I understand atheists do not believe in a God. I do. Nevertheless:
Truth is: Everyone is a Believer. You can not not believe (regardless of _what_ you believe)
And every belief (in whatever) is based on faith of some sort. For example, do you trust evolution? - your trust is then in exclusively the material, on chance, on life becoming more complex through mutation, on evolutionary research, on beauty by chance. Do you trust in a Christian God? Well then you put your trust in Christ because of eyewitness accounts (not your own), the authenticity of Biblical documents (information from outside), a description of the state of the world fits with what we see around us, and the personal experience of salvation with fulfillment of that restlessness I believe we all feel, what is "missing."
Science has limits. And I believe that evolution and the existence of God are not sufficiently "provable" by science.
I think they would do it whether or not they had the trademark and sort that out later. The quality of marketing drive you get from the name iPhone way outstrips iPodPhone etc. It would be like calling the iPod the iPodPlayer, doesn't quite roll off the tongue does it?
Well, as someone says there are perfectly good uses for such devices, even with 2D GUIs. We used a Pegasus one (Israel) to spatialise sound in a 3d speaker cube. So it was 2D on the screen but 3D aurally. You do need 6 degrees of freedom, even though the human ears are geared mostly for horizontal spatial location. But there you go. (oh and it would also make Tekken TAG a whole lot more fun:)
Yet again I suspect the ideal of striving for a format that is to be universal enough to cntain the whim of each individual's perceived wants. So one guy wants a lean mean 3d rendering browser machine, while somebody else wants an ultra high-res VR format for rendering the cosmos together with different behavioural and physical law models.
So what happens: either an inadequate format for the one, or a massively complicated overkill spec for lighter requirements. If they can bound the problem of 3D rendering (like they did with 640k of RAM:/) then they might have a chance. A format like HTML is simple and limited which is why it is still so pervasive.
"Universal" is becoming a synonym for "One of Many"
Coming from a telco that has recentlt gone into DSL in South Africa, there may be problems down the road with respect to supporting DSL lines within the building. Even though the distances are short, there are often funnies where a copper pair needs to be swapped out if a problem is taking too long to resolve (usually water in a joint somewhere, or a parallel AC power cable, or someone decided to call the phone company to fix their phone, phone techie kows nothing about this DSL setup and wires get moved/unplugged/rerouted etc.) You also don't want to be doing extensive infrastructure support if you can help it.
If you go this route I would suggest getting a company in the business to support the infrastructure. You need specialised test equipment and experience often to diagnose problems, and those tests can come in at a whole amount of dollars. The hassles of supporting your own DSLAM/mini-DSLAM (exchange equipment) may be worth avoiding.
100MB Ethernet if you have the option is much less fussy about external interference, and is probably easier to maintain. You save the costs of individual DSL modems per customer and the setup of those. No DSLAM, just a good reliable Ethernet switch or two.
You also need to decide if you want your users to go PPPoE or static routed connections.
Static connections DHCP'ed with a pool of IP addresses is a lot less hassle and would be the way to go I'd think. If you want open access for everybody, then this is the easiest way to go. Users just have to turn their machines on and they're connected to the internet.
With an open Internet T1, PPPoE will require you to do the PPPoE server and internet connection sharing, username and password administration.
Good luck, your users will with any luck love you either way!
The bad programmer paradigm is probably intended to infer our inferiority and nature's superiority in this arena. Ever get a programmer nut whose code you couldn't fathom? Well we all thought he was a nut but turned out he was a genius. The spaghetti code method he used was appropriate because he could handle the complexity. The rest of us are taught OOP and the like in an attempt to simply our own complicated and misunderstood minds and program something useful and maintable by us (when we've forgotten how we wrote the code) and our peers (who have no clue how individual minds wrap themselves around things.)
I'd be inclined to think about this one. Just a related matter. If you look at the spread of HIV around the world, the rate is slower and the powers that be may be less inclined to 1) fund research for cures or vaccines, and 2) probably more importantly less inclined to distribute treatment around the world because it has less chance of affecting them.
In short, it may be something like: lets cure the world before this highly infectious disease becomes a problem for us. HIV is much more manageable, we'll let those countries take care of it themselves.
If a cure for SARS is found, needless to say several things will happen:
-the drugs will be made cheaply available
-they will be distributed more quickly than ever before
-ALL countries and all classes/races/religions will get them
-the drug companies may not be able to swing a patent and expensive license manufacturig rights.
How about doing this for AIDS in Africa and other areas where HIV is rife. There is no doubt it will affect everybody. It is just a little further down the road.
As tragic as it is, SARS is something that will I hope break the barriers between nations (just like a funeral is the best way to get a family together). There is nothing for individual nations to play for with a visibly threatening global problem like SARS. It is just a damn shame that HIV and the environment get a back seat because those in authority refuse to see further than the tips of their noses (or election campaigns.)
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Correlation: brain damage = football, I guess it's a two-way hash after all!
I understand atheists do not believe in a God. I do. Nevertheless:
Truth is: Everyone is a Believer. You can not not believe (regardless of _what_ you believe)
And every belief (in whatever) is based on faith of some sort. For example, do you trust evolution? - your trust is then in exclusively the material, on chance, on life becoming more complex through mutation, on evolutionary research, on beauty by chance. Do you trust in a Christian God? Well then you put your trust in Christ because of eyewitness accounts (not your own), the authenticity of Biblical documents (information from outside), a description of the state of the world fits with what we see around us, and the personal experience of salvation with fulfillment of that restlessness I believe we all feel, what is "missing."
Science has limits. And I believe that evolution and the existence of God are not sufficiently "provable" by science.
I think they would do it whether or not they had the trademark and sort that out later. The quality of marketing drive you get from the name iPhone way outstrips iPodPhone etc. It would be like calling the iPod the iPodPlayer, doesn't quite roll off the tongue does it?
Well, as someone says there are perfectly good uses for such devices, even with 2D GUIs. We used a Pegasus one (Israel) to spatialise sound in a 3d speaker cube. So it was 2D on the screen but 3D aurally. You do need 6 degrees of freedom, even though the human ears are geared mostly for horizontal spatial location. But there you go. (oh and it would also make Tekken TAG a whole lot more fun:)
Yet again I suspect the ideal of striving for a format that is to be universal enough to cntain the whim of each individual's perceived wants. So one guy wants a lean mean 3d rendering browser machine, while somebody else wants an ultra high-res VR format for rendering the cosmos together with different behavioural and physical law models. So what happens: either an inadequate format for the one, or a massively complicated overkill spec for lighter requirements. If they can bound the problem of 3D rendering (like they did with 640k of RAM:/) then they might have a chance. A format like HTML is simple and limited which is why it is still so pervasive. "Universal" is becoming a synonym for "One of Many"
Coming from a telco that has recentlt gone into DSL in South Africa, there may be problems down the road with respect to supporting DSL lines within the building. Even though the distances are short, there are often funnies where a copper pair needs to be swapped out if a problem is taking too long to resolve (usually water in a joint somewhere, or a parallel AC power cable, or someone decided to call the phone company to fix their phone, phone techie kows nothing about this DSL setup and wires get moved/unplugged/rerouted etc.) You also don't want to be doing extensive infrastructure support if you can help it. If you go this route I would suggest getting a company in the business to support the infrastructure. You need specialised test equipment and experience often to diagnose problems, and those tests can come in at a whole amount of dollars. The hassles of supporting your own DSLAM/mini-DSLAM (exchange equipment) may be worth avoiding. 100MB Ethernet if you have the option is much less fussy about external interference, and is probably easier to maintain. You save the costs of individual DSL modems per customer and the setup of those. No DSLAM, just a good reliable Ethernet switch or two. You also need to decide if you want your users to go PPPoE or static routed connections. Static connections DHCP'ed with a pool of IP addresses is a lot less hassle and would be the way to go I'd think. If you want open access for everybody, then this is the easiest way to go. Users just have to turn their machines on and they're connected to the internet. With an open Internet T1, PPPoE will require you to do the PPPoE server and internet connection sharing, username and password administration. Good luck, your users will with any luck love you either way!
The bad programmer paradigm is probably intended to infer our inferiority and nature's superiority in this arena. Ever get a programmer nut whose code you couldn't fathom? Well we all thought he was a nut but turned out he was a genius. The spaghetti code method he used was appropriate because he could handle the complexity. The rest of us are taught OOP and the like in an attempt to simply our own complicated and misunderstood minds and program something useful and maintable by us (when we've forgotten how we wrote the code) and our peers (who have no clue how individual minds wrap themselves around things.)
I'd be inclined to think about this one. Just a related matter. If you look at the spread of HIV around the world, the rate is slower and the powers that be may be less inclined to 1) fund research for cures or vaccines, and 2) probably more importantly less inclined to distribute treatment around the world because it has less chance of affecting them. In short, it may be something like: lets cure the world before this highly infectious disease becomes a problem for us. HIV is much more manageable, we'll let those countries take care of it themselves. If a cure for SARS is found, needless to say several things will happen: -the drugs will be made cheaply available -they will be distributed more quickly than ever before -ALL countries and all classes/races/religions will get them -the drug companies may not be able to swing a patent and expensive license manufacturig rights. How about doing this for AIDS in Africa and other areas where HIV is rife. There is no doubt it will affect everybody. It is just a little further down the road. As tragic as it is, SARS is something that will I hope break the barriers between nations (just like a funeral is the best way to get a family together). There is nothing for individual nations to play for with a visibly threatening global problem like SARS. It is just a damn shame that HIV and the environment get a back seat because those in authority refuse to see further than the tips of their noses (or election campaigns.)