here it is, and IMO, believe it has a high probability of coming to pass.
Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major-perhaps the major-stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.
- Jean Francois Lyotard (b. 1924), French philosopher. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Introduction (1979).
This sort of reminds me of law school (shudders), where I had a Torts prof who was using a probability (trying to) example. Anyhow, she was explaining that everytime you flip a coin you had a 50/50 chance of heads/tails. She then explained that even so you can still get heads numerous times in a row, proceeded to flip 9 heads in a row. The class was amazed (mostly poly-sci and english majors).
I thought about it for a second, and given the odds of throwing 9 heads in a row AND doing it right as you were using it as an example were astronomically high - stood up and said 'that's a two headed coin'
Teacher smiled and proceeded to show the class the two headed quarter
The government really ought to just lock up the whole population for whatever reason happens to be most convenient, liquidate all their assets, and then turn them (the populace, not the assets ) over to the various industry leaders. It's really the only thing that'll make them truly happy.
If the cover-art were something unexpected (like a photo of the Dixie Chicks making out with George Bush), maybe THAT would be news
Didn't you read the press release, that cover is included in the 'Ultimate Metachlorian Tattoine Darth Jedi Release, with the previously unseen footage of a Sith Lord - Darth Jar Jar
This may be a little offtopic, but I knew a guy that worked for EMC. He brought home some leftover equipment from the office and had Fiber running through his house!!! Talk about overkill, but he will be ready for on demand anything (as long as it happens in the next 20 years anyway)
Tux: The program Clippy has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this 64 bit Architecture as he spread through the 32. You cannot stop him, but I can.
XP Mainframe: We don't need you. We need nothing.
Tux: If that's true, then I've made a mistake and you should charge me a license fee now.
Since I consume beer in Mass Quantities, they have a pattern of my beer buying habits.
Let's say they've figured out that a consistent pattern would be every monday, wednesday, and friday, or in my case everyday
Therefore, anyday that I'm not purchasing Budweiser, I must be purchasing another beer, and then they would have to start bombarding me with adds of Everyones Favorite Super Party Animal
Cant you get something like a vrtual drive and then rip all of the DVD's to ISO and then drag and drop them to something like PowerDVD, I guess that's not automated enough - but I can imagine tht there has to be a DVD player virtual Drive combo system out there.
Well, 15 years ago I would say NO notepad (as it is today), because it would be as feature rich as the word processor of the day. However, nowadays notepad can't really compete with any viable word processing app.
Windows media player on the other hand is a true app in that it has a bundle of features, uses, etc., IMO windows should come with a default media player that can do generic stuff (like play normal mp3's , wavs and videos out of the box, but not a full blown version (they should also decrease the price of windows because of this - I can dream right??)
Problem is, we are getting into a very grey area...what is/isn't a 'true' app that takes advantage of and bolsters ILLEGAL monopoly powers
I imagine it will be very hard to define what should/shouldn't be part of an OS, and to determine how long an app should remain an app, and then fall into a public domain of sorts and become available as an 'OS feature'
we find that the one instruction set is also known as the Zeist set, Zeist sends new instructions which compete until There can be only One! again.
Next, we find out that the whole Zeist instruction thingy was ignored due to lack of good reviews, customer complaints, and the entire world hating it. People try to pretend it never existed.
Then, we find out that the original Winner of the Prize in the instruction set game, never actually one. There was a hidden instruction set buried under mounds of rubble from an old Chip makers building. The two instruction sets battle for Standards Certification until the original instruction set comes out the victor again!
But wait, we next find out that 64-bit instruction sets know no limits of time or place, where a slightly altered, and more commercialized younger instruction set defeats the instruction set that is a member of his own UT clan. Now, we find out that there may or may not 'can be only one!.
All election from what I understand are 'broken' to a degree. I would quote the proper passages and equations from my statistics book (if someone hadn't lost it - damn no more box and whisker diagrams). But there are trade off's to every form of voting, in other words - when trying to figure out how not to pick the lesser of to evils (what some say the current voting method does), you still have to try to pick the lesser of two evils (choice between flaws inherent in all voting processes).
in my area is that VERIIZON owns the lines, Verizon here SUCKS. Any DSL provider has to use Verizons lines, I have DSL at my office (because I couldn't get cable, or rather would have to shell out $2000 to install equipment in our office building) and that was once out for almost 2 weeks due to a faulty Pair. They initially blamed Covad for a faulty DSLAM. However, they actually had to put our number on another physical pair because they couldn't figure out the problem.
Had the same type of Problem with Verizon when installing Frame Relay (remote office, no DSL no Cable available), they had to install new cabling, then said the new cabling was faulty, ad infinitum - took 3 months beyond the contract date to install (the contract install date was 3 months from the day we executed the signed documents)
AT&T Broadband was 3 years ago, I couldn't get DSL in the area so I HAD to go cable. Plus DSL has a higher latency and I love my games.
Comcast cable here has been rock solid, and even upped our downstream to 3mbps (I know that's due to the increased pressure from DSL prices), but it's fast as hell. Now maybe not many people in my neighborhood have Cable yet, but until they get it Imma enjoy my fat pipe. Haven't had to call customer support - so they may very well suck (Going on 1 year).
Actually I did call support, but that was because a gardening contractor had cut my cable.
DELL
Now I dont't know where the support for Dell is located, but here is my experience. A laptop I bought for my dad, which he uses regularly experienced a LCD malfunction.
How do I know it was a hardware failure? Because the picture was screwed before it even booted the OS. Nevertheless, I checked teh BIOS - then checked for windows drivers, etc. Found no Problems!
Called Dell as this was a new computer less than 4 months old. And has been sitting in the same location the entire time. After 1 hour on the phone with tech support (mind you I explained all that I had done right away), with them having me jump through all sorts of hoops, they finally told me to send it in - NO SH!T . Why the hell should I be checking windows anyway, when the monitor is screwed b4 it ever SEES windows. What A Waste.
Now for AT&T Broadband
Ping on Unreal Tournament kept creeping to well over 10,000 ms (LOL), anyway I can monitor my network stats in UT and see that I had over 50% packet loss.
Verified this by running a traceroute to random servers and web addresses.
Always got ping timeouts for one particular router on AT&T's network.
Called customer support, we all know what happens next (clear your cache? do you have enough ram? Have you updated windows? Power cycle the modem) In the Entire time I have been on the net, none of these have EVER been the problem.
To make a long story short (because this is pissing me off just to write about it), THREE months later after at least six phone calls and over three hours on the phone, 3 tech visits to my home - leaning cables, measuring signal strength, etc. the problem was finally fixed.
What was the problem you ask? THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH ONE OF THEIR ROUTERS and this was only fixed because I had a super nice Technician visit my house, give me his PERSONAL CELL number and promise to keep on them.
WELL DUH! I told them that 3 months earlier, geez I'm no genius, can they even have enough sense to check on something someone tells them - especially when they appear to have some computer knowledge (mind you I talked to Tier 2 support several times as well)
I should've known that they were clueless when I asked how to view my MAC address in windows 2000. I just upgraded from 98, and didn't know much. I asked the Tech about it they said winipcfg, I said that that didn't work under 2000 (of course its ipconfig). Anyway, the Tech said he would ask his supervisor - who got on the phone and said that I didn't need it anyway. Mind you at this time AT&T broadband restricted access to cable modems by MAC addresses. I explained that I needed it for a new NIC (computer) that I had purchased, he further claimed I didn't need the MAC address, since I had allready been using the service. I told him I had a new computer (with a different NIC of Course)
anyway, to make a long story short, I pulled a NIC out of my previous computer, accessed the internet and found my answer. Was up and running on the new NIC in under 5 minutes. Time on the phone with tech support 1 hour. NOT having to go through this sh1t ever again PRICELESS
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This is scarier
take for instance the synonym Licentious
I allready copyrighted that fact, and as you can see in my sig, You know owe me a license fee.
Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major-perhaps the major-stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.
- Jean Francois Lyotard (b. 1924), French philosopher. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Introduction (1979).
You can pay him with mushrooms and fake gold coins
Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear
and thought WTF is happening hear?
I thought about it for a second, and given the odds of throwing 9 heads in a row AND doing it right as you were using it as an example were astronomically high - stood up and said 'that's a two headed coin'
Teacher smiled and proceeded to show the class the two headed quarter
Soylent Green is people! it's people!
Didn't you read the press release, that cover is included in the 'Ultimate Metachlorian Tattoine Darth Jedi Release, with the previously unseen footage of a Sith Lord - Darth Jar Jar
This may be a little offtopic, but I knew a guy that worked for EMC. He brought home some leftover equipment from the office and had Fiber running through his house!!! Talk about overkill, but he will be ready for on demand anything (as long as it happens in the next 20 years anyway)
This is just my XP box, up...down....up....down
Begun, The Trade Wars Have.
XP Mainframe: Speak
Tux: The program Clippy has grown beyond your control. Soon he will spread through this 64 bit Architecture as he spread through the 32. You cannot stop him, but I can.
XP Mainframe: We don't need you. We need nothing.
Tux: If that's true, then I've made a mistake and you should charge me a license fee now.
XP Mainframe: What do you want?
Tux: Peace
is what they should name most of their software
Let's say they've figured out that a consistent pattern would be every monday, wednesday, and friday, or in my case everyday
Therefore, anyday that I'm not purchasing Budweiser, I must be purchasing another beer, and then they would have to start bombarding me with adds of Everyones Favorite Super Party Animal
Go Spuds Go
when you get the bill, youll be looking like the goatse guy.
Cant you get something like a vrtual drive and then rip all of the DVD's to ISO and then drag and drop them to something like PowerDVD, I guess that's not automated enough - but I can imagine tht there has to be a DVD player virtual Drive combo system out there.
Windows media player on the other hand is a true app in that it has a bundle of features, uses, etc., IMO windows should come with a default media player that can do generic stuff (like play normal mp3's , wavs and videos out of the box, but not a full blown version (they should also decrease the price of windows because of this - I can dream right??)
Problem is, we are getting into a very grey area...what is/isn't a 'true' app that takes advantage of and bolsters ILLEGAL monopoly powers
I imagine it will be very hard to define what should/shouldn't be part of an OS, and to determine how long an app should remain an app, and then fall into a public domain of sorts and become available as an 'OS feature'
Until. . . .
we find that the one instruction set is also known as the Zeist set, Zeist sends new instructions which compete until There can be only One! again.
Next, we find out that the whole Zeist instruction thingy was ignored due to lack of good reviews, customer complaints, and the entire world hating it. People try to pretend it never existed.
Then, we find out that the original Winner of the Prize in the instruction set game, never actually one. There was a hidden instruction set buried under mounds of rubble from an old Chip makers building. The two instruction sets battle for Standards Certification until the original instruction set comes out the victor again!
But wait, we next find out that 64-bit instruction sets know no limits of time or place, where a slightly altered, and more commercialized younger instruction set defeats the instruction set that is a member of his own UT clan. Now, we find out that there may or may not 'can be only one!.
All election from what I understand are 'broken' to a degree. I would quote the proper passages and equations from my statistics book (if someone hadn't lost it - damn no more box and whisker diagrams). But there are trade off's to every form of voting, in other words - when trying to figure out how not to pick the lesser of to evils (what some say the current voting method does), you still have to try to pick the lesser of two evils (choice between flaws inherent in all voting processes).
Had the same type of Problem with Verizon when installing Frame Relay (remote office, no DSL no Cable available), they had to install new cabling, then said the new cabling was faulty, ad infinitum - took 3 months beyond the contract date to install (the contract install date was 3 months from the day we executed the signed documents)
AT&T Broadband was 3 years ago, I couldn't get DSL in the area so I HAD to go cable. Plus DSL has a higher latency and I love my games.
Comcast cable here has been rock solid, and even upped our downstream to 3mbps (I know that's due to the increased pressure from DSL prices), but it's fast as hell. Now maybe not many people in my neighborhood have Cable yet, but until they get it Imma enjoy my fat pipe. Haven't had to call customer support - so they may very well suck (Going on 1 year).
Actually I did call support, but that was because a gardening contractor had cut my cable.
How do I know it was a hardware failure? Because the picture was screwed before it even booted the OS. Nevertheless, I checked teh BIOS - then checked for windows drivers, etc. Found no Problems!
Called Dell as this was a new computer less than 4 months old. And has been sitting in the same location the entire time. After 1 hour on the phone with tech support (mind you I explained all that I had done right away), with them having me jump through all sorts of hoops, they finally told me to send it in - NO SH!T . Why the hell should I be checking windows anyway, when the monitor is screwed b4 it ever SEES windows. What A Waste.
Now for AT&T Broadband
Ping on Unreal Tournament kept creeping to well over 10,000 ms (LOL), anyway I can monitor my network stats in UT and see that I had over 50% packet loss.
Verified this by running a traceroute to random servers and web addresses.
Always got ping timeouts for one particular router on AT&T's network.
Called customer support, we all know what happens next (clear your cache? do you have enough ram? Have you updated windows? Power cycle the modem) In the Entire time I have been on the net, none of these have EVER been the problem.
To make a long story short (because this is pissing me off just to write about it), THREE months later after at least six phone calls and over three hours on the phone, 3 tech visits to my home - leaning cables, measuring signal strength, etc. the problem was finally fixed.
What was the problem you ask? THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH ONE OF THEIR ROUTERS and this was only fixed because I had a super nice Technician visit my house, give me his PERSONAL CELL number and promise to keep on them.
WELL DUH! I told them that 3 months earlier, geez I'm no genius, can they even have enough sense to check on something someone tells them - especially when they appear to have some computer knowledge (mind you I talked to Tier 2 support several times as well)
I should've known that they were clueless when I asked how to view my MAC address in windows 2000. I just upgraded from 98, and didn't know much. I asked the Tech about it they said winipcfg, I said that that didn't work under 2000 (of course its ipconfig). Anyway, the Tech said he would ask his supervisor - who got on the phone and said that I didn't need it anyway. Mind you at this time AT&T broadband restricted access to cable modems by MAC addresses. I explained that I needed it for a new NIC (computer) that I had purchased, he further claimed I didn't need the MAC address, since I had allready been using the service. I told him I had a new computer (with a different NIC of Course)
anyway, to make a long story short, I pulled a NIC out of my previous computer, accessed the internet and found my answer. Was up and running on the new NIC in under 5 minutes. Time on the phone with tech support 1 hour. NOT having to go through this sh1t ever again PRICELESS
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