People with only a little dab of understanding apply it recklessly in places where it doesn't apply, i.e. social-darwinism.
It's actually rather complicated. Isolated populations must exist for them to diverge and new species to evolve, otherwise the species just continually intermixes. New species come about due to things like geographical bridges opening, i.e. the separation of the northern and southern American continents. And this is just one example of one aspect of the process of evolution, there are many other aspects.
Evolution is an involved process and variables are at play that most laymen have zero, absolutely zippo grasp of.
I suggest you look into it. Starting with palentology is a good way to start. It may be an eye-opener, particularly if you're just a casual New Scientist reader with an opinion.
There would need to be a strong grounding in philosopy, including logic, etc., before the child would be introduced to Nietzsche. For this reason, your example is just a cartoonish illustration of your stereotypes.
That's right. You have the same narrow and bigoted view of 'fundamentalist religion' as the worst of the 'fundies.'
Not taking as stand on evolution is like not taking a stand on the existence of electricity.
How so? My house is going to go dark if I don't venerate Darwin as the One True Scientist?
Let's get real. The people on one side are militiant fundamentalists. The people on the other side are militant athiests.
The rest of us are a mix of pious, agnostic, athiest, etc. We're not particularly angry about the issue. We're not using Darwin to bash religion, we're not using religion to bash Darwin.
No, it's not hypocritical. It just blows away the notion of phish as a good example of 'they can give it away for free and get by just fine.' Obviously he couldn't give it away and get by just fine. So the 'phish' case history just blew out the window.
Ah, but Apple's policy is (has been) in some instances to just ship you back another equivalent unit. That's why people whose iPod needs a new battery are engaging in a crapshoot. The unit they get back might be one that was dropped 70 times and has lots of latent internal damage, whereas theirs, which they sent in for a battery replacement, always sat on a silk cushion near their stereo. If the Apple product has your artwork etched on it, Apple can't follow their usual procedure and might just void the warranty.
For it to be Socialistic/Communistic, the work would have to be owned by the government.
Naw. For it to be socialistic/communistic, notions like 'the people', 'all of us,' 'the common good,' and 'public domain' all work well. Under the fantasy called 'communism' the governement as an entity is supposed to wither away.
No. Actually, the 'conspiracy hullaballoo' comes simply from the fact that many aspects of life and living are boring. People prefer to embroider fancifal notions on the edge to make it somewhat less boring. Some of said fancifal notions are things like decoratings on the dollar bill. Some are paranoid rantings about said decorations.
And the thing is, life doesn't have to be boring. But if you live a constipated existence in a closed off environment, you're bound to spin up something to compensate for your status.
Really it's that simple. Though a simple explanation doesn't sell paperbacks or pay for people like Robert Anton Wilson's groceries...
Then, to answer the grandparent's question, you don't think that artists should have the right to sell ownership rights to their work.
Any arrangement where 'the labels' (to use your caricature for 'the bad guys' which is just that- a caricature) don't have the right to exclusive ownership is one in which the artist isn't free to sell that exclusive ownership.
Gently take your friend aside and remind him that while it's a dishwasher, you still need to add SOAP to it, or it will just thrash around all the food matter on the dishes and eventually have so much grease and debris in it that, well, you described it pretty well for us already....
I'm not that up on the latest 'digital audio' fads and trends, but I will state that I compiled the MPEG reference source code back in the mid nineties and made what were then called MP2 files using my old '486 system (they were SLOW to encode using that old non-optimized code on a 486). It's my understanding that there are various implementations of the MP3 encoding algorhythm and that some are considered better than others.
You can't have my 'geek license' and if you try to take it I'll jab you with my soldering iron and/or strangle you with #30 wire-wrap wire. What were OS were you running in 1994, BTW? (*suspicious look*)
The Coke/Pepsi ad wars make sense because they crowd viable third-party competitors out of the market. There are smaller, limited players like RC Cola, but the whole notion of it being an either/or choice with Coke or Pepsi benefits both companies.
Similarly, all the 'new version' sodas, i.e. the myriad new types of Mountain Dew, push third party choices off the retail shelf.
I once went to visit my boss on a Saturday. He was in the basement happily showing me the various pieces of choice test equipment, piles of old radio gear, etc. down in his 'lab' when I commented about him still wearing his suit coat. His response was that it had pockets for all the stuff he carried (mostly various nerd gear sorts of things) like calipers, screwdrivers and things.) The old-school term 'vest pocket' that used to be ascribed to electronic projects like 'Vest Pocket Signal Tracer' actually DO have some significance. His suits were definitely NOT trendy. Just regular jacket and slacks. He wouldn't have looked comfortable in anything else.
Did I mention he was old enough that he once had Bob Dylan as a roomate in the early sixties?
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As the creator of a Slackware based distro, MfxLinux,
Actually, almost any Slackware user out there is the 'creator of a Slackware based distro.
I once tried to be the 'creator of a RedHat based distro' back when RedHat 5.0 came out. I was quickly back to using Slackware.
Too late. I hear Bruce Perens has a column.
I think he meant to type Water Ship Down.
But I might be wrong.
It's really deplorable that people like you waste your +2 posting privledge to post actual authentic flamebait.
And because your particular flamebait is geek-popular, it gets heralded as humor.
The theory of evolution is widely MIS-understood.
People with only a little dab of understanding apply it recklessly in places where it doesn't apply, i.e. social-darwinism.
It's actually rather complicated. Isolated populations must exist for them to diverge and new species to evolve, otherwise the species just continually intermixes. New species come about due to things like geographical bridges opening, i.e. the separation of the northern and southern American continents. And this is just one example of one aspect of the process of evolution, there are many other aspects.
Evolution is an involved process and variables are at play that most laymen have zero, absolutely zippo grasp of.
I suggest you look into it. Starting with palentology is a good way to start. It may be an eye-opener, particularly if you're just a casual New Scientist reader with an opinion.
Remember Galileo?
Contraception?
Condoms?
Don't you really mean your little postage-stamp-sized condensation of these long and complex topics in history?
I just wanted to know where to download the MP3 files.
There would need to be a strong grounding in philosopy, including logic, etc., before the child would be introduced to Nietzsche. For this reason, your example is just a cartoonish illustration of your stereotypes.
That's right. You have the same narrow and bigoted view of 'fundamentalist religion' as the worst of the 'fundies.'
Not taking as stand on evolution is like not taking a stand on the existence of electricity.
How so? My house is going to go dark if I don't venerate Darwin as the One True Scientist?
Let's get real. The people on one side are militiant fundamentalists. The people on the other side are militant athiests.
The rest of us are a mix of pious, agnostic, athiest, etc. We're not particularly angry about the issue. We're not using Darwin to bash religion, we're not using religion to bash Darwin.
Maybe it's WAV files on a 512MB flash drive.
Maybe they're selling it at a big loss.
Where do we download this, anyhow?
No, it's not hypocritical. It just blows away the notion of phish as a good example of 'they can give it away for free and get by just fine.' Obviously he couldn't give it away and get by just fine. So the 'phish' case history just blew out the window.
Oh well.
Ah, but Apple's policy is (has been) in some instances to just ship you back another equivalent unit. That's why people whose iPod needs a new battery are engaging in a crapshoot. The unit they get back might be one that was dropped 70 times and has lots of latent internal damage, whereas theirs, which they sent in for a battery replacement, always sat on a silk cushion near their stereo. If the Apple product has your artwork etched on it, Apple can't follow their usual procedure and might just void the warranty.
For it to be Socialistic/Communistic, the work would have to be owned by the government.
Naw. For it to be socialistic/communistic, notions like 'the people', 'all of us,' 'the common good,' and 'public domain' all work well. Under the fantasy called 'communism' the governement as an entity is supposed to wither away.
No. Actually, the 'conspiracy hullaballoo' comes simply from the fact that many aspects of life and living are boring. People prefer to embroider fancifal notions on the edge to make it somewhat less boring. Some of said fancifal notions are things like decoratings on the dollar bill. Some are paranoid rantings about said decorations.
And the thing is, life doesn't have to be boring. But if you live a constipated existence in a closed off environment, you're bound to spin up something to compensate for your status.
Really it's that simple. Though a simple explanation doesn't sell paperbacks or pay for people like Robert Anton Wilson's groceries...
A mobile phone is an active radiating device, and has a sensitive RF front end to detect a signal.
An RFID 'module' is a passive device.
Okay, you've explained how a rather ignorant sector of the market makes their purchases.
Why do you assume we all act like that?
Oh, not sure what any of this has to do with sitting in the latest Cadillac, however. Weak analogy there.
Then, to answer the grandparent's question, you don't think that artists should have the right to sell ownership rights to their work.
Any arrangement where 'the labels' (to use your caricature for 'the bad guys' which is just that- a caricature) don't have the right to exclusive ownership is one in which the artist isn't free to sell that exclusive ownership.
'Back in the USSR' indeed.
Gently take your friend aside and remind him that while it's a dishwasher, you still need to add SOAP to it, or it will just thrash around all the food matter on the dishes and eventually have so much grease and debris in it that, well, you described it pretty well for us already....
I'm not that up on the latest 'digital audio' fads and trends, but I will state that I compiled the MPEG reference source code back in the mid nineties and made what were then called MP2 files using my old '486 system (they were SLOW to encode using that old non-optimized code on a 486). It's my understanding that there are various implementations of the MP3 encoding algorhythm and that some are considered better than others.
You can't have my 'geek license' and if you try to take it I'll jab you with my soldering iron and/or strangle you with #30 wire-wrap wire. What were OS were you running in 1994, BTW? (*suspicious look*)
Ah, but if there's an audio track, there could be data encoded in it.
There was an old Information Society CD like that. It had audio modem 'noise' in it that was supposedly readable. The name of the CD was 'Hack.'
Good old Insoc in the early 90's...
Ads done the way Google does them are not exactly "ads" they're what you're trying to do on the computer.
Maybe that's what YOU are trying to do on the computer, but please speak for yourself.
The Coke/Pepsi ad wars make sense because they crowd viable third-party competitors out of the market. There are smaller, limited players like RC Cola, but the whole notion of it being an either/or choice with Coke or Pepsi benefits both companies.
Similarly, all the 'new version' sodas, i.e. the myriad new types of Mountain Dew, push third party choices off the retail shelf.
I once went to visit my boss on a Saturday. He was in the basement happily showing me the various pieces of choice test equipment, piles of old radio gear, etc. down in his 'lab' when I commented about him still wearing his suit coat. His response was that it had pockets for all the stuff he carried (mostly various nerd gear sorts of things) like calipers, screwdrivers and things.) The old-school term 'vest pocket' that used to be ascribed to electronic projects like 'Vest Pocket Signal Tracer' actually DO have some significance. His suits were definitely NOT trendy. Just regular jacket and slacks. He wouldn't have looked comfortable in anything else.
Did I mention he was old enough that he once had Bob Dylan as a roomate in the early sixties?
Programmers are not 'IT' people. They are developers. Often engineers.
'IT' people are data janitors.
It's when 'she' won't let you hear 'her' voice in that darkened room that you should be worried. Or not.