My first real Unix jobs, and writing perl late into the night, killing time on Slashdot, and Kuro5hin. It's a shame it faltered, I'd check in every so often to see if it had resurrected itself. Much like perl, it never did.
OK Private competition is good in most areas, but NASA is a GOVERNMENT agency. What is next are we going to ask for privately held and funded competition in the military. I know I personally would not want a joint Sun Microsystems, AOL-Time Warner, Lockheed Martin airforce around. There is a point at which we as the citizenry must allow our government (or any government) to do it's job. While space exploration is an important scientific venture it should be regulated closely to prevent abuse. I am all for public-private cooperation on missions and goals. But, to have a full on competing seperate agency could lead to very dire ends. Imagine the ficticious SATLM-SA (Sun, AOL, Time-Warner, Lockheed-Martin Space Agency) putting up it's own LEO satellites with the expressed purpose of interfering with government held communications satellites, to become sole controllers of media and information distribution. With only a mission statement instead of a constitution there would be little to no philosophical or legally enforcable road block to this end if the power of the uber-company rivalled that of the government. This is only one orwellian end but with the track record of corporate abuse of power in the past (Kodak, U.S. Steel, Microsoft) I feel it is better to have a more directly regulatable entity in charge of something of such importance. At lease there are checks and balance to an extent in our government.
The problem is not that capitalism is bad and corporations are evil. It is that there is a socio-economic inertia inherent in corporate growth. This has an inversely proportional relationship with consumer previously. What starts as a good thing because it is convenient becomes evil as too many people are affected by it. Wal-Mart moving into a suburban planned community is fine, it's convenient and threatens nothing as there was nothing there before. Now as Wal-Mart, builds more stores throughout similar areas they become popular and are welcomed into areas that had their retail needs met by individual stores previously. This begins to displace individual entrepreneur. This happens because people become trained to go to Wal-Mart, by there very pervasiveness. If a citizen moves from one place to another there is now always a Wal-Mart in proximity to them, why are they going to find the store that is better when there is always a giant, well lit, store where they can have the needs sated. What the consumer doesn't realize, until it is too late, is that they by their own gradual surrender have given up the choice of product and quality they had 0 at the local retailer. If something isn't right or you are unhappy you could speak directly with the proprietor. Sam Walton is dead, his namesake store is now run by a board influenced by share holders, share holders want money too, they paid for a piece of the pie and want a return. No one involved in that scheme is going to do anything to stop profit if it is solely for the benefit of a society/community.
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My first real Unix jobs, and writing perl late into the night, killing time on Slashdot, and Kuro5hin. It's a shame it faltered, I'd check in every so often to see if it had resurrected itself. Much like perl, it never did.
The E450 was a great machine, unless you had to debug memory issues. Or needed to relicense Vertias after switching out a bad PROM.
Man that was a long time ago.
Thank God, I swear I read the headline and thought didn't the Sunfire's just come out... oh yeah it has been ten years.
We did it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Cursor
24th Worst spyware evar was doing this more than ten years ago.
That seems a VERY unlikely explanation as they WERE available. That and the story is QUITE OLD.
It was an incredible way to just have amass bit of fun. The best part of it was there was no reason that it needed to be hard, it was social fluff.
I have the Archos JukeBox Recorder 20, I had the Studio 20 and the recorder version is leaps and bounds better. I give it a hearty A+
Amen equality elimination of class distinction and removal of closed mindedness. It didn't work on earth maybe it will in "the stars"
OK Private competition is good in most areas, but NASA is a GOVERNMENT agency. What is next are we going to ask for privately held and funded competition in the military. I know I personally would not want a joint Sun Microsystems, AOL-Time Warner, Lockheed Martin airforce around. There is a point at which we as the citizenry must allow our government (or any government) to do it's job. While space exploration is an important scientific venture it should be regulated closely to prevent abuse. I am all for public-private cooperation on missions and goals. But, to have a full on competing seperate agency could lead to very dire ends. Imagine the ficticious SATLM-SA (Sun, AOL, Time-Warner, Lockheed-Martin Space Agency) putting up it's own LEO satellites with the expressed purpose of interfering with government held communications satellites, to become sole controllers of media and information distribution. With only a mission statement instead of a constitution there would be little to no philosophical or legally enforcable road block to this end if the power of the uber-company rivalled that of the government. This is only one orwellian end but with the track record of corporate abuse of power in the past (Kodak, U.S. Steel, Microsoft) I feel it is better to have a more directly regulatable entity in charge of something of such importance. At lease there are checks and balance to an extent in our government.
The problem is not that capitalism is bad and corporations are evil. It is that there is a socio-economic inertia inherent in corporate growth. This has an inversely proportional relationship with consumer previously. What starts as a good thing because it is convenient becomes evil as too many people are affected by it. Wal-Mart moving into a suburban planned community is fine, it's convenient and threatens nothing as there was nothing there before. Now as Wal-Mart, builds more stores throughout similar areas they become popular and are welcomed into areas that had their retail needs met by individual stores previously. This begins to displace individual entrepreneur. This happens because people become trained to go to Wal-Mart, by there very pervasiveness. If a citizen moves from one place to another there is now always a Wal-Mart in proximity to them, why are they going to find the store that is better when there is always a giant, well lit, store where they can have the needs sated. What the consumer doesn't realize, until it is too late, is that they by their own gradual surrender have given up the choice of product and quality they had 0 at the local retailer. If something isn't right or you are unhappy you could speak directly with the proprietor. Sam Walton is dead, his namesake store is now run by a board influenced by share holders, share holders want money too, they paid for a piece of the pie and want a return. No one involved in that scheme is going to do anything to stop profit if it is solely for the benefit of a society/community.