The book explicitly mentions Russian Cosmism, although in reference to contemporary Cosmism.
Do encyclopedias usually tell you how to do practical things? That sounds more like an instruction manual than an encyclopedia.
I think the book is a good introduction to the existence of the ideas and how they relate, and to Transhumanism as a *culture*.
I installed it last night.
Good: fast and looks great.
Bad: Ignores my wireless dongle. Pidgin, Gwibber and Tor broken. Not being able to see much of the internet may be an effect or a cause of this but the timing is suspicious.
Their description of the effects of TC is accurate. You are trying to hide the woods with the trees.
"What they said is not what Trusted Computing does. It does not enforce policy on your machine."
It doesn't enforce policy, it makes policy enforcable.
Guns don't kill people, Chuck Norris kills people.
"The whole point of Trusted Computing is to keep things completely voluntary."
Nobody forces you to drink the hemlock.
"Honest people have nothing to fear from Trusted Computing."
Honest individuals have nothing to fear from the public understanding how coercive and restrictive TC is.
TC adds to consumer choice like indentured servitude adds to the range of employment possibilities.
Neither the large corporations, mostly American and Asian, who stand to benefit from this legislation at the expense of local businesses and consumers, or the minor trade organisations who I think you intend to represent the "little guy", represent SOFTWARE manufacturers for the most part.
You also have no consumer, academic, media, or social support. Consumers at least are kind of important for this sort of thing.
I notice the site you mention is devoted to patents in general. Are the names you give devoted to software patents specifically, or just patents in general?
Any "compromise" over pure software patents will result in pure software patents being introduced in some form. That is not a compromise. If you have a genuine compromise, let's hear it. Otherwise don't try to present IP extremism as the voice of reason, your facts (such as tehy are) don't support your argument.
You missed Safari (KHTML), and Rendezvous. Also the Objective-C langauge that their GUI framework is built on is an extension of GCC.
The competitive advantage comes from having something thanks to Open Source where otherwise you would have nothing. It's hard to compete if you don't have anything to compete with. Apple have built their entire OS on top of Open Source, and they and NeXT before them have done so since the late 1980s!
iChat rocks for IM. Simple and powerful. If you want endless config dialogs, sure, go for another client. Enjoy.
As for Darwin not being as 'sophisticated' as the broken lump of spaghetti code that is the NT kernel, how exactly is that a bad thing? Linux is less sophisticate than HURD...
The flip side to many of the arguments that always come up in copyright threads is that companies don't have to stop making things.
Don't confuse consumer artefacts with cultural heritage.
Certainly in the UK there are lots of Macs in pre-press, quite a few in design and music, some in the home, and a very few in education. There's magazines, dealers, web sites, user groups etc. We even have Mac developers (I'm often one:-) ).
Libertarianism is right-wing apologetics. This is very clear from Graham's opinions on the distribution of wealth. Wanting nothing to do with left/right politics is a hallmark of the right, and libertarianism certainly isn't left wing in many of its tenets.
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The book explicitly mentions Russian Cosmism, although in reference to contemporary Cosmism. Do encyclopedias usually tell you how to do practical things? That sounds more like an instruction manual than an encyclopedia. I think the book is a good introduction to the existence of the ideas and how they relate, and to Transhumanism as a *culture*.
And also at odds with reality. rms certainly says you can charge for software...
I installed it last night. Good: fast and looks great. Bad: Ignores my wireless dongle. Pidgin, Gwibber and Tor broken. Not being able to see much of the internet may be an effect or a cause of this but the timing is suspicious.
Their description of the effects of TC is accurate. You are trying to hide the woods with the trees. "What they said is not what Trusted Computing does. It does not enforce policy on your machine." It doesn't enforce policy, it makes policy enforcable. Guns don't kill people, Chuck Norris kills people. "The whole point of Trusted Computing is to keep things completely voluntary." Nobody forces you to drink the hemlock. "Honest people have nothing to fear from Trusted Computing." Honest individuals have nothing to fear from the public understanding how coercive and restrictive TC is. TC adds to consumer choice like indentured servitude adds to the range of employment possibilities.
Neither the large corporations, mostly American and Asian, who stand to benefit from this legislation at the expense of local businesses and consumers, or the minor trade organisations who I think you intend to represent the "little guy", represent SOFTWARE manufacturers for the most part.
You also have no consumer, academic, media, or social support. Consumers at least are kind of important for this sort of thing.
I notice the site you mention is devoted to patents in general. Are the names you give devoted to software patents specifically, or just patents in general?
Any "compromise" over pure software patents will result in pure software patents being introduced in some form. That is not a compromise. If you have a genuine compromise, let's hear it. Otherwise don't try to present IP extremism as the voice of reason, your facts (such as tehy are) don't support your argument.
You missed Safari (KHTML), and Rendezvous. Also the Objective-C langauge that their GUI framework is built on is an extension of GCC.
The competitive advantage comes from having something thanks to Open Source where otherwise you would have nothing. It's hard to compete if you don't have anything to compete with. Apple have built their entire OS on top of Open Source, and they and NeXT before them have done so since the late 1980s!
iChat rocks for IM. Simple and powerful. If you want endless config dialogs, sure, go for another client. Enjoy. As for Darwin not being as 'sophisticated' as the broken lump of spaghetti code that is the NT kernel, how exactly is that a bad thing? Linux is less sophisticate than HURD...
The flip side to many of the arguments that always come up in copyright threads is that companies don't have to stop making things. Don't confuse consumer artefacts with cultural heritage.
Certainly in the UK there are lots of Macs in pre-press, quite a few in design and music, some in the home, and a very few in education. :-) ).
There's magazines, dealers, web sites, user groups etc. We even have Mac developers (I'm often one
Libertarianism is right-wing apologetics. This is very clear from Graham's opinions on the distribution of wealth. Wanting nothing to do with left/right politics is a hallmark of the right, and libertarianism certainly isn't left wing in many of its tenets.