I'd guess there are maybe 3 people in the world who really want a robot "friend"
I think you're way off the mark here. How many people in the world have a very strong attachment to their pet? The more lifelike robots become the more they will indeed become our "friends".
No support for MS products is just impossible to get....
I know thats not true. But how many of you out there didn't go to google first when you have a problem with Windows? And where do you go for a problem with Linux? The same place eh?
Picking up the phone first to get support is thing of the past, but its always right up front in TCO calculations.
And remember using TCO math, the office coffee machine is way to expensive for your business to have!
Yep, you're right there. I the senate race in my state the incumbent is running boatloads of ads talking about all the money he's brought back to the state.
And the only way he gets elected is when people registered with the opposing party (which has many many more voters in my state) vote for him in large numbers. The only reason they're voting for him is to bring home more pork.
The one thing that bothers me about your "The government shouldn't borrow money to spend so we should raise taxes argument" is that the politicians in Washington so absolutely, completely no desire to be fiscally responsible in spending!!
My belief is that if they increased taxes to balance the budget, they'd see all that money coming in a just go on a binge spending spree until we went back into debt and needt to increase taxes again.
The current budget defict is a direct result of our lousy, good for nothing representatives in congress seeing a big pile of money in the "surpluses" during the 90s and concluding that they didn't spend enough.
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My taxes went down considerably, and I am not super rich.
The real problem that no one addresses is that even with high rates for rich taxpayers, the super-rich are often also liberal (and conservative as well) elites and the tax code has been set up by both parties to have huge loopholes for the super rich, regardless of the rates.
Its really kind of sad that something that used to be considered common courtesy, introducing yourself to others, has now become your slippery slope to a police state.
In the past one would be considered very rude not to identify themselves, even (or espically) to the police. Nowdays things have changed to where we try to not divulge our identity. We tell our kids (for very good reasons) to not tell strangers who they are. Some people who know your name and enough relevant information can actually become you. I know that was possible in the past, but the power of what they can do with your identity has increased enourmously.
Society is different now. I don't see this as a totally horrible thing. When I've been pulled over for traffic stops, I always have to show my license and the registration for my car. It is required by law and part of the privilege of driving you must live with. And for many people traffic violations is their only experience with the law and in fact this ruling really changes nothing.
Giving your name to a police officer should not be a crime, it shouldn't be a big deal either.
All in all this is not the big battle against a police state. I'm not saying that one isn't coming, I just don't think this is it.
Just a question. Do you work from home? I ask because you have a business level of disaster recovery for your home PC. It is an impressive and well thoughtout solution nonetheless.
I have had ZERO problems with my server quality SCSI drives
You're lucky then. I have had quite a few server quality SCSI drives fail. But I have never had more than one drive in a mirror set fail at the same time.
But our population has been growing since 2001. What about the jobs that are needed to employ the new workers entering the workforce in 2001, 2002, 2003 and early 2004?
Ummm, people in the population increase you cite are all under 4 years old. I don't really want them in the workforce for a few years at least. Some of them will not enter the workforce for good for over 20 years.
The only relevant statistic is the population number with respect to those people who are old enough to work and not yet retired. This demographic has very large numbers of people approching retirement and the first generation to follow them has far fewer numbers (ie. the baby bust).
This is a very interesting question. Until now the mainstream hasn't gotten riled up about software patents. This might be the straw that broke the camel's back. What happens when all the spam filters out there dry up? What happens when all the ISPs filtering spam are sent threating legal letters telling them to stop filtering?
There is one issue out there right now that everyone who uses the internet knows, and that is that spam is absolutely crippling email. I think your general user will not give a damn whether spam filters are patented by one company. They won't see that as a vaild excuse for allowing the destruction and uslessness of their inboxes.
The government has already realized that people are very upset about spam and tried (albeit worthlessly) to deal with the problem. If patents start getting in the way of people clearing spam from their inboxes, I think the government will step in again. And if this patent does miraculously stand up to prior art, I think the government might be compelled to think seriously about invalidating this patent.
So the French, Canadians, and Japanese can all use and build nuclear power plants to meet kyoto, but the US can't!!??!
Oh and wouldn't our materialistic energy centered world include the computer you're using?? Or are YOU willing to go without one.
What I'm saying is that, yes, I don't think the US can implement the Kyoto protocol without using nuclear power. There are other countries that signed it who can't abide by it without using nuclear power either, the only think is that those countries have actually build some plants in the last 25 years.
The U.S. does have nuclear power plants, it's just that we stopped building any more after the Three Mile Island accident. We got scared of using them.
The only problem is that countries like France and Japan can abide by Kyoto with their power plants because they actually build and use nuclear power plants there.
In the US we don't have any new nuclear plants and they never can build any because the environmentalists block new nuclear power plants at every turn.
So the economic impacts of Kyoto in the US would be quite large. We would have coal and gas power plants that would have to be shut down because they would never meet emmissions standards, but we would be unable to build nuclear (no emmisions) plants to replace them.
I do not like the environmentalists claiming that the US should do something about carbon dioxide emmissions and then saying that one of the best solutions to no emmissions power generation can't be used.
It would be my guess that Oracle is probably getting their machines without the license fee being paid to MS by the OEM.
If they are getting their PCs without OS or with Linux preloaded and money is still being paid to Microsoft, either Oracle or the OEM in question should take MS back into court for antitrust violations.
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Actually I'm still seeing the problem in 0.9.1 when there are sidebar ads.
Has anyone had problems with /. rendering in mozilla.
When the main page comes up with a banner ad on the side of the page it mangles the text in the column on the left and the main stories column?
I thought 0.9.1 might fix this but no dice. Also it worked fine in 0.8.
I'd guess there are maybe 3 people in the world who really want a robot "friend"
I think you're way off the mark here. How many people in the world have a very strong attachment to their pet? The more lifelike robots become the more they will indeed become our "friends".
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I know, I know someone else got modded as flamebait, but its just not right to list emacs without vi.
No support for MS products is just impossible to get....
I know thats not true. But how many of you out there didn't go to google first when you have a problem with Windows? And where do you go for a problem with Linux? The same place eh?
Picking up the phone first to get support is thing of the past, but its always right up front in TCO calculations.
And remember using TCO math, the office coffee machine is way to expensive for your business to have!
Yep, you're right there. I the senate race in my state the incumbent is running boatloads of ads talking about all the money he's brought back to the state.
And the only way he gets elected is when people registered with the opposing party (which has many many more voters in my state) vote for him in large numbers. The only reason they're voting for him is to bring home more pork.
No, the only tax increase I have seen is in property taxes, and it is not as large as my tax cut was.
Of course, I'm lucky to live in a state with no income tax, so they don't have that avenue to pursue.
The one thing that bothers me about your "The government shouldn't borrow money to spend so we should raise taxes argument" is that the politicians in Washington so absolutely, completely no desire to be fiscally responsible in spending!!
My belief is that if they increased taxes to balance the budget, they'd see all that money coming in a just go on a binge spending spree until we went back into debt and needt to increase taxes again.
The current budget defict is a direct result of our lousy, good for nothing representatives in congress seeing a big pile of money in the "surpluses" during the 90s and concluding that they didn't spend enough.
My taxes went down considerably, and I am not super rich.
The real problem that no one addresses is that even with high rates for rich taxpayers, the super-rich are often also liberal (and conservative as well) elites and the tax code has been set up by both parties to have huge loopholes for the super rich, regardless of the rates.
Its really kind of sad that something that used to be considered common courtesy, introducing yourself to others, has now become your slippery slope to a police state.
In the past one would be considered very rude not to identify themselves, even (or espically) to the police. Nowdays things have changed to where we try to not divulge our identity. We tell our kids (for very good reasons) to not tell strangers who they are. Some people who know your name and enough relevant information can actually become you. I know that was possible in the past, but the power of what they can do with your identity has increased enourmously.
Society is different now. I don't see this as a totally horrible thing. When I've been pulled over for traffic stops, I always have to show my license and the registration for my car. It is required by law and part of the privilege of driving you must live with. And for many people traffic violations is their only experience with the law and in fact this ruling really changes nothing.
Giving your name to a police officer should not be a crime, it shouldn't be a big deal either.
All in all this is not the big battle against a police state. I'm not saying that one isn't coming, I just don't think this is it.
Absoultely awesome post!!
Dead on too.
Just a question. Do you work from home? I ask because you have a business level of disaster recovery for your home PC. It is an impressive and well thoughtout solution nonetheless.
I have had ZERO problems with my server quality SCSI drives
You're lucky then. I have had quite a few server quality SCSI drives fail. But I have never had more than one drive in a mirror set fail at the same time.
Maybe with a little more convergance the watch will be the cellphone of the 21st century.
But our population has been growing since 2001. What about the jobs that are needed to employ the new workers entering the workforce in 2001, 2002, 2003 and early 2004?
Ummm, people in the population increase you cite are all under 4 years old. I don't really want them in the workforce for a few years at least. Some of them will not enter the workforce for good for over 20 years.
The only relevant statistic is the population number with respect to those people who are old enough to work and not yet retired. This demographic has very large numbers of people approching retirement and the first generation to follow them has far fewer numbers (ie. the baby bust).
After reading your post, all that I can think of is
"Feed me Seymore!!"
Fine, then....
You must go to Dagobah.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
But, of course, he did LOOK for the "fountain of youth" in America, it just wasn't America ... yet.
Your assuming that McAffee's fee will be resonable.
I am willing to venture a guess that the bill they send to AOL will be an ubelievably unreasonable number.
In some places, interstate speed limits are 70mph. In others they are 75mph. 65 is not the speed limit everywhere.
who is going to stop them?
This is a very interesting question. Until now the mainstream hasn't gotten riled up about software patents. This might be the straw that broke the camel's back. What happens when all the spam filters out there dry up? What happens when all the ISPs filtering spam are sent threating legal letters telling them to stop filtering?
There is one issue out there right now that everyone who uses the internet knows, and that is that spam is absolutely crippling email. I think your general user will not give a damn whether spam filters are patented by one company. They won't see that as a vaild excuse for allowing the destruction and uslessness of their inboxes.
The government has already realized that people are very upset about spam and tried (albeit worthlessly) to deal with the problem. If patents start getting in the way of people clearing spam from their inboxes, I think the government will step in again. And if this patent does miraculously stand up to prior art, I think the government might be compelled to think seriously about invalidating this patent.
So the French, Canadians, and Japanese can all use and build nuclear power plants to meet kyoto, but the US can't!!??!
Oh and wouldn't our materialistic energy centered world include the computer you're using?? Or are YOU willing to go without one.
What I'm saying is that, yes, I don't think the US can implement the Kyoto protocol without using nuclear power. There are other countries that signed it who can't abide by it without using nuclear power either, the only think is that those countries have actually build some plants in the last 25 years.
The U.S. does have nuclear power plants, it's just that we stopped building any more after the Three Mile Island accident. We got scared of using them.
That's why I said new nuclear power plants.
The only problem is that countries like France and Japan can abide by Kyoto with their power plants because they actually build and use nuclear power plants there.
In the US we don't have any new nuclear plants and they never can build any because the environmentalists block new nuclear power plants at every turn.
So the economic impacts of Kyoto in the US would be quite large. We would have coal and gas power plants that would have to be shut down because they would never meet emmissions standards, but we would be unable to build nuclear (no emmisions) plants to replace them.
I do not like the environmentalists claiming that the US should do something about carbon dioxide emmissions and then saying that one of the best solutions to no emmissions power generation can't be used.
It would be my guess that Oracle is probably getting their machines without the license fee being paid to MS by the OEM.
If they are getting their PCs without OS or with Linux preloaded and money is still being paid to Microsoft, either Oracle or the OEM in question should take MS back into court for antitrust violations.