Why yes, it does sound that way, doesn't it? But is he wrong to express dismay at people jumping on board a company to pick up some quick cash, and encouraging other people to stay longer so it takes less time to make it? That isn't so much capitalism as it is near-parasitic. Capitalism is about doing work or making products and selling them at a profit. In other words, getting rewarded for effort. That's why capitalism works and is a good idea, because people are motivated. For people who aren't executives to be motivated by a corporate culture that revolves around stock valuation more than fostering a pleasant work envornment is counter-intuitive. But perhaps I am once again confusing communism with socialism.
Whatever. I'm still pissed. Not because it isn't here today, but because it isn't likely to be here tomorrow or for another fifty years. Many of the innovations of the past were the scifi of the people before it. Todays technology does not alter the world on as fundamental a basis as the technology that preceded it. I will consider myself lucky to see anything resembling the futures described in 2001, Back to the Future II, Total Recall, or Star Trek. We have not seen a revolutionary invention since the integrated circuit. Someone please correct me.
Every cool thing we celebrate as cool today was inented in the sixties. The Concorde, the XR71 Blackbird, the microprocessor, the modern GUI, Unix, point and click, and the internet. What we have today is better versions of old ideas. Better TV's and cars, DVD players with a good picture and special copy protection. The world isn't any safer for the average person, cold war over or not. I may be cynical, but I think we are a long, long way from seeing the wondrous future that so many visionaries have portrayed.
That's nothing. Why just the other day I sped the entire universe up (except myself) to very near the speed of light. I'm technically 85 trillion years old. (Of course, I don't feel a day over 21.58
In computers we are ahead. In cellphones we are at least three years behind Europe and Japan. Sucks to be us.
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It amazes me that the same technology adoring users of Slashdot are still frightened by the thought of modified food. Genetics is seen as a scary business of freak producing madmen. In truth, that is the perception of the masses. The enlightened Slashdot visitor should know that, like all technology to come before, it will come to be accepted. There is no reason to say thatwhile all the other tech is good, this is not. For some reason, the Amish decided to stop advancing, and there they stay. Well let's just pick here to stop. We don't need better food. We're afraid of that new-fangled gene splicing and such. For better or worse, technology will continue to evolve, and that includes every farming enhancement, from the plow, to the combine, to DDT to GM. Get used to it. Embrace it completely or don't embrace any of it.
The people developing this stuff know what they're doing and wouldn't produce it if they thought it was going to turn around and kill us all. The wonder of lawsuits will keep them from releasing potentially dangerous foods. Anything that reduces the chemicals required to grow a crop of food is clearly an improvement.
Mr. Connery. Let's see your answer. Oh, I guess that's your wager, a buck. And your answer? Futter. I...I'm afraid I don't get it.
Oh. I think that you do, Trebek.
What about remixes of songs? These can be identical in places to the original, while still being a work by an independent artist. Are unauthorized remixes legal? What would this software do if it found one?
Perhaps if they had a top level domain, like all the other recognized countries, they might be more sovereign. As it is, they are just a joke. The UK hasn't recognized them, they just don't see any reason to make a fuss about it.
I'm not sure about that. I saw the seven books averaging eight hundred pages for the Windows 2000 MCSE (not even "+Internet") and it would take slightly more than an ass-brain to soak that up. Since you can take the tests one at a time it isn't hard, but it is certainly beyond the grok-capacity of most of the dopes you meet.
I believe these are all improtant questions that affect our nation every day. If elected I will work hard to make sure that these issues are dealt with in a way that everyone can be proud of. I'm proud of this country and what it stands for, and though these issues are important, we must not forget the men and women that made our country what it is today.
Interpretation: Whichever side of the issue the corporation that is bankrolling me is on is how I will proceed.
I guess its time to own up. I admit it. I took the water. But I was just borrowing it! I had every intention of bringing back every last drop, but the improbability drive turned it into jello and then the space babes started wrestling... I really didn't feel right brining back a hundred and forty trillion tons of water-gone-jello after it had been wrestled in, you know? What can I say? My bad.
I think that the best games I've ever played are recent ones. Sure, I had fun with The Immortal on my Tandy, but the fighting was annoying and redundant. ROTT and Duke Nukem were fun over the modem, but the best games I've ever played have been StarCraft, Thief, and Thief II. But they aren't better because of the graphics. StarCrafts are preety weak, and while Thief had great looking detail and 3D, that wasn't why I liked it. It's al about gameplay. There is nothing inherently better about games from today or from fifteen years back.
Humans are nothing if not innovative. Even at MS, they are reorganizing, programming, integrating, and innovating themselves right out of that pesky paper bag. Granted they're not there yet, but I'm sure with a few new versions they'll be free.
I doubt that we will see the slow down of processors anytime soon. When lithography's run finally comes to a standstill, quantum computing will have matured enough to grab the baton and keep up the race. To what ened, I don't know. Right now I'd just love to see a decent memory tech come out. DDR may beat RAMBUS, but that's not saying much.
JONKATZ (Java Object for News, Konspiracy, and Anticorporate Text Zenning) has once again spit out a useless bit of data, but it does provide a forum for us to discuss things we already know. People kept saying that the old ways were gone and the new internet age was rewriting the manual. Then the stocks crashed and a bunch of startups went under. While I enjoy being in demand and the ability to get another job in the time it takes to sneeze, I haven't yet deluded myself into thinking that this job market will last indefinitely. Even with the ever more frenetic pace of technology, this trend is not the last trend, and it never hurts to keep your bridges clean and maintained. When the Colorado and California Gold Rushes came through, a lot of people got rich, and a lot of towns sprung up and burnt out just as quickly. Just something to remember BEFORE you sign the thirty year mortgage.
Well once again JONKATZ (Java Object for News, Konspiracy, and Anticorporate Text Zenning) has produced a fabulously obvious article. I love the "and regulated" bit. That is so true! Think about it: what problem has ever not been solvable with laws and legislation? I mean, every time a problem crops up in our society, those trusty politicians make a law that immediately fixes the problem. Since everyone automatically obeys all laws, then a carefully worded document on file at the capitol and enforced by slow-witted beaurocracy can't help but improve our lives! I'm amazed that we have any problems at all in the world, what with all the laws. I suppose it just takes a while for enough laws to be made for the world to be perfect. Those greedy corporations won't know what hit 'em as soon as some heavy handed regulation comes their way!
If 100MB/s is available to the average home user at a price they can afford, then obviously the bandwidth required to sustain a bunch of these folks at a dotcom will be available for a relative cost. The pipe size of the internet itself, not the pipes going to individual web servers is what concerns me. If it takes 50 Gigabit connections to host a web server, then companies will get 50 Gigabit connections. But the cost of upgrading the infrastructure will astronomical.
On a side note, my gawd what I wouldn't give for a 100MBit connection to the Net.
Although I'm pretty sure this camera doesn't work in Linux (yet!), it is a great deal for the cash. It costs about US $150 and takes 92 640x480 pics. Simple as can be. But wait, theres more! Plug the usb cable in the back and not only can you transfer the pics back to your Win98 box, it can be used as a Video Camera while plugged in! If you just want to take quick shots for e-mail or the web and do video conferencing and such, the Creative Webcam Go is the camera to have.
Advantage: Paid for what you work Still get sick and vacation days Get paid 1.5X OT Still get medical, dental, etc Disadvantage Paid for what you work Have to fill in those timesheets I definitely think I'm getting the tasty deal. I don't have a huge variance in hours worked per week, so the check is usually about the same anyway. The security I enjoy is linked more to my performance and the market than it is to the payment method.
Unfortunately at work we use an unoriginal naming convention that yeilds swauh-data1 and smado_web1. So my naming inspiration is only released at home, where the server is Nova, the workstations are Pulsar, Nebula, and Dwarf, and they are all part of the workgroup Constellation. I know that Pricewatch.com uses Chess pieces for server names.
If you had read the comic or seen the animated series, you would know that Xavier is the head of the XMen, while Cyclops is the pointman for the task force. Knowing this, the relation between Xavier and Primary DNS and Cyclops and Helpdesk becomes more clear.
We still have a full year in which to make a fully functional HAL-9000. Based on his neurosis, I imagine he must be a Neuron computer. So let's get cracking! All we need are a few million neurons, some clear plastic holographic hard drives, and infrared fish cameras. Then train, train, train! It would be a rare first for technology to achieve the level of sci-fi by the time sci-fi predicts it will exist.
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Why yes, it does sound that way, doesn't it? But is he wrong to express dismay at people jumping on board a company to pick up some quick cash, and encouraging other people to stay longer so it takes less time to make it? That isn't so much capitalism as it is near-parasitic. Capitalism is about doing work or making products and selling them at a profit. In other words, getting rewarded for effort. That's why capitalism works and is a good idea, because people are motivated. For people who aren't executives to be motivated by a corporate culture that revolves around stock valuation more than fostering a pleasant work envornment is counter-intuitive. But perhaps I am once again confusing communism with socialism.
Damn, and I though was the Real Thing!
Ha! It's funny coz you left out tit!
Wait a minute, that's not funny at all. Sicko.
Whatever. I'm still pissed. Not because it isn't here today, but because it isn't likely to be here tomorrow or for another fifty years. Many of the innovations of the past were the scifi of the people before it. Todays technology does not alter the world on as fundamental a basis as the technology that preceded it. I will consider myself lucky to see anything resembling the futures described in 2001, Back to the Future II, Total Recall, or Star Trek. We have not seen a revolutionary invention since the integrated circuit. Someone please correct me.
Every cool thing we celebrate as cool today was inented in the sixties. The Concorde, the XR71 Blackbird, the microprocessor, the modern GUI, Unix, point and click, and the internet. What we have today is better versions of old ideas. Better TV's and cars, DVD players with a good picture and special copy protection. The world isn't any safer for the average person, cold war over or not. I may be cynical, but I think we are a long, long way from seeing the wondrous future that so many visionaries have portrayed.
That's nothing. Why just the other day I sped the entire universe up (except myself) to very near the speed of light. I'm technically 85 trillion years old. (Of course, I don't feel a day over 21.58
In computers we are ahead. In cellphones we are at least three years behind Europe and Japan. Sucks to be us.
It amazes me that the same technology adoring users of Slashdot are still frightened by the thought of modified food. Genetics is seen as a scary business of freak producing madmen. In truth, that is the perception of the masses. The enlightened Slashdot visitor should know that, like all technology to come before, it will come to be accepted. There is no reason to say thatwhile all the other tech is good, this is not. For some reason, the Amish decided to stop advancing, and there they stay. Well let's just pick here to stop. We don't need better food. We're afraid of that new-fangled gene splicing and such. For better or worse, technology will continue to evolve, and that includes every farming enhancement, from the plow, to the combine, to DDT to GM. Get used to it. Embrace it completely or don't embrace any of it.
The people developing this stuff know what they're doing and wouldn't produce it if they thought it was going to turn around and kill us all. The wonder of lawsuits will keep them from releasing potentially dangerous foods. Anything that reduces the chemicals required to grow a crop of food is clearly an improvement.
Mr. Connery. Let's see your answer. Oh, I guess that's your wager, a buck. And your answer? Futter. I...I'm afraid I don't get it.
Oh. I think that you do, Trebek.
Buck Futter!
What about remixes of songs? These can be identical in places to the original, while still being a work by an independent artist. Are unauthorized remixes legal? What would this software do if it found one?
Perhaps if they had a top level domain, like all the other recognized countries, they might be more sovereign. As it is, they are just a joke. The UK hasn't recognized them, they just don't see any reason to make a fuss about it.
I'm not sure about that. I saw the seven books averaging eight hundred pages for the Windows 2000 MCSE (not even "+Internet") and it would take slightly more than an ass-brain to soak that up. Since you can take the tests one at a time it isn't hard, but it is certainly beyond the grok-capacity of most of the dopes you meet.
I believe these are all improtant questions that affect our nation every day. If elected I will work hard to make sure that these issues are dealt with in a way that everyone can be proud of. I'm proud of this country and what it stands for, and though these issues are important, we must not forget the men and women that made our country what it is today.
Interpretation: Whichever side of the issue the corporation that is bankrolling me is on is how I will proceed.
I guess its time to own up. I admit it. I took the water. But I was just borrowing it! I had every intention of bringing back every last drop, but the improbability drive turned it into jello and then the space babes started wrestling... I really didn't feel right brining back a hundred and forty trillion tons of water-gone-jello after it had been wrestled in, you know? What can I say? My bad.
I think that the best games I've ever played are recent ones. Sure, I had fun with The Immortal on my Tandy, but the fighting was annoying and redundant. ROTT and Duke Nukem were fun over the modem, but the best games I've ever played have been StarCraft, Thief, and Thief II. But they aren't better because of the graphics. StarCrafts are preety weak, and while Thief had great looking detail and 3D, that wasn't why I liked it. It's al about gameplay. There is nothing inherently better about games from today or from fifteen years back.
Also fascinating is the notion that at 1968, this predates the text based OS's of Multics, Unix, DOS, and easily the "first" graphical OS, Macintosh.
Humans are nothing if not innovative. Even at MS, they are reorganizing, programming, integrating, and innovating themselves right out of that pesky paper bag. Granted they're not there yet, but I'm sure with a few new versions they'll be free.
I doubt that we will see the slow down of processors anytime soon. When lithography's run finally comes to a standstill, quantum computing will have matured enough to grab the baton and keep up the race. To what ened, I don't know. Right now I'd just love to see a decent memory tech come out. DDR may beat RAMBUS, but that's not saying much.
JONKATZ (Java Object for News, Konspiracy, and Anticorporate Text Zenning) has once again spit out a useless bit of data, but it does provide a forum for us to discuss things we already know. People kept saying that the old ways were gone and the new internet age was rewriting the manual. Then the stocks crashed and a bunch of startups went under. While I enjoy being in demand and the ability to get another job in the time it takes to sneeze, I haven't yet deluded myself into thinking that this job market will last indefinitely. Even with the ever more frenetic pace of technology, this trend is not the last trend, and it never hurts to keep your bridges clean and maintained. When the Colorado and California Gold Rushes came through, a lot of people got rich, and a lot of towns sprung up and burnt out just as quickly. Just something to remember BEFORE you sign the thirty year mortgage.
Just my 2X10^-2 Dollars (US)
Well once again JONKATZ (Java Object for News, Konspiracy, and Anticorporate Text Zenning) has produced a fabulously obvious article. I love the "and regulated" bit. That is so true! Think about it: what problem has ever not been solvable with laws and legislation? I mean, every time a problem crops up in our society, those trusty politicians make a law that immediately fixes the problem. Since everyone automatically obeys all laws, then a carefully worded document on file at the capitol and enforced by slow-witted beaurocracy can't help but improve our lives! I'm amazed that we have any problems at all in the world, what with all the laws. I suppose it just takes a while for enough laws to be made for the world to be perfect. Those greedy corporations won't know what hit 'em as soon as some heavy handed regulation comes their way!
If 100MB/s is available to the average home user at a price they can afford, then obviously the bandwidth required to sustain a bunch of these folks at a dotcom will be available for a relative cost. The pipe size of the internet itself, not the pipes going to individual web servers is what concerns me. If it takes 50 Gigabit connections to host a web server, then companies will get 50 Gigabit connections. But the cost of upgrading the infrastructure will astronomical.
On a side note, my gawd what I wouldn't give for a 100MBit connection to the Net.
Although I'm pretty sure this camera doesn't work in Linux (yet!), it is a great deal for the cash. It costs about US $150 and takes 92 640x480 pics. Simple as can be. But wait, theres more! Plug the usb cable in the back and not only can you transfer the pics back to your Win98 box, it can be used as a Video Camera while plugged in! If you just want to take quick shots for e-mail or the web and do video conferencing and such, the Creative Webcam Go is the camera to have.
Advantage: Paid for what you work Still get sick and vacation days Get paid 1.5X OT Still get medical, dental, etc Disadvantage Paid for what you work Have to fill in those timesheets I definitely think I'm getting the tasty deal. I don't have a huge variance in hours worked per week, so the check is usually about the same anyway. The security I enjoy is linked more to my performance and the market than it is to the payment method.
Unfortunately at work we use an unoriginal naming convention that yeilds swauh-data1 and smado_web1. So my naming inspiration is only released at home, where the server is Nova, the workstations are Pulsar, Nebula, and Dwarf, and they are all part of the workgroup Constellation. I know that Pricewatch.com uses Chess pieces for server names.
If you had read the comic or seen the animated series, you would know that Xavier is the head of the XMen, while Cyclops is the pointman for the task force. Knowing this, the relation between Xavier and Primary DNS and Cyclops and Helpdesk becomes more clear.
We still have a full year in which to make a fully functional HAL-9000. Based on his neurosis, I imagine he must be a Neuron computer. So let's get cracking! All we need are a few million neurons, some clear plastic holographic hard drives, and infrared fish cameras. Then train, train, train! It would be a rare first for technology to achieve the level of sci-fi by the time sci-fi predicts it will exist.
Read more carefully before replying.
13+13/2+10=29.5
aka nearly 30