Globalization, globalism, et al, seems to be such a vague term now that I fail to see what is driving such polarized responses. If no one has a clear idea of WHAT it is, then what it will BECOME will depend largely on what all of us think, believe, or make it out to be.
It's change in an unknown form. That very fact engenders a paralyzing fear in some. Both fear of change and fear of the unknown.
So, if globalization (and its impact) is so undefined then worrying about it is mindless hysteria at this point. Which would explain why it plays so well where fear mongering is a way of life.
It is easy to dismiss this because it happens far away in another country, but the events of September 11th should have given us a heads-up that we need to pay close attention to the poorer parts of the world if we are to avoid our own destruction.
There is no connection between the events on that date and your premise. Nothing at all. You are trying to attach grand purpose to the acts of extremists and in the process justify them. You have missed the point entirely. In a very old tactic, a group of people with problems they can't quite get their hands around, blame their lot on someone else. There is nothing noble involved, no taking a stand for the rights of others. Just an act of murderous cowardice. Don't try to muddy it with feigned higher purpose.
So you're a "scientist" at NIH and don't see the need for "draconian" measures like a mandatory search of your belongings.
1. Go back and read the docs you signed when you went to work there. This is a condition of your employment at the facility.
2. We haven't yet determined the origin of the Anthrax used in New York, DC, and elsewhere. And you wonder why you're being searched at NIH?
3. Perhaps you missed the part where people are DEAD.
The mind-boggling part of this is your reaction. This is not a fourth amendment issue, this is LIFE and DEATH. That's much higher on the priority list.
Let's simplify and refine that idea. While you're considering letting the terrorist camps have it with erudition in both barrels, I would suggest that we can thoroughly annoy, frustrate, corrupt and demoralize all at the same time.
Playboy and Budweiser. Rot their brains and their livers.
Self-contained artificial heart appears to be here. I think we're now up to patient #3. Somewhere I also remember seeing a discussion of combining body-generated power with this latest generation of artificial heart.
Do you guys think you can cut the one-sided political crap for once? Let's stick to the issue at hand. How the fsck does alewando's remark rate a 5 around here? 3 maybe. But 5?
Brazil has decided to suspend international law in favor of their populace over those greedy global-economy drug companies who developed the drugs. We can also rest assured that the Brazilian companies that produce these AIDS pharmaceuticals (or through taxes, graft, what have you the Brazilian govt) won't make a dime of profit themselves.
Now for the record *BSD is dying posts* will be ignored so don't bother trolling, I would like to hear perhaps from a developer what actions (if any) could, and would FreeBSD take, should Apple decide to switch into the i386 arena with Darwin.
One more time for those who haven't been following this same question in the Mac forums since Apple bought Next.
As long as the Steve is running Apple, there won't be OSX on 386. Period. This one's been what-if'ed into the ground. Just isn't going to happen and the reason is simple. Apple makes money from hardware. PC clones are cheap. Apple would have to adopt an entirely different business model and the Steve continues to say "No way".
Would I be the first in line to PAY for OSX if they did? Damn straight. But I've gotten tired of wishing. This isn't a technical issue. It's a business issue.
Since it didn't make your list, I would have to assume that the entire IBM production line for PowerPC vaporised overnight. Motorola may be in a quandry, but IBM is producing.
Something I have to keep telling my kids seems to be appropriate here. The web is not the ultimate source of information. Just because the material can't be found from a Google search doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There is that possibility that one would actually have to perform a proper search (ie go to a reputable library).
Vast quantities of research still do not magically appear on the web. That does not mean the work has not been done.
Your concern for safety is admirable. However, don't let yourself fall prey to the sort of superficial search for facts that one normally associates with TV reporters. It's also grossly unfair to those who are working on this technology.
"today is sunny. Temperatures are mild, and life will be generally peachy. A cold front has moved over a portion the upstart OSS community and it has miraculously sucked all the negative energy away from here."
I thought we were supposed to reserve the (sometimes mindless) flaming for Microsoft the Merciless and the assembled minions!?
How about a show of hands. Is there anyone who sees a benefit to this beyond taking the mind of the collective off their own problems?
Yes, the players will be more expensive. Why? Because Congress and the GSA (the guvmint purchasing watchdog) won't simply allow you to hike over to your local electronics store and buy one off the shelf. It has to be a competitive bid process. Otherwise you end up defending yourself for not buying from some other vendor. And what may seem like a local buy to you, may not be local to some interested party . Remember there are LOTS of states that have a hand in the ISS and NASA pies.
Purchasing is just part of the process. Somebody gets to write documentation for the requirement, purchasing, operating manual (not kidding), and lots of other fun things.
Oh, and you actually have to TEST the bloody thing. Somebody has to write the test procedures ($). Get a test lab that can certify operation in a weightless environment ($$). Personnel to do the testing? Right, more money.
Gee, doesn't look so damned like straight forward fraud anymore, does it? Unless of course you believe the sophmoric BS from some losing "interest".
Nautilus is certainly a fine tool, and a very good copy of Microsoft's IE-integrated file manager.
Actually, I see quite a bit of a old Mac software project called Savant. Don't remember the year it came out, but the late eighties seems to be about right. For those of you not familiar with Savant, it was an effort to dramatically redefine the Mac Finder. The author? Some guy named Andy Hertzfeld:-)
I've noted several folks mention using a treadmill while acknowledging that this limits the axis of motion for walking. What about a sphere? Not as a shell overhead but in place of the treadmill under foot. There at least one problem that I see with this though. To appear sufficiently flat, the sphere would have to be rather large. That requires are considerable amount of space underneath the floor for the sphere. On the other hand, it does allow you to let the user move in any direction without actually going anywhere.
I don't know this guy or members of the cracking community from a hole in the wall, but interviewing him was a mistake. My point though has as much to do with the indictors as the indicted.
Judging from the questions selected, the agenda was nearly the same in all of them. It didn't appear that there was any desire for insight as much as accusation. How do some of you expect someone to respond to questions on the order of "How long have you been a member of the Communist Party?". Go back and really look at the questions presented. Now go back and study a weasel named Sen McCarthy and the "hearings" he conducted. The lack of any real depth in the questions was disappointing. You wanted a mud fight and that's what you got. I've read a lot of condemnation of the modus operandi of this kid, but the panel of inquisition didn't seem able to rise above it themselves. In short, not much better behavior observed in either party.
There have been so many more interesting interviews here. Some of them were controversial, most of them enlightening and informative, but none has been such an unfortunate waste of bandwidth.
I'm really looking forward to the next interview. The Microsoft ruling is every bit a watershed event to industry and society as was the ATT case. The discussion on/. will almost certainly be of higher quality than this one.
I support euthanasia for those senior citizens who make the choice for themselves, and could be declared mentally competent both from a legal and psychological standpoint. But there is no way to defend the professor's position. The simple fact is that we don't know that children who are currently "disabled" or have some variety illness (the next step towards the precipice) will be in this condition for the rest of their lives. Consider how close we are now to finding a cure for MS. Were this hypothetical suggestion the law of the land, consider the "well-meaning" parents who might MURDER a child for having a condition that becomes curable just a few years later. Children need our protection until they can make decisions for themselves. Singer's suggestion has the look and feel of a act of convenience, and NOT a position of high ethical standards.
It's very distressing to consider the vast quantity of paper that is used for mere hours or, at best, days. To support such wasteful habits, we cut down trees that have been growing for years and comsume additional biomass to generate the energy needed for processing.
Perhaps technology will one day reduce the daily reliance on paper for print needs. E-ink and the like come to mind. Unfortunately, I think we are a very long way from witnessing such a radical shift from hardcopy to "e-copy". We need a change of mindset as much as anything else. In the mean time, I try to think before printing and then use a utility to print multiple pages of output on a single page. Which, now that I think about it, begs the question. I know of such print utilities for Macs and PCs, is there something for Linux?
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It's change in an unknown form. That very fact engenders a paralyzing fear in some. Both fear of change and fear of the unknown.
So, if globalization (and its impact) is so undefined then worrying about it is mindless hysteria at this point. Which would explain why it plays so well where fear mongering is a way of life.
It is easy to dismiss this because it happens far away in another country, but the events of September 11th should have given us a heads-up that we need to pay close attention to the poorer parts of the world if we are to avoid our own destruction.
There is no connection between the events on that date and your premise. Nothing at all. You are trying to attach grand purpose to the acts of extremists and in the process justify them. You have missed the point entirely. In a very old tactic, a group of people with problems they can't quite get their hands around, blame their lot on someone else. There is nothing noble involved, no taking a stand for the rights of others. Just an act of murderous cowardice. Don't try to muddy it with feigned higher purpose.
So you're a "scientist" at NIH and don't see the need for "draconian" measures like a mandatory search of your belongings.
1. Go back and read the docs you signed when you went to work there. This is a condition of your employment at the facility.
2. We haven't yet determined the origin of the Anthrax used in New York, DC, and elsewhere. And you wonder why you're being searched at NIH?
3. Perhaps you missed the part where people are DEAD.
The mind-boggling part of this is your reaction. This is not a fourth amendment issue, this is LIFE and DEATH. That's much higher on the priority list.
Playboy and Budweiser. Rot their brains and their livers.
Self-contained artificial heart appears to be here. I think we're now up to patient #3. Somewhere I also remember seeing a discussion of combining body-generated power with this latest generation of artificial heart.
Do you guys think you can cut the one-sided political crap for once? Let's stick to the issue at hand. How the fsck does alewando's remark rate a 5 around here? 3 maybe. But 5?
Right?
One more time for those who haven't been following this same question in the Mac forums since Apple bought Next.
As long as the Steve is running Apple, there won't be OSX on 386. Period. This one's been what-if'ed into the ground. Just isn't going to happen and the reason is simple. Apple makes money from hardware. PC clones are cheap. Apple would have to adopt an entirely different business model and the Steve continues to say "No way".
Would I be the first in line to PAY for OSX if they did? Damn straight. But I've gotten tired of wishing. This isn't a technical issue. It's a business issue.
- PowerPC
Since it didn't make your list, I would have to assume that the entire IBM production line for PowerPC vaporised overnight. Motorola may be in a quandry, but IBM is producing.Vast quantities of research still do not magically appear on the web. That does not mean the work has not been done. Your concern for safety is admirable. However, don't let yourself fall prey to the sort of superficial search for facts that one normally associates with TV reporters. It's also grossly unfair to those who are working on this technology.
I thought we were supposed to reserve the (sometimes mindless) flaming for Microsoft the Merciless and the assembled minions!?
How about a show of hands. Is there anyone who sees a benefit to this beyond taking the mind of the collective off their own problems?
Stupid troll.
[hint: AOL, PSI, NSI, and a couple of there closest friends are within spitting distance of each other.]
If PSI goes tango uniform, who decides the next resting place of the root server they hold?
Trundle back to your hole before you catch a clue.
Yes, the players will be more expensive. Why? Because Congress and the GSA (the guvmint purchasing watchdog) won't simply allow you to hike over to your local electronics store and buy one off the shelf. It has to be a competitive bid process. Otherwise you end up defending yourself for not buying from some other vendor. And what may seem like a local buy to you, may not be local to some interested party . Remember there are LOTS of states that have a hand in the ISS and NASA pies.
Purchasing is just part of the process. Somebody gets to write documentation for the requirement, purchasing, operating manual (not kidding), and lots of other fun things.
Oh, and you actually have to TEST the bloody thing. Somebody has to write the test procedures ($). Get a test lab that can certify operation in a weightless environment ($$). Personnel to do the testing? Right, more money.
Gee, doesn't look so damned like straight forward fraud anymore, does it? Unless of course you believe the sophmoric BS from some losing "interest".
Actually, I see quite a bit of a old Mac software project called Savant. Don't remember the year it came out, but the late eighties seems to be about right. For those of you not familiar with Savant, it was an effort to dramatically redefine the Mac Finder. The author? Some guy named Andy Hertzfeld :-)
Looks like that "secret menu hack" has already been pulled ... :-(
I've noted several folks mention using a treadmill while acknowledging that this limits the axis of motion for walking. What about a sphere? Not as a shell overhead but in place of the treadmill under foot. There at least one problem that I see with this though. To appear sufficiently flat, the sphere would have to be rather large. That requires are considerable amount of space underneath the floor for the sphere. On the other hand, it does allow you to let the user move in any direction without actually going anywhere.
I don't know this guy or members of the cracking community from a hole in the wall, but interviewing him was a mistake. My point though has as much to do with the indictors as the indicted.
/. will almost certainly be of higher quality than this one.
Judging from the questions selected, the agenda was nearly the same in all of them. It didn't appear that there was any desire for insight as much as accusation. How do some of you expect someone to respond to questions on the order of "How long have you been a member of the Communist Party?". Go back and really look at the questions presented. Now go back and study a weasel named Sen McCarthy and the "hearings" he conducted. The lack of any real depth in the questions was disappointing. You wanted a mud fight and that's what you got. I've read a lot of condemnation of the modus operandi of this kid, but the panel of inquisition didn't seem able to rise above it themselves. In short, not much better behavior observed in either party.
There have been so many more interesting interviews here. Some of them were controversial, most of them enlightening and informative, but none has been such an unfortunate waste of bandwidth.
I'm really looking forward to the next interview. The Microsoft ruling is every bit a watershed event to industry and society as was the ATT case. The discussion on
I support euthanasia for those senior citizens who make the choice for themselves, and could be declared mentally competent both from a legal and psychological standpoint. But there is no way to defend the professor's position. The simple fact is that we don't know that children who are currently "disabled" or have some variety illness (the next step towards the precipice) will be in this condition for the rest of their lives. Consider how close we are now to finding a cure for MS. Were this hypothetical suggestion the law of the land, consider the "well-meaning" parents who might MURDER a child for having a condition that becomes curable just a few years later. Children need our protection until they can make decisions for themselves. Singer's suggestion has the look and feel of a act of convenience, and NOT a position of high ethical standards.
It's very distressing to consider the vast quantity of paper that is used for mere hours or, at best, days. To support such wasteful habits, we cut down trees that have been growing for years and comsume additional biomass to generate the energy needed for processing.
Perhaps technology will one day reduce the daily reliance on paper for print needs. E-ink and the like come to mind. Unfortunately, I think we are a very long way from witnessing such a radical shift from hardcopy to "e-copy". We need a change of mindset as much as anything else. In the mean time, I try to think before printing and then use a utility to print multiple pages of output on a single page. Which, now that I think about it, begs the question. I know of such print utilities for Macs and PCs, is there something for Linux?