KDE, please die.
actually, i don't wish you terminated, but stay in a niche existance. Don't fuck with the universality progress and development of gnu/linux.
if you have Mathematica 4 and G5, can you download the benchmark notebook at http://smc.vnet.net/timings40.html or http:/ /www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html
Lack of alternatives is a misleading phrase. The reality is that alternatives are inferior when all things considered by the consumer.
please see Microsoft Hatred, the beginning
i have always enjoyed your howstuffworks.com tremendously.
recently in the past month i started to read your online diary and also your Robitc Nations series of essays. I cannot help but get a sense of a crank.
i have read many of your social or financial related articles from howstuffworks.com, such as the basic workings of banking, advertisement, money, stocks, leadership etc. So, i'm certain that you as an engineering geek is familiar with the basics of economics and corporations, as in contrast to the vast scientist type who are totally ignorant of social sciences.
however, your articles comes across as by an inciting crank. Your robotic nations series, for example, in general has the tone of an alarmist, as if you would benefit from an ensuing panic.
yours reads like a sophistry. An article on the surface seems to call for awareness of a potential problem, a problem that nobody can be sure of. But the content and style has many subtle flaws and imbued properganda.
[best seller Harry Potter's author J K Rowling had problems subsisting and the book was rejected multiple times.]... Society as it is designed today wastes an unbelievable amount of human potential through mechanisms just like these.
At the very least, Rowling's story shows us that the economic theory underpinning our world contains an element of dysfunction. It should not be the case that highly creative people sitting on top of billion dollar ideas have to go on welfare (and reach "one of the lowest points" in their lives by doing so) in order to express themselves. By removing this dysfunction,...
--end quote
The situation of J K Rowling is an unfortunate one, and i would like to see our society change for this. However, your statement "Society as it is designed today wastes an unbelievable amount of human potential through mechanisms just like these." is outrageous and absurd.
Societies are not designed. And, it doesn't "waste" things. Waste implies a crition. Throwig away a burger is wasting. But taking my burger and drive to nearest city to give to a homeless is more wasteful. And, what you mean by the lurid "unbelievable amount of human potential"? It is said that all humans are unique and has vast potential. By your implication, no society could ever not waste an "unbelievable amount of human potential".
The situation where people involved with non-profit oriented artifacts (such as artists, writers, historians...) will often have a problem subsisting is indeed an unfortunate one. Artisans being artisan because they have not choosen to be a businessman, and probably not much interested in making money, and for these obvious reasons they are poor. This is just how things are, which we may call it "social physics". If we don't like it that way, we could then be aware of it and change our society. However, it is harmful to propergate the implication that there is an evil doer or collection of greedy businessman forcing artisans to their sorry condition.
In your last article you also mentioned Linux.
--Begin quote The Linux phenomenon specifically, and the open source phenomenon in general, point in the same direction. Linux is one of the best operating systems on the planet, and it is free. It has been created by thousands of programmers who have donated their time and skills to the creation of Linux. What if we create an economy that encourages the creation of things like Linux? If people could make a living without being employees, we could unlock an unimaginable ocean of human creativity and human potential. --end quote
This i find ridiculous. Linux is perhaps one of the best operating system on the planet for a computing professional who love free things, but it
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KDE, please die. actually, i don't wish you terminated, but stay in a niche existance. Don't fuck with the universality progress and development of gnu/linux.
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if you have Mathematica 4 and G5,/ /www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html
can you download the benchmark notebook at
http://smc.vnet.net/timings40.html
or
http:
and tell us the results?
thanks.
if you have g5 and mathematica, can you guys go here
http://smc.vnet.net/timings40.html
http://www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html
download the benchmark file and report the result?
thanks.
Lack of alternatives is a misleading phrase. The reality is that alternatives are inferior when all things considered by the consumer. please see Microsoft Hatred, the beginning
please see: Microsoft Hatred, the beginning
i disagree with the ongoing sentiment of MS hatred. Please see: Microsoft Hatred
see Microsoft Hatred
i say good call Microsoft, for good or bad.
see
Microsoft Hatred, the beginning
Date: 2003-08-31
... Society as it is designed today wastes an unbelievable amount of human potential through mechanisms just like these.
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hi Marshall Brain,
i have always enjoyed your howstuffworks.com tremendously.
recently in the past month i started to read your online diary and also your Robitc Nations series of essays. I cannot help but get a sense of a crank.
i have read many of your social or financial related articles from howstuffworks.com, such as the basic workings of banking, advertisement, money, stocks, leadership etc. So, i'm certain that you as an engineering geek is familiar with the basics of economics and corporations, as in contrast to the vast scientist type who are totally ignorant of social sciences.
however, your articles comes across as by an inciting crank. Your robotic nations series, for example, in general has the tone of an alarmist, as if you would benefit from an ensuing panic.
yours reads like a sophistry. An article on the surface seems to call for awareness of a potential problem, a problem that nobody can be sure of. But the content and style has many subtle flaws and imbued properganda.
as an example, i quote from your latest article:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm
--begin quote
[best seller Harry Potter's author J K Rowling had problems subsisting and the book was rejected multiple times.]
At the very least, Rowling's story shows us that the economic theory underpinning our world contains an element of dysfunction. It should not be the case that highly creative people sitting on top of billion dollar ideas have to go on welfare (and reach "one of the lowest points" in their lives by doing so) in order to express themselves. By removing this dysfunction,...
--end quote
The situation of J K Rowling is an unfortunate one, and i would like to see our society change for this. However, your statement "Society as it is designed today wastes an unbelievable amount of human potential through mechanisms just like these." is outrageous and absurd.
Societies are not designed. And, it doesn't "waste" things. Waste implies a crition. Throwig away a burger is wasting. But taking my burger and drive to nearest city to give to a homeless is more wasteful. And, what you mean by the lurid "unbelievable amount of human potential"? It is said that all humans are unique and has vast potential. By your implication, no society could ever not waste an "unbelievable amount of human potential"
The situation where people involved with non-profit oriented artifacts (such as artists, writers, historians...) will often have a problem subsisting is indeed an unfortunate one. Artisans being artisan because they have not choosen to be a businessman, and probably not much interested in making money, and for these obvious reasons they are poor. This is just how things are, which we may call it "social physics". If we don't like it that way, we could then be aware of it and change our society. However, it is harmful to propergate the implication that there is an evil doer or collection of greedy businessman forcing artisans to their sorry condition.
In your last article you also mentioned Linux.
--Begin quote
The Linux phenomenon specifically, and the open source phenomenon in general, point in the same direction. Linux is one of the best operating systems on the planet, and it is free. It has been created by thousands of programmers who have donated their time and skills to the creation of Linux. What if we create an economy that encourages the creation of things like Linux? If people could make a living without being employees, we could unlock an unimaginable ocean of human creativity and human potential.
--end quote
This i find ridiculous. Linux is perhaps one of the best operating system on the planet for a computing professional who love free things, but it
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