In the late 90's the American scientist Edmund Wilson postulated that for the existing world population to enjoy the life style of America today on a percapita basis would require the resources of another 5 worlds.
The paradox is that the less developed a nation, the fewer resources is consumes, but the higher its pollution and birthrate. Developed nations are the opposite, consuming more resources but being much cleaner with a lower birthrate.
A completely free market inevitably leads to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, because as people become successful they erect barriers to prevent other people from following in their footsteps.
Read your post again. Slowly. Run it through a parser. See the problem? A market with barriers to entry is not a free market. You're arguing that a free market is bad because it isn't free.
Barriers to entry get erected by government. Business certainly lobbies for them, but in the end it is always the government that erects them. But it's government you're proposing as a solution.
Which is one of the reasons we need serious campaign finance reform.
But it's the Democrats and Republicans who are backing campaign finance reform! The only debate between them is over the fine details. Any campaign finance bill that makes it through congress is going to have enough loopholes to keep every congressman and senator happily outspending their competition well into their senility.
Your two choices aren't mutually exclusive. You're creating a false dichotomy. Some people aren't making more money, but weren't laid off due to outsourcing. And some are making more money even though their jobs where outsourced.
But the Republicans are in power and the Democrats are less organized than the Whigs right now, so it's the Republicans we need to watch.
The point is, WHERE WERE YOU when the shoe was on the other foot? As you yourself say, "the Democrats are no saints when it comes to privacy", so why do you keep silent when its them doing the bad deeds?
the GOP has spent a lot of time and effort enforcing the idea that there is no right to privacy guaranteed in the Constitution.
You are wrong one two points. First, the Dems have put in quite a bit of overtime promoting this idea as well. Second, there really is *NO* right to privacy in the US Constitution. Really! Read it!
There are, however, the ninth and tenth ammendments, which say any right not enumerated is reserved to the states or the people. There could indeed be a natural and unalienable right to privacy, it's just not explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights. The right to privacy, if such exists, is in the purview of the states.
The people complaining about bad government today were utterly silent a few short years ago when the Democrats controlled both houses and the executive.
This CD is pretty sucky, to be sure. But I dare you do compare it in seriousness to the Clipper chip which Clinton and Gore both personally championed.
So I get a server from Sun. Does that just mean I get a fast computer with a shitty audio and video card? Limited expansion slots?
I don't know anything about these Niagara servers, but if they're anything like other Sun servers, here's what you'll get: a power supply that will last longer than two years; a motherboard with a chipset and layout designed for high high data throughput; harddrives that are hot-swappable and will handle years of heavy use without crapping out; etc. In short, they're designed for constant heavy use and high reliability. You can get away with Best Buy's weekly special for a small file or web server, but once it starts handling mission critical data, you'll want a server that was designed to be a server.
Yes, you can avoid the eMachines and build a kickass server yourself. But that's not what companies want, they want them prebuilt with warranty and service.
I hope the engineering students get the Apple. And the business majors. And the literature majors. Come to think of it, I hope everyone gets the Apple.
Nope, I just twirled the rotary dial, held the handset up to my ear, and when I heard the hissing I slapped on the acoustic coupler (and a rubber band to keep it there). I'm old, but not that old:-)
My first modem was 300 baud. It was an acoustic coupler, so you had to strap it to your phone. But it was good enough for bulletin boards. I thought I had it made when I upgraded to 2400baud!
No, no, no! You don't understand! Those are developing nations, and are exempt from environmentalist finger pointing. It is North America and Europe, who have consistantly gotten cleaner and less polluted over the last fifty years, who draw the anger of the gaians.
p.s. Of course the quickest way to reduce and reverse environmental destruction is to transform developing nations into first world nations with high technology and free markets. If they're anything like N.A. and Europe, global birthrates might even drop!
Anthropogenic greenhouse forcing is still unproven, although it appears pretty compelling to everyone but the anti-scientific true believers whose faith told them that this article said the earth was only as warm as it was in 800 AD.
You might have more luck converting them to your belief system if the "solution" to the problem isn't always a call for more authoritarian government instrusions into our lives.
Sorry, but none of your languages are appropriate for my real time embedded projects. Why does everyone think the software world is confined to web apps? Why is the development world choking in silly rules like these that only apply to a narrow slice of computing?
I am by no means an expert of Creative Commons licenses, but Stallman does not feel that is the case.
Every license on the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ page allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. They don't meet the Free Software definition, because some don't allow derivation or commercial use, but everyone one allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend.
That's up to interpretation. The way I see it, Creative Commons doesn't give you anything that intellectual property law doesn't give you already. If I published a novel, I could include a license on the front page that lets people copy it.
Well duh! That's not the point.
The point is that when you buy a music CD, the status quo (as in 99% of the CDs for sale) do not have a license that allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. Ditto for 99% of the books in a bookstore. The CC licenses are unabashedly rejecting the status quo.
I'm talking about the standard CC licenses. I have no idea what licenses you're talking about. Look at this page: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, every license there allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. Every one. I can't find a "Developing Nations" license anywhere.
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In the late 90's the American scientist Edmund Wilson postulated that for the existing world population to enjoy the life style of America today on a percapita basis would require the resources of another 5 worlds.
The paradox is that the less developed a nation, the fewer resources is consumes, but the higher its pollution and birthrate. Developed nations are the opposite, consuming more resources but being much cleaner with a lower birthrate.
A completely free market inevitably leads to the concentration of wealth in a few hands, because as people become successful they erect barriers to prevent other people from following in their footsteps.
Read your post again. Slowly. Run it through a parser. See the problem? A market with barriers to entry is not a free market. You're arguing that a free market is bad because it isn't free.
Barriers to entry get erected by government. Business certainly lobbies for them, but in the end it is always the government that erects them. But it's government you're proposing as a solution.
Sure! I'll accept the consequences!
Which is one of the reasons we need serious campaign finance reform.
But it's the Democrats and Republicans who are backing campaign finance reform! The only debate between them is over the fine details. Any campaign finance bill that makes it through congress is going to have enough loopholes to keep every congressman and senator happily outspending their competition well into their senility.
Your two choices aren't mutually exclusive. You're creating a false dichotomy. Some people aren't making more money, but weren't laid off due to outsourcing. And some are making more money even though their jobs where outsourced.
But the Republicans are in power and the Democrats are less organized than the Whigs right now, so it's the Republicans we need to watch.
The point is, WHERE WERE YOU when the shoe was on the other foot? As you yourself say, "the Democrats are no saints when it comes to privacy", so why do you keep silent when its them doing the bad deeds?
the GOP has spent a lot of time and effort enforcing the idea that there is no right to privacy guaranteed in the Constitution.
You are wrong one two points. First, the Dems have put in quite a bit of overtime promoting this idea as well. Second, there really is *NO* right to privacy in the US Constitution. Really! Read it!
There are, however, the ninth and tenth ammendments, which say any right not enumerated is reserved to the states or the people. There could indeed be a natural and unalienable right to privacy, it's just not explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights. The right to privacy, if such exists, is in the purview of the states.
The people complaining about bad government today were utterly silent a few short years ago when the Democrats controlled both houses and the executive.
This CD is pretty sucky, to be sure. But I dare you do compare it in seriousness to the Clipper chip which Clinton and Gore both personally championed.
The IRS doesn't need to reveal any of your information to the bad guys, because they ARE the bad guys!
Not thin enough. I want a wrapper, not a toolkit. There is a difference.
You may be right. So please explain to me slowly why this is news.
Maybe I've been asleep too long and missed the news... but haven't they had embedded Linux for a decade now? What makes this one newsworthy?
Actually, that's a pretty good idea. If I could find a decent *thin* C++ wrapper around Win32 or X11, I might go that route myself.
So I get a server from Sun. Does that just mean I get a fast computer with a shitty audio and video card? Limited expansion slots?
I don't know anything about these Niagara servers, but if they're anything like other Sun servers, here's what you'll get: a power supply that will last longer than two years; a motherboard with a chipset and layout designed for high high data throughput; harddrives that are hot-swappable and will handle years of heavy use without crapping out; etc. In short, they're designed for constant heavy use and high reliability. You can get away with Best Buy's weekly special for a small file or web server, but once it starts handling mission critical data, you'll want a server that was designed to be a server.
Yes, you can avoid the eMachines and build a kickass server yourself. But that's not what companies want, they want them prebuilt with warranty and service.
(Apple or Dell, depending on major)
I hope the engineering students get the Apple. And the business majors. And the literature majors. Come to think of it, I hope everyone gets the Apple.
It was also done under a Democrat administration. So it is doubly misleading analogy.
Nope, I just twirled the rotary dial, held the handset up to my ear, and when I heard the hissing I slapped on the acoustic coupler (and a rubber band to keep it there). I'm old, but not that old :-)
My first modem was 300 baud. It was an acoustic coupler, so you had to strap it to your phone. But it was good enough for bulletin boards. I thought I had it made when I upgraded to 2400baud!
People like you give other Linux advocates a bad name. Sheesh.
whereas we, hardcore computer users, don't see any benefit of Vista over XP. :) ...and some of us don't see any benefit of XP over Mac OSX.
No, no, no! You don't understand! Those are developing nations, and are exempt from environmentalist finger pointing. It is North America and Europe, who have consistantly gotten cleaner and less polluted over the last fifty years, who draw the anger of the gaians.
p.s. Of course the quickest way to reduce and reverse environmental destruction is to transform developing nations into first world nations with high technology and free markets. If they're anything like N.A. and Europe, global birthrates might even drop!
Anthropogenic greenhouse forcing is still unproven, although it appears pretty compelling to everyone but the anti-scientific true believers whose faith told them that this article said the earth was only as warm as it was in 800 AD.
You might have more luck converting them to your belief system if the "solution" to the problem isn't always a call for more authoritarian government instrusions into our lives.
Sorry, but none of your languages are appropriate for my real time embedded projects. Why does everyone think the software world is confined to web apps? Why is the development world choking in silly rules like these that only apply to a narrow slice of computing?
I am by no means an expert of Creative Commons licenses, but Stallman does not feel that is the case.
Every license on the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ page allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. They don't meet the Free Software definition, because some don't allow derivation or commercial use, but everyone one allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend.
That's up to interpretation. The way I see it, Creative Commons doesn't give you anything that intellectual property law doesn't give you already. If I published a novel, I could include a license on the front page that lets people copy it.
Well duh! That's not the point.
The point is that when you buy a music CD, the status quo (as in 99% of the CDs for sale) do not have a license that allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. Ditto for 99% of the books in a bookstore. The CC licenses are unabashedly rejecting the status quo.
I'm talking about the standard CC licenses. I have no idea what licenses you're talking about. Look at this page: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/, every license there allows you to make a copy and give it to your friend. Every one. I can't find a "Developing Nations" license anywhere.