Thank you so much for taking the trouble to reply so eloquently.
I am quite curious what that experience was that you refer to.
I found your response quite fulfilling in and of itself, and I genuinely appreciate your time. I've realized lately that not everyone thinks like you and I.
however, I still think you've read some books:-)
I think it's necessary to read a lot of books in order to understand, at any level, the things you describe.
So anyway, come to my game website (the game I've been working on for the last three years) and shoot me an email from the address you'll find there and let's chat some more if you damn well feel like it. http://www.singularityfps.com
I'm curious about your influences. I recognize Rand from the first part of your thing, but in the second part I recognize only a thing which I have been cultivating within myself for many years, more or less. I wouldn't mind reading a philosopher who has tried to explain such views.
to see what happens when, as eventually has to happen, a major Chinese language website is hosted outside of mainland China. It's really a crapshoot where the next Chinese Facebook or whatever will actually pop up geographically on the globe, given the extent of their diaspora.
It seems like we're always hearing about people repressing each other these days by demanding they delete videos from their camera. What's with this? It's unusually asinine even for the general public. I mean, not only are these folks imagining they have rights over another which they do not have, but certainly someone could trivially "fake delete" the photos in their camera? Are they technical enough to watch someone do this and know it's for real? They have familiarity with every camera interface (not known for their simplicity) known to man?
I mean, a proper repressor would confiscate the camera. They can't even repress properly, these days.
No man, no. Just no. You have not done retail tech support if you feel that way.
The problem is that these things are the *norm*, and that is what makes it so appalling. Our society as a whole does not seem to teach the concept of intellectual honesty, with the result that we have a majority poplulation that does not know how to think.
I think the problem is that they *think* they know something. Your last point still applies, of course--if they are asking for help, they should be cooperative. But the problem is that they think they know dramatically more than they really do.
Problem there is that they actually do know quite a lot, but they just aren't yet aware of how much there is to know, which is rather vast.
You know, I've been thinking about this as well. And I've come to the conclusion that the governments and politicians of the world have not gone crazy--they're the same as they ever were.
But what has changed is the level of public awareness of the world around them--by which I mean the internet. We just _know_ a lot more now, because we have this information superhighway at our disposal. There's more to it than the simple conveniences we enjoy. It fucks with our minds, filling them more full of information than was ever even possible before. Where could you get such limitless and timely content, before?
I've been an Opera fan for a long time now, but it's wearing thin. Sure, they pass Acid whatever the fuck, but more and more sites just aren't working right with it anymore.
It's very frustrating. Today, to my knowlege, there is no browser which I can easily configure to ALWAYS pull pages out of my RAM cache, no matter what, I don't care what the web site said. I get deeply frustrated when my 3000 megahertz machine with 2 bajjillion bytes of RAM takes even a full second, let alone three or four, to render the page I was just at when I hit the Back button.
I've always thought it was because passengers respond to nonverbal queues from the driver indicating that the driver needs to concentrate on something on the road for a moment. Not to mention they can see what's going on themselves. While a person on the other end of a cell phone connection is chatting away blithely, not realizing that the driver is about to enter a busy freeway, or some such.
It's too bad AMD rested on their laurels after destroying Intel's itanium. Too bad they destroyed Itanium by the simple expedient of backwards compatibility, as opposed to superior architecture.
Because that's what's happened to them now--Intel has them dead beat on core architecture, and no amount of size reduction or megahertzing can save them now.
Sure hope they're hard at work on some kickass new architecture in their basement, because we desperately need Intel to have a strong competitor.
I think it's worth mentioning here that there is an inherent ethics that goes along with obeying the law. See "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White for an explanation of this:
Actually, what he said (and what Rand said) is perfectly true.
The problem both of them ignore is that human stupidity can easily trump their wish to protect their self interest. In other words, you can't trust many people to look after their _real_ self interest, as they are not competent to discern what that could be.
If we were all Olympian gods like Rand's characters, this wouldn't be a problem. I'm a disiple of Rand, except for this little detail!
All these universities are wealthy. Why don't they band together to form a serious defense fund? They probably aren't fighting them serious now because of the potential cost of being a public show trial. But if all the major unis pooled together, they could each contribute very little (by their standards) but form a walloping defense fund.
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A thousand years is not a long timescale in geological terms, and those are the terms they are dealing with.
Not saying I know they're research is perfect or anything, but I think it's entirely possible they are right.
Dude, sorry to take so long to respond.
:-)
Thank you so much for taking the trouble to reply so eloquently.
I am quite curious what that experience was that you refer to.
I found your response quite fulfilling in and of itself, and I genuinely appreciate your time. I've realized lately that not everyone thinks like you and I.
however, I still think you've read some books
I think it's necessary to read a lot of books in order to understand, at any level, the things you describe.
So anyway, come to my game website (the game I've been working on for the last three years) and shoot me an email from the address you'll find there and let's chat some more if you damn well feel like it. http://www.singularityfps.com
best,
rasto
well, they haven't until now.
sad really
Well said, and I couldn't agree more.
I'm curious about your influences. I recognize Rand from the first part of your thing, but in the second part I recognize only a thing which I have been cultivating within myself for many years, more or less. I wouldn't mind reading a philosopher who has tried to explain such views.
to see what happens when, as eventually has to happen, a major Chinese language website is hosted outside of mainland China. It's really a crapshoot where the next Chinese Facebook or whatever will actually pop up geographically on the globe, given the extent of their diaspora.
Or has that already happened?
dude, would you be mad if i named a character "Roland Trisk" in a work of fiction?
Great fucking name, man!
To be fair, that's not what they're doing. They're *borrowing* the $30 billion. So that money isn't taken out of the economy per se now.
It'll happen later, when we can afford it.
It seems like we're always hearing about people repressing each other these days by demanding they delete videos from their camera. What's with this? It's unusually asinine even for the general public. I mean, not only are these folks imagining they have rights over another which they do not have, but certainly someone could trivially "fake delete" the photos in their camera? Are they technical enough to watch someone do this and know it's for real? They have familiarity with every camera interface (not known for their simplicity) known to man?
I mean, a proper repressor would confiscate the camera. They can't even repress properly, these days.
No man, no. Just no. You have not done retail tech support if you feel that way.
The problem is that these things are the *norm*, and that is what makes it so appalling. Our society as a whole does not seem to teach the concept of intellectual honesty, with the result that we have a majority poplulation that does not know how to think.
And this is worth a bad attituude.
I think the problem is that they *think* they know something. Your last point still applies, of course--if they are asking for help, they should be cooperative. But the problem is that they think they know dramatically more than they really do.
Problem there is that they actually do know quite a lot, but they just aren't yet aware of how much there is to know, which is rather vast.
You know, I've been thinking about this as well. And I've come to the conclusion that the governments and politicians of the world have not gone crazy--they're the same as they ever were.
But what has changed is the level of public awareness of the world around them--by which I mean the internet. We just _know_ a lot more now, because we have this information superhighway at our disposal. There's more to it than the simple conveniences we enjoy. It fucks with our minds, filling them more full of information than was ever even possible before. Where could you get such limitless and timely content, before?
So cheer up. Good things take time to happen.
Dude, do you have a link to your work? That's a totally cool application of old hardware.
Anyone who buys an mp3 or movie off Amazon when it's available on Piratebay is a fool, anyway.
I've been an Opera fan for a long time now, but it's wearing thin. Sure, they pass Acid whatever the fuck, but more and more sites just aren't working right with it anymore.
It's very frustrating. Today, to my knowlege, there is no browser which I can easily configure to ALWAYS pull pages out of my RAM cache, no matter what, I don't care what the web site said. I get deeply frustrated when my 3000 megahertz machine with 2 bajjillion bytes of RAM takes even a full second, let alone three or four, to render the page I was just at when I hit the Back button.
I'll hit Reload if I feel like it, dammit!
It seems like lately the Aussies are mimicking the U.S., only more so, no matter how insane. I hope for their sake that they stop soon.
Unless, of course, the U.S. is headed into an era of reasonable behavior, in which case I defy them to do _that_ in spades.
Is your code really so special? If you could make millions with it, why didn't you just do that in the first place?
I've always thought it was because passengers respond to nonverbal queues from the driver indicating that the driver needs to concentrate on something on the road for a moment. Not to mention they can see what's going on themselves. While a person on the other end of a cell phone connection is chatting away blithely, not realizing that the driver is about to enter a busy freeway, or some such.
It's too bad AMD rested on their laurels after destroying Intel's itanium. Too bad they destroyed Itanium by the simple expedient of backwards compatibility, as opposed to superior architecture.
Because that's what's happened to them now--Intel has them dead beat on core architecture, and no amount of size reduction or megahertzing can save them now.
Sure hope they're hard at work on some kickass new architecture in their basement, because we desperately need Intel to have a strong competitor.
I really think it has much more to do with easy of use and more intuitive setup. pg_hba.conf? Why not just pg.conf? Stuff like that.
I think it's worth mentioning here that there is an inherent ethics that goes along with obeying the law. See "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White for an explanation of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King
We live in an era where ensuring plausable deniability is somehow considered a good reason not to do email. Who's surprised?
Actually, what he said (and what Rand said) is perfectly true.
The problem both of them ignore is that human stupidity can easily trump their wish to protect their self interest. In other words, you can't trust many people to look after their _real_ self interest, as they are not competent to discern what that could be.
If we were all Olympian gods like Rand's characters, this wouldn't be a problem. I'm a disiple of Rand, except for this little detail!
ibid.
All these universities are wealthy. Why don't they band together to form a serious defense fund? They probably aren't fighting them serious now because of the potential cost of being a public show trial. But if all the major unis pooled together, they could each contribute very little (by their standards) but form a walloping defense fund.
The long and short of it is that one is recognizing reality by simply accepting that one's game will be pirated.
That's why I'd really _like_ to fund my games solely through advertising. Pirate away, motherfuckers!