I wish the satellite providers would offer (one way) internet service.
They could use several TV channels, and continously download channels of information.
You could have a geek channel with slashdot, cnet, lwn (linux week news).
You could have a news channel.
Yes could still get on the internet through other means as well.
0) No extra satellite dish required.
1) We have very large, affordable, hard drives to store the information.
2) We have many channels available on satellite already
and most of the existing stuff is useless anyway.
Unfortunately the satellite provider would determine what to download.
There also may be IP concerns but I think these are minor.
What do you think?
Why does it matter if you are not doing anything wrong?
I will ask the following question: Then why it it OK for the government to have secrets like classified projects and documents, if they are not doing anything wrong
I am not a Troll and I have 20+ years programming experience and I do not want to go back to the old OS/2 and Windows 9x GUI design days. I want a Rapid GUI Development Environment similar to Borland C++ Builder or Visual Studio C#.net. I want to draw the widgets on the screen, click the widget and poof you are editing the widget_click function. Quick, simple, do not have to worry about the details unless you are doing something special. I can spend my time doing the stuff that I enjoy, the stuff behind the GUI that does something useful.
I am expressing what I feel is a "killer app" or "killer tool" that can make D and Linux shine even more.
Yes I know about the GUI tools and libraries discussed in the above forums. By-the-way, no one mentioned "entice".
No I am not a Troll.
I have 20+ years programming experience and I do not want to go back to the old OS/2 and Windows 9x GUI design days.
I want a Rapid GUI Development Environment similar to Borland C++ Builder or Visual Studio C#.net.
I want to draw the widgets on the screen, click the widget and poof you are editing the widget_click function.
Quick, simple, do not have to worry the details unless you are doing something special.
I am hoping that D is or soon will be a good alternative to C#.net and Mono.
What is the preferred GUI environment for D?
I was watching the D forums during the first half of 2006 but I could never post any questions to the D forums so I gave up. It looks like I gave up too soon. Does anybody know why I could not post to the D forums?
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?--Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'...
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked--if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D....
Here is a non fiction book written about 50 years ago. It describes the experiences/views of the "average" citizen. I find some of the similarities to today's world, to be a little scary.
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."...
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
Here is a historical book written about 50 years ago. Keep in mind that this is real stuff, not science fiction. I find some of the similarities to today's world to be a little scary.
But Then It Was Too Late "What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."... "To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."...
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer...
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?--Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'...
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked--if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D....
>> Why not go get 2 or 3 jobs, work VERY hard for 12 months Many companies force you to sign an overly restrictive Intellectual Property Agreement, where the company owns all of your thoughts 24/7.
Are you willing to invest your time and money in an idea that your employer might have claims on?
Before I spend alot of time and money on a major purchase like a house, I would at least like to have a "clear title". I want to know that I am the owner. I do not have that "clear title" to my ideas and inventions when corporate IP agreements are involved.
CS might not be a good career choice.
It appears that CS, EE, R&D, etc. are becoming commodity jobs in the US.
http://www.washtech.org/news/industry/display.php? ID_Content=5043
March 21, 2006
WashTech News
Congress Considers Massive H-1b Visa Expansion, Gates Tells Congress It's Microsoft's Top Priority
By Marcus Courtney
Seattle-Congress is contemplating legislation that would allow up to 600,000 skilled professional guest workers to enter the U.S. in a single year. This would be the biggest one time expansion of the controversial H-1b visa program ito date....
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.
I tried this and UPS still would not budge. I told them I wanted to be treated the same way they did IBM or Microsoft. UPS said no. I said this is important to me, please change this or I will quit. They still said NO. I quit and now I am still unemployed after 4 months, but I still beleive in standing up to my principles.
I sent my protest comments to the following organization:
www.tech-forum.org
THE FORUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Council on Competitiveness
1500 K Street, NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20005
202 682 4292 202 682 5150/Fax
Jack Finn(Sen. Ensign's Office)
202 224 6244
jack_finn@ensign.senate.gov
(see site for other contacts)
Here are the comments that I sent:
Please keep the following Mark Twain insight in mind when you create your new government policies to help technology and innovation:
"The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes."
I have a question for you:
Why is Freedom good when it applies to trade and outsourcing but it is bad when applied to intellectual property? We also need "free thought". I have tried asking my potential employers to add a clause to the intellectual property agreement that states, "What I do on my time, my equipment, and does not directly relate to companies business is mine". The potential employer just says NO and instead picks the desperate unemployed or the young naive technology workers that do not make waves. This is ridiculous, why should I invest my time and limited monetary resources in a new idea or invention that may not be mine. I need a government policy that protects my individual intellectual property rights as well. Please give me the ability to become a future "master mind" instead of a thought enslaved corporate robot.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish the satellite providers would offer (one way) internet service. They could use several TV channels, and continously download channels of information. You could have a geek channel with slashdot, cnet, lwn (linux week news). You could have a news channel. Yes could still get on the internet through other means as well. 0) No extra satellite dish required. 1) We have very large, affordable, hard drives to store the information. 2) We have many channels available on satellite already and most of the existing stuff is useless anyway. Unfortunately the satellite provider would determine what to download. There also may be IP concerns but I think these are minor. What do you think?
Before somebody says something stupid like:
Why does it matter if you are not doing anything wrong?
I will ask the following question:
Then why it it OK for the government to have secrets like classified projects and documents, if they are not doing anything wrong
I am not a Troll and I have 20+ years programming experience and I do not want to go back to the old OS/2 and Windows 9x GUI design days. I want a Rapid GUI Development Environment similar to Borland C++ Builder or Visual Studio C#.net. I want to draw the widgets on the screen, click the widget and poof you are editing the widget_click function. Quick, simple, do not have to worry about the details unless you are doing something special. I can spend my time doing the stuff that I enjoy, the stuff behind the GUI that does something useful. I am expressing what I feel is a "killer app" or "killer tool" that can make D and Linux shine even more. Yes I know about the GUI tools and libraries discussed in the above forums. By-the-way, no one mentioned "entice".
No I am not a Troll. I have 20+ years programming experience and I do not want to go back to the old OS/2 and Windows 9x GUI design days. I want a Rapid GUI Development Environment similar to Borland C++ Builder or Visual Studio C#.net. I want to draw the widgets on the screen, click the widget and poof you are editing the widget_click function. Quick, simple, do not have to worry the details unless you are doing something special.
I am hoping that D is or soon will be a good alternative to C#.net and Mono. What is the preferred GUI environment for D? I was watching the D forums during the first half of 2006 but I could never post any questions to the D forums so I gave up. It looks like I gave up too soon. Does anybody know why I could not post to the D forums?
Here is a possible explaination for why other countries have bad opinions about US tourists.
Statistically speaking, when you visit the US, you see the average friendly middle class American.
The "lousiest guests" are, statistically speaking, more likely to be the rich upper class of the US.
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.h tml ...
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Another excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?--Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked--if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
Here is a non fiction book written about 50 years ago.
h tml [thirdreich.net]
...
It describes the experiences/views of the "average" citizen.
I find some of the similarities to today's world, to be a little scary.
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.
"They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer
But Then It Was Too Late
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
Here is a historical book written about 50 years ago. Keep in mind that this is real stuff, not science fiction. I find some of the similarities to today's world to be a little scary.
h tml [thirdreich.net]
... "To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
For a more detailed excerpt see:
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.
"They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer
But Then It Was Too Late
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security."
Here is a book written about 50 years ago, so it is not a Bush bashing book.
h tml
...
I find some of the similarities to today's world to be a little scary.
http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.
"They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer
But Then It Was Too Late
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."
"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head."
An excerpt from ...
...
...
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?--Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked--if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
>> Why not go get 2 or 3 jobs, work VERY hard for 12 months
Many companies force you to sign an overly restrictive Intellectual Property Agreement, where the company owns all of your thoughts 24/7.
Are you willing to invest your time and money in an idea that your employer might have claims on?
Before I spend alot of time and money on a major purchase like a house, I would at least like to have a "clear title". I want to know that I am the owner. I do not have that "clear title" to my ideas and inventions when corporate IP agreements are involved.
CS might not be a good career choice. It appears that CS, EE, R&D, etc. are becoming commodity jobs in the US. http://www.washtech.org/news/industry/display.php? ID_Content=5043
March 21, 2006
WashTech News
Congress Considers Massive H-1b Visa Expansion, Gates Tells Congress It's Microsoft's Top Priority
By Marcus Courtney
Seattle-Congress is contemplating legislation that would allow up to 600,000 skilled professional guest workers to enter the U.S. in a single year. This would be the biggest one time expansion of the controversial H-1b visa program ito date. ...
Take a look at the following article by a very reputable organization
e restTeitelbaum2003.pdf
Do we need more scientists?
MICHAEL S. TEITELBAUM
http://www.sloan.org/programs/documents/PublicInt
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., then President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation.
I tried this and UPS still would not budge. I told them I wanted to be treated the same way they did IBM or Microsoft. UPS said no. I said this is important to me, please change this or I will quit. They still said NO. I quit and now I am still unemployed after 4 months, but I still beleive in standing up to my principles.
I sent my protest comments to the following organization: www.tech-forum.org THE FORUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION Council on Competitiveness 1500 K Street, NW, Suite 850 Washington, DC 20005 202 682 4292 202 682 5150/Fax Jack Finn(Sen. Ensign's Office) 202 224 6244 jack_finn@ensign.senate.gov (see site for other contacts) Here are the comments that I sent: Please keep the following Mark Twain insight in mind when you create your new government policies to help technology and innovation: "The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes." I have a question for you: Why is Freedom good when it applies to trade and outsourcing but it is bad when applied to intellectual property? We also need "free thought". I have tried asking my potential employers to add a clause to the intellectual property agreement that states, "What I do on my time, my equipment, and does not directly relate to companies business is mine". The potential employer just says NO and instead picks the desperate unemployed or the young naive technology workers that do not make waves. This is ridiculous, why should I invest my time and limited monetary resources in a new idea or invention that may not be mine. I need a government policy that protects my individual intellectual property rights as well. Please give me the ability to become a future "master mind" instead of a thought enslaved corporate robot.