Yes it does make sense to pay for others' education. I would go so far as to say it is our duty, where "our" is us in the rich countries, to help the world.
- or if you are cheaper think of it like this -
Say someone gets educated in a country and learns a bit about the language and culture and gets some friends. Then this said person returns to country of birth and starts a business with some international connections.
It is then plausible that the place of known culture and language and where friends reside is a more likely country to trade and work with.
That is one of the down sides of democracy. The signal to noise ration is sometimes bad. But what you consider BS one time might be the truth the next. It is up to you.
FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google.
It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.
Well they have... until you read the article and see that Opera preloads the page.
Plus: ctrl-1 is more of a shortcut than alt-b d down right s down down down enter.
>The six inch screen uses E Ink, rather than an LCD, to display the text,
>reducing strain on the eye while reading.
Since when did LCD strain your eyes?
I have read many books (full scale novels) on an ordinary PDA and thought paper lacked contrast when I switched back. Compared to LCD I would say that paper puts a strain on eyes.
Maybe EInk is even better than LCD. (don't know, don't care - sony has used all their credibility with me)
I would say that The Running Man makes quite a good foreseing of the television future. Everything that is in the film has been aired, on different stations though.
- wierd costumes, spandex, bling: any show with a host. think oscar, music competitions
- people making a fool of themselves: many shows there are
- people dying, deadly outcome: wasn't an execution aired in Texas or something
Why this hasn't been discovered earlier is because these experiments are ususally done on politicians - there are no animal rights group, or any other group, fighting for their fair treatment.
And since these experiments have only been done on politicians earlier no previous experiments have shown any brain activity ever comtemplating earlier decisions.
I guess Smart People already have figured out that music cannot be copy protected. The moment it enters the D/A converter it is digital and contains all the information needed. Just pick it up there and all copy protection in the world cannot stop it.
Unless - every player and D/A convert in the world contains anticopy circuits. Not every is needed btw, just many enough to make it tedious to copy and hard to come by copies. If it, for instance, is illegal to produce CD players without anticopy hardware it wont matter if countries don't sign the copyright agreements because there won't be any (large series) CD player producers.
So what the Smart People do is to hinder the copying as far as they can. And then they retire and don't care. So if they can fool the grey masses for 10 to 20 more years they have succeeded in their mission.
>>We should also pay money to the postal office every time we use
>>email since they lose money on every email sent.
>Poor analogy. Try: if the ISPs start charging $2 per email sent, then
>it would be in the public interest for our Post Office to start offering
>a free or very cheap email service.
The analogy is good. New products or new ways of getting paid sometimes makes older products or ways to make money obsolete.
Charging money for every email sent is going back to the way the postal service charges for their services which in turn is based on their costs.
That is like paying companies that distribute media containing music.
When we instead can pay the artists directly and skip the whole physical medium stuff.
We should also pay money to the postal office every time we use email since they lose money on every email sent.
Wait! we should pay Panasonic, HP and Xerox and all other fax machine producers since they lose money on every email we send.
And the postal office should pay the telegraph company.
And the fax machine factories should pay the telex machine factories.
And the telex machine factories should pay the postal offices.
There was an early post mentioning having lots and lots of computers. He suggested, in my opinion, so many that you forget what you have on them. Oops, losing the thread. He suggested a computer with lotsalotsa harddisk to make fast/temporary backups.
This is a complement to having a proper backup solution.
And Silence! To me it is SO! important. A few years ago I argued for silent computers but people/colleagues/shops didn't understand what I was asking for. And say, sales at Dell, had no idea of if their machines made noise or not.
Today there are shops specialising in quiet machines.
Have 1 machine, very quiet, which suits your daily needs. Then stack the rest of them in another room with all the harddisk and cool stuff you need.
Screens too are quiet. Get at least 2 of them. More preferably tree or even four.
Experimentation with this should be easy. Use a Wacom board and replace the tip with a tip from an ordinary pen/crayon/pencil/whatever. Put a sheet of paper on the wacom board and start hacking in your favourite language.
Not a perfect solution but an easy way to try it out.
>they don't belong to anyone...
>...pick one up when you need one
This is correct, they are. And that is a problem for people like me who happens to prefer certain pens. I find/try a pen I like; I buy one; I watch it like a hawk.
Then I put it on a table; turn around for a second; and the pen is lost again.
Finally I go out and buy a new one. Pens are common property and I am the outcast. I have stopped crying.
Remove the neccessity for special paper (with an accelerometer or some fancy triangulating gadget) and increase its computing power by connecting it to a computer or PDA (by bluetooth) and you might have something. I am not sure exactly what but something.
For instance have the pen somehow buzz which way to draw a line and it/you could make up a new interface on the fly.
I have tried digital whiteboard and wacom board and these solve other problems. If someone figures out how to put these solutions together into yet another solution we might have a cool thing.
The simplest solution is to stop watching television. I got bored of television some 10 years ago. I took it up again last autumn but lost interest. I guess this is not feasible for everyone.
Next thing is the observation that somewhere there is a DA converter where the input side is digital and the output side is analogue. And as long as there isn't any unbreakable decryption technique buried inside the DA converter the solution is simply to read the input side of the DA converter.
This is also the same reason that copy protection will never work. Somewhere the digital data has to be converted to analogue so all you have to do is to nick the data right there.
I guess this text will render it impossible for me to get a visa to the USA...
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it does make sense to pay for others' education. I would go so far as to say it is our duty, where "our" is us in the rich countries, to help the world.
- or if you are cheaper think of it like this -
Say someone gets educated in a country and learns a bit about the language and culture and gets some friends. Then this said person returns to country of birth and starts a business with some international connections. It is then plausible that the place of known culture and language and where friends reside is a more likely country to trade and work with.
That is one of the down sides of democracy. The signal to noise ration is sometimes bad.
But what you consider BS one time might be the truth the next. It is up to you.
hejdig.
/OF
That was probably
the worst haiku I have ever read!
Even worse than this
hejdig.
/OF
FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google.
It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.
hejdig.
/OF
Well they have... until you read the article and see that Opera preloads the page. Plus: ctrl-1 is more of a shortcut than alt-b d down right s down down down enter.
hejdig.
/OF
>The six inch screen uses E Ink, rather than an LCD, to display the text,
>reducing strain on the eye while reading.
Since when did LCD strain your eyes?
I have read many books (full scale novels) on an ordinary PDA and thought paper lacked contrast when I switched back. Compared to LCD I would say that paper puts a strain on eyes.
Maybe EInk is even better than LCD. (don't know, don't care - sony has used all their credibility with me)
<sig/>
hejdig.
/OF
And the ending of the book is cooler.
hejdig.
/OF
I would say that The Running Man makes quite a good foreseing of the television future. Everything that is in the film has been aired, on different stations though.
- wierd costumes, spandex, bling: any show with a host. think oscar, music competitions
- people making a fool of themselves: many shows there are
- people dying, deadly outcome: wasn't an execution aired in Texas or something
hejdig.
/OF
Why this hasn't been discovered earlier is because these experiments are ususally done on politicians - there are no animal rights group, or any other group, fighting for their fair treatment.
And since these experiments have only been done on politicians earlier no previous experiments have shown any brain activity ever comtemplating earlier decisions.
hejdig.
/OF
I guess Smart People already have figured out that music cannot be copy protected. The moment it enters the D/A converter it is digital and contains all the information needed. Just pick it up there and all copy protection in the world cannot stop it.
Unless - every player and D/A convert in the world contains anticopy circuits. Not every is needed btw, just many enough to make it tedious to copy and hard to come by copies. If it, for instance, is illegal to produce CD players without anticopy hardware it wont matter if countries don't sign the copyright agreements because there won't be any (large series) CD player producers.
So what the Smart People do is to hinder the copying as far as they can. And then they retire and don't care. So if they can fool the grey masses for 10 to 20 more years they have succeeded in their mission.
hejdig.
/OF
>>We should also pay money to the postal office every time we use
>>email since they lose money on every email sent.
>Poor analogy. Try: if the ISPs start charging $2 per email sent, then
>it would be in the public interest for our Post Office to start offering
>a free or very cheap email service.
The analogy is good. New products or new ways of getting paid sometimes makes older products or ways to make money obsolete. Charging money for every email sent is going back to the way the postal service charges for their services which in turn is based on their costs.
That is like paying companies that distribute media containing music.
When we instead can pay the artists directly and skip the whole physical medium stuff.
hejdig.
/OF
We should also pay money to the postal office every time we use email since they lose money on every email sent.
Wait! we should pay Panasonic, HP and Xerox and all other fax machine producers since they lose money on every email we send.
And the postal office should pay the telegraph company. And the fax machine factories should pay the telex machine factories.
And the telex machine factories should pay the postal offices.
hi.
/OF
There was an early post mentioning having lots and lots of computers. He suggested, in my opinion, so many that you forget what you have on them. Oops, losing the thread. He suggested a computer with lotsalotsa harddisk to make fast/temporary backups.
This is a complement to having a proper backup solution.
And Silence! To me it is SO! important. A few years ago I argued for silent computers but people/colleagues/shops didn't understand what I was asking for. And say, sales at Dell, had no idea of if their machines made noise or not.
Today there are shops specialising in quiet machines.
Have 1 machine, very quiet, which suits your daily needs. Then stack the rest of them in another room with all the harddisk and cool stuff you need.
Screens too are quiet. Get at least 2 of them. More preferably tree or even four.
hejdig.
/crayon/pencil/whatever. Put a sheet of paper on the wacom board and start hacking in your favourite language.
/OF
Experimentation with this should be easy. Use a Wacom board and replace the tip with a tip from an ordinary pen
Not a perfect solution but an easy way to try it out.
hejdig.
/OF
>they don't belong to anyone...
>...pick one up when you need one
This is correct, they are. And that is a problem for people like me who happens to prefer certain pens. I find/try a pen I like; I buy one; I watch it like a hawk.
Then I put it on a table; turn around for a second; and the pen is lost again.
Finally I go out and buy a new one. Pens are common property and I am the outcast. I have stopped crying.
hejdig.
/OF
Remove the neccessity for special paper (with an accelerometer or some fancy triangulating gadget) and increase its computing power by connecting it to a computer or PDA (by bluetooth) and you might have something. I am not sure exactly what but something.
For instance have the pen somehow buzz which way to draw a line and it/you could make up a new interface on the fly.
I have tried digital whiteboard and wacom board and these solve other problems. If someone figures out how to put these solutions together into yet another solution we might have a cool thing.
hejdig.
/OF
>Tiny!? I'd like to see you write over 5mb worth of code.
"5 mb of code." Wow! I guess that is how they make the conductors narrower and narrower in the processors!
hejdig.
/OF
>Erm, the third world is not subject to European patent law anyway, tho it might
>provide a good role model.
Correct. But with software patent laws fewer applications and absolutely fewer good free applications will see the light of day.
And with these free applications internet and democracy and freedom and equality and happy days will be built.
hejdig.
/OF
Besides begin good for EU and Europe it is also good for the Third World where cheap things can make a big difference towards democracy.
hejdig.
/OF
My 5-10 years old Casio Cassiopeia running WinCE with a keyboard/cradle works nicely for me when writing short stories.
There are some drawbacks like WindowsOnly(R) and serial interface but buy a slightly newer with USB and PocketPC and it might work.
hi.
/OF
>That's awfully close to 16,384 missing files. I wonder if SCO is
>using MS Excel to keep track of their privilege log.
More probably they are using old intel processors.
hi.
/OF
The simplest solution is to stop watching television. I got bored of television some 10 years ago. I took it up again last autumn but lost interest.
I guess this is not feasible for everyone.
Next thing is the observation that somewhere there is a DA converter where the input side is digital and the output side is analogue. And as long as there isn't any unbreakable decryption technique buried inside the DA converter the solution is simply to read the input side of the DA converter.
This is also the same reason that copy protection will never work. Somewhere the digital data has to be converted to analogue so all you have to do is to nick the data right there.
I guess this text will render it impossible for me to get a visa to the USA...
FWIW
No I can finally start breathing again. Have held my breath since source leak.
Leeeeeets play!
hi.
/OF
With great powers come great responsibility.
There is one (1) search engine for USENET today, Google. They are known to censor some information.
Now the only indexer of usenet is competing with a product of its own.
Winner: ?
Looser: the people
hi.
/OF
Good looking too: The Koenigsegg