Perhaps you should have read further, because I said that Java had a rep for being slow, and also difficult to debug, write once debug everywhere if you what to be techy, anyway, Java has been around a long time at hasn't really reached it's potential, IMHO, which I don't think bodes well for.NET which is more or less a Java knock off.
Anyway, if you what real "humour", I heard M$ where putting.Net on hold just to improve security (who whats another outlook on their hands).
Re:on the subject of the ps2 linux kit...
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I think hard disks on consoles have a future as cache drives, being what the XBOX uses it's for, IANA playstation developer so I dont know what advantage this would be, but the PS2 has so much bandwidth avilable to it anyway, I think any would be null, It's also possible that a mod scean might grow up for PS2 games but I think that is unlikely.
who knows what the future could hold
Re:Linux World Summary (or why i was disappointed)
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Yeah fallen comrades are always sad, but I kind of like the sound that linux is still going despite a lot of the hype fading, giving a lot more certainly to the direction of the movement. I am sure that once the industry is out of the slump then a lot of those guys will return, I mean how can a site with the popurlarity of slashdot ever go broke (where would all the trolls go), I've always found booth chicks to be a bit seedy, Suse and Slackware are disto's which will always be around (unless suse merge with mandrake) and while no doubt that booths in the future, and for me, after show parties always degenerate into wars over weather star trek is better then Farscape, and other religouse questions (get a bunch of nerds drunk and the results are scary).
For me it seems a return to what the movement was all about rather then any kind of starting over, which I think Rob was scared of.
Re:on the subject of the ps2 linux kit...
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If history is any guild, I think that any games which use the kit will come with the hdd, and since it will blow out the cost of such games, they would have to be real killer type games. Phantasy star online being the best example
This is based on the experience of the memory expansion for the N64 which didn't sell well and become a bundle option for games which needed it
Ofcourse, the option could have the same success as the rumble pad or the memory stick, I think only time will tell the answer to that one.
Personally, I think it is nice that Sony let you install a os on their machine rather then providing you with a encryic-cache drive like M$ there by killing any real advantage to owning one (Apart from putting more textures in a game, or bigger levels), I would still have to see linux in action on the thing before making my own mind up.
Java's been around for a while now and I think that if it was going to make a impact it would have happend sooner, at least in relation to the desktop. I think that the problem is that it is halfway to an interpreated and compiled langerage and slow as a result (from my understanding). Also It is also commerical in its focus rather then python etc which are free langerages (also from my understanding)
From my experience apps based on java like star office tend to be slow and bring a whole lot of there own problems with them.
If you just base everything on open stardards for your doc formats then it doesnt really matter what app you us as long as they use that standard, or whether it is a native compile or uses a VM for that matter
Also I am aware that most of the problems with the speed of java have been solved but I guess once you get a bad rep your doomed.
To me Java is still a might have been IMHO.
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I know that this will be modded to hell but I cant understand why sony didn't buy beos and use it as a OS for the PS2, I think that the multimedia aspect's of the os would have been more in line with what I think the direction of the Playstation is, basically the nest Amiga (made that was a sweet computer). It would have been nice to see that os reach it full potential rather then being sold to palm, which to paraphase the register.co.uk, have to be the stupidest tech company is history.
While linux on ps2 is a cool hack I can't help thinking that it is something that would have been done anyway, and basically sony are profiting as a result, It also aint the right tool for the job
Also people seem to be compaining as to the age of the port (doesnt use the latest version of gcc or xfree for example)
Who knows perhaps linux will be the next Beos thanks to the port, I would much rather the fact that the PS2 has a hd be played up more then the fact linux run's on it, basically nullifying any reason of buy a eX-BOX IMHO.
I've always had the opinion that, given enough time and money then it will be possible to create a system that will be impossible to crack.
I formed this opinion back in 93 (or it might have been earlier I dunno), when It took forever for a game like dungeon master to be cracked by the scean, But since I was twelve at the time I guess forever was a lot longer back then
I also hold the view that a lot of protection schemes are meant to be cracked based on the way that software marketing works, but this is the same as, 'symantic write all the virus' myth that have been around forever, and thus belong in alt.conspriacy.lunatic.asylium newsgroups right next to threads on zionism
However, if something like safe disk appeared on CD's would anyone bother?? I dunno, CD's are overpriced for sure but they aint that expensive, They aren't purchased by crackers in the majority of cases, and by the time something like that happens people would be more interested in 3ivx or DVD's anyway. Noone would crack a CD just to listen to the BackStreetBoys or the next boy band, maybe mp3 distributers might but not people who got the CD's.
That was the point I was trying to make,
I think that it is more a question of freedom, and agree with the thread that "if people can't rip their own CD's" they will just download the MP3 version off one of the many file sharing utilities. Plus pirate more due to having more familiarity with the medium.
Pot ain't legel but everyone smokes it, so unless your a hopeless idealist, like I am (I guess) does it make much of a deal at the end of the day?
Still it would be nice that the law was used to defend the right's of the citizens and not to promote the rights of some corp like the RIAA are trying to do. Overwise it just fall's into a fast, which is the short road to Anarchy (which if you have ever read/seen the Cruciple, I know spelling, aint that great, expect to some students who don't know the nature of politics)
Not true, M$ do charge you but it is normally a hidden cost that they hit you with when you buy windows, which is normally when you buy you computer, god knows how much a winXP license costs now.
The irony is that a lot of these apps are just re-licensed shareware programs themselves like media player which is basically sonique which they intergrated when they acquired the company. Or knock offs when the company refuses to sell out like IE to netscape (their both based on mosaic I believe).
You need to make the distinction that shareware is normally for profit (very little but profit none the less) while those candy boxes are for charity, normally to help people with out the advantages which you might enjoy.
You get a return of goodwill by getting your candy rather then just making some guy, who would makes a seven figure income anyway, richer, by just doing his shareware hobby program.
If you don't pay to use the honor box, then dude, I really do pity you. Mind you to be fair you didn't say that you didn't pay for you candy only that it was the same modal, which your right in that regard.
I tend to pay for shareware which is trying to raise money for a good cause.
The point which I was trying to make was that these guys seem to be ignoring mindshare and that they seem to be taking a course of action that will limit it's application rather extend it.
Saying something like "our software has an install base of over half a million units" is a lot more powerful then saying we made 20 grand in licensing last year. Due to the former leading to greater things in the future.
Think "selling out" everyone knows that companies like M$ spend little time developing their own software and would much rather buy a small shareware company like sonique to intergrate into their system, or like what AOL did with nullsoft (there must be millions of examples). This is what most shareware companies tend to do rather then trying to get money directly from their product. It also happens to be the same model guys like id use with their commerical software, by licensing the game engine. Esp when the reality of wishing to buy more then pizza and beer sets in.
Ofcourse, I have to admit that this was also the same model that half the dot-bombs (counting hit's to their site or whatever) were using last year (that or set up a bent IPO), You can call me a idiot cause I am:-).
I consider shareware along these lines;- It is a fun thing to do which you don't expect to make money from, and if people donate money, then you can continue to do it in the future, a bit like running a market stool, maybe someone big might notice you a buy you out. If you what to make real money then either write a commerical app (and good luck to you), or set yourself up as a consultant writing custom software for a company, using the shareware to promote that business.
I would not be surpised if all this hasn't started just because they couldn't find a publisher for themselves, and are punshing their own user's because of that. Also, I read a lot of "we recon we should have more money for doing the same work" into the article, The same arguement that didn't work on my boss
By all this it is a given that shareware has a very simliar modal to free software, however free software is better because there is more room for development in the future since the people who use the product tend to contribute to that project when development get's beyound your means. To the point where the project will continue even when you have moved to bigger and better things.
In the future I think that freeware (gpl, or bsd) will be a lot bigger then shareware for this reason, and companies that follow the shareware model will bastardise the term in the same way that these guys are, that it is just demoware in all but name.
My arguement is that freeware has basically made shareware a legacy, like the medium it used to be distributed on the "floppy".
"Hay, you don't have to pay it's surrgested donation" -- Homer
I think that the mistake that these guys are making, and they will find it out pretty soon, is that the people who pirate their software will not use their software if they where forced to pay for it, The reality is that people who pirate their software are an assent in mindshare.
The people are appling the same logic the gambler uses when he curses himself for not betting $100 instend of $10 think that he has just lost $90.
All that is going to happen is that their punters are going to go somewhere else.
Btw someone will crack this is ten seconds anyway.
For every technological solution, there's a technological "hack", right?
hmm... seems a controversial question, the reason I say this is that: if "they" continue to try, then it might only be a matter of time before "they" come up with a technique that, while not unbreakable, will not be worth anyones time to crack. I sometimes think that by breaking this technology we are just beta testing "their" products.
I'm more inclined to take the view that the development of such tech is illegal because it is something which takes away my rights of fair usage. I should not need to crack something just to use it in a way which is completely within my rights.
Also, it tends to piss me off that these actions also break the redbook standard and thus they are selling more-or-less broken CD's. However this is a minor concern inrelation to the above
To best illustrate my view, imagine if the government attempted to fix cars to make them impossible to break the speed limit, I gurantee the response of the average person would not be "It doesn't matter cause my kid can break it with in seconds with a flathead" but that it is a infrignment of liberty. The same kind of thinking should be applied to copy-protected CD's IMHO.
Yeah your right, I think that dependancy hell is the main thing holding linux back on the desktop, apart from a relience on Xfree (this ones a bit controversial) and the lack of property applications and now games I guess:-( (these last two being something that open source let's linux get away with).
Right now it is simply too hard for a "average" person to update and install software on their box, For example, say my mother wishes to install the new version of evolution, she goes to the web site and there are 20 different types of packages to install (one for each distro), so she takes a punt, and then finds out that there are 20 different dependant packages, For linux to progress there need to be two standard install systems, consisting of a binarie version and another source version, for EVERYTHING IMHO. Doing this my mother would simply have to download one file, double chick and the programs installed, and by not having to think to much avoid confusion
People aren't dumb rather they tend to get the shits when they have to do a whole host of things just to "install fscking outlook clone".
Personally Im curious to why it seems to be taking so long, after all RPM's haven't really changed much since Red Hat 5.
Also while Apt get is definitely a step in the right direction but a newbie might think that having to download other programs when they have just downloaded the principle package a bit "rich".
now if we can just convince a judge in the US to accept an Australian court finding as precedent...
hmm, I know this may sound like a troll (I don't mean it to be), but the American supreme court, over turned the universal declaration of human rights in order to allow the death penalty. At the time this was considered pretty scandalous but I think that there was a general public outcry that none of the Manson family got the chair. The yanks tend to have a pretty good bill of rights with the declaration of independence so I guess they can get away with it (something which Australia does not have, see the current situation up north).
Anyway, my point is: If an American court can just ignore the united nations, then I don't think a issue on DVD's, would be given any consideration at all.
I didn't take offense to Heidegger being called a Nazis, which he was, but rather that this dude was saying, I was insulting the name of Sartre while having heideggier as my UID which is BS.
The reason for this is that Sartre was a follower of Heidegger, ie, his "being and nothingness" to "being and nothingness" etc etc.
In response I said, go and read Heidegger and post the passage that proves that he was a Nazis, In "being and time" Christ I even gave him a chapter where to start.
Unlike, a lot of things, you have to read these people and draw your own view, unlike this guy who was just trying to flame me 'cause of something he had read in a crib note somewhere or some typo's, and that gave me the shit's. I also thought that it it showed a lot of the bullying that seems present of slashdot these days, In which people nitpick the most minor points of a post as a excuse to mod them down. I'm not to fond of poser's thats all. If he could demonstrate the he had studied the guy at some point then I'll take it back
Also, inrelation to Nietzsche I've never been really convinced that he didn't have at least some nazi leaning's, but that was later in his life when he when mad, read Ecce Humo so I guess we will never know.
However, I was impressed that he picked up on the error all the same.
At the end of the day who cares anyway, I'm ok your ok.
I know, but heidegger was already taken, plus they are both of the same school of thought, bad faith relates to the loss of dasein in the they-self and it resulting fall due to the condition of care brought on by the death of others. Demonstrating how much influence Heidegger had over Sartre
Neitzsche was also, by you defination a Nazie.
But, hey, by all means go and get your copy of Being and Time, and post passages form it to explain his political leanings, may I surggest the chapther "the worldhood of the the world" (this being the one people like you always jump too).
TV isn't really a drug, but rather a psycological addiction, I think that this article is mistaken in this regard (or at least the impression I got from reading it), if a person spends a large amount of time in front of the box it is due to other problems that this person in having and not directly related to the TV itself.
Personally, I feel that the greater problem is that people tend to objectilfy stuff which they see on TV with their own personal life, I think due to the nature of the medium. For example it is not uncommon today to see parents watching their childen playing, a situation unheard of years ago, the only reason for the emergence of this pattern is that such people have become scared of the peadofile, or kidnapper, becasue of news reports or whatever. However the chances of any misadventure are so small, that it is not worth depriveing childen of some freedom in their childhood and the resulting psycological damage. If you don't like that example imagine all the people who stopped reading all their mail with that Antrax scare a few months back. None of this is helped by the people who report the news.
This has greater context if you consider question's like, "would America pulled out of WWII if CNN had been on omenha beach"
I would love to chuck out all the tv's tomorrow if only to prevent this nation becoming a land of hysterics unable to walk down the street lest the sky fall on their head. Or worst, Apathic to any change in their life.
To me TV represents, what Sartre called bad faith, being a force of objectification with the final aim being the disinfrancement of the human sprite. Without the pretension: A mild form of conditioning, and this is the far greater harm then any concerns of health.
Re:Woah. Wuz Woz really a success?
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Im sorry i meant to design a build the first personal computer, still, that german guy it a bit of a legend, I always thought that alan turning was the man most responsible for the first digital computer "colussious", or that dude who started IBM, but at the end of the day who really cares who gets credit?
I concerned that, while these dudes are a monopoly, a company like this may simply run out of capital and leave the whole dns system in the air.
The problem is that being a monopoly like this isn't that great a position to be in since you can't use it to create a monopoly in another market and if you incress your fees, every arsehole with, livenudes.com compains and sues you. American law suites are not something to be taken likly.
It is also doubtful if you could pull another.biz or.coop.wearerunningoutofidea.
If this company goes broke what happens to dns, Seeing the maddness around things like altra vista or windowsXP, could we all end up having to deal with dns hell?, pirate dns?. It might end up being a real problem.
Ok, call be cynical, but I feel that there is a real danger in this, not of a effect of microwaves, if that really conserns you just move to the country, or wear foil or whatever.
However, while wireless technology has a lot of potentual to be used to put back control of the internet back into the hands of common people, Just look at the freenets being set up in londan, New York and now in Sydney.
It should be noted that these things are not in the interest of company's who wish to screw just because you what to set up your own mail server, and ergo, They could use something like this to deny the use, or limit the power of said networks,
For those of you who say it could never happen (This guy is a loony), you sould note that the English government used the excuse of interfereing with emergency channels to close down a fair number of pirate radio stations and could not even produce one single event of this occuring (some of the radio tech who worked on these sites even worked for the major stations).
Re:Woah. Wuz Woz really a success?
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Woz was the first, and perhaps the last, person to design and build a computer by himself (Jobs is mostly a marketing guy), and it should not be forgot, that apple dominated the 80's personal computer market, until IBM finally brought out the PS2 ( not the playstation varity). All this due to the apple II.
True, Woz didn't create the Mac, that was nicked from xerox parc. However,
Since I look at the computer in fount of me, and while it may have more ram etc, design wise it is still much the same as the computer that Woz first designed, Now I know that lighting doesn't tend to hit the same target on the second folly but you ever know,
He isn't the IPO whore that the trolls are making him out to be and, for what it's worth, deserves credit for the creation of the pc much more then his association with apple.
btw, it might be of interest to some of you guys that jobs tryed to sell the whole of apple to commondor (makers of the c64 and Amiga) imagine what things would be like today if that deal hadn't fallen though.
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Anyway, if you what real "humour", I heard M$ where putting .Net on hold just to improve security (who whats another outlook on their hands).
who knows what the future could hold
For me it seems a return to what the movement was all about rather then any kind of starting over, which I think Rob was scared of.
This is based on the experience of the memory expansion for the N64 which didn't sell well and become a bundle option for games which needed it
Ofcourse, the option could have the same success as the rumble pad or the memory stick, I think only time will tell the answer to that one.
Personally, I think it is nice that Sony let you install a os on their machine rather then providing you with a encryic-cache drive like M$ there by killing any real advantage to owning one (Apart from putting more textures in a game, or bigger levels), I would still have to see linux in action on the thing before making my own mind up.
From my experience apps based on java like star office tend to be slow and bring a whole lot of there own problems with them.
If you just base everything on open stardards for your doc formats then it doesnt really matter what app you us as long as they use that standard, or whether it is a native compile or uses a VM for that matter
Also I am aware that most of the problems with the speed of java have been solved but I guess once you get a bad rep your doomed.
To me Java is still a might have been IMHO.
While linux on ps2 is a cool hack I can't help thinking that it is something that would have been done anyway, and basically sony are profiting as a result, It also aint the right tool for the job
Also people seem to be compaining as to the age of the port (doesnt use the latest version of gcc or xfree for example)
Who knows perhaps linux will be the next Beos thanks to the port, I would much rather the fact that the PS2 has a hd be played up more then the fact linux run's on it, basically nullifying any reason of buy a eX-BOX IMHO.
I've always had the opinion that, given enough time and money then it will be possible to create a system that will be impossible to crack.
I formed this opinion back in 93 (or it might have been earlier I dunno), when It took forever for a game like dungeon master to be cracked by the scean, But since I was twelve at the time I guess forever was a lot longer back then
I also hold the view that a lot of protection schemes are meant to be cracked based on the way that software marketing works, but this is the same as, 'symantic write all the virus' myth that have been around forever, and thus belong in alt.conspriacy.lunatic.asylium newsgroups right next to threads on zionism
However, if something like safe disk appeared on CD's would anyone bother?? I dunno, CD's are overpriced for sure but they aint that expensive, They aren't purchased by crackers in the majority of cases, and by the time something like that happens people would be more interested in 3ivx or DVD's anyway. Noone would crack a CD just to listen to the BackStreetBoys or the next boy band, maybe mp3 distributers might but not people who got the CD's.
That was the point I was trying to make,
I think that it is more a question of freedom, and agree with the thread that "if people can't rip their own CD's" they will just download the MP3 version off one of the many file sharing utilities. Plus pirate more due to having more familiarity with the medium.
Pot ain't legel but everyone smokes it, so unless your a hopeless idealist, like I am (I guess) does it make much of a deal at the end of the day?
Still it would be nice that the law was used to defend the right's of the citizens and not to promote the rights of some corp like the RIAA are trying to do. Overwise it just fall's into a fast, which is the short road to Anarchy (which if you have ever read/seen the Cruciple, I know spelling, aint that great, expect to some students who don't know the nature of politics)
The irony is that a lot of these apps are just re-licensed shareware programs themselves like media player which is basically sonique which they intergrated when they acquired the company. Or knock offs when the company refuses to sell out like IE to netscape (their both based on mosaic I believe).
You get a return of goodwill by getting your candy rather then just making some guy, who would makes a seven figure income anyway, richer, by just doing his shareware hobby program.
If you don't pay to use the honor box, then dude, I really do pity you. Mind you to be fair you didn't say that you didn't pay for you candy only that it was the same modal, which your right in that regard.
I tend to pay for shareware which is trying to raise money for a good cause.
Saying something like "our software has an install base of over half a million units" is a lot more powerful then saying we made 20 grand in licensing last year. Due to the former leading to greater things in the future.
Think "selling out" everyone knows that companies like M$ spend little time developing their own software and would much rather buy a small shareware company like sonique to intergrate into their system, or like what AOL did with nullsoft (there must be millions of examples). This is what most shareware companies tend to do rather then trying to get money directly from their product. It also happens to be the same model guys like id use with their commerical software, by licensing the game engine. Esp when the reality of wishing to buy more then pizza and beer sets in.
Ofcourse, I have to admit that this was also the same model that half the dot-bombs (counting hit's to their site or whatever) were using last year (that or set up a bent IPO), You can call me a idiot cause I am :-).
I consider shareware along these lines;- It is a fun thing to do which you don't expect to make money from, and if people donate money, then you can continue to do it in the future, a bit like running a market stool, maybe someone big might notice you a buy you out. If you what to make real money then either write a commerical app (and good luck to you), or set yourself up as a consultant writing custom software for a company, using the shareware to promote that business.
I would not be surpised if all this hasn't started just because they couldn't find a publisher for themselves, and are punshing their own user's because of that. Also, I read a lot of "we recon we should have more money for doing the same work" into the article, The same arguement that didn't work on my boss
By all this it is a given that shareware has a very simliar modal to free software, however free software is better because there is more room for development in the future since the people who use the product tend to contribute to that project when development get's beyound your means. To the point where the project will continue even when you have moved to bigger and better things.
In the future I think that freeware (gpl, or bsd) will be a lot bigger then shareware for this reason, and companies that follow the shareware model will bastardise the term in the same way that these guys are, that it is just demoware in all but name.
My arguement is that freeware has basically made shareware a legacy, like the medium it used to be distributed on the "floppy".
"Hay, you don't have to pay it's surrgested donation" -- Homer
The people are appling the same logic the gambler uses when he curses himself for not betting $100 instend of $10 think that he has just lost $90.
All that is going to happen is that their punters are going to go somewhere else.
Btw someone will crack this is ten seconds anyway.
hmm... seems a controversial question, the reason I say this is that: if "they" continue to try, then it might only be a matter of time before "they" come up with a technique that, while not unbreakable, will not be worth anyones time to crack. I sometimes think that by breaking this technology we are just beta testing "their" products.
I'm more inclined to take the view that the development of such tech is illegal because it is something which takes away my rights of fair usage. I should not need to crack something just to use it in a way which is completely within my rights.
Also, it tends to piss me off that these actions also break the redbook standard and thus they are selling more-or-less broken CD's. However this is a minor concern inrelation to the above
To best illustrate my view, imagine if the government attempted to fix cars to make them impossible to break the speed limit, I gurantee the response of the average person would not be "It doesn't matter cause my kid can break it with in seconds with a flathead" but that it is a infrignment of liberty. The same kind of thinking should be applied to copy-protected CD's IMHO.
Right now it is simply too hard for a "average" person to update and install software on their box, For example, say my mother wishes to install the new version of evolution, she goes to the web site and there are 20 different types of packages to install (one for each distro), so she takes a punt, and then finds out that there are 20 different dependant packages, For linux to progress there need to be two standard install systems, consisting of a binarie version and another source version, for EVERYTHING IMHO. Doing this my mother would simply have to download one file, double chick and the programs installed, and by not having to think to much avoid confusion
People aren't dumb rather they tend to get the shits when they have to do a whole host of things just to "install fscking outlook clone".
Personally Im curious to why it seems to be taking so long, after all RPM's haven't really changed much since Red Hat 5.
Also while Apt get is definitely a step in the right direction but a newbie might think that having to download other programs when they have just downloaded the principle package a bit "rich".
hmm, I know this may sound like a troll (I don't mean it to be), but the American supreme court, over turned the universal declaration of human rights in order to allow the death penalty. At the time this was considered pretty scandalous but I think that there was a general public outcry that none of the Manson family got the chair. The yanks tend to have a pretty good bill of rights with the declaration of independence so I guess they can get away with it (something which Australia does not have, see the current situation up north).
Anyway, my point is: If an American court can just ignore the united nations, then I don't think a issue on DVD's, would be given any consideration at all.
The reason for this is that Sartre was a follower of Heidegger, ie, his "being and nothingness" to "being and nothingness" etc etc.
In response I said, go and read Heidegger and post the passage that proves that he was a Nazis, In "being and time" Christ I even gave him a chapter where to start.
Unlike, a lot of things, you have to read these people and draw your own view, unlike this guy who was just trying to flame me 'cause of something he had read in a crib note somewhere or some typo's, and that gave me the shit's. I also thought that it it showed a lot of the bullying that seems present of slashdot these days, In which people nitpick the most minor points of a post as a excuse to mod them down. I'm not to fond of poser's thats all. If he could demonstrate the he had studied the guy at some point then I'll take it back
Also, inrelation to Nietzsche I've never been really convinced that he didn't have at least some nazi leaning's, but that was later in his life when he when mad, read Ecce Humo so I guess we will never know. However, I was impressed that he picked up on the error all the same.
At the end of the day who cares anyway, I'm ok your ok.
And Emmanuel Levinas, who was a student of Heidegger, whoes work included "Totality and Infinity", was himself jewish.
man, RSI really catches up with you, ill try to improve my typing just for you guys
Neitzsche was also, by you defination a Nazie.
But, hey, by all means go and get your copy of Being and Time, and post passages form it to explain his political leanings, may I surggest the chapther "the worldhood of the the world" (this being the one people like you always jump too).
Let the philosophical flamefest begin.
Personally, I feel that the greater problem is that people tend to objectilfy stuff which they see on TV with their own personal life, I think due to the nature of the medium. For example it is not uncommon today to see parents watching their childen playing, a situation unheard of years ago, the only reason for the emergence of this pattern is that such people have become scared of the peadofile, or kidnapper, becasue of news reports or whatever. However the chances of any misadventure are so small, that it is not worth depriveing childen of some freedom in their childhood and the resulting psycological damage. If you don't like that example imagine all the people who stopped reading all their mail with that Antrax scare a few months back. None of this is helped by the people who report the news.
This has greater context if you consider question's like, "would America pulled out of WWII if CNN had been on omenha beach"
I would love to chuck out all the tv's tomorrow if only to prevent this nation becoming a land of hysterics unable to walk down the street lest the sky fall on their head. Or worst, Apathic to any change in their life.
To me TV represents, what Sartre called bad faith, being a force of objectification with the final aim being the disinfrancement of the human sprite. Without the pretension: A mild form of conditioning, and this is the far greater harm then any concerns of health.
Im sorry i meant to design a build the first personal computer, still, that german guy it a bit of a legend, I always thought that alan turning was the man most responsible for the first digital computer "colussious", or that dude who started IBM, but at the end of the day who really cares who gets credit?
If thats the case, then why is M$ selling all those XBOX's to people who just what to play HALO, huh?
I thought it was (000) 000-0000, still sounds like bs to me, ie not the article but woz talking it up to some reporter
The problem is that being a monopoly like this isn't that great a position to be in since you can't use it to create a monopoly in another market and if you incress your fees, every arsehole with, livenudes.com compains and sues you. American law suites are not something to be taken likly.
It is also doubtful if you could pull another .biz or .coop .wearerunningoutofidea.
If this company goes broke what happens to dns, Seeing the maddness around things like altra vista or windowsXP, could we all end up having to deal with dns hell?, pirate dns?. It might end up being a real problem.
However, while wireless technology has a lot of potentual to be used to put back control of the internet back into the hands of common people, Just look at the freenets being set up in londan, New York and now in Sydney.
It should be noted that these things are not in the interest of company's who wish to screw just because you what to set up your own mail server, and ergo, They could use something like this to deny the use, or limit the power of said networks,
For those of you who say it could never happen (This guy is a loony), you sould note that the English government used the excuse of interfereing with emergency channels to close down a fair number of pirate radio stations and could not even produce one single event of this occuring (some of the radio tech who worked on these sites even worked for the major stations).
True, Woz didn't create the Mac, that was nicked from xerox parc. However,
Since I look at the computer in fount of me, and while it may have more ram etc, design wise it is still much the same as the computer that Woz first designed, Now I know that lighting doesn't tend to hit the same target on the second folly but you ever know,
He isn't the IPO whore that the trolls are making him out to be and, for what it's worth, deserves credit for the creation of the pc much more then his association with apple.
btw, it might be of interest to some of you guys that jobs tryed to sell the whole of apple to commondor (makers of the c64 and Amiga) imagine what things would be like today if that deal hadn't fallen though.