Hmm...I think that a top-of-the-line computer from a year or three ago, a portable music device, and a current video game console would give a better price/functionality ratio than any convergence device, since I prefer console gaming, I know about emulation, and I ph33r corporate lockdown of my computer. Also, I find that video game consoles tend to be MUCH cheaper than the necessary extra expenditure to get a computer capable of equivalent gaming
I used to have this box open for telnet access, and a friend and I discovered write and this ^H effect, but we found it could be avoided easily by doing cat - | write
What'd I miss here?
I'd like to point out that new arrivals could just be sharing legal files, like me...I've arrived on Soulseek (same user name, EvilSporkMan) with about half of OCRemix.
Actually, I run Linux, and I keep noticing that this damned "foldingathome" process is running in background, taking up nearly all of my CPU. Funny though, it doesn't really make the computer run much slower...
Ok, try socialism then. Socialists pay you for the work you do - you don't work, you're going to have a hard time eating. The difference is that everything is manipulated so that no one needs to work all the time to live, and everything's price is the labor cost to make it. Hell, why not...my essay on the subject included below. (I had to write this for English, about The Jungle)
----BEGIN LONG ESSAY, SEE POST ABOVE----
Sometimes, people change the world in ways they don't intend. Upton Sinclair did just that with his 1906 novel The Jungle, widely remembered for the uproar its vivid descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry caused. However, Sinclair's true intention in The Jungle was to convert the reader to socialism, an economic system largely superior to the capitalist system that still rules America today.
Many people dismiss Sinclair's argument immediately because they know of the sad fate of the Soviet Union and other communist nations. First of all, communism is a more extreme form of socialism; not all socialists are communists. The corrupt governments of these nations and their suppression of all opposition resulted in them never truly becoming communistic, nor even socialistic. Another concern people have about the idea is that it will erase democracy, but this results from the misconception that it is a political theory; in fact, the socialist method deals mainly with economics. Therefore, the two theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
As with every group, the socialists don't all agree on everything, but there is, of course, the common belief that makes them one: a|a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life, anda|that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners. (Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, p. 336) In other words, the industries that make basic goods, like food, pencils, and so on, will be owned in common and used for the good of everyone. Thus, Sinclair's argument is actually a very high application of democracy.
In contrast to socialism, capitalism focuses on private ownership and looking after one's own self. In it, corporations or private individuals make the things that everyone needs, and their competition with each other results in lower prices and quality goods. However, corporations have displayed a tendency to organize against the consumer and form trusts or cartels in order to raise prices, lower quality, or impose arbitrary terms to everyone. The Jungle railed against the Beef Trust in particular, with descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in its factories, the way the foods were adulterated, and...all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose. (p. 133) Modern companies have displayed similarly underhanded behavior. For example, the music industry is now suing its customers and pursuing draconian legislation in an attempt to keep itself alive in the face of new technology for music distribution, all while cheating the consumer by gouging prices on many albums.
Socialism does away with the exploitation of the population by corporations because it allows the workers themselves to own their workplaces. This results in the death of the corporation, whose sole purpose for existing is to shelter its owners from legal entanglements. However, many interpret this to mean that everyone would be paid the same. Sinclair answers:
Manifestly not, since some work is easy and some hard, and we should have millions of rural mail carriers, and no coal miners. Of course the wages may be left the same, and the hours varied, one or the other will have to be varied continually, according as a greater or lesser number of workers is needed in any particular industry. That is precisely what is d
This is a huge contrast with the CS "class" at my school, which is actually the district's Math, Science, and Technology Center (supposed to be good). The class is pretty much a joke. Technically, it's AP Computer Science, but we're learning "Java", not "programming". Most students just punch in some code gleaned from example dittos and hack at it until it works, while having little or no concept of why it works or what it is doing. However, I think pen and paper is a little extreme; can I have a text editor, please?
Incidentally, what is this "D. Knuth's way" of which you speak?
to complain about an additional $1/month or less in taxes is being petty.
Studied American History lately? We WERE a bunch of petty bastards who bitched about taxes all the time right before our separation from Great Britain.
That would only work if all the noncompliant hardware and software were suddenly destroyed, allowing the flawless implementation of your magic DRM scheme. Also, you have to factor in the time it'll take for Roofnet (or some other scheme where the network itself is owned by the people) to become viable, because at that point we start taking the Internet out of corporate hands and remove a huge carrier of lawsuits/draconian policies.
Incidentally, I highly doubt that the magic DRM scheme would be pulled off perfectly the first time...not even the Great Linux (*bows down*) is flawless.
But one of Google's guidelines, posted at its Web sites, says, "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." The company warns offenders that they can be removed from the search engine.
Since when are they the Internet nazis?
We need projects like Roofnet to come to fruition too, so we can finally take the network itself out of organizations' hands. Having to pay a (lawsuit-susceptible and potentially evil) megacorp for Internet access isn't exactly conducive to freeing society FROM the megacorps...
Anyone considered starting a Great Sneakernet? Somehow it has to be detached from the Internet after it gets started, and it'll need to be self-perpetuating. Get everyone to cart their CD cases around whenever they go to their m8's house and copy...but I'm kinda at a loss as to how to make it take off. =\
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Hmm...I think that a top-of-the-line computer from a year or three ago, a portable music device, and a current video game console would give a better price/functionality ratio than any convergence device, since I prefer console gaming, I know about emulation, and I ph33r corporate lockdown of my computer. Also, I find that video game consoles tend to be MUCH cheaper than the necessary extra expenditure to get a computer capable of equivalent gaming
Probably the exchange of cybersex for cybermoney...
(Damn these buzzwords!!!)
I used to have this box open for telnet access, and a friend and I discovered write and this ^H effect, but we found it could be avoided easily by doing
cat - | write
What'd I miss here?
...and I speak for 99% of everyone when I say this has gone on too long.
you can mathematically prove that you'll be long dead before they can break it.
Unless "they" get lucky, and THEN what do you do?
Nice try, but coefficients are nearly always written in front, so it's a + bi.
What's wrong with Socialists?
No, that's how fast light moves. I want to know how fast that speed goes, like great-grandparent said.
How fast does the speed of light go? It'd make more sense if you had to be faster than light to read the page...
I'd like to point out that new arrivals could just be sharing legal files, like me...I've arrived on Soulseek (same user name, EvilSporkMan) with about half of OCRemix.
Actually, I run Linux, and I keep noticing that this damned "foldingathome" process is running in background, taking up nearly all of my CPU. Funny though, it doesn't really make the computer run much slower...
----BEGIN LONG ESSAY, SEE POST ABOVE----
Sometimes, people change the world in ways they don't intend. Upton Sinclair did just that with his 1906 novel The Jungle, widely remembered for the uproar its vivid descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry caused. However, Sinclair's true intention in The Jungle was to convert the reader to socialism, an economic system largely superior to the capitalist system that still rules America today.
Many people dismiss Sinclair's argument immediately because they know of the sad fate of the Soviet Union and other communist nations. First of all, communism is a more extreme form of socialism; not all socialists are communists. The corrupt governments of these nations and their suppression of all opposition resulted in them never truly becoming communistic, nor even socialistic. Another concern people have about the idea is that it will erase democracy, but this results from the misconception that it is a political theory; in fact, the socialist method deals mainly with economics. Therefore, the two theories are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
As with every group, the socialists don't all agree on everything, but there is, of course, the common belief that makes them one: a|a Socialist believes in the common ownership and democratic management of the means of producing the necessities of life, anda|that the means by which this is to be brought about is the class conscious political organization of the wage-earners. (Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, p. 336) In other words, the industries that make basic goods, like food, pencils, and so on, will be owned in common and used for the good of everyone. Thus, Sinclair's argument is actually a very high application of democracy.
In contrast to socialism, capitalism focuses on private ownership and looking after one's own self. In it, corporations or private individuals make the things that everyone needs, and their competition with each other results in lower prices and quality goods. However, corporations have displayed a tendency to organize against the consumer and form trusts or cartels in order to raise prices, lower quality, or impose arbitrary terms to everyone. The Jungle railed against the Beef Trust in particular, with descriptions of the unsanitary conditions in its factories, the way the foods were adulterated, and ...all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or salted, whole or chopped, any color and any flavor and any odor they chose. (p. 133) Modern companies have displayed similarly underhanded behavior. For example, the music industry is now suing its customers and pursuing draconian legislation in an attempt to keep itself alive in the face of new technology for music distribution, all while cheating the consumer by gouging prices on many albums.
Socialism does away with the exploitation of the population by corporations because it allows the workers themselves to own their workplaces. This results in the death of the corporation, whose sole purpose for existing is to shelter its owners from legal entanglements. However, many interpret this to mean that everyone would be paid the same. Sinclair answers:
This is a huge contrast with the CS "class" at my school, which is actually the district's Math, Science, and Technology Center (supposed to be good). The class is pretty much a joke. Technically, it's AP Computer Science, but we're learning "Java", not "programming". Most students just punch in some code gleaned from example dittos and hack at it until it works, while having little or no concept of why it works or what it is doing. However, I think pen and paper is a little extreme; can I have a text editor, please?
Incidentally, what is this "D. Knuth's way" of which you speak?
Uh, don't you need some algebra for programming? O_o
From the article: As any adult knows, system crashes are a fact of high- tech life.
I run Linux. What's a system crash?
to complain about an additional $1/month or less in taxes is being petty.
Studied American History lately? We WERE a bunch of petty bastards who bitched about taxes all the time right before our separation from Great Britain.
What's wrong with real communism? Look at The Communism.org FAQ under "science vs. bullshit", Mr. Bullshit. =P
In fact, oral sex between adult spouses is a sex crime.
What do they do, go around randomly breaking down doors to check?
That would only work if all the noncompliant hardware and software were suddenly destroyed, allowing the flawless implementation of your magic DRM scheme. Also, you have to factor in the time it'll take for Roofnet (or some other scheme where the network itself is owned by the people) to become viable, because at that point we start taking the Internet out of corporate hands and remove a huge carrier of lawsuits/draconian policies.
Incidentally, I highly doubt that the magic DRM scheme would be pulled off perfectly the first time...not even the Great Linux (*bows down*) is flawless.
Uncultured yokel...See here
It's a Seinfeld reference. "No Internet for you! End of line!"
Grandparent wanted people to have to pledge allegiance to "der Fuhrer". I think that would imply some trust. =)
But one of Google's guidelines, posted at its Web sites, says, "Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content." The company warns offenders that they can be removed from the search engine.
Since when are they the Internet nazis?
We need projects like Roofnet to come to fruition too, so we can finally take the network itself out of organizations' hands. Having to pay a (lawsuit-susceptible and potentially evil) megacorp for Internet access isn't exactly conducive to freeing society FROM the megacorps...
Anyone considered starting a Great Sneakernet? Somehow it has to be detached from the Internet after it gets started, and it'll need to be self-perpetuating. Get everyone to cart their CD cases around whenever they go to their m8's house and copy...but I'm kinda at a loss as to how to make it take off. =\
It's called WASTE...google it. (Link is best I could find in 5 seconds)