...that evolution itself should stop because it hurts your feelings? Or are you denying it because you refuse to believe basic concepts like natural selection? If you can't accept those simple and obvious scientific facts there's no use arguing.
And what the hell does 'stop the ignorance' mean anyway? Ignorance is stopped through education - you make a one sentence reply and expect that to 'stop the ignorance'? Maybe you should try a candlelight vigil next...
Life is spent fighting gravity - always has been. We also have entropy to contend with - we don't live forever. These are facts of life. If your heart bled for every ant you've crushed underfoot you'd have bled yourself dry years ago.
I never said not to help someone in need - I have and do - however, there are reasonable limits to this assistance. For instance, I resist giving help to:
- Those who can support themselves and don't. - Those who take from my one hand and smack the other (I'm talking about respect). - Those DON'T WANT IT (they DO exist).
You mention Cain as if I am out murdering all the 'Abels' of the world. That's a terrible analogy - I'm not killing anyone. That said, I will defend my own life, the lives of my family, and my freedom if it is threatened and I have something to say about it. I will not lower my standard of living to those who could care less about improving theirs or more importantly, their children's.
And yet somehow, that's what Communism stands for - Socialism isn't much better. It's anti-evolutionary - life in reverse, a living death. That 'Universal Will' Vonnegut talks about is very real. It's about becoming something more than you are - not just monetarily either. You see it in nature all the time. I know one thing. It's certainly not about sitting on your ass waiting for that gov't check or giving able-bodied people the right to do so.
No computer manufacturer can be on top forever and I think that Dell has 'jumped the shark'.
What Dell cannot offer their customers is piece of mind when it comes to viruses and spyware. It matters not that Dell is not responsible for it (Microsoft is) - but they, and the rest of the PC industry is blamed.
Apple will be able to come in and offer that protection - perhaps at less of a premium as in the old PPC days. If they get the kind of sweetheart advertising and processor pricing Dell does from Intel (and the way Dell has been treating Intel lately - do you doubt they will?), it WILL make a difference.
It is the will of Nature to improve upon itself... PERIOD. That's how evolution works - only the strongest, the best survive. When you boil everything down, our basic instincts are still alive and well.
What the idiots who committed the attrocities tell me is that they prefer to be PREDATORS rather then prey. Fine, but then they also suffer the consequences of that 'lifestyle'. Are you saying that we should all ram planes into buildings to justify a society we don't like? Shit, there wouldn't be anything left!
Those who don't fit in, don't continue on and they are quickly bred out of the population. If you don't mate, you don't breed. IF you are poor, then you poorly provide for your family, should you have one. That is NO different than a family of crocs dying in a dried out riverbed. Shit happens, death is a part of life and all that.
As Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo once sang in the song 'Capitalism':
There's nothing wrong with the capitalism If you ask me I will say it's just fine There's nothing wrong with wanting to live nice I'm so tired of hearing you whine...
There's nothing wrong with making some profit There's nothing wrong with the free enterprise Don't try to make me feel guilty I'm so tired of hearing you whine about
The Revolution and Bringing Down the Rich When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby?
Yes! Communism WORKS! Remember that one month in Paris? There's just a few bugs to get worked out.
The REAL issues are:
1) No one's done it right yet. 2) There's always one bad apple... 3) For some reason people still horde currency and gold. 4) The general populace are uneducated and therefore unable to decide this for themselves. 5) 'The MAN' won't let it just happen, man... 6) Beating people into submission doesn't seem to make them want to share more (funny thing, that). 7) Marx wasn't a big fan of privacy rights. 8) People like stuff. People like better stuff better. What the hell is WRONG with people?! 9) Dictators who organize the 'revolution' should have to relinquish their power at some point in the future. 10) The color 'red' doesn't go well with my black turtleneck...
Hey - that's sounds like Stalin! He had PLENTY of 'voluntary' communes. Humans need organization to be productive, organization needs organizers - and that's when it all falls down.
Well, that and the fact that we all have that 'universal will to become', to quote Vonnegut.
I agree here - I think Dell is the BIG loser here. If not because the PC business is about to get competitive, then because Intel will now have someone else to give their advertising dollars to.
I read this from Apple's move - more than anything else they want to be part of that 'Intel Inside' thing. And if Dell starts dropping hints about AMD again, all Intel will have to do is say, "Well.. If you have to, I guess you have to..." - and Dell will blink for a change. Dell does NOT want Apple in this space even more than Intel wants to be rid of AMD.
What will be equally interesting is how Windows will be affected. More and more apps will need to be cross-compatible - will that in turn help Linux? Maybe. After all, if you are developing for a Unix kernel, why not share the love? On the other hand, Apple wants everyone to use Xcode - and is making it all but impossible to use anything else.
But keep in mind that Apple has no intention of letting people run OS X on anything but Apple hardware - Intel or no. In fact, it would be better to think of Intel Apples as simply 'Apples' - since it amounts to the same thing. Different processor - just as proprietary.
Linux will still be the secure choice for X86 clones - and they will almost certainly be cheaper than anything Apple produces.
...would be to have Jobs introduce a new machine, show it kicking ass and taking names and give out the SpecInt/FPU numbers. Then have Jobs do his, 'and just one more thing..' thing.
BOOM! Up on the screen 'Intel Inside' and that damn jingle 'dong! du du du dong!' I think that if Jobs can immediately prove that things will just work - even with a major architecture change, the devs will go for it.
Everyone is basically parroting what everyone else said... Except for 'The Enquirer' - they at least seem to have some sort of other source that confirms this...
SAFETY (or at least the perception of it). Go ahead. Drive the D.C. beltway a while in a Prius in the company of Excursions and Hummers. Every day there is an accident involving the 'jaws of life' with some poor bastard trapped in his cage of twisted steel. You just know that if you are in an accident, you're toast. At least, that's how people think. Actually, it depends on the type of accident. But I digress.
A lot of soccer moms out there are buying SUVs for the big and brawny factor. They've seen those accidents and panic no different than when you see those Discovery Channel animal videos - you know, the ones that have wild-eyed wilderbeests crossing a river full of crocs. If you really want to cut down the sales of these things, than you need to prove to people that driving a Civic or Prius is a safe endevour.
Don't belittle people for their fears - help them through it. Or... Do they really have something to be afraid of.
Why do you think the RIAA and MPAA are so powerful, and government makes them more so with each passing bill? It is our last great 'resource'.
You think that's funny, right? Take a look at what these movies and games are pulling in and remember that this is all taxable profit. What other industries do the U.S. invest so heavily in and protect so much?
Yes, I think a day of reckoning is coming - unless the rest of the world will continue to put up with our B.S. as long as we get out the next sequel to Star Wars...
Producing a 100 MPG car is doable NOW - but it isn't practical because you'd have to make the following sacrifices:
- Safety for less weight - Distance for less energy storage capability - Convienience for 'warm-up' times - Speed for less horsepower
No matter how you split it up, there's only so much kinetic energy produced by hydrogen/gasoline/electricity. We are not yet close to being able to replace gasoline vehicles without making HUGE sacrifices. Better batteries, ways of storing hydrogen, and/or other power sources (nuclear) will change that.
"The problem is that Japan won't be able to meet their obligations from the Kyoto Agreement."
Right. A relatively small island nation is having troubles meeting it's commitments to Kyoto. Is it any wonder why the U.S. didn't sign on? The requirements are near impossible - especially for an energy PRODUCING nation.
Why bring Republicans into this? Tell me, did Bill Clinton do ANYTHING to stop global warming? Did he somehow mandate that we use less energy?
Stop with the bullshit politics - BOTH sides are guilty of not taking energy efficiency and alternative energy seriously... Although it *WAS* Bush who signed the alternative energy bill this year which is at least a start.
How many Slashdotters remember when BK used Pepsi products exclusively? From 1983 on, they made a HUGE deal about how Burger King used Pepsi (obviously some sort of cross-advertising thing). Then, suddenly and without warning, they switched to all Coke products sometime in 1990. Like.. OVERNIGHT!
How many noticed that move? How many should have? Do you realize what a HUGE change this was in terms of marketing, advertising, and brand image? And yet... They made the transition with little or no fanfare.
I never heard the reason for the change - I suspect it might have had to do with Pepsi consolidating with KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut though. Nonetheless, what runs inside the Mac is unimportant (from a marketing standpoint anyway) so long as it is competitive. Right now, PPC is not cost competitive with X86 and it is hurting Apple.
It may just be that Steve's had enough. There are also other considerations - like Apple's dabbling in consumer electronics. Sony is a huge competitor and yet they are co-developing the Cell with IBM. Maybe Steve couldn't get in on that action and needed a new partner. Time will tell...
Maybe during this break, Berman and crew can actually spend time watching other GOOD sci-fi shows like Firefly, Farscape, and Battlestar Galactica. That way there, they'll know what to shoot for.
I *still* think that the only reliable way to get solid (and consistant) sci-fi is to have a dedicated pay channel. Personally, I'd love to see an end to this network exec BS: "Ah! Farscape/Enterprise/Firefly costs WAY more than Fear Factor! No more of THAT!"
Reality T.V. sucks but the reality is that it's cheap eats for the networks. If Berman's going to make something work, he's going to have to find a way to do it cheaper (new characters I hear?), and faster. Not sure what that means, but then again, Star Trek II was done for half of what ST:I was and look how it turned out!
"Not exactly a "minor" platform there now, is it?"
In the article he states that porting to Windows can cause issues due to case sensitivity, security, etc. The author appears (to me at least) to be putting Windows in that catagory. Not that it's 'minor' but that it's a pain in the ass. My contention is that I believe that, most of the time, it is worth porting OSS projects because it leads to greater acceptance to other platforms like Linux and the Mac.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this article - at least as far as Windows porting is concerned. Programs like OOo are gaining acceptance in the Windows world and that foothold has led my own organization to 'embrace and extend' that success. For instance, for the first time we will be purchasing Apples - running NeoOffice of course - and we already have a few Linux terminals here for public use.
I like to think of OSS/GPL stuff as a 'gateway drug' - to use an analogy. Using it may not automatically make people go to Linux, but it certainly makes it an increasing possibility.
"I doubt they've kept the Amigas running to this day though."
Nah, not with Scala running on PC's - even I switched over to that. I think the main difference with eating your own dog food / not-invented-here is that the balance changes when you're talking about open source.
IBM's attempt to use what they promote is commendable, as is Novell's. The beauty of this particular approach is that code from within or without can serve to better their own product and that's what's exciting to me. Even if IBM/Sun/Novell's in-house product was allowed to become staid, there are always others out there dilligently modifying the original code, adding features, fixing bugs, etc.
As an example of this cross-pollination, look how IBM has started to embrace OpenOffice.org - that's an example of how companies are starting to 'get it'.
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...that evolution itself should stop because it hurts your feelings? Or are you denying it because you refuse to believe basic concepts like natural selection? If you can't accept those simple and obvious scientific facts there's no use arguing.
And what the hell does 'stop the ignorance' mean anyway? Ignorance is stopped through education - you make a one sentence reply and expect that to 'stop the ignorance'? Maybe you should try a candlelight vigil next...
Life is spent fighting gravity - always has been. We also have entropy to contend with - we don't live forever. These are facts of life. If your heart bled for every ant you've crushed underfoot you'd have bled yourself dry years ago.
I never said not to help someone in need - I have and do - however, there are reasonable limits to this assistance. For instance, I resist giving help to:
- Those who can support themselves and don't.
- Those who take from my one hand and smack the other (I'm talking about respect).
- Those DON'T WANT IT (they DO exist).
You mention Cain as if I am out murdering all the 'Abels' of the world. That's a terrible analogy - I'm not killing anyone. That said, I will defend my own life, the lives of my family, and my freedom if it is threatened and I have something to say about it. I will not lower my standard of living to those who could care less about improving theirs or more importantly, their children's.
And yet somehow, that's what Communism stands for - Socialism isn't much better. It's anti-evolutionary - life in reverse, a living death. That 'Universal Will' Vonnegut talks about is very real. It's about becoming something more than you are - not just monetarily either. You see it in nature all the time. I know one thing. It's certainly not about sitting on your ass waiting for that gov't check or giving able-bodied people the right to do so.
No computer manufacturer can be on top forever and I think that Dell has 'jumped the shark'.
What Dell cannot offer their customers is piece of mind when it comes to viruses and spyware. It matters not that Dell is not responsible for it (Microsoft is) - but they, and the rest of the PC industry is blamed.
Apple will be able to come in and offer that protection - perhaps at less of a premium as in the old PPC days. If they get the kind of sweetheart advertising and processor pricing Dell does from Intel (and the way Dell has been treating Intel lately - do you doubt they will?), it WILL make a difference.
The keynote was just about what I said it would be. Demo the box in real time... Fun!
It is the will of Nature to improve upon itself... PERIOD. That's how evolution works - only the strongest, the best survive. When you boil everything down, our basic instincts are still alive and well.
What the idiots who committed the attrocities tell me is that they prefer to be PREDATORS rather then prey. Fine, but then they also suffer the consequences of that 'lifestyle'. Are you saying that we should all ram planes into buildings to justify a society we don't like? Shit, there wouldn't be anything left!
Those who don't fit in, don't continue on and they are quickly bred out of the population. If you don't mate, you don't breed. IF you are poor, then you poorly provide for your family, should you have one. That is NO different than a family of crocs dying in a dried out riverbed. Shit happens, death is a part of life and all that.
As Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo once sang in the song 'Capitalism':
There's nothing wrong with the capitalism
If you ask me I will say it's just fine
There's nothing wrong with wanting to live nice
I'm so tired of hearing you whine...
There's nothing wrong with making some profit
There's nothing wrong with the free enterprise
Don't try to make me feel guilty
I'm so tired of hearing you whine about
The Revolution and Bringing Down the Rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby?
"You don't have to censor as much with communism because wealth is shared..."
Uh huh... Name me ONE communist nation that currently does this.
Every communist regime I've seen censors the shit out of EVERYTHING and closes their borders so no one can escape the HELL their country has become.
Yes! Communism WORKS! Remember that one month in Paris? There's just a few bugs to get worked out.
The REAL issues are:
1) No one's done it right yet.
2) There's always one bad apple...
3) For some reason people still horde currency and gold.
4) The general populace are uneducated and therefore unable to decide this for themselves.
5) 'The MAN' won't let it just happen, man...
6) Beating people into submission doesn't seem to make them want to share more (funny thing, that).
7) Marx wasn't a big fan of privacy rights.
8) People like stuff. People like better stuff better. What the hell is WRONG with people?!
9) Dictators who organize the 'revolution' should have to relinquish their power at some point in the future.
10) The color 'red' doesn't go well with my black turtleneck...
"yes it does, in small voluntary communes..."
Hey - that's sounds like Stalin! He had PLENTY of 'voluntary' communes. Humans need organization to be productive, organization needs organizers - and that's when it all falls down.
Well, that and the fact that we all have that 'universal will to become', to quote Vonnegut.
...that 'true' communism doesn't exist. ANYWHERE. Never will.
I agree here - I think Dell is the BIG loser here. If not because the PC business is about to get competitive, then because Intel will now have someone else to give their advertising dollars to.
I read this from Apple's move - more than anything else they want to be part of that 'Intel Inside' thing. And if Dell starts dropping hints about AMD again, all Intel will have to do is say, "Well.. If you have to, I guess you have to..." - and Dell will blink for a change. Dell does NOT want Apple in this space even more than Intel wants to be rid of AMD.
What will be equally interesting is how Windows will be affected. More and more apps will need to be cross-compatible - will that in turn help Linux? Maybe. After all, if you are developing for a Unix kernel, why not share the love? On the other hand, Apple wants everyone to use Xcode - and is making it all but impossible to use anything else.
But keep in mind that Apple has no intention of letting people run OS X on anything but Apple hardware - Intel or no. In fact, it would be better to think of Intel Apples as simply 'Apples' - since it amounts to the same thing. Different processor - just as proprietary.
Linux will still be the secure choice for X86 clones - and they will almost certainly be cheaper than anything Apple produces.
...would be to have Jobs introduce a new machine, show it kicking ass and taking names and give out the SpecInt/FPU numbers. Then have Jobs do his, 'and just one more thing..' thing.
BOOM! Up on the screen 'Intel Inside' and that damn jingle 'dong! du du du dong!' I think that if Jobs can immediately prove that things will just work - even with a major architecture change, the devs will go for it.
Everyone is basically parroting what everyone else said... Except for 'The Enquirer' - they at least seem to have some sort of other source that confirms this...
SAFETY (or at least the perception of it). Go ahead. Drive the D.C. beltway a while in a Prius in the company of Excursions and Hummers. Every day there is an accident involving the 'jaws of life' with some poor bastard trapped in his cage of twisted steel. You just know that if you are in an accident, you're toast. At least, that's how people think. Actually, it depends on the type of accident. But I digress.
A lot of soccer moms out there are buying SUVs for the big and brawny factor. They've seen those accidents and panic no different than when you see those Discovery Channel animal videos - you know, the ones that have wild-eyed wilderbeests crossing a river full of crocs. If you really want to cut down the sales of these things, than you need to prove to people that driving a Civic or Prius is a safe endevour.
Don't belittle people for their fears - help them through it. Or... Do they really have something to be afraid of.
Hollywood. Entertainment. Yup.
Why do you think the RIAA and MPAA are so powerful, and government makes them more so with each passing bill? It is our last great 'resource'.
You think that's funny, right? Take a look at what these movies and games are pulling in and remember that this is all taxable profit. What other industries do the U.S. invest so heavily in and protect so much?
Yes, I think a day of reckoning is coming - unless the rest of the world will continue to put up with our B.S. as long as we get out the next sequel to Star Wars...
Producing a 100 MPG car is doable NOW - but it isn't practical because you'd have to make the following sacrifices:
- Safety for less weight
- Distance for less energy storage capability
- Convienience for 'warm-up' times
- Speed for less horsepower
No matter how you split it up, there's only so much kinetic energy produced by hydrogen/gasoline/electricity. We are not yet close to being able to replace gasoline vehicles without making HUGE sacrifices. Better batteries, ways of storing hydrogen, and/or other power sources (nuclear) will change that.
"The problem is that Japan won't be able to meet their obligations from the Kyoto Agreement."
Right. A relatively small island nation is having troubles meeting it's commitments to Kyoto. Is it any wonder why the U.S. didn't sign on? The requirements are near impossible - especially for an energy PRODUCING nation.
Why bring Republicans into this? Tell me, did Bill Clinton do ANYTHING to stop global warming? Did he somehow mandate that we use less energy?
Stop with the bullshit politics - BOTH sides are guilty of not taking energy efficiency and alternative energy seriously... Although it *WAS* Bush who signed the alternative energy bill this year which is at least a start.
EXAMPLE: Burger King...
How many Slashdotters remember when BK used Pepsi products exclusively? From 1983 on, they made a HUGE deal about how Burger King used Pepsi (obviously some sort of cross-advertising thing). Then, suddenly and without warning, they switched to all Coke products sometime in 1990. Like.. OVERNIGHT!
How many noticed that move? How many should have? Do you realize what a HUGE change this was in terms of marketing, advertising, and brand image? And yet... They made the transition with little or no fanfare.
I never heard the reason for the change - I suspect it might have had to do with Pepsi consolidating with KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut though. Nonetheless, what runs inside the Mac is unimportant (from a marketing standpoint anyway) so long as it is competitive. Right now, PPC is not cost competitive with X86 and it is hurting Apple.
It may just be that Steve's had enough. There are also other considerations - like Apple's dabbling in consumer electronics. Sony is a huge competitor and yet they are co-developing the Cell with IBM. Maybe Steve couldn't get in on that action and needed a new partner. Time will tell...
Maybe during this break, Berman and crew can actually spend time watching other GOOD sci-fi shows like Firefly, Farscape, and Battlestar Galactica. That way there, they'll know what to shoot for.
I *still* think that the only reliable way to get solid (and consistant) sci-fi is to have a dedicated pay channel. Personally, I'd love to see an end to this network exec BS: "Ah! Farscape/Enterprise/Firefly costs WAY more than Fear Factor! No more of THAT!"
Reality T.V. sucks but the reality is that it's cheap eats for the networks. If Berman's going to make something work, he's going to have to find a way to do it cheaper (new characters I hear?), and faster. Not sure what that means, but then again, Star Trek II was done for half of what ST:I was and look how it turned out!
"Not exactly a "minor" platform there now, is it?"
In the article he states that porting to Windows can cause issues due to case sensitivity, security, etc. The author appears (to me at least) to be putting Windows in that catagory. Not that it's 'minor' but that it's a pain in the ass. My contention is that I believe that, most of the time, it is worth porting OSS projects because it leads to greater acceptance to other platforms like Linux and the Mac.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this article - at least as far as Windows porting is concerned. Programs like OOo are gaining acceptance in the Windows world and that foothold has led my own organization to 'embrace and extend' that success. For instance, for the first time we will be purchasing Apples - running NeoOffice of course - and we already have a few Linux terminals here for public use.
I like to think of OSS/GPL stuff as a 'gateway drug' - to use an analogy. Using it may not automatically make people go to Linux, but it certainly makes it an increasing possibility.
The only thing worse is an all-boys school - then you have hacking to go along with the spyware to deal with.
"I doubt they've kept the Amigas running to this day though."
Nah, not with Scala running on PC's - even I switched over to that. I think the main difference with eating your own dog food / not-invented-here is that the balance changes when you're talking about open source.
IBM's attempt to use what they promote is commendable, as is Novell's. The beauty of this particular approach is that code from within or without can serve to better their own product and that's what's exciting to me. Even if IBM/Sun/Novell's in-house product was allowed to become staid, there are always others out there dilligently modifying the original code, adding features, fixing bugs, etc.
As an example of this cross-pollination, look how IBM has started to embrace OpenOffice.org - that's an example of how companies are starting to 'get it'.
...would be if MS would actually start supporting the format they helped create (OASIS).
Everytime I think of the Canopy Group I think of "The Prisoner" and that logo...
No.2: ``Are you going to run?''
No.6: ``Like the blazes; first chance I get.''
No.2: ``I mean, run for office?''