Uh, either you are misunderstanding the WAG comment, or you are trying not to acknowledge it. The WAG part was conserning the CAUSE of death. You also have not been given good proof that there is no Sun God. The "I was just struck by the coincidence" doesn't fly given that you were not struck by the coincidence that your boss was right handed, and got brain cancer. Do you give just as much creadence to the theory that being right handed causes brain cancer?
What I find more of a coincidence is that there are a ton of people who have decided that cell phones are a bain on society, and a totally unverified story is circulating trying to convincing people that cell phones kill you. After all microwave ovens don't seem to have made us all sterile.
"In point of fact, a human being NEEDS sunlight for psychological reasons as well it's the best way for your body to get vitamin D."
Hence, the benifits out weigh the risk.
"What we accept is doing anything about it. (at least with cars) Imo, that is merely because of apathy. ie, someone else was the victim, some other stranger was the perpetrator and any changes to 'fix' things would inconvenience me. That doesn't mean it is not possible to use cars without having the death toll that we accept, it just means humans are irresponsible."
Maybe so, but TODAY, cars are big death machines, and we drive them, and walk around them anyway. Why? Because the benefit out weighs the risk.
"I remember reading some science fiction (Bio of a Space Tyrant?)"
Yes, I believe it was.
"Talk all you want on your cell phone then."
Thank you, I will. Why? Because, just like sunlight and cars, for me, the benifits out weigh the risk. Your post has the tone of disagreeing with me, but none of your points contradicts mine. In fact, your points support my view. You just seem angry that the world is the way it is.
That is absolutly incorrect. It is well know to those of us that beat the crap out of a bully or two in our youth, that a baseball bat to the head will change things very quickly. If you avoid arrest, the bully very quickly learns that you are not a "fun" target anymore.
More FUD from the neo-luddites. You are more likely to be run down by that guy listening to his radio, or arguing with his wife who is in the seat next to him.
Anyone who listens to the radio or has passengers in their car, and complains about cell phones while driving is a hypocrate.
It seems that doubting a god that flies a flaming golden chariot across the sky every day wouldn't be a good idea. That's why a make offerings the the Sun God daily.
A few years back a friend of mine who believed that the Sun God was just a ball of fire circling the earth, died right where the light and warmth from the Sun God would hit him. Yes this is only one anecdotal case also, but still it reinforces my belief that denying the Sun God just can't be good for you.
The point: You openly know that your making a wild ass guess about your bosses death with absolutly no actual evidence, yet you still choose to believe because you have to find SOME REASON for his death. If you can't find the real reason, you just find a scape goat. I guess we should be glade the this is the 21st century, and we use 'things' as a scape goat instead of just picking someone out of the crowd and burning them at the stake.
We drive cars even though they are huge killing machines. Why, because the benefits are worth the risk. Same with going out in the sun. It is well known that the sun causes cancer. We still go out in the daylight. Again, the benefits out weigh the risk.
Sony should have pushed this heavily in the rental market. Practically giving them away to companies like Netflix. As you said, it would have pushed sales of the units themselves. UMD was obviously not a good format for the purchaser of movies, but it would have been great for the rental.
"... and toss all the music you have on it right now, to boot. I don't hear of people doing this often."
My wife and I take 4 or 5 SD cards full of music with us when we go on vacation. When we run out of space on the card in our camera, we start deleting music from the other cards. It's nice having 4 gig of music with us, but it is even nicer knowing that we will definitly not run out of room for photos.
Given that I would likely have bought the cards whether I had an mp3 player or not. This help in the price difference between the SD and miniDisc.
"Asking her to crawl under a desk to fix a cable whenever she'd wear a skirt (never on the jeans days)"
She wore skirts when she knew that her job would sometimes entail climbing under a desk?!?!?!?! Your friend simply dressed inappropriatly for her job. She was a hypocrate for complaining. You were kidding right? She didn't really wear skirts to a job that required climbing under a desk did she?
Maybe that will mean that those same IT people who also have no IT skills will be forced to manage too. If you have an incompetent person, is it better that they are in management, or IT?
Because if you don't offer proper health insurance, the community gets pissed off at your behavior. They then stop shopping with you, and encourage other people to stop shopping with you. Why? Because it is in their best interest. Once people stop shopping with you, the company starts to lose money, and share holders lose money.
If we are going to go with the assumption that corporations have no obligation to behave morally, then we have to go with the assumption that the job of keeping them in check must be taken on by the consumer. So the grandparent is doing the right thing by exposing the immoral behavior so that the consumer can get pissed, and use their buying power to make change.
Because that implies that it is just technology not working. But, if you want full disclosure, tell the people that you don't send to AOL and Hotmail, because they consider your missionary email to be "Junk", and hides it from the user. The point of a "Junk Mail" folder is to hide the junk mail.
Then proceed to explain that AOL and Hotmail wants you to pay $2000 to spread the word of God without their active interferance.
I keep running into people that use that term, and don't seem to know it's meaning. Being 'professional' means that you do the job in a competent way in a timely, cost effective fashion. Professionl dress is clothing that allows you to complete that job in a competent, timely, SAFE, cost effective fashion. Ties and white shirts are absolutly unprofessional for IT guys that crawl around under desks. Suits and ties are also unprofessional for virtually all blue collar workers, which like it or not, we coders are. To be honest, I would never trust a guy in a tie to touch my computer, and with good reason. While I have met some very competent managers and sales people whole dress in suits and ties, when it comes to coders I have known, cost of clothing and quality of code has been mostly inverse of each other.
"Vista slips largely because keeping things backward compatible makes things more complex."
Nope. It just means that you include a preinstalled image of the old versions of Windows and a copy of VirtualPC with every copy of Vista sold. Integrate the VirtualPC emulater into the Windows UI, and some hooks, and say screw backward compatability in the new OS for anything but the emulator. They already bought VirtualPC. Whats the problem?
It has been a lot of years, but when I worked in a McDonalds in the late 80s, you definitly could get fries without salt. It was a relatively simple process to clear a section of the warmer, wipe it down to remove any salt, and dump a fresh batch of fries into the clean section. We did this several times a day for those that didn't want salt. Mind you, at this time we cooked pancakes to order, as opposed to microwaving pre-cooked pancakes, so things might have changed. Heck back then people would call us liars because they would ask us to put something in the microwave, and couldn't believe that there wasn't one.
"And never ever take a tool to a fight, the chance of you losing and having it used againt you is far to high for it to be an 'intelligent' choice."
If I had to have a serious physical confrontation with say...Ken Shamrock in a dark ally. I would be far less worried that he would take my gun away and shoot me than what would happen if I faced him bare handed. Basically if he were close enough to take my gun, I'm a dead man anyway.
The problem is that some people are smart enough to use tools. When you use tools in a fight, it becomes a whole different issue. Perticularly when those of us that are patient and have good stratigic skill get involved. Unless for some reason you feel that we should encourage physical size over intelligence, and rash behavior over good planning.
Wow. Your pretty touchy on this subject. I certainly was not trying to make an exaustive list of uses, nor was I trying to come up with even one of the top 10 most important possible uses. I was just giving a simple example of where someone might find this kind of tech if it were to pan out as well as computer tech did. Keep in mind that while computers do some very amazing things on the high end, the vast majority of people associate their usefullness with sending a picture of little Billy to grandma on his birthday. This when just 50 years earlier, it would have been unthinkable to even have a computer in a home due to the huge cost. Who would have thougt 50 years ago that adding a computer to the house would be in the same price range as adding and subtracting iron plates.
the EULA of commercial software (as a rule anyways.) also says that "I can not take the source code and use it without giving my source, nor can I use the source code for a tiny section of a big project and only give out a section of the code used. I would have to opensource teh whole thing."
Where? Well that would be in the clauses that say you cannot use the source code at all.
I you were building superstructures in space, yes. If you are trying to build something the size of the space shuttle, or even the ISS, spinning is not going to work. Besides, space travel is not the only place that artificial gravity would be useful. How about gyms. How about if being able to create artificial gravity leads to advances in deflecting or shielding of gravity. What if it leads to figuring out a way to make a repulsion as opposed to the normal attraction.
While spinning is still probably a good idea for space superstructures, there are lots of uses for artificial gravity, and even on a spinning space superstructure, you might want to even out the gravity close to the center with that at the rim.
You are actually doing the pragmatic thing. the **AA's don't worry about boycotts. They know full well that in the end, people will go back to the movies and CDs. It is a cultural problem, and you are not going to change a culture because of price gouging, or by yelling 'boycott' because of price gouging. So, until those of us that hate the **AAs start working within the system, no change will happen. Libraries are legal. You have started your own private library, and I commend you. I think I just might start my own community movie library.
My logic isn't flawed. You are just saying that the rich should have protection, and the poor shouldn't. Where is the logic flawed that if "I.P." is property then EVERYBODY must respect ALL "I.P."?
I'm actually not 100% against copyright. I am 100% against "Intellectual Property". When people start talking about ideas as "propety" and talk about "stealing" them, they fall into the trap of hypocracy. This is because every idea that is expressed in society is built upon someone elses idea, right down to the words used to describe it. So, you cannot "create intellectual property" without "stealing intellectual property". You can get a copyright on an idea that is not "property" without it being hypocritical as long as the copyright is a very short duration.
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Uh, either you are misunderstanding the WAG comment, or you are trying not to acknowledge it. The WAG part was conserning the CAUSE of death. You also have not been given good proof that there is no Sun God. The "I was just struck by the coincidence" doesn't fly given that you were not struck by the coincidence that your boss was right handed, and got brain cancer. Do you give just as much creadence to the theory that being right handed causes brain cancer?
What I find more of a coincidence is that there are a ton of people who have decided that cell phones are a bain on society, and a totally unverified story is circulating trying to convincing people that cell phones kill you. After all microwave ovens don't seem to have made us all sterile.
"In point of fact, a human being NEEDS sunlight for psychological reasons as well it's the best way for your body to get vitamin D."
Hence, the benifits out weigh the risk.
"What we accept is doing anything about it. (at least with cars) Imo, that is merely because of apathy. ie, someone else was the victim, some other stranger was the perpetrator and any changes to 'fix' things would inconvenience me. That doesn't mean it is not possible to use cars without having the death toll that we accept, it just means humans are irresponsible."
Maybe so, but TODAY, cars are big death machines, and we drive them, and walk around them anyway. Why? Because the benefit out weighs the risk.
"I remember reading some science fiction (Bio of a Space Tyrant?)"
Yes, I believe it was.
"Talk all you want on your cell phone then."
Thank you, I will. Why? Because, just like sunlight and cars, for me, the benifits out weigh the risk. Your post has the tone of disagreeing with me, but none of your points contradicts mine. In fact, your points support my view. You just seem angry that the world is the way it is.
"bullying the bully doesn't change it"
That is absolutly incorrect. It is well know to those of us that beat the crap out of a bully or two in our youth, that a baseball bat to the head will change things very quickly. If you avoid arrest, the bully very quickly learns that you are not a "fun" target anymore.
More FUD from the neo-luddites. You are more likely to be run down by that guy listening to his radio, or arguing with his wife who is in the seat next to him.
Anyone who listens to the radio or has passengers in their car, and complains about cell phones while driving is a hypocrate.
It seems that doubting a god that flies a flaming golden chariot across the sky every day wouldn't be a good idea. That's why a make offerings the the Sun God daily.
A few years back a friend of mine who believed that the Sun God was just a ball of fire circling the earth, died right where the light and warmth from the Sun God would hit him. Yes this is only one anecdotal case also, but still it reinforces my belief that denying the Sun God just can't be good for you.
The point: You openly know that your making a wild ass guess about your bosses death with absolutly no actual evidence, yet you still choose to believe because you have to find SOME REASON for his death. If you can't find the real reason, you just find a scape goat. I guess we should be glade the this is the 21st century, and we use 'things' as a scape goat instead of just picking someone out of the crowd and burning them at the stake.
We drive cars even though they are huge killing machines. Why, because the benefits are worth the risk. Same with going out in the sun. It is well known that the sun causes cancer. We still go out in the daylight. Again, the benefits out weigh the risk.
Sony should have pushed this heavily in the rental market. Practically giving them away to companies like Netflix. As you said, it would have pushed sales of the units themselves. UMD was obviously not a good format for the purchaser of movies, but it would have been great for the rental.
"... and toss all the music you have on it right now, to boot. I don't hear of people doing this often."
My wife and I take 4 or 5 SD cards full of music with us when we go on vacation. When we run out of space on the card in our camera, we start deleting music from the other cards. It's nice having 4 gig of music with us, but it is even nicer knowing that we will definitly not run out of room for photos.
Given that I would likely have bought the cards whether I had an mp3 player or not. This help in the price difference between the SD and miniDisc.
"Asking her to crawl under a desk to fix a cable whenever she'd wear a skirt (never on the jeans days)"
She wore skirts when she knew that her job would sometimes entail climbing under a desk?!?!?!?! Your friend simply dressed inappropriatly for her job. She was a hypocrate for complaining. You were kidding right? She didn't really wear skirts to a job that required climbing under a desk did she?
That's good because those DVDAs spread you open like a Thanksgiving turky.
But then how are you going to watch TV and use your computer at the same time?!?!?!
Maybe that will mean that those same IT people who also have no IT skills will be forced to manage too. If you have an incompetent person, is it better that they are in management, or IT?
Because if you don't offer proper health insurance, the community gets pissed off at your behavior. They then stop shopping with you, and encourage other people to stop shopping with you. Why? Because it is in their best interest. Once people stop shopping with you, the company starts to lose money, and share holders lose money.
If we are going to go with the assumption that corporations have no obligation to behave morally, then we have to go with the assumption that the job of keeping them in check must be taken on by the consumer. So the grandparent is doing the right thing by exposing the immoral behavior so that the consumer can get pissed, and use their buying power to make change.
Because that implies that it is just technology not working. But, if you want full disclosure, tell the people that you don't send to AOL and Hotmail, because they consider your missionary email to be "Junk", and hides it from the user. The point of a "Junk Mail" folder is to hide the junk mail.
Then proceed to explain that AOL and Hotmail wants you to pay $2000 to spread the word of God without their active interferance.
I keep running into people that use that term, and don't seem to know it's meaning. Being 'professional' means that you do the job in a competent way in a timely, cost effective fashion. Professionl dress is clothing that allows you to complete that job in a competent, timely, SAFE, cost effective fashion. Ties and white shirts are absolutly unprofessional for IT guys that crawl around under desks. Suits and ties are also unprofessional for virtually all blue collar workers, which like it or not, we coders are. To be honest, I would never trust a guy in a tie to touch my computer, and with good reason. While I have met some very competent managers and sales people whole dress in suits and ties, when it comes to coders I have known, cost of clothing and quality of code has been mostly inverse of each other.
"Vista slips largely because keeping things backward compatible makes things more complex."
Nope. It just means that you include a preinstalled image of the old versions of Windows and a copy of VirtualPC with every copy of Vista sold. Integrate the VirtualPC emulater into the Windows UI, and some hooks, and say screw backward compatability in the new OS for anything but the emulator. They already bought VirtualPC. Whats the problem?
It has been a lot of years, but when I worked in a McDonalds in the late 80s, you definitly could get fries without salt. It was a relatively simple process to clear a section of the warmer, wipe it down to remove any salt, and dump a fresh batch of fries into the clean section. We did this several times a day for those that didn't want salt. Mind you, at this time we cooked pancakes to order, as opposed to microwaving pre-cooked pancakes, so things might have changed. Heck back then people would call us liars because they would ask us to put something in the microwave, and couldn't believe that there wasn't one.
"And never ever take a tool to a fight, the chance of you losing and having it used againt you is far to high for it to be an 'intelligent' choice."
If I had to have a serious physical confrontation with say...Ken Shamrock in a dark ally. I would be far less worried that he would take my gun away and shoot me than what would happen if I faced him bare handed. Basically if he were close enough to take my gun, I'm a dead man anyway.
The problem is that some people are smart enough to use tools. When you use tools in a fight, it becomes a whole different issue. Perticularly when those of us that are patient and have good stratigic skill get involved. Unless for some reason you feel that we should encourage physical size over intelligence, and rash behavior over good planning.
Wow. Your pretty touchy on this subject. I certainly was not trying to make an exaustive list of uses, nor was I trying to come up with even one of the top 10 most important possible uses. I was just giving a simple example of where someone might find this kind of tech if it were to pan out as well as computer tech did. Keep in mind that while computers do some very amazing things on the high end, the vast majority of people associate their usefullness with sending a picture of little Billy to grandma on his birthday. This when just 50 years earlier, it would have been unthinkable to even have a computer in a home due to the huge cost. Who would have thougt 50 years ago that adding a computer to the house would be in the same price range as adding and subtracting iron plates.
the EULA of commercial software (as a rule anyways.) also says that "I can not take the source code and use it without giving my source, nor can I use the source code for a tiny section of a big project and only give out a section of the code used. I would have to opensource teh whole thing."
Where? Well that would be in the clauses that say you cannot use the source code at all.
I you were building superstructures in space, yes. If you are trying to build something the size of the space shuttle, or even the ISS, spinning is not going to work. Besides, space travel is not the only place that artificial gravity would be useful. How about gyms. How about if being able to create artificial gravity leads to advances in deflecting or shielding of gravity. What if it leads to figuring out a way to make a repulsion as opposed to the normal attraction.
While spinning is still probably a good idea for space superstructures, there are lots of uses for artificial gravity, and even on a spinning space superstructure, you might want to even out the gravity close to the center with that at the rim.
You are actually doing the pragmatic thing. the **AA's don't worry about boycotts. They know full well that in the end, people will go back to the movies and CDs. It is a cultural problem, and you are not going to change a culture because of price gouging, or by yelling 'boycott' because of price gouging. So, until those of us that hate the **AAs start working within the system, no change will happen. Libraries are legal. You have started your own private library, and I commend you. I think I just might start my own community movie library.
That doesn't explain why current "I.P." creators get to steal other peoples "property" then.
My logic isn't flawed. You are just saying that the rich should have protection, and the poor shouldn't. Where is the logic flawed that if "I.P." is property then EVERYBODY must respect ALL "I.P."?
I'm actually not 100% against copyright. I am 100% against "Intellectual Property". When people start talking about ideas as "propety" and talk about "stealing" them, they fall into the trap of hypocracy. This is because every idea that is expressed in society is built upon someone elses idea, right down to the words used to describe it. So, you cannot "create intellectual property" without "stealing intellectual property". You can get a copyright on an idea that is not "property" without it being hypocritical as long as the copyright is a very short duration.