Well, if you read some high level mystics like Jiddu Krishnamurti you'll see they agree that the "I" is an artificial construct made up of memories, artificial construct that has to be made disappear by achieving a total understanding of it. Only then you can transcend and be transformed to some superior kind of conscienciousness where you understand what immortality really is, stopping a cycle of reincarnations where those memories somehow converge into a new brain tuned to the field created by those old memories (karma) giving the individual the ilusion of continuity of identity ( I guess under hypnosis or something...). So, if all this is true, moving your memories to another brain would create a subjective impression of continuity of identity without having to believe in some immortal soul concept that we conveniently created to make us think we can personally keep something of all we have accumulated.
So, what is really immortality, the soul, etc? Read all about it (or most of it) here: "The first and last freedom" by Jiddu Krishnamurty, the closest I've seen to a scientific explanation of oriental mystical concepts.
Maybe Lucas' Star War films were timed to show how democracy could be destroyed by a scheming leader that claims that in a perpetual war a strong Emperor is needed, thus paving the way for a destruction of individual freedom.
Put another way, why should you expect to pay less for someone who maintains your most critical IT infrastructure, then for someone maintaining your most critical legal structure?
Considering the economy as a whole, profit comes from paying employees less than what they produce, so, people who help maintain or administer this economic system are more important for the money owners. Techs, Engineers, other direct employees are just labor, they less they make, the higher your profits.
Some say, in a modern economy materials, equipment cost more than labor, but remember those materials and equipment need labor themselves. So, in the whole, profit comes from paying direct labor less, and people that helps this happen will be paid more.
If next president in Mexico is Lopez Obrador, current Mexico City's major in 2006, Linux will be big in Mexico. Obrador's team has implemented Linux in several areas of the government.
Maybe the real reason for the PEAR project is to study how the scientific mind can be deluded by wishful thinking, and while they're at it see if they find something else.
The quality and speed of American techs is impressive. I work at a factory in the Mexican side of the border with the US, and after being burned with local companies doing PBX work, we went to an American Company in Tucson for our next project. The hourly rate was four times as expensive, but they would finish a job successfully over a weekend instead of the several weeks it would take the local company, and the workmanship and professionalism was excellent. It helped these guys had an excellent attitude, were willing to cross into Mexico, cope with lack of suppliers, and were very patient with our bureaucratic procedures. It's a matter of economics. The American company was far more cost-effective.
It was the same before, most corporations bought only IBM, or at most CDC, Burroughs or Univac mainframes. Then a few individuals and small companies started using pcs.
It will be the same with Linux, Mozilla, Openoffice, etc. Small companies, some foreign countries, and a few individuals in big corporations will start using it. Gradual build up until sudden landslide.
A customer wants an inventory program with barcoding for his/her manufacturing facility, you download Linux for free, Postgress for free, Python for free, get two or three of your friends, put together a solution, cash, contribute some code back to the pool.
Sounds like good business to me.
Everytime you watch Pokemon 10,000 of your brain cells die. Eventually you forget how to breath and you die among convulsions while everybody thinks you're having an epileptic fit caused by the flashing screen.
I work in a factory, with around 50 pcs for the administrative personnel. Cleaning slowed down pcs of all their spyware was taking an increasing amount of time. I installed Mozilla on all machines, deleted the MSIE icon from most of them, renamed iexplore.exe to make sure. Only two complaints: Mozilla caused errors when connecting to Ford's EDI system, and payroll deposits to our bank had to be done with MSIE. So for those two users I left both browsers. This has eliminated a big source of wasted time.
Next step: eliminate MS Messenger, and on selected production floor pcs use Open Office instead of MS's after compatibility testing of their spreadsheets. Mozilla's mail client will replace Outlook.
Most people just won't care. The patent will be enforceable only in the US. Like in many other IP issues the rest of the world will just go their merry way while the US gets yet a little bit more stucked in its legal big company swamp.
Did You Know That......the world's first patent for a color TV was granted to a Mexican inventor?
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticle s/tbdid1003.html
Dali and Jodorowski were working in the original Dune movie before they run out of money. It would be very interesting to see a short film with their efforts.
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Well, if you read some high level mystics like Jiddu Krishnamurti you'll see they agree that the "I" is an artificial construct made up of memories, artificial construct that has to be made disappear by achieving a total understanding of it. Only then you can transcend and be transformed to some superior kind of conscienciousness where you understand what immortality really is, stopping a cycle of reincarnations where those memories somehow converge into a new brain tuned to the field created by those old memories (karma) giving the individual the ilusion of continuity of identity ( I guess under hypnosis or something...). So, if all this is true, moving your memories to another brain would create a subjective impression of continuity of identity without having to believe in some immortal soul concept that we conveniently created to make us think we can personally keep something of all we have accumulated. So, what is really immortality, the soul, etc? Read all about it (or most of it) here: "The first and last freedom" by Jiddu Krishnamurty, the closest I've seen to a scientific explanation of oriental mystical concepts.
Maybe Lucas' Star War films were timed to show how democracy could be destroyed by a scheming leader that claims that in a perpetual war a strong Emperor is needed, thus paving the way for a destruction of individual freedom.
Put another way, why should you expect to pay less for someone who maintains your most critical IT infrastructure, then for someone maintaining your most critical legal structure?
Considering the economy as a whole, profit comes from paying employees less than what they produce, so, people who help maintain or administer this economic system are more important for the money owners. Techs, Engineers, other direct employees are just labor, they less they make, the higher your profits. Some say, in a modern economy materials, equipment cost more than labor, but remember those materials and equipment need labor themselves. So, in the whole, profit comes from paying direct labor less, and people that helps this happen will be paid more.
You got it right. Socialist is like Sweden, France, Spain, which all seem to be great places to live in.
I would think that whatever Americans do is, by definition, well...American.
If next president in Mexico is Lopez Obrador, current Mexico City's major in 2006, Linux will be big in Mexico. Obrador's team has implemented Linux in several areas of the government.
Maybe the real reason for the PEAR project is to study how the scientific mind can be deluded by wishful thinking, and while they're at it see if they find something else.
The quality and speed of American techs is impressive. I work at a factory in the Mexican side of the border with the US, and after being burned with local companies doing PBX work, we went to an American Company in Tucson for our next project. The hourly rate was four times as expensive, but they would finish a job successfully over a weekend instead of the several weeks it would take the local company, and the workmanship and professionalism was excellent. It helped these guys had an excellent attitude, were willing to cross into Mexico, cope with lack of suppliers, and were very patient with our bureaucratic procedures. It's a matter of economics. The American company was far more cost-effective.
Right on man, and Cesars to Cesar: If you want to live in the world of money and competition stop whining and accept the consequences.
It was the same before, most corporations bought only IBM, or at most CDC, Burroughs or Univac mainframes. Then a few individuals and small companies started using pcs. It will be the same with Linux, Mozilla, Openoffice, etc. Small companies, some foreign countries, and a few individuals in big corporations will start using it. Gradual build up until sudden landslide.
Maybe it's Cisco trying to get some money out of its product before replacing it.
Same here, I usually download Mozilla to our company's server and I install it from there to around 40 pcs.
A customer wants an inventory program with barcoding for his/her manufacturing facility, you download Linux for free, Postgress for free, Python for free, get two or three of your friends, put together a solution, cash, contribute some code back to the pool. Sounds like good business to me.
The past is Europe, the present, USA, the future, Asia. If China doesn't want to be tied by Microsoft, they won't. With a simple wave of their hand.
Everytime you watch Pokemon 10,000 of your brain cells die. Eventually you forget how to breath and you die among convulsions while everybody thinks you're having an epileptic fit caused by the flashing screen.
I work in a factory, with around 50 pcs for the administrative personnel. Cleaning slowed down pcs of all their spyware was taking an increasing amount of time. I installed Mozilla on all machines, deleted the MSIE icon from most of them, renamed iexplore.exe to make sure. Only two complaints: Mozilla caused errors when connecting to Ford's EDI system, and payroll deposits to our bank had to be done with MSIE. So for those two users I left both browsers. This has eliminated a big source of wasted time. Next step: eliminate MS Messenger, and on selected production floor pcs use Open Office instead of MS's after compatibility testing of their spreadsheets. Mozilla's mail client will replace Outlook.
Most people just won't care. The patent will be enforceable only in the US. Like in many other IP issues the rest of the world will just go their merry way while the US gets yet a little bit more stucked in its legal big company swamp.
IMHO you should go for Virtual Reality now.
I would think the creators of the DVD were the people working in the labs. Everything else is just a shark's scramble for the spoils.
Distances on highways south of Tucson, AZ, all the way to the border with Mexico are posted in kilometers!
Yes, well, look for this comment a bit earlier: Why, yes he was mexican by Mex (Score:3) Thursday March 25, @12:49PM
Did You Know That... ...the world's first patent for a color TV was granted to a Mexican inventor?
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticle s/tbdid1003.html
Dali and Jodorowski were working in the original Dune movie before they run out of money. It would be very interesting to see a short film with their efforts.
You might want to try the Shakira expansion pack.
OpenOffice's source code is available, what about writting a slimmed down but format compatible version for 90 MHz 32 MB 2 GB machines?