I like this idea alot. I would definitely vote for having the salaries placed on the products. And the raw costs! I have also thought about this alot and though I've been layed off about six times I can tell you that the anger doesn't come until you realize you have no job prospects.
The flat truth is companies are not people. They deserve no tax breaks or special treatment. Taxing our jobs out of existence does not make America a great place. But how do you impose a fair tarriff (something on par with my over 50% tax load) on goods sent in by email?
What we failed to do when the auto industry left (and textiles before that etc) hoe can we do now. I watched the Brookings Institute on TV last night adn can tell you the economists do not seem to care that people spent 6+ years in school, are experts in tech, and now are running to any career that will let them hope to have enough to retire when they're 70.
Until we get a government that makes laws for the people and not the companies (rich people) we will continue to have lower and lower lifestyles. Sad since the wealth in the world is increasing.
Why not sell stock? I mean, 1B shares at $1 apiece ought to do it. I'm with the p2p proposal since I have at least one old server sitting in my office.
Managing huge projects takes alot of attention to process. Most of us are familiar with stupid ideas like the process de jour book on how to make software through lots of iterative hacking... human common sense works fine as long as the project can be fully understood by one human. Once the project is larger than that then management skills are needed. With the budgets of NASA one would expect far better management skills. For example, one assumes by far the greatest percentage of the budget has gone to the landing and com setup since that is what they keep failing... it's all basic risk analysis as they are wasting the whole budget if one of those single points of failure fail. At least the beagle has a backup so not one single point of failure. My thoughts, TimJOwers P.S> I partly attributed the failure of the space agencies in the past to inability to hire professionals but with so many people with 15-20-30+ years of experience doing software, hardware, and embedded systems sitting on the bench right now then they really no longer have an excuse. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but seeing these budgets and the inexcusable mistakes (well, they would have been excusable for a 10k range budget or 20 years ago) then one really has to logically wonder if the real rovers are not being deployed at the poles or in flight or somewhere else. Clearly with the units conversion they did not even do a code review or good integration test.
I think they all will. That will be what is so different. Just like you can buy lots of different car models. Heck one can use a Mac, a Winders, and a few Linuxes in a single day (not to mention palm).
Is mandrake a french company or something? What's their ticker?
I can see it now, 5 TAs and a professor trying to play a video over the net. Whew... there goes that money.
Making a wider road doesn't help when the traffic grows even faster. The same is true with IP. You'd do better to make some alternate routes and some bullet trains. Of course if we can only allow Ill-Urb and some sovietU then things can fly! I need my own 155MB connection to the backbone but would settle for 155Mb!!!
Actually, I'm being facetious as Internet 2 is supposed to addreess these IP weaknesses. Still, like a good traffic cop, it makes things faster but never makes the road any wider.
At poles to get water, black to absorb heat (uh, hello), bunched to save heat and reproduce, and apparently the growth follows the wind pattern (or is that wind pattern a vestige of the camera?). (Polar bears are white so maybe the heat is in another spectrum we do not see.)
Methinks we are all too simplistic... if you look at the picture on the "conspiracy" site the blob approaching from the bottom left appears to have a face. These things are actually enormous bison-like creatures and I suppose they move very slowly. Like a blue whale they crawl the surface, sucking in the airborne lifeforms; thus they could be so large. Of course this site did some image enhancements as the NASA images have no such detail when enlarged. Or did NASA erase things?
Better fly back up there and have another look. BTW, it seems an infrared and ultraviolet as well as a second photo would be helpful. That's probably what NIMA does.
If I had to bet the farm, I'd not be betting on life on Mars 'cause I'm sure the martians wiped themselves not long after ever coming here.;-)
Seems like a good product to me. One very cool thing about SourceForge/opensource is it allows IT workers to be product developers. I'll bet there are 10x as many IT workers as workers for all pure software companies. Add in the 100 million or so highly qualified programmers in India (-:) and that's alot of people in the bazaar that can outdo the commercial stuff as well as customize to the many needs of the few. That means software prices go down like they should. One day maybe architecture designs and even medical care can be outsourced or even automated!
If you want some insight into the effects of this then take a drive down to South Carolina. The median income is 1/2 of the national average as the textile plants have almost all gone now.
Next take a drive up to Flint, Michigan and thereabouts and check out the auto industry.
Silicon Valley is lucky this has not hit full-force yet but it probably will by 2010. I do not know what goofy numbers CNN used but the number of programmers is greater: I read in a insurance industry trade rag that that industry alone plans to move about 5M tech. jobs overseas in the next several years. Almost every company I know about is trying to move its work to India. You are right that a career change is in order.. but to what?
The only place left will be VA/DC where you can go lobby for your tax dollars... until they dry up.
Americans are stupid as they invent all of the technology but never are able to reap the rewards of it.
I say "Viva la OpenSource". If the only job I can get is integration then might as well use something free.
How about Interbase? I thought Borland OpenSourced it a while back but the website doesn't seem like it. Has anyone used it?
I'm amazed to hear mySQL still does not support transactions. That's hilarious. I assume it now does locking by rows because otherwise it would be just another Access.
Oracle is not too bad but the tools are bad. The two big Oracle shops I've worked in used Toad. At least M$FT provide good tools with SQL Server and you can go online and find the Sybase answers when something doesn't work as expected (Sybase docs are consistent with SQL Server even now as far as my experience!).
My buddy had a good idea that software companies should be fined for bugs.
TimJowers
+1 for humor.. the American movie industry is probably even worse. Even remaking movies! Not to mention famous retarded scenes like "Hey this is Unix, I know this" and other totally retarded technical scenes. If you abstract yourself one step from American movies you will see absolutely no creativity in mainstream movies as the characters behave in predefined (very un-natural ways) and fall into pre-run (very un-natural) situation. American movie:
Hero down on luck, hero does something neat, hero meets super hot chick who wants him right away, villan gets uperhand, hero wins. Once in a while friend of hero gets killed. ( It's like putting on your favorite shoe.:-) This hero-worship is fundamental to American culture. We believe in heros and heroic endings.
This rocks. I hope some sites co-operate and make a shared source for all sorts of small-time movie producers. I did the calculations a few years ago and it is already possible for one to browse these sites at work and order the video for home so they can watch the movie that night. The Internet should be faster but already is making cable antiquated. Surely the cable companies will jump in with RIAA pretty soon.
You are correct that India is fast-rising. If the world can maintain competition such as Bollywood vs. Hollywood then perhaps the pleb.s like us can benefit; but history so far has shown that combined economies such as Japan+US lead to combined monopolies; that is, how long until Sony or another major player takes over Bollywood? The time is measured in profitability.
You are very wrong about India will be beside the USA. The USA is on a very fast downhill path and making no efforts to stop it. The political in-crowd has learned how to rob the public treasury and the citizens have no way to escape extreme taxes. You already see Accenture and other companies and individuals with a mass exodus of money and entities. The US system is more and more communist (in its past existence not theoretical existence) every day. Maybe even fascist. But I understand India is already a nation where most live in near servitude so maybe it is the USA becoming like India and not the other way around.
Surely embracing freedom and efficiency of the Internet can lead to a better life for all. I believe the tax system is the future tool for enslaving the masses and we'll see a tax of Internet usage in one form or another in the near future (next 5-10 years); yet, the government that maintains freedom will be the new USA. At this point, economically, clearly that is more India and less the USA.
BTW, the jobs are all going to India but in less than 50 years they will be going to countries in Africa. Want to talk about a birth rate? Developing nations always have huge birth rates as the people transition from high death rate and high labor cultures. What you must do is create a productive business base. The USA attempts this by trying to control international business and with selling services to one another. The assumption is experience is more efficient (benefit per cost) and is typically true. But a manufacturing base such as in China could be a good plan as well. Myself, I believe a quality products plan would be good such as houses that last centuries etc. Oh, sounds like Europe.
"Democracy will last in America until the people discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." -Sir Alexander Tytler, 17?? http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Title s/demo cracyinamerica/wwwboard/messages/27.html
I think it is very interesting because the world engineering community has outgrown a local government (US in this case). Like other things the politicians are doing to stop technical progression (anti-support for file sharing, FCC limiting growth of wireless, and omissions from any attempts to grow technology) the irony is the rest of the world will surpass us. Despite what Gates thinks, the rest of the world is ALREADY on Linux and Apache. Just as it is, the Iraqis only use XP because it costs $1. The US laws are a joke because the next big things in technology will not come from the USA due to its patent system, anti-small business tax and legal system, and other anti-innovation laws. Finally Gates and Ballmer will have to start to innovate as well as drop prices unless the US can maintain a legal web keeping its citizens from benefitting from the prosperity of global innovations. The dead wood which is the US government has not realized that their irresponsible laws will be ignored by other countries and only serve to harm America.
Probably the world model will look alot more like filesharing than the corporate dominated model os the USA. Just as MSFT have made it almost impossible for a software company to compete, the world market will make it impossible to make money purely in software. I don't think any legal stilts can hold this market up. The future market will have to be support and coupling with hard, manufactured products (until 3-D printing/solid modeling gets more mature!:-)
In the USA the software market will be held up by an ever-increasing set of legal requirements. Just take a look at how HIPAA is keeping health insurance companies in business (well eliminated most all small players) though all they are doing is simple forms processing. We are talking something like $2 is spent on healthcare for every $1 elsewhere in the economy.
Is this the kind of system Iraqis want? It's the kind of system their "savior" the USA is probably bringing to them. I suspect the US thinks it can impose a corporate-controlled society (bordering on serfdom as here in the USA) but except by military force the highest benefit/cost solution will succeed. That is, without question, open source.
The US Government is trying to stop the tide - ambitious considering we've only been to the moon once.
Nobody wants to police someone else's country but for now they need help. It'll take a few years but for the pragmatically minded at least then we can hope for some stability in the middle east and maybe even moderate oil prices.
Just remember $87B is about $1000 per family so you and I are both funding this event.
I just hope they invest my investmnet wisely and use Linux and make free 802.11 AP's in each major city.
P.S> Let's just hope this sends a clear message to the Sudanese and the other tyrants and religious homocide countries. P.P.S> There's a Proverb that one should not stand quietly aside while another is unjustly murdered. As the proverbs pre-dated Jesus and Mohammed I believe it is part of Judaism and should be acepted by Islam. Certainly it should be accepted by all of us as it is an inherent truth about human nature.
Me too. I did a Cobol copybook - to - XML Java class and actually got good example copybook sent to me within a few days. How one could have done this without open source (sourceforge in my case) would be a mess.
The article could say: "everybody and their brother wants to do a project but sometimes nobody can understand what they are doing." And "They usually don't try to find pre-existing projects into which they can fit".
My exp is the issues are
1) PITA to setup an open source project (the first time)
2) Bad organization means lots of projects. If we could organize/work together better then we'd be much more productive; but maybe less productive; and probably still better efficiency than non-cooperative "old source development".
TimJowers
Ps. Another plug for Eric's Should Exist concept brainstorming site.
Is this news? I thought most every city has wi-fi already. I'm pretty sure Conterra communications in Columbia, SC covers about a circle over 10 miles in diameter. Not to mention th elocal Universities and war driving/open APs.
This is silly. People just use IM. That does voice and more. Phones are living dead technology. Only analysts and old people do not see this. Like B&W TV and cassettes you can tell your g.kids about them. Of course, the new "phones" will actually be computer with video cameras like what the cell companies are trying to get to now.
Only the US legal system that makes it illegal to do phone-to-PC (AFAICT) is keeping those crooks in business. Wree it not for that, I would not need a phone.
I remmeber VB back in 94 but its older still...
March 1988---Microsoft Buys Tripod... http://www.johnsmiley.com/visualbasic/vbhistory.ht m
BTW, I didn't bother to read the patent but wonder if it mentions hitting the F-11 key to bring the menus back? Maybe someone can patent that:-) I'm pretty sure I figured that one out in 98 while working at an ISP. And how about embeding a little language so it really can be an application as they claim... us maybe AOL should patent that::-)
http://www.shouldexist.com is the site I use for anti-patents and copylefts. It's cool but could be so much cooler with a few developments. Could be sort of a pre-sourceforge IF with some right baby steps: I mean the brainstorm and design part of development.
I also liked that business progression predictions: 1) people would migrate from MF (never did) 2) people would not move from Netware (80% market share) to NT (did) 3) home users will not use Lunix (dooh!) 4) Now we have alongside Apple is dead, Sun is dead, and others. 5) I remember in 97-98 we all thought 64 bit would be mainstream by 99-00. Boy did that not happen. Save Nintendo I guess.
Oh yeah, what about distributed computing... DCOM will be, Web services will be,...
Surely nobody ever predicted that computer technology would head straight for whatever is the slowest way: Why program sockets when HTTP is 100 times slower? Why program to a relational database or object system when XML text is 100s of times slower? Why compile when we can interpret? Why run software on your cmoputer when you can connect to a terminal, web server, or host and do a 100 times less? Why not create about 20 layers between the application and the video card? Why hire experienced programmers when you can hire some with no experience 1/2 across the world and get the project done 100 times slower?
Oh yeah, and then there's commodity computers. Everyone predicted that in the early '90's but the corp.s have successfully kept the prices high. Of course, with inflation we are starting to approach commodity computers.
Finally the one about re-usable objects. Maybe sourceforge and open source projects like Apache are as close as we can get. In 94 I remember everyone figures there'd be online libraries where one could download whatever component was needed. Hah!
MCI did something like this to me too. They were charging me $5+ per month some stupid fee so I canceled. Well, I have a $20 credit but they never sent it. Each month they sent a statement that my account was billed $5 more! Eventually the account got closed.
Crooks.
You're the one who brought up a liver with a reverse mode:-) Or maybe it was a typo.
You totally should work in Hollywood. I can see the next Matrix-like movie having those autoworker arms a'flailing. The scenes created from this fantasy garbage would be full-on hella-cool. Like Mr. Anderson could get unplugged but then nano-bots are rebuilding the real world much like in the copmuter-generated world. Let's call the producers with this.
Organisms are programmed with DNA or RNA. Their operation may be greatly affected with chemicals. Computers are programmed with magnetic bits and their operations are controlled with electromagnitic signals.
Only if nano-tech bridges these two could one reverse a liver. So, what if someone hacks the liver storage facility and inserts a virus (DNA). So, the complexities grow exponentially.
Maybe this is a Newton's Second Law of innovation: "For every innovation, their is an opposing but equal risk."
Also the problem is inaccuracy. Inaccuracy is fine for most professions but there are some in which it causes serious problems. As we move to using computers that categorize inaccurately then we will lose creativity. This is fine, we are losing human cultural independence even more rapidly than species; so, clearly we are headed to a monopoly of knowledge in which non-conformant thinking is not existable (as computers will omit or mis-classify it out of existence). Already the Internet has become a set of "top pages" as seen from the results of search engines. Knowledge breadth has been greatly lost as 99% of the pages will not show up in the first page of hits. Typically, I suspect, the 99.99% that have something different to say about the subject being searched.
Not to mention that many English speakers do not mean what they say semantically. A great example was quoted in one of the books of NLP I read and the irony was the sentence was ill-formed grammatically but being used as an example of how hard semantic analysis is as if the sentence were correct English.
Yes, I scanned your link. It is a good argument for vaccines. Of course, it uses bad science... e.g. the fact the bubonic plague was not wiping out people in the 1800's is the same argument your author is using for small pox vaccines. This fact has nothing to do with vaccines. C'mon, anyone with any exposure to logic will expose such fallacious arguments. Of course, his/her argument that better standards of living do not contribute to better survival rates is also extremely ludicrous.
While we are on the subject of reality let's discuss what is really going on: the pharm.s are disseminating viruses in order to create a market. Those who pay stand a chance of not getting the flu. Those who do not stand a high chance of getting the flu as the pharm.s are spreading the disease. The danger is the wide dissemination leads to more opportunities for mutation and, therefore, the possibilities of more dangerous diseases. Stop. Think about the ramifications. Only if you do not believe in evolution will this not scare you. One has to posit that virus mutation has a basal rate determined by the host population size and other host-related factors. The human population size and interaction is off the charts so playing around with viruses is extremely dangerous. The pahrmaceuticals are. The danger is a recurrence like the small pox plague or the bubonic plague; and, since you ask, hell yes I have studied this some. I have spoken to first hand witnesses of this... if one could care for a family then the family could survive the small pox plague of the early 1900's. My g.grandfather saved one such family. The trick IS someone has to help out.
Just think back to your childhood or ask your elders and you'll learn that "flu season" did not exist in the past. This is something the pharm.s created for your suffering! Common colds perhaps but rarely (if ever) did one catch a flu.
Scary is the fact that we are now living in a "1984" sort of world where we have to use first-hand evidence and logical argument to deduce reality. The reality you believe is the one created by companies who's primary interest is in creating a well-paying market - not healthcare!!! The unexpected twist is that companies are creating the false realities, not governments as in "1984".
While we are on the subject, your author's argument that good hygeine does not reduce viral spread is also ridiculous. Recently I had the flu and was able to successfully not transfer it to co-workers and even three adults living in the same house with me for a week. How? Very careful hygiene. Of course if children were involved then it would have been maybe impossible. Maybe that's to what your auther is referring.
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I like this idea alot. I would definitely vote for having the salaries placed on the products. And the raw costs! I have also thought about this alot and though I've been layed off about six times I can tell you that the anger doesn't come until you realize you have no job prospects.
The flat truth is companies are not people. They deserve no tax breaks or special treatment. Taxing our jobs out of existence does not make America a great place. But how do you impose a fair tarriff (something on par with my over 50% tax load) on goods sent in by email?
What we failed to do when the auto industry left (and textiles before that etc) hoe can we do now. I watched the Brookings Institute on TV last night adn can tell you the economists do not seem to care that people spent 6+ years in school, are experts in tech, and now are running to any career that will let them hope to have enough to retire when they're 70.
Until we get a government that makes laws for the people and not the companies (rich people) we will continue to have lower and lower lifestyles. Sad since the wealth in the world is increasing.
Why not sell stock? I mean, 1B shares at $1 apiece ought to do it. I'm with the p2p proposal since I have at least one old server sitting in my office.
Managing huge projects takes alot of attention to process. Most of us are familiar with stupid ideas like the process de jour book on how to make software through lots of iterative hacking... human common sense works fine as long as the project can be fully understood by one human. Once the project is larger than that then management skills are needed. With the budgets of NASA one would expect far better management skills. For example, one assumes by far the greatest percentage of the budget has gone to the landing and com setup since that is what they keep failing... it's all basic risk analysis as they are wasting the whole budget if one of those single points of failure fail. At least the beagle has a backup so not one single point of failure.
My thoughts,
TimJOwers
P.S> I partly attributed the failure of the space agencies in the past to inability to hire professionals but with so many people with 15-20-30+ years of experience doing software, hardware, and embedded systems sitting on the bench right now then they really no longer have an excuse. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but seeing these budgets and the inexcusable mistakes (well, they would have been excusable for a 10k range budget or 20 years ago) then one really has to logically wonder if the real rovers are not being deployed at the poles or in flight or somewhere else. Clearly with the units conversion they did not even do a code review or good integration test.
I think they all will. That will be what is so different. Just like you can buy lots of different car models. Heck one can use a Mac, a Winders, and a few Linuxes in a single day (not to mention palm).
Is mandrake a french company or something? What's their ticker?
I can see it now, 5 TAs and a professor trying to play a video over the net. Whew... there goes that money.
Making a wider road doesn't help when the traffic grows even faster. The same is true with IP. You'd do better to make some alternate routes and some bullet trains. Of course if we can only allow Ill-Urb and some sovietU then things can fly! I need my own 155MB connection to the backbone but would settle for 155Mb!!!
Actually, I'm being facetious as Internet 2 is supposed to addreess these IP weaknesses. Still, like a good traffic cop, it makes things faster but never makes the road any wider.
At poles to get water, black to absorb heat (uh, hello), bunched to save heat and reproduce, and apparently the growth follows the wind pattern (or is that wind pattern a vestige of the camera?). (Polar bears are white so maybe the heat is in another spectrum we do not see.)
Methinks we are all too simplistic... if you look at the picture on the "conspiracy" site the blob approaching from the bottom left appears to have a face. These things are actually enormous bison-like creatures and I suppose they move very slowly. Like a blue whale they crawl the surface, sucking in the airborne lifeforms; thus they could be so large. Of course this site did some image enhancements as the NASA images have no such detail when enlarged. Or did NASA erase things?
Better fly back up there and have another look. BTW, it seems an infrared and ultraviolet as well as a second photo would be helpful. That's probably what NIMA does.
If I had to bet the farm, I'd not be betting on life on Mars 'cause I'm sure the martians wiped themselves not long after ever coming here.
Seems like a good product to me. One very cool thing about SourceForge/opensource is it allows IT workers to be product developers. I'll bet there are 10x as many IT workers as workers for all pure software companies. Add in the 100 million or so highly qualified programmers in India (-:) and that's alot of people in the bazaar that can outdo the commercial stuff as well as customize to the many needs of the few. That means software prices go down like they should. One day maybe architecture designs and even medical care can be outsourced or even automated!
Next take a drive up to Flint, Michigan and thereabouts and check out the auto industry.
Silicon Valley is lucky this has not hit full-force yet but it probably will by 2010. I do not know what goofy numbers CNN used but the number of programmers is greater: I read in a insurance industry trade rag that that industry alone plans to move about 5M tech. jobs overseas in the next several years. Almost every company I know about is trying to move its work to India. You are right that a career change is in order.. but to what?
The only place left will be VA/DC where you can go lobby for your tax dollars... until they dry up.
Americans are stupid as they invent all of the technology but never are able to reap the rewards of it.
I say "Viva la OpenSource". If the only job I can get is integration then might as well use something free.
TimJowers
I'm amazed to hear mySQL still does not support transactions. That's hilarious. I assume it now does locking by rows because otherwise it would be just another Access.
Oracle is not too bad but the tools are bad. The two big Oracle shops I've worked in used Toad. At least M$FT provide good tools with SQL Server and you can go online and find the Sybase answers when something doesn't work as expected (Sybase docs are consistent with SQL Server even now as far as my experience!).
My buddy had a good idea that software companies should be fined for bugs.
TimJowers
+1 for humor.. the American movie industry is probably even worse. Even remaking movies! Not to mention famous retarded scenes like "Hey this is Unix, I know this" and other totally retarded technical scenes. If you abstract yourself one step from American movies you will see absolutely no creativity in mainstream movies as the characters behave in predefined (very un-natural ways) and fall into pre-run (very un-natural) situation. American movie: Hero down on luck, hero does something neat, hero meets super hot chick who wants him right away, villan gets uperhand, hero wins. Once in a while friend of hero gets killed. ( It's like putting on your favorite shoe. :-) This hero-worship is fundamental to American culture. We believe in heros and heroic endings.
This rocks. I hope some sites co-operate and make a shared source for all sorts of small-time movie producers. I did the calculations a few years ago and it is already possible for one to browse these sites at work and order the video for home so they can watch the movie that night. The Internet should be faster but already is making cable antiquated. Surely the cable companies will jump in with RIAA pretty soon.
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You are correct that India is fast-rising. If the world can maintain competition such as Bollywood vs. Hollywood then perhaps the pleb.s like us can benefit; but history so far has shown that combined economies such as Japan+US lead to combined monopolies; that is, how long until Sony or another major player takes over Bollywood? The time is measured in profitability.
You are very wrong about India will be beside the USA. The USA is on a very fast downhill path and making no efforts to stop it. The political in-crowd has learned how to rob the public treasury and the citizens have no way to escape extreme taxes. You already see Accenture and other companies and individuals with a mass exodus of money and entities. The US system is more and more communist (in its past existence not theoretical existence) every day. Maybe even fascist. But I understand India is already a nation where most live in near servitude so maybe it is the USA becoming like India and not the other way around.
Surely embracing freedom and efficiency of the Internet can lead to a better life for all. I believe the tax system is the future tool for enslaving the masses and we'll see a tax of Internet usage in one form or another in the near future (next 5-10 years); yet, the government that maintains freedom will be the new USA. At this point, economically, clearly that is more India and less the USA.
BTW, the jobs are all going to India but in less than 50 years they will be going to countries in Africa. Want to talk about a birth rate? Developing nations always have huge birth rates as the people transition from high death rate and high labor cultures. What you must do is create a productive business base. The USA attempts this by trying to control international business and with selling services to one another. The assumption is experience is more efficient (benefit per cost) and is typically true. But a manufacturing base such as in China could be a good plan as well. Myself, I believe a quality products plan would be good such as houses that last centuries etc. Oh, sounds like Europe.
"Democracy will last in America until the people discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." -Sir Alexander Tytler, 17??
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I think it is very interesting because the world engineering community has outgrown a local government (US in this case). Like other things the politicians are doing to stop technical progression (anti-support for file sharing, FCC limiting growth of wireless, and omissions from any attempts to grow technology) the irony is the rest of the world will surpass us. Despite what Gates thinks, the rest of the world is ALREADY on Linux and Apache. Just as it is, the Iraqis only use XP because it costs $1. The US laws are a joke because the next big things in technology will not come from the USA due to its patent system, anti-small business tax and legal system, and other anti-innovation laws. Finally Gates and Ballmer will have to start to innovate as well as drop prices unless the US can maintain a legal web keeping its citizens from benefitting from the prosperity of global innovations. The dead wood which is the US government has not realized that their irresponsible laws will be ignored by other countries and only serve to harm America.
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Probably the world model will look alot more like filesharing than the corporate dominated model os the USA. Just as MSFT have made it almost impossible for a software company to compete, the world market will make it impossible to make money purely in software. I don't think any legal stilts can hold this market up. The future market will have to be support and coupling with hard, manufactured products (until 3-D printing/solid modeling gets more mature!
In the USA the software market will be held up by an ever-increasing set of legal requirements. Just take a look at how HIPAA is keeping health insurance companies in business (well eliminated most all small players) though all they are doing is simple forms processing. We are talking something like $2 is spent on healthcare for every $1 elsewhere in the economy.
Is this the kind of system Iraqis want? It's the kind of system their "savior" the USA is probably bringing to them. I suspect the US thinks it can impose a corporate-controlled society (bordering on serfdom as here in the USA) but except by military force the highest benefit/cost solution will succeed. That is, without question, open source.
The US Government is trying to stop the tide - ambitious considering we've only been to the moon once.
Americans too!
Nobody wants to police someone else's country but for now they need help. It'll take a few years but for the pragmatically minded at least then we can hope for some stability in the middle east and maybe even moderate oil prices.
Just remember $87B is about $1000 per family so you and I are both funding this event.
I just hope they invest my investmnet wisely and use Linux and make free 802.11 AP's in each major city.
P.S> Let's just hope this sends a clear message to the Sudanese and the other tyrants and religious homocide countries.
P.P.S> There's a Proverb that one should not stand quietly aside while another is unjustly murdered. As the proverbs pre-dated Jesus and Mohammed I believe it is part of Judaism and should be acepted by Islam. Certainly it should be accepted by all of us as it is an inherent truth about human nature.
Me too. I did a Cobol copybook - to - XML Java class and actually got good example copybook sent to me within a few days. How one could have done this without open source (sourceforge in my case) would be a mess.
The article could say: "everybody and their brother wants to do a project but sometimes nobody can understand what they are doing." And "They usually don't try to find pre-existing projects into which they can fit".
My exp is the issues are 1) PITA to setup an open source project (the first time) 2) Bad organization means lots of projects. If we could organize/work together better then we'd be much more productive; but maybe less productive; and probably still better efficiency than non-cooperative "old source development".
TimJowers
Ps. Another plug for Eric's Should Exist concept brainstorming site.
Is this news? I thought most every city has wi-fi already. I'm pretty sure Conterra communications in Columbia, SC covers about a circle over 10 miles in diameter. Not to mention th elocal Universities and war driving/open APs.
This is silly. People just use IM. That does voice and more. Phones are living dead technology. Only analysts and old people do not see this. Like B&W TV and cassettes you can tell your g.kids about them. Of course, the new "phones" will actually be computer with video cameras like what the cell companies are trying to get to now.
Only the US legal system that makes it illegal to do phone-to-PC (AFAICT) is keeping those crooks in business. Wree it not for that, I would not need a phone.
BTW, I didn't bother to read the patent but wonder if it mentions hitting the F-11 key to bring the menus back? Maybe someone can patent that :-) I'm pretty sure I figured that one out in 98 while working at an ISP. And how about embeding a little language so it really can be an application as they claim... us maybe AOL should patent that ::-)
Sorry, the site is Should Exist .org
http://www.shouldexist.com is the site I use for anti-patents and copylefts. It's cool but could be so much cooler with a few developments. Could be sort of a pre-sourceforge IF with some right baby steps: I mean the brainstorm and design part of development.
Good ones.
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I also liked that business progression predictions:
1) people would migrate from MF (never did)
2) people would not move from Netware (80% market share) to NT (did)
3) home users will not use Lunix (dooh!)
4) Now we have alongside Apple is dead, Sun is dead, and others.
5) I remember in 97-98 we all thought 64 bit would be mainstream by 99-00. Boy did that not happen. Save Nintendo I guess.
Oh yeah, what about distributed computing... DCOM will be, Web services will be,
Surely nobody ever predicted that computer technology would head straight for whatever is the slowest way:
Why program sockets when HTTP is 100 times slower?
Why program to a relational database or object system when XML text is 100s of times slower?
Why compile when we can interpret?
Why run software on your cmoputer when you can connect to a terminal, web server, or host and do a 100 times less?
Why not create about 20 layers between the application and the video card?
Why hire experienced programmers when you can hire some with no experience 1/2 across the world and get the project done 100 times slower?
Oh yeah, and then there's commodity computers. Everyone predicted that in the early '90's but the corp.s have successfully kept the prices high. Of course, with inflation we are starting to approach commodity computers.
Finally the one about re-usable objects. Maybe sourceforge and open source projects like Apache are as close as we can get. In 94 I remember everyone figures there'd be online libraries where one could download whatever component was needed. Hah!
MCI did something like this to me too. They were charging me $5+ per month some stupid fee so I canceled. Well, I have a $20 credit but they never sent it. Each month they sent a statement that my account was billed $5 more! Eventually the account got closed. Crooks.
You're the one who brought up a liver with a reverse mode :-) Or maybe it was a typo.
You totally should work in Hollywood. I can see the next Matrix-like movie having those autoworker arms a'flailing. The scenes created from this fantasy garbage would be full-on hella-cool. Like Mr. Anderson could get unplugged but then nano-bots are rebuilding the real world much like in the copmuter-generated world. Let's call the producers with this.
"Nanotech, one step closer to Utopia!" funny, eh?
Organisms are programmed with DNA or RNA. Their operation may be greatly affected with chemicals. Computers are programmed with magnetic bits and their operations are controlled with electromagnitic signals.
Only if nano-tech bridges these two could one reverse a liver. So, what if someone hacks the liver storage facility and inserts a virus (DNA). So, the complexities grow exponentially.
Maybe this is a Newton's Second Law of innovation: "For every innovation, their is an opposing but equal risk."
Also the problem is inaccuracy. Inaccuracy is fine for most professions but there are some in which it causes serious problems. As we move to using computers that categorize inaccurately then we will lose creativity. This is fine, we are losing human cultural independence even more rapidly than species; so, clearly we are headed to a monopoly of knowledge in which non-conformant thinking is not existable (as computers will omit or mis-classify it out of existence). Already the Internet has become a set of "top pages" as seen from the results of search engines. Knowledge breadth has been greatly lost as 99% of the pages will not show up in the first page of hits. Typically, I suspect, the 99.99% that have something different to say about the subject being searched. Not to mention that many English speakers do not mean what they say semantically. A great example was quoted in one of the books of NLP I read and the irony was the sentence was ill-formed grammatically but being used as an example of how hard semantic analysis is as if the sentence were correct English.
Yes, I scanned your link. It is a good argument for vaccines. Of course, it uses bad science... e.g. the fact the bubonic plague was not wiping out people in the 1800's is the same argument your author is using for small pox vaccines. This fact has nothing to do with vaccines. C'mon, anyone with any exposure to logic will expose such fallacious arguments. Of course, his/her argument that better standards of living do not contribute to better survival rates is also extremely ludicrous. While we are on the subject of reality let's discuss what is really going on: the pharm.s are disseminating viruses in order to create a market. Those who pay stand a chance of not getting the flu. Those who do not stand a high chance of getting the flu as the pharm.s are spreading the disease. The danger is the wide dissemination leads to more opportunities for mutation and, therefore, the possibilities of more dangerous diseases. Stop. Think about the ramifications. Only if you do not believe in evolution will this not scare you. One has to posit that virus mutation has a basal rate determined by the host population size and other host-related factors. The human population size and interaction is off the charts so playing around with viruses is extremely dangerous. The pahrmaceuticals are. The danger is a recurrence like the small pox plague or the bubonic plague; and, since you ask, hell yes I have studied this some. I have spoken to first hand witnesses of this... if one could care for a family then the family could survive the small pox plague of the early 1900's. My g.grandfather saved one such family. The trick IS someone has to help out. Just think back to your childhood or ask your elders and you'll learn that "flu season" did not exist in the past. This is something the pharm.s created for your suffering! Common colds perhaps but rarely (if ever) did one catch a flu. Scary is the fact that we are now living in a "1984" sort of world where we have to use first-hand evidence and logical argument to deduce reality. The reality you believe is the one created by companies who's primary interest is in creating a well-paying market - not healthcare!!! The unexpected twist is that companies are creating the false realities, not governments as in "1984". While we are on the subject, your author's argument that good hygeine does not reduce viral spread is also ridiculous. Recently I had the flu and was able to successfully not transfer it to co-workers and even three adults living in the same house with me for a week. How? Very careful hygiene. Of course if children were involved then it would have been maybe impossible. Maybe that's to what your auther is referring. TimJowers