But the problem still is: On windows, it has tons of background stuff active, you use the mouse, you have a colorful UI with FX, and full brightness, while your wlan scans the surroundings, and you *sill* get nearly as much battery life. Something is wrong there...
Yes and no. It depends on how independent the different parts of the brain are.
You can think about a project, planning in your head, while indoor cycling, etc. And you could see the neurons of the digestive system as a completely parallel part of your brain (it has an many neurons as the brain after all). I bet if you'd do it right, you could do something creative and something logical in parallel too.
But of course you can't do two calculations at once. And you eyes also can only focus on one point. Your hands can partially do two things at the same time. (Like in this game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask ) But you'll notice the problems.
But from what I know, the idea of Clippy came from MS Bob. And both came from Bill Gates' wife. He just couldn't say no to her. Such a big boss, and still spineless at home.;) But as soon as they split, Clippy was gone. Interesting.;)
The same thing that chickens do who sat in a tiny cage for their whole lives: You will just sit there, not knowing what to do. Until you're put back into the cage to work your asses off ("normal"), or killed to be feasted upon by large ugly beasts ("economy crisis").:P
I officially stop taking Wikipedia serious. "Anyone can edit" was a delusional tree-hugging dream, that had nothing to do with reality. It could by definition not work. And now we are getting the results of that. In the worst possible manner: Censorship.
But I have to explain that, to be taken serious::)
First I assume that we accept, that everything in this universe is relative. Our position, our whole state, even time itself. Ok, but then look at our senses: They are far from lossless/perfect. Everything that goes trough them is heavily modified. And different for every sense and person too. And then there is the brain: A system that by definition processes all information trough a network that is completely defined by past information. Which of course always is relative too. The result is what we call "bias", but what really is a check to see if it's compatible with our own view on the world.
So if everything is relative, then of course things can be very different for different people. And they can be both right... from their relative point of view. Sure you can walk the walk, go down to the most basic rules of physics, and then define from that, what is "absolute". But first this might still be relative (like time/position), and second because of the processing power and knowledge of state that you need, in practice, it is impossible most of the time.
So we help ourselves with paradigms/axioms. Which definitely will not be the same for all humanity. Or even a nation. And we can't forbid others, because we got no proof that either of them is better. (But don't dare comparing this to the "intelligent design" loonies' non-arguments! It can't be used to support that crap, and if you think so, you misunderstood me.)
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is made for the "one absolute truth" paradigm. Which means you get useless fights. Where the stronger person wins. (Usually the one in his underpants, having nothing else to do all day long. Or the admins, which often are such persons.;) But in reality, and to work, Wikipedia should look like this:
1. Offer co-existing versions of articles, sections, groups, etc. 2. Also offer forking and merging. Even partial "overlay-style" forking, where you just define the difference like a generic patch. (Maybe a bit like git? ^^) 3. Then allow people to configure their Wikipedia like you would configure the style of a site in CSS. By allowing to choose the default, then add overlay groups of articles to it, layering all, to one final view. 4. Now go full circle, by allowing other people to use the views/groups of point 3 in their own view configuration.
An example: Say a user comes there the first time. He then gets shown the "Wikipedia Admins default" view. But he clicks or "change/configure", and gets presented with a fitting UI. There he chooses to prefer the "Daily Show Fans" view as an overlay for all political things, the "Local underground blogger" view (which only changes articles for local things), and maybe some more. And finally, he got this trustworthy friend who also created an overlay (which itself uses other overlays), which he adds on top of it. He clicks "save", and now he got his personal Wikipedia.
If you still don't believe that things really are relative, then I give you the example of Germany, which de facto does not have a constitution, but a temporary basic law, which is a leftover from the time after the second world war. It is law, that if there will be a constitution, people personally have to vote for it. But now, politicians went,and without asking anyone, changed this basic law more and more so that it now, according to them, *is* the constitution. Which of course is a like and high treason, one of the worst crimes possible. But on Wikipedia, this propaganda is now burned in. You can't change it, and even *discussions* are 100% censored and simply removed. Now I understand, that those who support it, can't otherwise but to strongly
Reading the decision, it is clear that the appeals court was biased.
Uuum, that would be a physically inevitable fact, because it's made of humans, living in a reality in which everything (even time) is relative, with senses that filter everything a thousand times, and a brain that processes things based on past experiences.
What you meant, is that they did not have a bias that was compatible to yours. I happen to myself have a bias that is (in this things) compatible to yours, so I am able to agree on your actual criticism.
But I hope you can now make better statements about these things.:)
Well, according tho the RIAA/MPAA, the music *industry* is dead in 5-7 years. So in their delusional panic, they are in a hurry, to attack what won't save them, faster and faster.
But I think even TPB will survive that. And you should not meet trouble halfway, by acting as if it just were a matter of time. Because you got nothing to back that argument in your comment.:)
Let's wait, dink grog (like real pirates), and see... ^^
Oh, and I'm even a step further. I've thrown off the artificial versioning of a bundle of differently versioned (or forcibly lockstepped) software, by using Gentoo.;)
Yeah right. But god forbid those total retards would actually having to stop stuffing their ugly fat faces with truckloads of sugar and other trash. Noo, we can't have that! The sugar industry would lose jobs, when all those junkies would stop getting their fix.
But why stop there. Why not just run across the street in full traffic, and demand a replacement body, when it's ripped to parts then? Why not kill your liver with alcohol, and demand a replacement liver instead of dying like natural selection would have demanded it. Oh wait, we're already there.
Why not demand to stop thinking and do every wrong thing in the world, because yo have a right not to think. A right to get your ass wiped when you took a shit. A right to get you food and information pre-chewed. A right to become a total useless blob of fat, lying in bed 24/7, needing 7 men to turn you around, and a *fuckin' right* to get the 2 1/2 cases of big coke bottles delivered right to your bed, that you consume *PER DAY*!
Yes, I am bursting with anger. Yes you can stay in your mode of denial and mod me whatever you like. But you still know that I'm fuckin' right! This shit is so freakin' *wrong*, it boggles the mind! And you know it!
Or you can simply start eating like a human, instead of like a trashcan for cheap industrial waste, and stop listening to those pseudo-experts actually trying to convince you that the human tooth would also not be able to stand the very thing that it is made for (real food).
That's just plain wrong. Teeth are a living thing, that keep themselves alive and well. But if you eat that crap that we call "food" nowadays, they don't survive very long. With species-appropriate teeth, you wouldn't even have to really brush them (just eat something harder).
I mean, who in his right mind thinks that our teeth are unable to withstand the very thing they are made for and are optimized to do since the dawn of times? It's just that they weren't made for *this*.
But would you think your feet would wear down because you walk with them, and that you needed to replace them? (Well, actually with "athlete shoes", they may get into trouble from too much [wrong] usage...)
Well, that is physically feasible. I just have a feeling that you you didn't mean a pony in a ultralight plane, that got his ass stuffed with balls of gold... Although you could certainly get someone to sell you that.;)
I think that is the more important question here.;)
Apple's hype machine will end at some point. Google will start doing evil at some point. It's nature at work.
The only thing I fear, will be when... Linux will be a sick mutation of its former self at some point. And Microsoft will become a nice open-source company at some point....saving us.
Please. Boys nowadays already are femalized way too much. They get told from the earliest age, that women are above men, and that you have to apologize for being a man all the time. Fathers usually get less rights to raise their children. Etc, etc, etc. While women take male values, throwing away their own, and try to become engineers not because they like it but because they want to be "just as good", which they always were. The whole feminism thing has gone wild and a bad mutation of the original idea.
Nowadays the only thing to recommend, is to question everything and all you never questioned. The less it gets questioned, the more important it is. Make your own set of values and proudly stand behind them. Don't take what men or women want to imprint into you. Think for yourself. Positive side-effect: More success in all human relationships.
I on the other hand couldn't care less what others think. Especially since I noticed that many great movies were ripped apart by so-called critics, because they literally were too dumb to understand it. (Like Revolver. One of the greatest movies of all times. But also one of the hardest to understand. Especially if you have to watch it in a foreign language.)
Now there are some movies where this happened to me too, so I am no exception. I learned that you have to choose the movies according to your intelligence. and I mean all types of intelligence, like emotional and so. You can't get good recommendations from people that are much more or less intelligent than you in many areas.
Unfortunately, I seem to be a not-so-common combination, and therefore have a very hard time finding good reviewers. But because the Internet provides me with everything for free, I have no risk, and therefore watch all movies that sound interesting to me from the raw material like trailers and story details.
I will wait for a real trailer with actual information in it instead of some pictures of nature that could be the continuation of the end of Galactica or The Knowing. And then I will choose whether to watch is in cinema, on my beamer with friends, alone on my pc, or not at all.
What is it, that makes it somehow OK to you, when the distress is *emotional* rather than physical. As we know, and is proven by studies, it's really the same thing to the brain: Real actual physical pain.
Compare it to a punch in the face. Would you not object if a child got smacked in the face?
See. But because it's "invisible", it's somehow "not real" and the person who complains about it is a "whiner". That's just as bad as a system of values, as the idea that animals have no feelings or real thoughts, or that we are somehow special and not really animals like everybody else. It's an outdated arrogant idea from the dark ages, and physically just plain wrong.
The only problem is, that it is very hard to actually prove that the killing spree that child ends up doing a decade later, or that that person can't get any love relationship working, is because of that old "emotional distress", and what the actual damage was. But that does not make it any less real.
Does it look like the computer of Neo in Matrix 1?
You may kid, but actually, this very *freedom*, to attach everything to everything, and transform the streams of data, while everything is a file in the file system, is *the* killer feature of Linux.
Unfortunately, Linux people somehow act ashamed for it, because the dumb masses, who know jack about actually using you computer and doing it efficiently too, think it would be some cumbersome thing of the past. And the Linux people apparently put the reality of those people above their own much better informed one. (Which is actually pretty pathetic. But understandable, because, well, we aren't the guy that lords the club. Or rules the company party. We aren't the self-confident ones. But hey, there's no reason we can't be. Especially in our expert field.)
Also even more unfortunately, this resulted is the whole GUI desktops imitating Windows and the Mac down to every shitty (or good, the point it that it does not matter) detail, instead of following their own much more powerful and proven philosophies.
I hope that at some time in the future, I will be able to create a team, and hack all those tools into parts and create a new desktop environment, that actually follows that philosophy. (Anybody interested in sponsoring it? Google? You?:)
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But the problem still is: On windows, it has tons of background stuff active, you use the mouse, you have a colorful UI with FX, and full brightness, while your wlan scans the surroundings, and you *sill* get nearly as much battery life. Something is wrong there...
Yes and no. It depends on how independent the different parts of the brain are.
You can think about a project, planning in your head, while indoor cycling, etc.
And you could see the neurons of the digestive system as a completely parallel part of your brain (it has an many neurons as the brain after all).
I bet if you'd do it right, you could do something creative and something logical in parallel too.
But of course you can't do two calculations at once. And you eyes also can only focus on one point.
Your hands can partially do two things at the same time. (Like in this game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/IcyLime/multitask ) But you'll notice the problems.
But from what I know, the idea of Clippy came from MS Bob. And both came from Bill Gates' wife. He just couldn't say no to her. Such a big boss, and still spineless at home. ;) ;)
But as soon as they split, Clippy was gone. Interesting.
The same thing that chickens do who sat in a tiny cage for their whole lives: :P
You will just sit there, not knowing what to do. Until you're put back into the cage to work your asses off ("normal"), or killed to be feasted upon by large ugly beasts ("economy crisis").
I officially stop taking Wikipedia serious.
"Anyone can edit" was a delusional tree-hugging dream, that had nothing to do with reality.
It could by definition not work. And now we are getting the results of that. In the worst possible manner: Censorship.
But I have to explain that, to be taken serious: :)
First I assume that we accept, that everything in this universe is relative. Our position, our whole state, even time itself.
Ok, but then look at our senses: They are far from lossless/perfect. Everything that goes trough them is heavily modified. And different for every sense and person too.
And then there is the brain: A system that by definition processes all information trough a network that is completely defined by past information. Which of course always is relative too.
The result is what we call "bias", but what really is a check to see if it's compatible with our own view on the world.
So if everything is relative, then of course things can be very different for different people. And they can be both right... from their relative point of view.
Sure you can walk the walk, go down to the most basic rules of physics, and then define from that, what is "absolute". But first this might still be relative (like time/position), and second because of the processing power and knowledge of state that you need, in practice, it is impossible most of the time.
So we help ourselves with paradigms/axioms. Which definitely will not be the same for all humanity. Or even a nation. And we can't forbid others, because we got no proof that either of them is better. (But don't dare comparing this to the "intelligent design" loonies' non-arguments! It can't be used to support that crap, and if you think so, you misunderstood me.)
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is made for the "one absolute truth" paradigm. Which means you get useless fights. Where the stronger person wins. (Usually the one in his underpants, having nothing else to do all day long. Or the admins, which often are such persons. ;)
But in reality, and to work, Wikipedia should look like this:
1. Offer co-existing versions of articles, sections, groups, etc.
2. Also offer forking and merging. Even partial "overlay-style" forking, where you just define the difference like a generic patch. (Maybe a bit like git? ^^)
3. Then allow people to configure their Wikipedia like you would configure the style of a site in CSS. By allowing to choose the default, then add overlay groups of articles to it, layering all, to one final view.
4. Now go full circle, by allowing other people to use the views/groups of point 3 in their own view configuration.
An example:
Say a user comes there the first time. He then gets shown the "Wikipedia Admins default" view. But he clicks or "change/configure", and gets presented with a fitting UI.
There he chooses to prefer the "Daily Show Fans" view as an overlay for all political things, the "Local underground blogger" view (which only changes articles for local things), and maybe some more.
And finally, he got this trustworthy friend who also created an overlay (which itself uses other overlays), which he adds on top of it.
He clicks "save", and now he got his personal Wikipedia.
If you still don't believe that things really are relative, then I give you the example of Germany, which de facto does not have a constitution, but a temporary basic law, which is a leftover from the time after the second world war. It is law, that if there will be a constitution, people personally have to vote for it. But now, politicians went,and without asking anyone, changed this basic law more and more so that it now, according to them, *is* the constitution. Which of course is a like and high treason, one of the worst crimes possible.
But on Wikipedia, this propaganda is now burned in. You can't change it, and even *discussions* are 100% censored and simply removed.
Now I understand, that those who support it, can't otherwise but to strongly
Wohooo!
We found somebody!
(Yells trough the giant room.)
The government finally found somebody we're looking for!
Reading the decision, it is clear that the appeals court was biased.
Uuum, that would be a physically inevitable fact, because it's made of humans, living in a reality in which everything (even time) is relative, with senses that filter everything a thousand times, and a brain that processes things based on past experiences.
What you meant, is that they did not have a bias that was compatible to yours.
I happen to myself have a bias that is (in this things) compatible to yours, so I am able to agree on your actual criticism.
But I hope you can now make better statements about these things. :)
Nah. His universe hat the wrong time topology. Too much fresh fruit!
*ahhh* *jumps aside*
Did someone say pineapple?
"dRink" I meant! ARRRR! Too much grog apparently. ;)
Well, according tho the RIAA/MPAA, the music *industry* is dead in 5-7 years. So in their delusional panic, they are in a hurry, to attack what won't save them, faster and faster.
But I think even TPB will survive that. And you should not meet trouble halfway, by acting as if it just were a matter of time. Because you got nothing to back that argument in your comment. :)
Let's wait, dink grog (like real pirates), and see... ^^
Which somehow is very wrong. I mean who does the more complex job? Certainly not the manager.
But hey, I'm still happy for you. :)
No. It's more like:
MacOS 9.x --> Win9x/ME
MacOS 10.x --> WinNT line since Win2000
So you *could* say that XP is just a service pack to 2000. Or it's a new thing.
Same as with OS X.
It's all just artificial numbering of a bundle of software anyway. :)
Or he simply uses a real (open and free) OS. :)
Oh, and I'm even a step further. I've thrown off the artificial versioning of a bundle of differently versioned (or forcibly lockstepped) software, by using Gentoo. ;)
I'm just sayin'
To that wouldn't be 10.5.1.3, but 10.1.3. Since the X = 2000 = 5 = 10 = X is your analogy.
What's to stop you from carving them out of the bone of those rat-men? Are they boneless? ;)
Or are they actually your children by then?
Yeah right. But god forbid those total retards would actually having to stop stuffing their ugly fat faces with truckloads of sugar and other trash. Noo, we can't have that! The sugar industry would lose jobs, when all those junkies would stop getting their fix.
But why stop there. Why not just run across the street in full traffic, and demand a replacement body, when it's ripped to parts then? Why not kill your liver with alcohol, and demand a replacement liver instead of dying like natural selection would have demanded it. Oh wait, we're already there.
Why not demand to stop thinking and do every wrong thing in the world, because yo have a right not to think. A right to get your ass wiped when you took a shit. A right to get you food and information pre-chewed. A right to become a total useless blob of fat, lying in bed 24/7, needing 7 men to turn you around, and a *fuckin' right* to get the 2 1/2 cases of big coke bottles delivered right to your bed, that you consume *PER DAY*!
Yes, I am bursting with anger. Yes you can stay in your mode of denial and mod me whatever you like. But you still know that I'm fuckin' right! This shit is so freakin' *wrong*, it boggles the mind! And you know it!
Or you can simply start eating like a human, instead of like a trashcan for cheap industrial waste, and stop listening to those pseudo-experts actually trying to convince you that the human tooth would also not be able to stand the very thing that it is made for (real food).
That's just plain wrong. Teeth are a living thing, that keep themselves alive and well. But if you eat that crap that we call "food" nowadays, they don't survive very long.
With species-appropriate teeth, you wouldn't even have to really brush them (just eat something harder).
I mean, who in his right mind thinks that our teeth are unable to withstand the very thing they are made for and are optimized to do since the dawn of times?
It's just that they weren't made for *this*.
But would you think your feet would wear down because you walk with them, and that you needed to replace them?
(Well, actually with "athlete shoes", they may get into trouble from too much [wrong] usage...)
Well, that is physically feasible. I just have a feeling that you you didn't mean a pony in a ultralight plane, that got his ass stuffed with balls of gold... ;)
Although you could certainly get someone to sell you that.
Or so you think! ^^
After all there's a reason you're not actually working in enginerring, when you're such a great engineer...
I think that is the more important question here. ;)
Apple's hype machine will end at some point.
Google will start doing evil at some point.
It's nature at work.
The only thing I fear, will be when... ...saving us.
Linux will be a sick mutation of its former self at some point.
And Microsoft will become a nice open-source company at some point.
I think then my head might literally explode. ;)
Please. Boys nowadays already are femalized way too much. They get told from the earliest age, that women are above men, and that you have to apologize for being a man all the time. Fathers usually get less rights to raise their children. Etc, etc, etc.
While women take male values, throwing away their own, and try to become engineers not because they like it but because they want to be "just as good", which they always were.
The whole feminism thing has gone wild and a bad mutation of the original idea.
Nowadays the only thing to recommend, is to question everything and all you never questioned. The less it gets questioned, the more important it is. Make your own set of values and proudly stand behind them. Don't take what men or women want to imprint into you. Think for yourself. Positive side-effect: More success in all human relationships.
I on the other hand couldn't care less what others think. Especially since I noticed that many great movies were ripped apart by so-called critics, because they literally were too dumb to understand it. (Like Revolver. One of the greatest movies of all times. But also one of the hardest to understand. Especially if you have to watch it in a foreign language.)
Now there are some movies where this happened to me too, so I am no exception. I learned that you have to choose the movies according to your intelligence. and I mean all types of intelligence, like emotional and so. You can't get good recommendations from people that are much more or less intelligent than you in many areas.
Unfortunately, I seem to be a not-so-common combination, and therefore have a very hard time finding good reviewers.
But because the Internet provides me with everything for free, I have no risk, and therefore watch all movies that sound interesting to me from the raw material like trailers and story details.
I will wait for a real trailer with actual information in it instead of some pictures of nature that could be the continuation of the end of Galactica or The Knowing.
And then I will choose whether to watch is in cinema, on my beamer with friends, alone on my pc, or not at all.
What is it, that makes it somehow OK to you, when the distress is *emotional* rather than physical. As we know, and is proven by studies, it's really the same thing to the brain: Real actual physical pain.
Compare it to a punch in the face. Would you not object if a child got smacked in the face?
See. But because it's "invisible", it's somehow "not real" and the person who complains about it is a "whiner".
That's just as bad as a system of values, as the idea that animals have no feelings or real thoughts, or that we are somehow special and not really animals like everybody else. It's an outdated arrogant idea from the dark ages, and physically just plain wrong.
The only problem is, that it is very hard to actually prove that the killing spree that child ends up doing a decade later, or that that person can't get any love relationship working, is because of that old "emotional distress", and what the actual damage was. But that does not make it any less real.
Who here has the skill and will, to write a virus that infects a large botnet, to turn the bots into Quake live for Linux players?
I bet *you* do. :)
Does it look like the computer of Neo in Matrix 1?
You may kid, but actually, this very *freedom*, to attach everything to everything, and transform the streams of data, while everything is a file in the file system, is *the* killer feature of Linux.
Unfortunately, Linux people somehow act ashamed for it, because the dumb masses, who know jack about actually using you computer and doing it efficiently too, think it would be some cumbersome thing of the past. And the Linux people apparently put the reality of those people above their own much better informed one. (Which is actually pretty pathetic. But understandable, because, well, we aren't the guy that lords the club. Or rules the company party. We aren't the self-confident ones. But hey, there's no reason we can't be. Especially in our expert field.)
Also even more unfortunately, this resulted is the whole GUI desktops imitating Windows and the Mac down to every shitty (or good, the point it that it does not matter) detail, instead of following their own much more powerful and proven philosophies.
I hope that at some time in the future, I will be able to create a team, and hack all those tools into parts and create a new desktop environment, that actually follows that philosophy. :)
(Anybody interested in sponsoring it? Google? You?