Re:Slashdot is using censorship
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Censorship is by definition a government ban on various forms of speech or expression (for whatever reason, good or bad). It is impossible for any private interest, including Slashdot, to 'censor' speech or expression. Such private interests have every right to refuse to publish/post/communicate anything they choose, for whatever reason. Your protest is meaningless.
It would be impossible to know how many times life has come into existence in Earth's past, even in the geologically recent past, if you grant the assumption that newly-formed living things would be less robust than pre-existing life, and would therefore have been out-competed to extinction. Microscopic life doesn't leave much in the fossil record, and you have to be looking really hard to find anything at all.
I'd like to know the relative intelligence of people who build their own machines compared to those who buy anything off the shelf. And what about people who build Beowulf clusters in their basements so that they can do weather modeling for fun. Are they smarter than Mac users?
While I think the whole business about the 'Star Office-for-silver-members' was a complete FUBAR on MandrakeSoft's part, it looks like raising revenue by offering membership in the Mandrake Club could actually work for them. Many OSS companies have gone down the tubes by basing their business model on selling services and tech support. If Mandrake doesn't make it, another user-friendly GNU/Linux distro will take up the slack.
I recently bought a 17" LCD monitor, and have found that for most uses it's far superior to a CRT (the exceptions are gaming and video). LCDs have improved greatly in the last few years (and are much less expensive). I would recommend an LCD for anyone who sits in front of a monitor for long periods, and even moreso for anyone with vision problems. I myself suffer from eyestrain and headaches very easily, and have had a much better time with the LCD. One caveat: though the prices have come down, LCDs are still quite a bit more expensive than CRTs.
The only way to get around the time delay (short of sending a human crew) would be to program the robots to have a great degree of autonomy. So, all you OSS coders out there... let's make sure this thing doesn't end up running on Windows 2020. Maybe you could call it GNUENE (GNU's Not Unix's Europaprobe's Not a Europaprobe) or something catchy like that.
All medical and safety issues aside, this is a very cool development. On the other hand, I'm still getting used to how nifty my 17" flatscreen monitor is... Only one real concern: how long between the time that this or a similar device becomes available to the general public and the time that it's practically required that you own and use one. Think the telephone, the answering machine, the PC, the laptop, the handheld, (not to mention cellphones...).
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Censorship is by definition a government ban on various forms of speech or expression (for whatever reason, good or bad). It is impossible for any private interest, including Slashdot, to 'censor' speech or expression. Such private interests have every right to refuse to publish/post/communicate anything they choose, for whatever reason. Your protest is meaningless.
It would be impossible to know how many times life has come into existence in Earth's past, even in the geologically recent past, if you grant the assumption that newly-formed living things would be less robust than pre-existing life, and would therefore have been out-competed to extinction. Microscopic life doesn't leave much in the fossil record, and you have to be looking really hard to find anything at all.
I'd like to know the relative intelligence of people who build their own machines compared to those who buy anything off the shelf. And what about people who build Beowulf clusters in their basements so that they can do weather modeling for fun. Are they smarter than Mac users?
I have _five_ buttons on my mouse, but all five only work under Windows 98. Does that make me an idiot savant?
While I think the whole business about the 'Star Office-for-silver-members' was a complete FUBAR on MandrakeSoft's part, it looks like raising revenue by offering membership in the Mandrake Club could actually work for them. Many OSS companies have gone down the tubes by basing their business model on selling services and tech support. If Mandrake doesn't make it, another user-friendly GNU/Linux distro will take up the slack.
I recently bought a 17" LCD monitor, and have found that for most uses it's far superior to a CRT (the exceptions are gaming and video). LCDs have improved greatly in the last few years (and are much less expensive). I would recommend an LCD for anyone who sits in front of a monitor for long periods, and even moreso for anyone with vision problems. I myself suffer from eyestrain and headaches very easily, and have had a much better time with the LCD. One caveat: though the prices have come down, LCDs are still quite a bit more expensive than CRTs.
The only way to get around the time delay (short of sending a human crew) would be to program the robots to have a great degree of autonomy. So, all you OSS coders out there ... let's make sure this thing doesn't end up running on Windows 2020. Maybe you could call it GNUENE (GNU's Not Unix's Europaprobe's Not a Europaprobe) or something catchy like that.
All medical and safety issues aside, this is a very cool development. On the other hand, I'm still getting used to how nifty my 17" flatscreen monitor is ... Only one real concern: how long between the time that this or a similar device becomes available to the general public and the time that it's practically required that you own and use one. Think the telephone, the answering machine, the PC, the laptop, the handheld, (not to mention cellphones ...).