Why is it good that these Microsoft people are noticing Linux? It's more of a bad thing; when Linux was below the radar at least in part, the expert market-power wielders, lawyers, and coders at Microsoft were not bringing their full power to bear. Now, like so many insurgents in Fallujah, Linux advocates will face the full power and attention of the beast. They may yet prevail but it will be a bloody conflict.
You know, anti-Westerners are correct. The Westerner is incorrect to divest the cultural degeneracy of its media from its alienated character as a commodity. Freedom-stealing rights mongering from the MPAA/RIAA go lockstep with the nudity, drugs and violence evident in Western media. You'll notice they don't prosecute the huge amounts of pirates in non-Western countries.
a device to prevent four Palestinians from committing suicide by talking them dowjn realtime
a device to conduct career counseling of disadvantaged global youth in europe, africa and the middle east
a device to teach myself html, php and css
a device to advance my career through spontaneous, informal networking
in fact, i basically live my business life and more and more of my personal life on the internet. and this is not a bad thing, in fact it has maximized my power and leveraged globalization for myself and millions of other members of the brown horde.
Potato famine was not deliberate - it was caused by a microorganism. Both the hack and the monopoly are socially constructed. Science can fight the former, but not the latter.
They aren't conspiracy theories. There is plenty of evidence about the Bush-Diebold connection. The theories are based on solid, classical campaign finance skulduggery and not on the technical merits of the system at all. There was a good SecurityFocus article on the register about it as well, focusing on the technical aspects. I propose the establishment of independent technical federal commissions to review all voting technologies.
maybe all you people spending all your time posting should put money where mouths are? taking it from torvalds firm simply robs peter to pay paul and equally weakens open source movement. Contribute your money, as if it were code.
we should study this so we can give different parts of ourselves different DNA. If it is to be appropriated as a universal identification and control technology, we have to give it up if we want to remain sovereign. It is not that far away to have DNA identified radio tagging of people and, thus, near-absolute control.
Who says one form is purer than another? Does creating games for profit make them impure? I certainly hope to profit from my creative work, and it is quite pure - in fact, it is religious music. Where do these standards come from? Look more closely for assumptions in articles, and at least explain them in the write-up, editors.
What's needed now is serious, patient lobbying, rather than anti-MS zealotry. Microsoft must be respectfully exposed to civil liberties arguments, rather than constantly defaced and hacked, or it will be a major party to ratcheting up surveillance and electronic oppression.
How does any digital opinion or rating system incorporate what Donald Rumsfeld called the "unknown unknowns?" From a Web eye view any opinion system is blind to private and noncirculated information, as well as any info that doesnt transfer well onto a digital medium (such as buzzing lights or a bad odor in an office).
If Microsoft is able to successfully stop the spammers will your views towards them change? Power in the computing industry is not always deleterious to its constituents.
dont consider the days of inflated prices, wasteful spending and endless accounting shenanigans and lies the glory days. And don't think AOL didn't do it. HealthSouth/Freddie Mac are the tip of a putrid iceberg. We don't even know how much thievery happened back then, but it wasn't honest and we are paying for it now and will be for a long time to come.
You get sort of a self reinforcing cycle of wankage the more we increase the "relevance", "awareness" or "utility" of pageranking. Post good info for its own sake, not for popularity's sake. Slashdot is a good example of the latter over the past few years. It could have receded back into the depths and maintained quality but it put page-ranking first, attempting to attract and contain a particular audience.
TV without Nielsen ratings would be better too, for similar reason.
You want to be taken seriously like real journalists? Then you will be subject to the same strictures. You must respect libel and slander laws and represent yourself honestly at all times or you will be prosecuted.
User interfaces were developed to interface with the user. That means that lots of science was put into them to make them easy to use, intelligible, etc.
That's also why advertisers use interfaces that are very similar. They want to encourage familiarity and comfort with their ad, to get people to click on it.
Also, parodic uses of common UI's do occur. These are protected under the first amendment. Just for civil liberties in general this is a bad court case. It's similar to the Nike free-speech/commercial speech court case recently in the US supreme court.
to us if it contained such review compendia in itself, rather than making me go to 100 different sites to see them. It'd also be a way to counter the various technology zealotries that arise here. I'm willing to see these ads if the value of this site goes up commensurately.
No way. That's not nearly safe enough, project it onto a piece of white paper with a pinhole camera. Then you won't get the dark glasses obscuring your view, either. A little ingenuity often prevails over a little consumerism.;)
have I ever seen less information for a story to be posted here. This is not a gadget clearing house, there should be something about the wrist phones. How did they overcome technical obstacles, or something? This could be anything from a revolution to vaporware from your description, or it could be goatse.cx or worse. I'm not going to click on such a link.
Nuts to that. In the old days there was no curriculum and every educated person was autodidact or tutored. They knew something about what there was to know.
Childrens' media are meant more to limit knowledge or transmit ideology. I read doctors journals as a kid and am glad I did.
Extracting data from these requires as many monitoring facilities and personnel as a real telescope. If you call this a telescope budget cutters will claim we don't need to build new hardware out of the federal budget.
the nearlynet that shirky disparages so loudly is what creates technological innovations and practical experience in building a network. We have very few technologies in any field that resist quick obsolescence. Until we do we shouldn't build a perma-anything. I think nanotechnology will allow us to engineer things that will still be useful hundreds of years from now.
That sort of sentiment is why disarmament and other peaceful processes get stopped in their tracks. One must make a moral committment to voluntary action towards peace.
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Why is it good that these Microsoft people are noticing Linux? It's more of a bad thing; when Linux was below the radar at least in part, the expert market-power wielders, lawyers, and coders at Microsoft were not bringing their full power to bear. Now, like so many insurgents in Fallujah, Linux advocates will face the full power and attention of the beast. They may yet prevail but it will be a bloody conflict.
You know, anti-Westerners are correct. The Westerner is incorrect to divest the cultural degeneracy of its media from its alienated character as a commodity. Freedom-stealing rights mongering from the MPAA/RIAA go lockstep with the nudity, drugs and violence evident in Western media. You'll notice they don't prosecute the huge amounts of pirates in non-Western countries.
a device to prevent four Palestinians from committing suicide by talking them dowjn realtime
a device to conduct career counseling of disadvantaged global youth in europe, africa and the middle east
a device to teach myself html, php and css
a device to advance my career through spontaneous, informal networking
in fact, i basically live my business life and more and more of my personal life on the internet. and this is not a bad thing, in fact it has maximized my power and leveraged globalization for myself and millions of other members of the brown horde.
Potato famine was not deliberate - it was caused by a microorganism. Both the hack and the monopoly are socially constructed. Science can fight the former, but not the latter.
Combine it with flash mob activism for two trendy memes in one! Cell phone tag in the boardroom or to disrupt an abortion clinic.. brilliant.
They aren't conspiracy theories. There is plenty of evidence about the Bush-Diebold connection. The theories are based on solid, classical campaign finance skulduggery and not on the technical merits of the system at all. There was a good SecurityFocus article on the register about it as well, focusing on the technical aspects. I propose the establishment of independent technical federal commissions to review all voting technologies.
maybe all you people spending all your time posting should put money where mouths are? taking it from torvalds firm simply robs peter to pay paul and equally weakens open source movement. Contribute your money, as if it were code.
Quit surfing the web all day at work and at home. You rarely learn anything. In fact, you're rarely even truly entertained!
we should study this so we can give different parts of ourselves different DNA. If it is to be appropriated as a universal identification and control technology, we have to give it up if we want to remain sovereign. It is not that far away to have DNA identified radio tagging of people and, thus, near-absolute control.
Who says one form is purer than another? Does creating games for profit make them impure? I certainly hope to profit from my creative work, and it is quite pure - in fact, it is religious music. Where do these standards come from? Look more closely for assumptions in articles, and at least explain them in the write-up, editors.
What's needed now is serious, patient lobbying, rather than anti-MS zealotry. Microsoft must be respectfully exposed to civil liberties arguments, rather than constantly defaced and hacked, or it will be a major party to ratcheting up surveillance and electronic oppression.
How does any digital opinion or rating system incorporate what Donald Rumsfeld called the "unknown unknowns?" From a Web eye view any opinion system is blind to private and noncirculated information, as well as any info that doesnt transfer well onto a digital medium (such as buzzing lights or a bad odor in an office).
If Microsoft is able to successfully stop the spammers will your views towards them change? Power in the computing industry is not always deleterious to its constituents.
dont consider the days of inflated prices, wasteful spending and endless accounting shenanigans and lies the glory days. And don't think AOL didn't do it. HealthSouth/Freddie Mac are the tip of a putrid iceberg. We don't even know how much thievery happened back then, but it wasn't honest and we are paying for it now and will be for a long time to come.
TV without Nielsen ratings would be better too, for similar reason.
You want to be taken seriously like real journalists? Then you will be subject to the same strictures. You must respect libel and slander laws and represent yourself honestly at all times or you will be prosecuted.
That's also why advertisers use interfaces that are very similar. They want to encourage familiarity and comfort with their ad, to get people to click on it.
Also, parodic uses of common UI's do occur. These are protected under the first amendment. Just for civil liberties in general this is a bad court case. It's similar to the Nike free-speech/commercial speech court case recently in the US supreme court.
to us if it contained such review compendia in itself, rather than making me go to 100 different sites to see them. It'd also be a way to counter the various technology zealotries that arise here. I'm willing to see these ads if the value of this site goes up commensurately.
No way. That's not nearly safe enough, project it onto a piece of white paper with a pinhole camera. Then you won't get the dark glasses obscuring your view, either. A little ingenuity often prevails over a little consumerism. ;)
What will people do with Linux if this is proven true? does this scotch successive innovations?
have I ever seen less information for a story to be posted here. This is not a gadget clearing house, there should be something about the wrist phones. How did they overcome technical obstacles, or something? This could be anything from a revolution to vaporware from your description, or it could be goatse.cx or worse. I'm not going to click on such a link.
Childrens' media are meant more to limit knowledge or transmit ideology. I read doctors journals as a kid and am glad I did.
Extracting data from these requires as many monitoring facilities and personnel as a real telescope. If you call this a telescope budget cutters will claim we don't need to build new hardware out of the federal budget.
the nearlynet that shirky disparages so loudly is what creates technological innovations and practical experience in building a network. We have very few technologies in any field that resist quick obsolescence. Until we do we shouldn't build a perma-anything. I think nanotechnology will allow us to engineer things that will still be useful hundreds of years from now.
That sort of sentiment is why disarmament and other peaceful processes get stopped in their tracks. One must make a moral committment to voluntary action towards peace.