Do you care to emphasize on "Europe's Business model"
Just because they are pooling money from all nations to compose a united space program does not imply a business model. Structured research perhaps?
Why does it really matter who makes an important discovery?
It matters very much. Different scientists produce different results in research, and politicians then choose which one suits their goals best. Take for example the fishing industry. The NFI (National Fisheries Institute, Inc.) in a recent study on coastal marine life and sustainability produced figures very favirable to the industry and the fishing companies (large-scale). These were proved to be very different from the research posted by other groups and the opinions of the actual fishermen themselves were in harp contrast to the of the NFI. Yet members of government, in drafting policy, choose to ignore those results that are will steer them away from campaign contribution and reelection.
The point is, scientists, in some matters, dominate the Capitol. On many global issues, including Antarctica, and soon Mars once more substantial research from several sources is available, scientists will be the deciding force in how to deal with resources, what to do about certain discoveries etc.
Do not dilute this with the issue of cloning, as that involves morals beyond the scope of this discussion.
Thepoint that I'm trying to get across is not about the current ways in which we use Win2k Pro (which can beduplicated using the same Key, unlike XP(...those whores)) but rather, in the very near future, MS has plans to implement software that prevents this and many other functions that users urrently "exploit" to their use. This will end the "grey area" era for Windows users and most likely many Mac apps too, and rights will suddemly become black and white, hance incompatible with the human mind.
For all those idiots that posted "Linux sux" and "Linux is dead" at the top of this, you are theones we will be layghing at when you are denied access to a certain file orcommand just becuase you were too ignorant about the politics of computers, and too exhuberant and trustworthy of Windows.
Agreed. It's not dead. I am not around too many people willing to experiment with Linux (Learn), but I took the initiative myself after having spent the last 6 months reading about Microsoft's DRM initiatives and related materials. Even on TV IBM is advertising Linux (and some UNIX) use. Good move, as is the India initative. If Alternative systems are going to be successful, growing large outside of the US will be a big step (like building an army) prior to returning to the US, which at that point may be falling behind in software technologies (not likely, but DRM is a luddite move). If I'm going to invest $1000 in a box, just like $10,000 (or whatever) in a car, I'm going to use it to its fullest potectial, and maitain the freedom to modify it as I see fit without having to pay $100 a pop for "licences"
The question still remains...does it work as a phone? Sony-Ericsson and the 8200 series and many other new "tech phones" drop calls, have bad conncection, and break after the first drop. 3 decades of cell-phone technology and they still don't realize that the best phones have an external antenna. I'll stick iwth my old billy-club-size mobile until they can solve those frequent problems.
US is a system designed by a group of people with an inherrent distrust for government
True, but trust was then reestablished once the people decided place power in the hands of a federal government to draft a constitution for the states. I'm not good on US history, so save me the lesson, but the point is that our TYPE of government is the result of a people oppressed and distrustful of the goverment, but they created a new system in the new world where they knew they could trust their elected individuals, no divine authority here!
Not very funny, hence the ridiculously low mod. No, my uncle taught me how to use an AT&T computer running the DOS operating system, with a black and orange screen. Aaah, the days of pre-een Leisure Suit Larry 1.
I'm not suprised that 80% would know less...but that was an encouraging reminder to keep at it, seeing as how I feel that I am the one falling behind. Not so, eh?
I agree, but only because I haven't chosen my professional career to be in computers. Everything I do know about computer is from age 10 of doing it as a hobby. I'm still young, so perhaps I should do something with it for extra cash, but otherwise youwill find me spending sleeples nights in front of the comuter, waiting for the moment when i reluctantly have to leave to go sit at a "dumb" workstation at the office.
Man the Oracle really has it in for me!
Not being able to admit when you're wrong is a personality trait and has nothing to do with one's skills as a programmer. Your problem with such people is apparent in all lines of work, including: law, engineering, teching, racecar driving, governing, electing, slashdotting.
Actually, its MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer...or MCSA, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
Just becuase you have a CS degree doesn't mean you're better than the self-taught or non-degree person. Although boolean logic does not lie, the field of computers is best applied when left in the hands of innovators and "CuriousGeorges" that always wan tot explore the unexplored. Tht is how we will progress. That is also why Digital Rights Management implementations in software are such a bad idea.
Sure a CS degree proves that you know your shit...good for the employer who is dishing out the money, and it also proves thatyou know how to work and code and operate in a certain fashion, by the book, if you will. But I am a finance major, self-taught in computers (all areas) since my uncle gave me his DOS at age 10. However, I do not officially in the CS field. But I am very innovative with computers and this is starting to sound gay....bye
I like the old Total Information Awareness better. It was less deceptive, and more directly hints to the capabilities and operating spheres of this concept.
They can collect all the information on me they want, but they cannot predict my behavior, as irratic and non-counsumerish as I can be (this may not be the case for some). Eventually citizens in all parts of life will see effects of this and get pissed that some idiot company that sponsored the government is trying to con you into a product using personal things about you. That's going too far.
We love spending cash and being lavished and catered to, but not at the expense of our secrets. God knows I would not have anyone see where my cash (and I mean I operate on a cash-only basis, unless I'm buying milk and cereal) was spent on my last excursion to Vegas, or Vanuatu Islands (I wish!).
In my opinion, this is just another DB toget hacked, and when it does,te governmentwill be paying dearly for settingboobie-traps for 200 million pissed off Americans with screwed up credit reports and financial statements.
Unfortunately, a great deal of voters (althoght this is one bill we do not get to decide on i bet) think that measures like this information project are necessary becuase they are fearful of others, hence I can understand your point about fear of exploitation.
But if a government is going to be able to govern the people it supposedly represents, there is an element of trust involved. We the people trust our elected officials to design laws that will preserve our freedom. Historically, the US has put more emphasis on freedom, not equality. Is this trend about to change, thereby braking the trust between governmennt and citizens. If abused (chacks and balances) this is the type of federal bluder that causes uproar.
I hope the technologists remain forceful in this one.
These guys make a good, comprehensive case for their business class as far as a model for making their vision realized.
However, the biggest flaw in their theory is that it does not take into account consumer behavior. People are getting smarter, not dumber (although trends prove me wrong) about their technology toys. Why would I want one company controlling and monitoring everything that everyone in my household is doing. In addition, although the cable provider may boast a mountain of channels, I am still limited to what they and their partners provide. (Some choose to exclude the bikini-rich Travel channel, other do not receive bloomberg, TechTV, etc.) Even their gaming initiative sounds like a heap of crap. 15-20 games?! I'd get sick of it in a month (unless they can license CS and online poker/blackjack).
My point is, this business model can in no way work once people realize that while the profits may be boosting economic figures, it promotes clustering of all media services under one roof. We are now down to about 6 major companies controlling 99% of the world's media, this will result in 2-3. Choice will become a thing of the past, and our lives will become over-saturated with information fed to us from these few companies, and the cable providers that ultimately make it work.
I heard a discussion on how record companies would make deals with Product companies to force rap artists to promote product in their rhyme. Obviously Escalades, Philly blunts and TAG watches are automatically on the list, but things like Gap jeans, Gucci perfume, FOX Sports channel, the possibilities ar endless. This has already been done with LL Cool J 's Dr. Pepper rap, referencing Run DMC's dead buddy (shame on them), but the concept im describing above was not to be aired as a commercial, but rather, be embedded in the song, only to have the gullable masses - droopy from lack of personality - cling to their silver diamond egos and "see the light" by buying those products.
"Cool, now I got the same bandaid as Nelly, and matching Nike shoelaces yo!"
"Oh yea, well I got the collector's edition of Nelly's bandaid!"
Ok. That only emphasizes the point that artists' are losing sight of why they are making music, or maybe just the impact it has on people who admire them. At least the rap industry is blunt about it. In their lyrics they admit that they are only ther to throw around cash, fuck their roots and the same to bitches.
I'm with you on that one.
Is this really what artists have reduced themselves to? No longer is music written to inspire or to enjoy, but simply to corrupt and be corrupted.
Take the example if Lars Ulrich, of Metallica, who led the initiative against Napster, my favourite program ever (so user friendly and so thievous). Lars forgot that the reason his band was based on a communityof fans that traded bootleg copies of their music from the garage days. This is how they repay their fans?!
I'd like to remind this bitch from the MPA that, legal matters aside, if it weren't for the fans she wouldn't have a fucking job to begin with. I only hope that others will join me in silent protest against a double crossing music industry that seks to rape their fans. At least sports recognize the importance of their audience. In many cases, one cannot blame the artists. Korn has done a good job of staying as true to themselves and their fans, but they should loosen existing ties with some associations like the MPA (if that is even possible) and bring music back to the folk days, whenit was enjoyed and lived...not made for profit.
Sure these are tough times for that industry when technology is stealing sales figures, but times will change, and those who crossed their fans and fellows in the past will be remebered, as traitors: puppets of the machine.
In 2006 there will be over a million Americans that declare themselves Zionites, or Matricists, after nations have soaked up the meanings of the beautiful trilogy that we are about to witness.
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Do you care to emphasize on "Europe's Business model" Just because they are pooling money from all nations to compose a united space program does not imply a business model. Structured research perhaps?
Why does it really matter who makes an important discovery? It matters very much. Different scientists produce different results in research, and politicians then choose which one suits their goals best. Take for example the fishing industry. The NFI (National Fisheries Institute, Inc.) in a recent study on coastal marine life and sustainability produced figures very favirable to the industry and the fishing companies (large-scale). These were proved to be very different from the research posted by other groups and the opinions of the actual fishermen themselves were in harp contrast to the of the NFI. Yet members of government, in drafting policy, choose to ignore those results that are will steer them away from campaign contribution and reelection. The point is, scientists, in some matters, dominate the Capitol. On many global issues, including Antarctica, and soon Mars once more substantial research from several sources is available, scientists will be the deciding force in how to deal with resources, what to do about certain discoveries etc. Do not dilute this with the issue of cloning, as that involves morals beyond the scope of this discussion.
Sounds like a job for ASIMO! Honda's helper robot. http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
Thepoint that I'm trying to get across is not about the current ways in which we use Win2k Pro (which can beduplicated using the same Key, unlike XP(...those whores)) but rather, in the very near future, MS has plans to implement software that prevents this and many other functions that users urrently "exploit" to their use. This will end the "grey area" era for Windows users and most likely many Mac apps too, and rights will suddemly become black and white, hance incompatible with the human mind.
For all those idiots that posted "Linux sux" and "Linux is dead" at the top of this, you are theones we will be layghing at when you are denied access to a certain file orcommand just becuase you were too ignorant about the politics of computers, and too exhuberant and trustworthy of Windows.
I dont mean to be a troll here, but man that link is funny CHipJew! Hahas. (now where is that list of executives e-mail addresses).
Agreed. It's not dead. I am not around too many people willing to experiment with Linux (Learn), but I took the initiative myself after having spent the last 6 months reading about Microsoft's DRM initiatives and related materials. Even on TV IBM is advertising Linux (and some UNIX) use. Good move, as is the India initative. If Alternative systems are going to be successful, growing large outside of the US will be a big step (like building an army) prior to returning to the US, which at that point may be falling behind in software technologies (not likely, but DRM is a luddite move). If I'm going to invest $1000 in a box, just like $10,000 (or whatever) in a car, I'm going to use it to its fullest potectial, and maitain the freedom to modify it as I see fit without having to pay $100 a pop for "licences"
Dead?! I just loaded a new Linux desktop! OH, well, out the window you go.
All the more reason to use Mozilla.
The question still remains...does it work as a phone? Sony-Ericsson and the 8200 series and many other new "tech phones" drop calls, have bad conncection, and break after the first drop. 3 decades of cell-phone technology and they still don't realize that the best phones have an external antenna. I'll stick iwth my old billy-club-size mobile until they can solve those frequent problems.
US is a system designed by a group of people with an inherrent distrust for government True, but trust was then reestablished once the people decided place power in the hands of a federal government to draft a constitution for the states. I'm not good on US history, so save me the lesson, but the point is that our TYPE of government is the result of a people oppressed and distrustful of the goverment, but they created a new system in the new world where they knew they could trust their elected individuals, no divine authority here!
Not very funny, hence the ridiculously low mod. No, my uncle taught me how to use an AT&T computer running the DOS operating system, with a black and orange screen. Aaah, the days of pre-een Leisure Suit Larry 1.
I'm not suprised that 80% would know less...but that was an encouraging reminder to keep at it, seeing as how I feel that I am the one falling behind. Not so, eh?
I agree, but only because I haven't chosen my professional career to be in computers. Everything I do know about computer is from age 10 of doing it as a hobby. I'm still young, so perhaps I should do something with it for extra cash, but otherwise youwill find me spending sleeples nights in front of the comuter, waiting for the moment when i reluctantly have to leave to go sit at a "dumb" workstation at the office. Man the Oracle really has it in for me!
No, but the employer probably would not believe you.
Not being able to admit when you're wrong is a personality trait and has nothing to do with one's skills as a programmer. Your problem with such people is apparent in all lines of work, including: law, engineering, teching, racecar driving, governing, electing, slashdotting.
Actually, its MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer...or MCSA, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
Just becuase you have a CS degree doesn't mean you're better than the self-taught or non-degree person. Although boolean logic does not lie, the field of computers is best applied when left in the hands of innovators and "CuriousGeorges" that always wan tot explore the unexplored. Tht is how we will progress. That is also why Digital Rights Management implementations in software are such a bad idea.
Sure a CS degree proves that you know your shit...good for the employer who is dishing out the money, and it also proves thatyou know how to work and code and operate in a certain fashion, by the book, if you will. But I am a finance major, self-taught in computers (all areas) since my uncle gave me his DOS at age 10. However, I do not officially in the CS field. But I am very innovative with computers and this is starting to sound gay....bye
I like the old Total Information Awareness better. It was less deceptive, and more directly hints to the capabilities and operating spheres of this concept.
They can collect all the information on me they want, but they cannot predict my behavior, as irratic and non-counsumerish as I can be (this may not be the case for some). Eventually citizens in all parts of life will see effects of this and get pissed that some idiot company that sponsored the government is trying to con you into a product using personal things about you. That's going too far.
We love spending cash and being lavished and catered to, but not at the expense of our secrets. God knows I would not have anyone see where my cash (and I mean I operate on a cash-only basis, unless I'm buying milk and cereal) was spent on my last excursion to Vegas, or Vanuatu Islands (I wish!).
In my opinion, this is just another DB toget hacked, and when it does,te governmentwill be paying dearly for settingboobie-traps for 200 million pissed off Americans with screwed up credit reports and financial statements.
Unfortunately, a great deal of voters (althoght this is one bill we do not get to decide on i bet) think that measures like this information project are necessary becuase they are fearful of others, hence I can understand your point about fear of exploitation.
But if a government is going to be able to govern the people it supposedly represents, there is an element of trust involved. We the people trust our elected officials to design laws that will preserve our freedom.
Historically, the US has put more emphasis on freedom, not equality. Is this trend about to change, thereby braking the trust between governmennt and citizens. If abused (chacks and balances) this is the type of federal bluder that causes uproar.
I hope the technologists remain forceful in this one.
These guys make a good, comprehensive case for their business class as far as a model for making their vision realized.
However, the biggest flaw in their theory is that it does not take into account consumer behavior. People are getting smarter, not dumber (although trends prove me wrong) about their technology toys. Why would I want one company controlling and monitoring everything that everyone in my household is doing. In addition, although the cable provider may boast a mountain of channels, I am still limited to what they and their partners provide. (Some choose to exclude the bikini-rich Travel channel, other do not receive bloomberg, TechTV, etc.) Even their gaming initiative sounds like a heap of crap. 15-20 games?! I'd get sick of it in a month (unless they can license CS and online poker/blackjack).
My point is, this business model can in no way work once people realize that while the profits may be boosting economic figures, it promotes clustering of all media services under one roof. We are now down to about 6 major companies controlling 99% of the world's media, this will result in 2-3. Choice will become a thing of the past, and our lives will become over-saturated with information fed to us from these few companies, and the cable providers that ultimately make it work.
I heard a discussion on how record companies would make deals with Product companies to force rap artists to promote product in their rhyme. Obviously Escalades, Philly blunts and TAG watches are automatically on the list, but things like Gap jeans, Gucci perfume, FOX Sports channel, the possibilities ar endless. This has already been done with LL Cool J 's Dr. Pepper rap, referencing Run DMC's dead buddy (shame on them), but the concept im describing above was not to be aired as a commercial, but rather, be embedded in the song, only to have the gullable masses - droopy from lack of personality - cling to their silver diamond egos and "see the light" by buying those products.
"Cool, now I got the same bandaid as Nelly, and matching Nike shoelaces yo!"
"Oh yea, well I got the collector's edition of Nelly's bandaid!"
"I got the North Face edition."
Eat it foolz.
Ok. That only emphasizes the point that artists' are losing sight of why they are making music, or maybe just the impact it has on people who admire them. At least the rap industry is blunt about it. In their lyrics they admit that they are only ther to throw around cash, fuck their roots and the same to bitches.
I'm with you on that one. Is this really what artists have reduced themselves to? No longer is music written to inspire or to enjoy, but simply to corrupt and be corrupted. Take the example if Lars Ulrich, of Metallica, who led the initiative against Napster, my favourite program ever (so user friendly and so thievous). Lars forgot that the reason his band was based on a communityof fans that traded bootleg copies of their music from the garage days. This is how they repay their fans?! I'd like to remind this bitch from the MPA that, legal matters aside, if it weren't for the fans she wouldn't have a fucking job to begin with. I only hope that others will join me in silent protest against a double crossing music industry that seks to rape their fans. At least sports recognize the importance of their audience. In many cases, one cannot blame the artists. Korn has done a good job of staying as true to themselves and their fans, but they should loosen existing ties with some associations like the MPA (if that is even possible) and bring music back to the folk days, whenit was enjoyed and lived...not made for profit. Sure these are tough times for that industry when technology is stealing sales figures, but times will change, and those who crossed their fans and fellows in the past will be remebered, as traitors: puppets of the machine.
Does this mean I have to turn in my karaoke machine loaded with displayed lyrics?
In 2006 there will be over a million Americans that declare themselves Zionites, or Matricists, after nations have soaked up the meanings of the beautiful trilogy that we are about to witness.