching Johnny's dad fix his car, and he dropped the propane torch, and it went right by my arm. Luckily, the gizmo was there to protect my arm, but it got wrecked. Then, wouldn't you believe it? I tripped over a lug nut, and fell, and the gizmo, being weakened from the heat, got bent. So then we were playing baseball, see, and I got hit by a pitch, which broke it the rest of the way off!
Sure, monkeys can be tought to do things. But the monkey isn't going to figure it out in the first place. Problem solving is coming up with a solution, not using a learned solution.
But it's hard to see how a complex culture could develop without speech.
Sign Language. Deaf communities often have cultures very different from the Hearing people in the same environment. Culture requires the ability to communicate; not necessarily audibly. Parots can talk. They cannon communicate.
I suspect that they would find that the ability to communicate, to solve more complex logical problems, to feel emotion, and a concept of right and wrong all started about the same time. The sixth day.
I still see the fire breathing green dragon when I start Mozilla 1.somethingorother
But an ogg player with 640k, that would be something!
Easy. They sell him Windows for another 200USD.
I think Walmart is the company that could best challenge Microsoft Window's monopoly. They are big enough not to cave to Microsoft. They are diverse enough that loosing wouldn't kill them. They have a huge customer base and lots of stores. If Walmart sold you a computer, it would be cheap. They could preinstall any software they sell on the shelves. If you have a problem with it, you can just bring it to a Walmart. You're never that far from one in the US. If selling Lindows and Manrake increases their hardware sales, would they consider writing their own operating system? or maybe just Walmart Linux?
But "bush -stupid" turns up zero.
"plunged back into that corporate-sponsored hell. "
As opposed to the corportate-sponsored hell we're in now?!
Anarchy is fine for domain names. Domain names should be first come first serve, with the option to sell for what the market will bear.
.biz was created so the registrars could charge whoever has foo.com to get foo.biz. plain and simple.
I hope linux doesn't become a widely used desktop os. I like it how it is. Mass use hurts things. It brought spam to email. It brought lawyers to the web. It brought aol'ers to irc.
It just comes back to X11. It is great for what it was designed for. It was not, however, designed for the desktop. He's right, its ugly and slow. A local framebuffer that supported the latest hardware and had a good fontbuffer would do more for Linux than anything else would. I'd even pay for it.
If you're paying for bandwidth by the megabit, spam and huge ad graphics add up.
I do tunnel it through ssh. Its the bandwidth they're concerned with, not the security of my box.
Great. Just make it known thats what the policy is.
Don't adversite Always On, Always Fast, Unlimited Internet and then provide Usually On, Only Fast from 1am to 8am and 5pm to 7pm, Limted No mta/sshd/ftpd/vncserver Internet. (Yes, I'm talking to you RoadRunner.)
A news log web site by a couple of geeks is going to have bugs. Whats the worst that happens? You need to get your news somewhere else for an hour. Whaa>
A large corporation in possesions of millions of people's credit card information is a whole different deal.
Does he use the CDROM drives as cup holders?
"Information wants to be free!"
Okay, I've heard this one to many times, and am sick of it. Information does not want to be free. Information doesn't want anything. It is just information. _You_ want information to be free. BigCompanyInc wants information to be theirs.
I agree, ICANN has some major problems, and needs to be killed and replaced. But informatin wanting to be free has nothing to do with, or with anything else.
(Yeah, I just hit the KarmaKap half an hour ago so I don't care anymore. Mod me down.)
Sorry, I was being lazy. I should have said *BSD/ GNU/Linux. Apple has done a fantastic job of making a UNIX usable by the masses. They are at the point I would expect Mandrake to be in 5 years, and Apple is progressing faster than Mandrake. (If only they used a more UNIX-ish file system layout.) I never would have recommended mac/os =9.x to anyone. I hated it. I would recommend osX to anyone considering Windows.
It used to be, when my [non-geek] friends asked me what kind of computer to buy, I told them to play around with Windows 95/98/2k and MacOS, and go with whatever they feel more comfortable with. (Yeah, I know this post will get modded down because I don't push *n?x, but they wouldn't be able to or want to use it.) If the only Microsoft option is Windows XP I'll just tell them to go buy and iMac or iBook. Microsoft isn't going to change its practices unless people STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS.
Because here in the United States, the big beauracracies bought too many politicians. They know they can get away with making ridiculous rules in their favor.