I look at this as the start of something new, the same way computers looked 20 years ago. Fuel cells? Nano-tubes for hydrogen storage ?(personal computers?? 20 years ago), what are you nuts!!
I see the ballard system is the equivalant of a 1979 Apple, it's an expensive toy for hobbiests, those hobbiests will fund the next generation of machines until we can drive our 2008 model Hypercar(tm) 3000 miles on a nanotube tank, we plug it in at work to power the office (and sell the electricity to work), plug it in at home (a car takes WAY more energy to run than a house). Where is the hydrogen going to come from? probably algea
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...American legal tradition has given corporations the same rights as individuals...
I would argue that corperations have MORE rights than individuals. If General Electric dumps PCBs in the Hudson, they get a fine (usually less that what it would have taken them to dispose of them responsibly), if *I* dump PCBs in the Hudson, I go to prison. Add this to the relative deep pockets of corperations versus those of individuals and you have the beginings of a new form of rule - Corperatocracy.
..."but don't forget who made PCs easy enough to use that many people bought them"... (Amiga, Apple, Commodore, who, I give up. The (IBM) PC was late to the game with a real GUI, it was only respectable because it had the IBM name on it) , lowering the cost of PCs/parts (which happened because the big monopoly at the time *IBM* didn't think they could make money on PCs). Look people hate Microsoft because Microsoft has used unfair tactics and (almost always copied thier competition) inferior technology (MS third times the charm mentality) to "win". By ruthlessly crushing thier competition (usually by leveraging thier OS monopoly) they have dramatically retarted the growth of software (imagine if you will a world where there was real competition between Operating Systems, Office Software, and browsers, we see something like this with hardware [AMD and Intel] and the results are amazing). It's not just that people hate being told what to do, some people realize that the retardation of the technology has a long term negative impact that humanity should not be burdened with.
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While they were clearly intelligent, evolved machines, they were also clearly "Spielberg" aliens (a la ET and Close encounters of the 3rd kind). If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck (long neck, big head, compassionate and inquisitive) why not let people call it a duck (even if is a machine built to look, sound and act like a duck).
While I think that Computer generated art is sometimes art (as is some graphic design, certainly nothing is wrong with graphic art, I know lots of starving artists and one resonably well off graphic artist [~100k/yr]) I don't think that most schools teach art. I think that the more interesting art is computer art, using the computer and it's ability to be interactive as art. I've seen a couple of shows that featured computer art and they were very cool (but rarely saleable).
"Check out this article at HackerWorld NewZeland by Peter de Man about how the best CEOs are really just "kids with really expensive toys". How many of you have come across CEOs that obviously have no real interest in running their company, and how much does it affect the quality of their work?"
There are a host of products US companies are using from M$ (which can be switched to Corel's stuff or [yech] StarOffice) that part seems relatively straight forward. However, any organization of a non-trivial size beggins to need custom (usually a big bunch of database front/back ends) software for operations, and right now this is usually done with crap, oops I mean Visual Basic. Has anyone out there actually gotten Kylix yet and is this type of custom app reasonably easy with it?
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I look at this as the start of something new, the same way computers looked 20 years ago. Fuel cells? Nano-tubes for hydrogen storage ?(personal computers?? 20 years ago), what are you nuts!!
I see the ballard system is the equivalant of a 1979 Apple, it's an expensive toy for hobbiests, those hobbiests will fund the next generation of machines until we can drive our 2008 model Hypercar(tm) 3000 miles on a nanotube tank, we plug it in at work to power the office (and sell the electricity to work), plug it in at home (a car takes WAY more energy to run than a house). Where is the hydrogen going to come from? probably algea
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b866c1563e7.htm
...American legal tradition has given corporations the same rights as individuals...
I would argue that corperations have MORE rights than individuals. If General Electric dumps PCBs in the Hudson, they get a fine (usually less that what it would have taken them to dispose of them responsibly), if *I* dump PCBs in the Hudson, I go to prison. Add this to the relative deep pockets of corperations versus those of individuals and you have the beginings of a new form of rule - Corperatocracy.
..."but don't forget who made PCs easy enough to use that many people bought them" ... (Amiga, Apple, Commodore, who, I give up. The (IBM) PC was late to the game with a real GUI, it was only respectable because it had the IBM name on it) , lowering the cost of PCs/parts (which happened because the big monopoly at the time *IBM* didn't think they could make money on PCs). Look people hate Microsoft because Microsoft has used unfair tactics and (almost always copied thier competition) inferior technology (MS third times the charm mentality) to "win". By ruthlessly crushing thier competition (usually by leveraging thier OS monopoly) they have dramatically retarted the growth of software (imagine if you will a world where there was real competition between Operating Systems, Office Software, and browsers, we see something like this with hardware [AMD and Intel] and the results are amazing). It's not just that people hate being told what to do, some people realize that the retardation of the technology has a long term negative impact that humanity should not be burdened with.
While they were clearly intelligent, evolved machines, they were also clearly "Spielberg" aliens (a la ET and Close encounters of the 3rd kind). If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck (long neck, big head, compassionate and inquisitive) why not let people call it a duck (even if is a machine built to look, sound and act like a duck).
I would buy what you're saying except that JBuilder (Foundation) is gratis.
While I think that Computer generated art is sometimes art (as is some graphic design, certainly nothing is wrong with graphic art, I know lots of starving artists and one resonably well off graphic artist [~100k/yr]) I don't think that most schools teach art. I think that the more interesting art is computer art, using the computer and it's ability to be interactive as art. I've seen a couple of shows that featured computer art and they were very cool (but rarely saleable).
"Check out this article at HackerWorld NewZeland by Peter de Man about how the best CEOs are really just "kids with really expensive toys". How many of you have come across CEOs that obviously have no real interest in running their company, and how much does it affect the quality of their work?"
There are a host of products US companies are using from M$ (which can be switched to Corel's stuff or [yech] StarOffice) that part seems relatively straight forward. However, any organization of a non-trivial size beggins to need custom (usually a big bunch of database front/back ends) software for operations, and right now this is usually done with crap, oops I mean Visual Basic. Has anyone out there actually gotten Kylix yet and is this type of custom app reasonably easy with it?