Interesting. I agree with your position. Here's another perspective that comes to the same conclusion:
I'm half Irish. Do you know why so many people died in the potato famine (did you know there was a potato famine in Ireland? Just ask a Boston cop...) Anyway, Ireland had enough arable land to be self sufficient. it's just that the people who *owned* that land...lived in England. And They wanted cash crops. So guess what didn't get planted.
I see the same problem with corporatism. The shareholders don't see pain and suffering, they only see "the bottom line". "Sentimentality has no cash value" (an interesting line from "We're No Angles", a classic Bogie movie). And as long as those dividend checks keep arriving, The Owning Class doesn't care.
Until, of course, the riots start.
Personally, I think that any company larger that 500 people is starting to slide into the Dark Side. I work for a large financial with thousands of employees, with Galactic Headquarters in the midwest. Way too big.
would the IE compatibility plug in help in this case? I use it at work for IE only sites, and it does the trick for me. Check out the Firefox extension site.
I say capture the bastards and put 'em in Earth's Trojan Points! Need water? Capture a comet (uh, better bag that first. Paper or plastic, what a question...). Need iron? Plenty of it floating around. Need raw material for a space station? Hollow out a rocky asteroid.
What we have is not a failure of technology. What we have is a failure of imagination. *sigh*
I'll see your sweeping generalization, and open the floor to hearsay and innuendo!
What about the political apointee that wanted NASA scientists to talk about the "Theory of Relativity" (in the same vein as "the Theory of Evolution").
What about the muzzling of NOAA information about (*gasp!*) global warming?
I will grant you: GWB is probably not going down a "naughty" and "nice" list of scientific projects, but with help like he gets, he doesn't have to. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree
The important thing is: do we want the sciences faith based, or fact based?
I would play BT Online. In a heartbeat. I played all of the Mechwarrior series until Microsoft turned the experience into Quake in a steel suit:(
An Atlas is SUPPOSED to take a long time to turn, it's 100 tons of metal, for crying out loud. A shadowcat is SUPPOSED to be able to turn on a dime (so to speak).
The problem with your commentary is that your alternative to the scientific method is pulling the answer to any question right out of...a place where the sun don't shine.
On one hand we have a group of people who say "This is what we've seen to be true in the following instance. Here's how we did it. Please feel free to try it again to see if you get the same result". The power of science is peer review.
On the other hand we have a group of people who say "This is true. It's true because God says it's true, and we say it's true. Trust us. Would we lie to you? Oh, by the way, if you don't believe us, you'll be tortured after you die, for all eternity you heathen you."
I would not call the people who fall into the second camp "idiots". This is inflamitory, unkind, and inaccurate. Many people who I otherwise respect (e.g. Dr. C. E. Koop, a guy both Believers and Scientists can admire) fall into this group. My personal preference is to call the second group "unwitting, well intentioned dupes".
And the problem with 49% of a population being unwitting, well intentioned dupes is that they are easily lead, by people who might not have their best interests at heart.
[troll]I know why the Angels sing. It's to drown out the screams of the Damned[/troll]
It sounds to me like we have two competing ideologies thrashing it out:
The Flash camp that says: here is a technology that is available to us, it enables us to do something HTML does not (or allows us to do it easier), and it doesn't "feel" like a million other websites. This group I label the "marketeers". You want some way to set yourself apart from the unwashed hordes of plain, vanilla HTML sites out there, and Flash is "now" and "wow".
The Anything Else But Flash camp (of which I am a member) I will label the Curmudgeons. Now I will admit that (having just visited the Macromedia/Adobe site) that the animations are very smooth and very slick. Hrmmm, let's see how much the development system costs...$700 for Flash Professional 8. Studio 8 will set you back $1000 US. Not A Problem... if my company is picking up the tab. But what if I, as Joe Independent, want to play with this nifty technology. BZZZZT! I'm Terribly Sorry. Look but don't touch. Buy your development kit with the rest of them.
The Curmudgeons are used to building websites with text editors. Why should we pay $800 for what (to us) looks like nifty image manipulation? We can already do that for free (albeit not as *fast* or as *easy* as Flash...but to us, *fast* is not really a consideration). The Curmudgeons also take the attitude of: this is the web. If you came to our website, you must have really wanted to come here. You came here for a reason. We don't have to "entice you in"...you're here already Unless you were surfing for porn and got to our website by mistake. Our bad, we'll have to update our keywords in the HTML header;) So...do we "impress" you with glitz, or do we try to give you what you came here for anyway: information.
I know this is probably far out, but I would like to see some kind of "signature of authenticity" feature as standard part of digital cameras. Some way that, with the signature file, a copy of the picture taken with the camera, and the serial number of the camera, either you or the camera company could determine if the image had been altered or not.
We can already do this with simple email and public key encryption. ("signed messages" that let you see the message). I guess it's just a matter of the "general public" asking for it, or the government mandating it.
Hello, this is the fricking CATO INSTITUTE. Their real problem with the Internet is the fact that you don't get charged for every minute you loiter at a website and every KB you download from same.
As far as I'm concerned, they're about as pro Adam Smith as Stalin was pro Marx ("pro" only as far as being able to pronounce the word, and sure that saying it will get them what they want).
(start tongue in cheek mode) and another thing: there's too much free speach on the Internet. I hear even Al-Jezeera is on it. It can't be good. Why does the Internet hate America? (end tongue in cheek mode)
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I guess Microsoft's real problem is it's a monoculture, and that sometimes 'freedom to compete' is more important than 'freedom to innovate'. Heh.
UNIX hasn't been a monoculture since Bell Labs sent the first UNIX tapes to Berkley. Some old Bell Heads would argue it was never a monoculture, but I digress.
DISCLAIMER: I know there are insecurities in UNIX. Name at least one related to the OS. I'm just trying to find out if you're a troll or if you have an informed opinion.
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the higher your salary is. This is why salesmen get junkets, er, Team Bulding Strategy Meetings in Cancun, while the engineers can't get get money to cover the cost of driving to a nearby one-day convention.
Salesmen? They bring the business in, so they can say "Before I turn this contract over to you, what are you going to do for me?" Laywers? They help you hang on to money. At $200/hr. Engineers? They only make things. They're craftsmen. Dime a dozen. Italian stone cutters. Replacable parts. They don't manipulate wealth, they just generate it. Like plankton converts light into usable enery.
People are our greatest resource. And what do you do with resources? You exploit them. Woah! Leaning a little bit too far to the left, here. God Bless America! God Bless our President! God Bless our Inteligence Services. Did I miss anybody?
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For once, the AC is correct. My mistake, it was the potato blight.
However, there is some small vindication that "The Owning Class" in Merrie Old didn't do squat while millions died.
Another interesting read from the era is Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal".
Interesting. I agree with your position. Here's another perspective that comes to the same conclusion:
I'm half Irish. Do you know why so many people died in the potato famine (did you know there was a potato famine in Ireland? Just ask a Boston cop...) Anyway, Ireland had enough arable land to be self sufficient. it's just that the people who *owned* that land...lived in England. And They wanted cash crops. So guess what didn't get planted.
I see the same problem with corporatism. The shareholders don't see pain and suffering, they only see "the bottom line". "Sentimentality has no cash value" (an interesting line from "We're No Angles", a classic Bogie movie). And as long as those dividend checks keep arriving, The Owning Class doesn't care.
Until, of course, the riots start.
Personally, I think that any company larger that 500 people is starting to slide into the Dark Side. I work for a large financial with thousands of employees, with Galactic Headquarters in the midwest. Way too big.
But that's just my 2 cents.
Thanks for your insight.
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would the IE compatibility plug in help in this case? I use it at work for IE only sites, and it does the trick for me. Check out the Firefox extension site.
Oh, wait a minute...
I say capture the bastards and put 'em in Earth's Trojan Points! Need water? Capture a comet (uh, better bag that first. Paper or plastic, what a question...). Need iron? Plenty of it floating around. Need raw material for a space station? Hollow out a rocky asteroid.
What we have is not a failure of technology. What we have is a failure of imagination. *sigh*
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Human, Lettuce, Tomato. And maybe a shchmeer of Mayo...
And...you're 100% sure about this?
I'll see your sweeping generalization, and open the floor to hearsay and innuendo!
What about the political apointee that wanted NASA scientists to talk about the "Theory of Relativity" (in the same vein as "the Theory of Evolution").
What about the muzzling of NOAA information about (*gasp!*) global warming?
I will grant you: GWB is probably not going down a "naughty" and "nice" list of scientific projects, but with help like he gets, he doesn't have to. As the twig is bent, so grows the tree
The important thing is: do we want the sciences faith based, or fact based?Damn, there goes the basis for my case against Fox News for the last disasterous six years of governmental mismanagement!
Damn you Rupert Murdoch!
(*weeps uncontrollably*)
:(
I would play BT Online. In a heartbeat. I played all of the Mechwarrior series until Microsoft turned the experience into Quake in a steel suit
An Atlas is SUPPOSED to take a long time to turn, it's 100 tons of metal, for crying out loud. A shadowcat is SUPPOSED to be able to turn on a dime (so to speak).
(*sigh*)
God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man!
My God! It's all beginning to make SENSE! That means...that means the LAST FIVE THOUSAND YEARS is a sham!
Scuse me, I just got a fed-ex package here...hey, it's a cell phone, and it's ringing...
for "Sieze Control"? hrm. might be a tall order for a robot dog. No opposable thumbs.
The problem with your commentary is that your alternative to the scientific method is pulling the answer to any question right out of...a place where the sun don't shine.
On one hand we have a group of people who say "This is what we've seen to be true in the following instance. Here's how we did it. Please feel free to try it again to see if you get the same result". The power of science is peer review.
On the other hand we have a group of people who say "This is true. It's true because God says it's true, and we say it's true. Trust us. Would we lie to you? Oh, by the way, if you don't believe us, you'll be tortured after you die, for all eternity you heathen you."
I would not call the people who fall into the second camp "idiots". This is inflamitory, unkind, and inaccurate. Many people who I otherwise respect (e.g. Dr. C. E. Koop, a guy both Believers and Scientists can admire) fall into this group. My personal preference is to call the second group "unwitting, well intentioned dupes".
And the problem with 49% of a population being unwitting, well intentioned dupes is that they are easily lead, by people who might not have their best interests at heart.
[troll]I know why the Angels sing. It's to drown out the screams of the Damned[/troll]
It sounds to me like we have two competing ideologies thrashing it out:
... if my company is picking up the tab. But what if I, as Joe Independent, want to play with this nifty technology. BZZZZT! I'm Terribly Sorry. Look but don't touch. Buy your development kit with the rest of them.
;) So...do we "impress" you with glitz, or do we try to give you what you came here for anyway: information.
The Flash camp that says: here is a technology that is available to us, it enables us to do something HTML does not (or allows us to do it easier), and it doesn't "feel" like a million other websites. This group I label the "marketeers". You want some way to set yourself apart from the unwashed hordes of plain, vanilla HTML sites out there, and Flash is "now" and "wow".
The Anything Else But Flash camp (of which I am a member) I will label the Curmudgeons. Now I will admit that (having just visited the Macromedia/Adobe site) that the animations are very smooth and very slick. Hrmmm, let's see how much the development system costs...$700 for Flash Professional 8. Studio 8 will set you back $1000 US. Not A Problem
The Curmudgeons are used to building websites with text editors. Why should we pay $800 for what (to us) looks like nifty image manipulation? We can already do that for free (albeit not as *fast* or as *easy* as Flash...but to us, *fast* is not really a consideration). The Curmudgeons also take the attitude of: this is the web. If you came to our website, you must have really wanted to come here. You came here for a reason. We don't have to "entice you in"...you're here already Unless you were surfing for porn and got to our website by mistake. Our bad, we'll have to update our keywords in the HTML header
My 2 cents.
Heh, thanks for the info. I won't be holding my breath then ;)
I know this is probably far out, but I would like to see some kind of "signature of authenticity" feature as standard part of digital cameras. Some way that, with the signature file, a copy of the picture taken with the camera, and the serial number of the camera, either you or the camera company could determine if the image had been altered or not.
We can already do this with simple email and public key encryption. ("signed messages" that let you see the message). I guess it's just a matter of the "general public" asking for it, or the government mandating it.
Oh well. Nice thought, I guess.
Hello, this is the fricking CATO INSTITUTE. Their real problem with the Internet is the fact that you don't get charged for every minute you loiter at a website and every KB you download from same.
As far as I'm concerned, they're about as pro Adam Smith as Stalin was pro Marx ("pro" only as far as being able to pronounce the word, and sure that saying it will get them what they want).
(start tongue in cheek mode) and another thing: there's too much free speach on the Internet. I hear even Al-Jezeera is on it. It can't be good. Why does the Internet hate America? (end tongue in cheek mode)
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I guess Microsoft's real problem is it's a monoculture, and that sometimes 'freedom to compete' is more important than 'freedom to innovate'. Heh.
UNIX hasn't been a monoculture since Bell Labs sent the first UNIX tapes to Berkley. Some old Bell Heads would argue it was never a monoculture, but I digress.
Thanks again
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The above sarcastic comment should have been between matching HUMOR and /HUMOR tags (*sigh*).
And an example of UNIX insecurity would be.... ?
DISCLAIMER: I know there are insecurities in UNIX. Name at least one related to the OS. I'm just trying to find out if you're a troll or if you have an informed opinion.
Looks like I forgot this was "./"
Look, people, what I MEANT was:
to the newspaper circulation crisis is the Slashdot model of news distribution?
Surely, the End Times are upon us.
I usually post my little wit-icisms with no KB, but today I think I won't.
Moderated "overrated". At "1"?!? C'mon, gimme a break. Who reads at "1"?
to the newspaper circulation crisis is the Slashdot model of news distribution?
Surely, the End Times are upon us.
...why the gods hate Kansas...
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the higher your salary is. This is why salesmen get junkets, er, Team Bulding Strategy Meetings in Cancun, while the engineers can't get get money to cover the cost of driving to a nearby one-day convention.
Salesmen? They bring the business in, so they can say "Before I turn this contract over to you, what are you going to do for me?" Laywers? They help you hang on to money. At $200/hr. Engineers? They only make things. They're craftsmen. Dime a dozen. Italian stone cutters. Replacable parts. They don't manipulate wealth, they just generate it. Like plankton converts light into usable enery.
People are our greatest resource. And what do you do with resources? You exploit them. Woah! Leaning a little bit too far to the left, here. God Bless America! God Bless our President! God Bless our Inteligence Services. Did I miss anybody?
Bitter? Me, Bitter? Nah.
I was FOR the Patriot Act! I'm a good Corporate Citizen!
Take them, not me!
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