Or maybe we should just all agree that cars should drive on the right side of the road. Lanes should be two times the width of a horse's hind quarters and when the light is red stop. Interoperability doesn't mean the cars are the same, it means the roads and rules of the road are the same.
We need to stop having a culture where both parents work 50 hour weeks (40 hours of work plus 2 hours of commuting per day). That way parents would have time to be parents instead of shoving their kids into day cares, preschools and the rest of the monstrosity that is institutionalized education or worse, letting the television raise the kid.
Pitching family values is a crock of crap if no one has time to actually *practice* family values. Universal health care and lower inflation would both help families find time to raise their kids (a lot more then a tax cut or more content-restricting laws would).
Prosecuting parents for being bad parents, while appealing is really just another bandaid on a much larger issue where a significant portion of the american population works too often and commutes too far (regardless of whether or not that's a "choice").
All to often what would happen (IMHO) if the government was asked to make standards now would be a big committe would be formed that would take recomendations for years, then argue for years, all while various groups lobby their own odd ideas.
Huh, kinda like the W3C...
I think that's the nature of agreeing on standards, it takes a while. Might be worth the wait.
Attending RPI now, and having several friends who are majoring under IT, I would have to say it really isn't that great. It's good in the sense that you get a broad variety of classes, but they have no free electives and they end up taking classes that are redundant and stupid to begin with. What kind of major has a class devoted to proving the major actually exists (IT, myth or reality)?
Anyway, RPI is cool, but it's not the place for a liberal arts/CS degree.
Remember that Katz wasn't always in the online media, the guy writes books for Pete's sake. Byte media is something he rails against. The act of bastardizing your ideas through brevity. I think it would do us, as a community, good to be exposed to some alternative sources of opinion and information, which is really what Katz is. A new, and different perspective. When you start seeing him as such, instead of as an expert, it puts his writing in a new light.
I did something interesting the other day. I went and found an article by Katz on a subject that I didn't know anything about, or have an opinion about. It was suprisingly helpful, and while I didnt take it at face value, it gave me a starting point for further investigation. Not to mention that he is a respected source outside of Slashdot. I needed the article for an assignment, and could use the credibility that Katz had already established to my own ends. I bet you can find some opinion that he has made that supports your idea. That's one of the nice things about contradictory opinions, everyone can agree with him.
I think they do, but they are often lost in the fray. I know hemos has posted at least twice in the last three days, that I have read. I saw a post from 'linus travolds' but i assume it was a hoax. Point: from the pedestal of the editorial the author's voice is heard above the foray.
If they tried to back up or amend their commentary in the threads, it would either be lost, or would hurt their credibility. I think it's fine the way it is.
I agree with you, the author and the poster are the same, just at different levels of volume. That's why they get to be authors. I think there is a way to apply to be a writer for Slashdot, check the FAQs if you're interested. How cool would it be if you could have authors that reviewed eachother, or held dialogues based on the comments they received on their articles.
(feel free to rephrase these questions more towards something you can use/respond to relatively easily, just bear in mind the gist of what they are saying)
Do you think that american democracy is shifting from citizens voting in polls to stockholders voting through corporations with their dollars? If so, how does technology affect this shift? How does this affect the open source movement? What are the repercussions of this shift? I would like your opinion. I know you get alot of flack for writing to the slashdot audience. But we forget that you are writing an editorial here, not news. We can read cnn for news.
We used helius at our small rural business. We found that while their product in theory should work pretty well, we had considerable problems with their support. We had to send PCI cards back and forth to Colorado, spend hours on the phone, and it never did work. So, I guess they might work for some people, but it didn't work well for us.
They supplied us with a router, but wouldn't give us root, it had some modified version of linux on it I believe. We were trying to use our ISDN for upstream and the satelite for downstream.
There doesn't need to be a GPL for books or public documents because their contents are already free to use. All you have to do is properly cite your source. I don't think it is entirely necessary to have a GPL for this reason. Anything copyrighted is freedomain sooner or later anyway.
This guy just needs some sort of feedback system, not a new license.
from my relatively inexperienced perspective, it would seem to me that mr. Katz may have missed the point. The WTO needs some sort of protest. They are more secretive then the Masons. They are completely closed to the public. They don't keep minutes of their meetings. They don't produce press releases.
its not so much that the WTO is evil. Its more that they need to change the way that the organization is structured. The only way that we can really show them this is by protesting the organization at large.
but how are internet standards really established? It seems that if microsoft wanted to create a protocol that only worked with IE. And put it on every NT box, wouldn't that create their own protocol. Even though there was no process? Haven't they done this before? That would give them a monster market share to support their protocol, with virtually no effort
who is this guy: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) and why is he posting here (http://www.phoaks.com/comp/std/c++/, search for 'transmeta' in your web browser.) He has a @transmeta address... why? here's his personal page; http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/
dood, see this as a reform, as china, a representative of communism at large, as trying to mend their ways... moving on to a new generation of freedom and open source thinking.
It's so good to know that in ten years when MY kids are in school I will have to condition them to writing little bunny stories and lying on psych tests. I can't wait to go to juvy hall and pull my seventh grader out because he told his english teacher he would rather be dead then write another damn essay with bunnies in it.
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Or maybe we should just all agree that cars should drive on the right side of the road. Lanes should be two times the width of a horse's hind quarters and when the light is red stop. Interoperability doesn't mean the cars are the same, it means the roads and rules of the road are the same.
What is this mythical right to privacy you speak of? I certainly don't have it ....
We need to stop having a culture where both parents work 50 hour weeks (40 hours of work plus 2 hours of commuting per day). That way parents would have time to be parents instead of shoving their kids into day cares, preschools and the rest of the monstrosity that is institutionalized education or worse, letting the television raise the kid.
Pitching family values is a crock of crap if no one has time to actually *practice* family values. Universal health care and lower inflation would both help families find time to raise their kids (a lot more then a tax cut or more content-restricting laws would).
Prosecuting parents for being bad parents, while appealing is really just another bandaid on a much larger issue where a significant portion of the american population works too often and commutes too far (regardless of whether or not that's a "choice").
So what? If they have terabytes and terabytes of spam, they have a huge database to teach their filters with.
I'd just like to be able to refuse all unsigned mail. Can we at least use s/mime so I can actually sue the spammers?
I concur. Puerto Rico is indeed an excellent game.
Steven Johnson has some responses to a bit of the slashdot criticism of his article. They can be found here.
Attending RPI now, and having several friends who are majoring under IT, I would have to say it really isn't that great. It's good in the sense that you get a broad variety of classes, but they have no free electives and they end up taking classes that are redundant and stupid to begin with. What kind of major has a class devoted to proving the major actually exists (IT, myth or reality)?
Anyway, RPI is cool, but it's not the place for a liberal arts/CS degree.
hmm, what a good way to keep interns. I bet your boss really thinks its cool that your long term benefit of having an intern or two is NULL.
I don't think it is a violation of consitutional rights. As far as I know, kids don't have constitutional rights.
My parents (who dont live together, but arent divorced) use an online bill paying service. I guess it works pretty well.
Remember that Katz wasn't always in the online media, the guy writes books for Pete's sake. Byte media is something he rails against. The act of bastardizing your ideas through brevity. I think it would do us, as a community, good to be exposed to some alternative sources of opinion and information, which is really what Katz is. A new, and different perspective. When you start seeing him as such, instead of as an expert, it puts his writing in a new light.
I did something interesting the other day. I went and found an article by Katz on a subject that I didn't know anything about, or have an opinion about. It was suprisingly helpful, and while I didnt take it at face value, it gave me a starting point for further investigation. Not to mention that he is a respected source outside of Slashdot. I needed the article for an assignment, and could use the credibility that Katz had already established to my own ends. I bet you can find some opinion that he has made that supports your idea. That's one of the nice things about contradictory opinions, everyone can agree with him.
I think they do, but they are often lost in the fray. I know hemos has posted at least twice in the last three days, that I have read. I saw a post from 'linus travolds' but i assume it was a hoax. Point: from the pedestal of the editorial the author's voice is heard above the foray.
If they tried to back up or amend their commentary in the threads, it would either be lost, or would hurt their credibility. I think it's fine the way it is.
I agree with you, the author and the poster are the same, just at different levels of volume. That's why they get to be authors. I think there is a way to apply to be a writer for Slashdot, check the FAQs if you're interested. How cool would it be if you could have authors that reviewed eachother, or held dialogues based on the comments they received on their articles.
(feel free to rephrase these questions more towards something you can use/respond to relatively easily, just bear in mind the gist of what they are saying)
Do you think that american democracy is shifting from citizens voting in polls to stockholders voting through corporations with their dollars? If so, how does technology affect this shift? How does this affect the open source movement?
What are the repercussions of this shift?
I would like your opinion. I know you get alot of flack for writing to the slashdot audience. But we forget that you are writing an editorial here, not news. We can read cnn for news.
We used helius at our small rural business. We found that while their product in theory should work pretty well, we had considerable problems with their support. We had to send PCI cards back and forth to Colorado, spend hours on the phone, and it never did work. So, I guess they might work for some people, but it didn't work well for us.
They supplied us with a router, but wouldn't give us root, it had some modified version of linux on it I believe. We were trying to use our ISDN for upstream and the satelite for downstream.
There doesn't need to be a GPL for books or public documents because their contents are already free to use. All you have to do is properly cite your source. I don't think it is entirely necessary to have a GPL for this reason. Anything copyrighted is freedomain sooner or later anyway.
This guy just needs some sort of feedback system, not a new license.
from my relatively inexperienced perspective, it would seem to me that mr. Katz may have missed the point. The WTO needs some sort of protest. They are more secretive then the Masons. They are completely closed to the public. They don't keep minutes of their meetings. They don't produce press releases.
its not so much that the WTO is evil. Its more that they need to change the way that the organization is structured. The only way that we can really show them this is by protesting the organization at large.
but how are internet standards really established? It seems that if microsoft wanted to create a protocol that only worked with IE. And put it on every NT box, wouldn't that create their own protocol. Even though there was no process? Haven't they done this before? That would give them a monster market share to support their protocol, with virtually no effort
who is this guy: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) and why is he posting here (http://www.phoaks.com/comp/std/c++/, search for 'transmeta' in your web browser.) He has a @transmeta address ... why? here's his personal page; http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/
whats in pittsburg?
source from www.transmeat.com:
Long live the new flesh!
and our nukes will actually reach them ....
dood, see this as a reform, as china, a representative of communism at large, as trying to mend their ways ... moving on to a new generation of freedom and open source thinking.
It's so good to know that in ten years when MY kids are in school I will have to condition them to writing little bunny stories and lying on psych tests. I can't wait to go to juvy hall and pull my seventh grader out because he told his english teacher he would rather be dead then write another damn essay with bunnies in it.