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before saying Open Source.
is it that Katz forgot to mention Open Source through that whole rant?
Of course there's going to be a generational divide. Duh. That's not new. There's a generational divide in the ages of web users. Most are under 35. That's been known for quite some time. And of course these users are going to read the news online the way they're used to, fast and direct, instead of watching some caked-up talking head give them the news they think is important. What's so new about this? NOTHING.
No, the younger generation isn't getting further away from finding out what is going on in the outside world. It's expanding the younger generation's knowledge beyond what the older generation has experienced. While my dad is watching the nightly news about Borneo (and not knowing whether it's in the Caribbean or the South Pacific), a web user can easily get more information within two clicks.
Web users are learning MORE about the news than the older generation, not less. And it's not changing the mediascape. Wait until interactive tv gets a good foothold, we're all going to go back to the TV to get our news. It'll just be more interactive. Fact is, between the computer and the tv, much of the time you want the one you can interact with, not just be a passive viewer. But if that's so, why is radio becoming the hottest commodity for advertising? Because there's a time and a place for interactivity.
add onto that that the person or company owning the apartment to where the crime occurs is also at fault for owning the apartment that the crime occured in or for housing a known criminal. (aka the server space and hosting of the DeCSS code)
the logic behind it is, when Nader gains followers, he's taking away from a split base of people that might otherwise vote for Gore and succeed in winning the election away from Bush. Nader alone does not have a shot in hell at winning the general election. Gore has about a 50-50 in winning. If Nader gets Gore to make promises to the populace in exchange for dropping out and giving his vocal support, we might end up with a half-decent resolution with the outcome being that Bush doesn't get elected.
"To reconnect, we need to break free of the myth that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote! This myth is the single most destructive and counterproductive mindset the voters have. "
Picture this: Gore and Bush are neck and neck. chances are there are only about 10-20% of the population that would consider voting for Nader (this isn't that far off considering the numbers out right now). So lets assume 40 Bush, 40 Gore, 20 Nader. The large majority of people that would vote for Nader are all Democrats that would otherwise vote for Gore. If those Democrats go en masse and vote for Nader, without a large unregistered population voting or voters that haven't participated recently in elections voting, then Bush will have won the election 40, 20, 20. If you split the otherwise solidified Democratic base, then you'll end up with a President that doesn't support your views (Bush). However, if you join forces (Nader pulling himself out of the race and moving his voters towards the Democratic platform while campaigning FOR Gore). Until direct democracy becomes feasible and desirable, the current system will have to deal. And enough of JKatz and his doomsday sayings. The political system is not all that bad.
I'm sure that there would be considerable interest in the future, if by studying the future, you discover trends that facilitate discovering future products and technologies.
Let me state that again. Look at game designers. There are some very good game developers and companies that spend serious money by looking at old games to determine how successful they were from different aspects and trying to determine why they were successful.
If you like the history of computing, I'd say to try find an application of it that looks at the computing of yesterday to determine what the computing of tomorrow will be like.
How to do this? Research, writing articles, and create a demonstrated need. Show companies what they'd gain by reading your articles and getting your opinion in their R&D.
It's a neat idea. Takes some work, but there will probably be a strong demand for it in the coming days.
That just shows you that the entire thing is a fad, and when it dies out, the whole Napster lawsuit will just have been a small bump in everyone's collective memory. These things come and go... we've had BBS's, FTP sites, IRC, Hotline servers, and now Napster, Gnutella, Scour, et all.
They come and go, as the fad takes em. And the whole reason why they go stale is that users take more than they give. DUH. So eventually the people with the fat pipelines that were giving so much get sick of giving and want stuff in return. And as soon as they go to the "membership" model or the "ratio" model, it quickly gets abused or the majority of people leave, giving you a select membership only service (which is what most hotline servers are now). Then again, you still have great places like #macfilez... but those places are becoming fewer and further between.
Napster will die, same with Scour and Gnutella... lets just see how long they stay around. And again, everyone that's really into pirating will stay with their favorite IRC site, FTP site, or BBS. All of the other's that were recently introduced to the fine art of pirating will get sick of Napster and attempt to learn IRC but will find it too difficult to use so they'll give up and start going back to buying CDs and nothing will change.
what's the difference between this and SavaJe Technology's http://www.savaje.com/products.phtml">JScream product for information appliances?
As an unrelated question, why is slashdot posting PR for a company that doesn't have a product out yet? So they're working on a JavaOS, they haven't built it yet. All you can download on the site is a stupid white paper.
you're complaining because going to the movie theater is $8.50? Most places in Manhattan (New York) charge anywhere between $9 and $15 to see a movie per person. The cheapest I've found on the island is $7 and that's in a section of the city I would not want to be in after dark.
"but even more, the real problem is that the IOC is out of touch, out of the loop, and quite possibly too old to understand the internet, the people who use it, and why it is important"
that's probably true, but it's up to the IOC to change their business practices to work with the changing environment and culture of the world, not up to the users to start pirating the content. It's up to the company to decide to "open source" their content, not for the user to decide to open source it and distribute it for them.
But this is also why the X-Games, hosted by ESPN and a bunch of others are making such headway into becoming a valid sporting event with strong viewership and financial rewards. They're more in touch with the audience of today and take a different approach to how the events are marketted.
But again, the IOC doesn't need to respect your rights, you're not contributing to the event at all. You need to respect their rights since they are hosting the event and paying for the event to occur. I'm not saying that their business model will be successful in the coming years, but it's not our job to change it for them. Don't like it, go elsewhere.
does it point the way of the Nazi, or does it point the way that Greek crosses as well as other religious symbols point?
Again, it also has to depend on the context of the item. A swastika is just a symbol, but if the symbol in question relates to the Nazi party, then that would be illegal
The french court is not asking Yahoo! to remove all links or auctions related to Nazi memorabilia, they are asking Yahoo! to remove all of this stuff from the Yahoo! France website which is slightly independant of the main yahoo! site. This would not affect users in the U.S. or elsewhere unless someone from the US was to go to Yahoo! France instead of just Yahoo! (and really, why would they?). The content of Yahoo! France relates directly to France and French language and culture.
I don't see this as a bad thing, actually, I think this is the most successful experiment in culturally permissable (by french standards related to this topic) censorship and is neatly contained to the specific topic and service which relates to the people and laws affected.
If the French court were to try to censor Yahoo! in its entirety, that would be a different story.
/., please state the case fairly, the judge is not trying to censor Yahoo!, but only a small sub-site entitled Yahoo! France
"Adobe did make a pretty neat discovery with regard to UI design, which Macromedia went on to use in Fireworks to great effect, therefore being innovative"
No, therefore taking someone's established intellectual property and plagiarizing their ideas.
Why are they doing harm to the consumers? They're just saying that Macromedia can't steal their specific GUI functionality. Macromedia has the ability to "discover" their own GUI design and functionality, which is good for the market and consumer because it introduces a conflicting opinion that could pan out to be a better interface. At which point Macromedia would patent their concept.
I don't think this has anything to do with defensive tactics or either company being scared. They both have a large market share in some of their many products. Macromedia has successful products in Flash, Fontographer, Dreamweaver (as well as many others), while Adobe has Acrobat (always forgotten), Photoshop, Imageready, AfterEffects, Pagemaker, etc. And they're both duking it out between Freehand and Illustrator (each problem has both some pluses and some minuses)
Recently there have been reports about how hard it is for schools to retain professors in the technology sector because many professors could be making tons more money if they were in the workforce developing patents for companies and actually working to create new products.
How do you propose getting around this problem?
Have you ever thought about how a school can get their tuition costs down, while at the same time attracting top-notch professors away from lucrative positions?
One of the ways that a school subsidizes their expensive labs to teach students in is to make their departments more like co-ops; where a professor and his students work to develop a theory, technology, etc. with the end product being something that is patentable and able to generate more revenue to fund the school. Many private schools rely on this so that the can continue to attract the brightest people to their "Center of Learning"
Of course they are relying more and more on this revenue generation... but isn't it better to rely on this than to make tuition more expensive than the majority of students can afford? Do you want higher education to become more and more the education of the wealthy and elite?
By having the goal become a patent in some cases, a school can generate money to subsidize the giant costs of running a private institution.
Of course people are going to argue for public colleges, but public colleges do the same thing because their costs are even more complex. They are required to give in-state tuition at a lower cost so that they can receive money from the state government, however these federal grants are often less than required. Also, as we've approached a period where a college education is becoming more and more required for higher paying jobs, there is a need to keep these costs down for a large population. Without more federal subsidies (that are deducted from YOUR payroll), how do you propose reducing these costs?
for some of you that might not be familiar with the term due to its localized appearance, a WAWA is a convenience store similar to a 7-11, Stewarts, etc. that is located in the Philadephia area and parts of New Jersey and a few other states.
they are not trying to sue the companies hosting the sites. they are only trying to get information about the identities of the people posting the information because they believe that the people(s) posting this information are Apple employees that could be guilty of breaking the NDA's they signed.
As others have noted as well as multiple news outlets, many of apple's products are built on hype and secrecy, and that their stock price can be affected by this information being leaked before Apple officially leaks the info. Remember, Apple is one big orchestra and Jobs is the conductor. He doesn't like a tuba laying out a blast in the middle of a quiet spot in the music.
does your cell phone really need to be both a cell phone and a PDA? (try typing a long URL on a cell phone and you'll give up forever)
is your PDA really going to replace your workstation or laptop?
is your laptop going to replace your corporate server farm?
the fact is that most people would rather have a variety of personalized and specialized devices, but sometimes they hate the redundancy of keeping a phone book on both their PDA and their cell phone, a calendar on their PDA and their intranet, and your laptop and network sync through things such as MS Exchange (sorry, but I really like that program).
The ability to have multiple devices with different capabilities sync together is what is going to drive the mobilization of our technology-driven society. These hybrid PDA's aren't the way of the future. But if I was able to sync my phone book on my intranet to my PDA and from the PDA to my StarTAC, I'd be psyched.
in reference to the WWF comment, if you've been watching your political news, you'd have seen The Rock give a small speach at the Republican Convention in philly, and actually be seated in the row infront of former president Bush. Something in reference to their being over a million people that pay-per-view to watch the WWF matches, and many of those people are eligible to vote.
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"money, power, fame... a geek craves not these things"
if you need me to tell you who that was adapted from, you shouldn't be here.
Jon, you've lost touch with your people. You're so intent on starting a geek counter-revolution, that you've lost touch of the people you think you're leading. How many black-box programmers give $.02 whether Bush or Gore is elected unless they have other motivations. Geeks don't have a coherent political agenda... DUH. Of course they don't. Their grouping isn't formed out of a shared ancestry, skin color, sexual orientation, geographical location, or shared traumatic experience. They do what they do because they love technology. Laws don't affect them.
From the Matrix, the laws of the land are like the limitations of a computer game. Some you can bend, some you can break, and some you can ignore entirely.
No matter how many rules the government erects, the cyber-elite will bend and break them, render them outdated and useless, and affect the new social order. And the cyber-elite IS affecting the new political order. Look at how the Republican national convention had to adopt articles of security, privacy, etc. AND is having the entire convention simultaneously streamed over the internet.
How many of the politicians have had to espouse their standings on digital privacy and the like, along with their other standings on issues such as abortion, welfare, etc.?
I'm a geek, but I'll also be standing up for MY OWN INTERESTS in voting this year. Some of those interests will regard the internet, privacy, and security, but others will involve issues even closer to me.
trying to start a revolution without true research
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"money, power, fame... a geek craves not these things"
if you need me to tell you who that was adapted from, you shouldn't be here.
Jon, you've lost touch with your people. You're so intent on starting a geek counter-revolution, that you've lost touch of the people you think you're leading. How many black-box programmers give $.02 whether Bush or Gore is elected unless they have other motivations. Geeks don't have a coherent political agenda... DUH. Of course they don't. Their grouping isn't formed out of a shared ancestry, skin color, sexual orientation, geographical location, or shared traumatic experience. They do what they do because they love technology. Laws don't affect them.
From the Matrix, the laws of the land are like the limitations of a computer game. Some you can bend, some you can break, and some you can ignore entirely.
No matter how many rules the government erects, the cyber-elite will bend and break them, render them outdated and useless, and affect the new social order. And the cyber-elite IS affecting the new political order. Look at how the Republican national convention had to adopt articles of security, privacy, etc. AND is having the entire convention simultaneously streamed over the internet.
How many of the politicians have had to espouse their standings on digital privacy and the like, along with their other standings on issues such as abortion, welfare, etc.?
I'm a geek, but I'll also be standing up for MY OWN INTERESTS in voting this year. Some of those interests will regard the internet, privacy, and security, but others will involve issues even closer to me.
also, I don't know where the "plastic" idea came from, but these lasers are grown out of tetracene, an organic molecule with four connected benzene rings that conducts well. When they injected an electric current through this, the light bounced back and forth between mirrors in the material, eventually producing beams of intense yellow-green light
there is nothing in the original release mentioning "emit light ranging from ultraviolet to infrared". From the official PR, "Because the current configuration of the Bell Labs organic laser operates at a visible wavelength, it is not yet appropriate for optical communications. "
In closing, how did this story submission get accepted without even a link to Lucent's own web page or PR page with the official release? Is slashdot now requiring only second and third hand information from such trustworthy sources as the NYTimes?
2000-07-28 16:49:22 Lucent creates first organic laser (articles,news) (rejected)
Is this referring to the way that the CIA is creating a venture capital / incubator-type organization to fund advancements or to function as commercial "unclassified" developmental research labs?
OSX has always been meant to run on either a g3 OR a g4. This goes WAY back. That plan has been in place for a while, and is the reason why OS9 doesn't run on non-g3's and I believe OS 8.6 was the cuttoff on powerpc's.
Slashdot Mirror
before saying Open Source.
is it that Katz forgot to mention Open Source through that whole rant?
Of course there's going to be a generational divide. Duh. That's not new. There's a generational divide in the ages of web users. Most are under 35. That's been known for quite some time. And of course these users are going to read the news online the way they're used to, fast and direct, instead of watching some caked-up talking head give them the news they think is important. What's so new about this? NOTHING.
No, the younger generation isn't getting further away from finding out what is going on in the outside world. It's expanding the younger generation's knowledge beyond what the older generation has experienced. While my dad is watching the nightly news about Borneo (and not knowing whether it's in the Caribbean or the South Pacific), a web user can easily get more information within two clicks.
Web users are learning MORE about the news than the older generation, not less. And it's not changing the mediascape. Wait until interactive tv gets a good foothold, we're all going to go back to the TV to get our news. It'll just be more interactive. Fact is, between the computer and the tv, much of the time you want the one you can interact with, not just be a passive viewer. But if that's so, why is radio becoming the hottest commodity for advertising? Because there's a time and a place for interactivity.
add onto that that the person or company owning the apartment to where the crime occurs is also at fault for owning the apartment that the crime occured in or for housing a known criminal. (aka the server space and hosting of the DeCSS code)
sorry, looking back, my numbers don't make sense.
the logic behind it is, when Nader gains followers, he's taking away from a split base of people that might otherwise vote for Gore and succeed in winning the election away from Bush. Nader alone does not have a shot in hell at winning the general election. Gore has about a 50-50 in winning. If Nader gets Gore to make promises to the populace in exchange for dropping out and giving his vocal support, we might end up with a half-decent resolution with the outcome being that Bush doesn't get elected.
"To reconnect, we need to break free of the myth that a vote for a third party is a wasted vote! This myth is the single most destructive and counterproductive mindset the voters have. "
Picture this: Gore and Bush are neck and neck. chances are there are only about 10-20% of the population that would consider voting for Nader (this isn't that far off considering the numbers out right now). So lets assume 40 Bush, 40 Gore, 20 Nader. The large majority of people that would vote for Nader are all Democrats that would otherwise vote for Gore. If those Democrats go en masse and vote for Nader, without a large unregistered population voting or voters that haven't participated recently in elections voting, then Bush will have won the election 40, 20, 20. If you split the otherwise solidified Democratic base, then you'll end up with a President that doesn't support your views (Bush). However, if you join forces (Nader pulling himself out of the race and moving his voters towards the Democratic platform while campaigning FOR Gore). Until direct democracy becomes feasible and desirable, the current system will have to deal. And enough of JKatz and his doomsday sayings. The political system is not all that bad.
I'm sure that there would be considerable interest in the future, if by studying the future, you discover trends that facilitate discovering future products and technologies.
Let me state that again. Look at game designers. There are some very good game developers and companies that spend serious money by looking at old games to determine how successful they were from different aspects and trying to determine why they were successful.
If you like the history of computing, I'd say to try find an application of it that looks at the computing of yesterday to determine what the computing of tomorrow will be like.
How to do this? Research, writing articles, and create a demonstrated need. Show companies what they'd gain by reading your articles and getting your opinion in their R&D.
It's a neat idea. Takes some work, but there will probably be a strong demand for it in the coming days.
That just shows you that the entire thing is a fad, and when it dies out, the whole Napster lawsuit will just have been a small bump in everyone's collective memory. These things come and go... we've had BBS's, FTP sites, IRC, Hotline servers, and now Napster, Gnutella, Scour, et all.
They come and go, as the fad takes em. And the whole reason why they go stale is that users take more than they give. DUH. So eventually the people with the fat pipelines that were giving so much get sick of giving and want stuff in return. And as soon as they go to the "membership" model or the "ratio" model, it quickly gets abused or the majority of people leave, giving you a select membership only service (which is what most hotline servers are now). Then again, you still have great places like #macfilez... but those places are becoming fewer and further between.
Napster will die, same with Scour and Gnutella... lets just see how long they stay around. And again, everyone that's really into pirating will stay with their favorite IRC site, FTP site, or BBS. All of the other's that were recently introduced to the fine art of pirating will get sick of Napster and attempt to learn IRC but will find it too difficult to use so they'll give up and start going back to buying CDs and nothing will change.
As an unrelated question, why is slashdot posting PR for a company that doesn't have a product out yet? So they're working on a JavaOS, they haven't built it yet. All you can download on the site is a stupid white paper.
you're complaining because going to the movie theater is $8.50? Most places in Manhattan (New York) charge anywhere between $9 and $15 to see a movie per person. The cheapest I've found on the island is $7 and that's in a section of the city I would not want to be in after dark.
"but even more, the real problem is that the IOC is out of touch, out of the loop, and quite possibly too old to understand the internet, the people who use it, and why it is important"
that's probably true, but it's up to the IOC to change their business practices to work with the changing environment and culture of the world, not up to the users to start pirating the content. It's up to the company to decide to "open source" their content, not for the user to decide to open source it and distribute it for them.
But this is also why the X-Games, hosted by ESPN and a bunch of others are making such headway into becoming a valid sporting event with strong viewership and financial rewards. They're more in touch with the audience of today and take a different approach to how the events are marketted.
But again, the IOC doesn't need to respect your rights, you're not contributing to the event at all. You need to respect their rights since they are hosting the event and paying for the event to occur. I'm not saying that their business model will be successful in the coming years, but it's not our job to change it for them. Don't like it, go elsewhere.
It would depend which way the swastika points...
does it point the way of the Nazi, or does it point the way that Greek crosses as well as other religious symbols point?
Again, it also has to depend on the context of the item. A swastika is just a symbol, but if the symbol in question relates to the Nazi party, then that would be illegal
I don't see this as a bad thing, actually, I think this is the most successful experiment in culturally permissable (by french standards related to this topic) censorship and is neatly contained to the specific topic and service which relates to the people and laws affected.
If the French court were to try to censor Yahoo! in its entirety, that would be a different story.
ah, but it's not just look and feel.
it's look and feel in relation to a functionality.
How is this post Insightful?
"Adobe did make a pretty neat discovery with regard to UI design, which Macromedia went on to use in Fireworks to great effect, therefore being innovative"
No, therefore taking someone's established intellectual property and plagiarizing their ideas.
Why are they doing harm to the consumers? They're just saying that Macromedia can't steal their specific GUI functionality. Macromedia has the ability to "discover" their own GUI design and functionality, which is good for the market and consumer because it introduces a conflicting opinion that could pan out to be a better interface. At which point Macromedia would patent their concept.
I don't think this has anything to do with defensive tactics or either company being scared. They both have a large market share in some of their many products. Macromedia has successful products in Flash, Fontographer, Dreamweaver (as well as many others), while Adobe has Acrobat (always forgotten), Photoshop, Imageready, AfterEffects, Pagemaker, etc. And they're both duking it out between Freehand and Illustrator (each problem has both some pluses and some minuses)
Recently there have been reports about how hard it is for schools to retain professors in the technology sector because many professors could be making tons more money if they were in the workforce developing patents for companies and actually working to create new products.
How do you propose getting around this problem?
Have you ever thought about how a school can get their tuition costs down, while at the same time attracting top-notch professors away from lucrative positions?
One of the ways that a school subsidizes their expensive labs to teach students in is to make their departments more like co-ops; where a professor and his students work to develop a theory, technology, etc. with the end product being something that is patentable and able to generate more revenue to fund the school. Many private schools rely on this so that the can continue to attract the brightest people to their "Center of Learning"
Of course they are relying more and more on this revenue generation... but isn't it better to rely on this than to make tuition more expensive than the majority of students can afford? Do you want higher education to become more and more the education of the wealthy and elite?
By having the goal become a patent in some cases, a school can generate money to subsidize the giant costs of running a private institution.
Of course people are going to argue for public colleges, but public colleges do the same thing because their costs are even more complex. They are required to give in-state tuition at a lower cost so that they can receive money from the state government, however these federal grants are often less than required. Also, as we've approached a period where a college education is becoming more and more required for higher paying jobs, there is a need to keep these costs down for a large population. Without more federal subsidies (that are deducted from YOUR payroll), how do you propose reducing these costs?
for some of you that might not be familiar with the term due to its localized appearance, a WAWA is a convenience store similar to a 7-11, Stewarts, etc. that is located in the Philadephia area and parts of New Jersey and a few other states.
you must be a buddy of Jon Katz and believe that everyone that reads /. is a freak or a geek.
I'd like to think I'm a normal, average joe that likes to play with computers (but earns more than most white collar workers)
could someone moderate this up or could the author please post this higher up in the hierarchy?
I think this is an important post and should be more accessible.
they are not trying to sue the companies hosting the sites. they are only trying to get information about the identities of the people posting the information because they believe that the people(s) posting this information are Apple employees that could be guilty of breaking the NDA's they signed.
As others have noted as well as multiple news outlets, many of apple's products are built on hype and secrecy, and that their stock price can be affected by this information being leaked before Apple officially leaks the info. Remember, Apple is one big orchestra and Jobs is the conductor. He doesn't like a tuba laying out a blast in the middle of a quiet spot in the music.
does your cell phone really need to be both a cell phone and a PDA? (try typing a long URL on a cell phone and you'll give up forever)
is your PDA really going to replace your workstation or laptop?
is your laptop going to replace your corporate server farm?
the fact is that most people would rather have a variety of personalized and specialized devices, but sometimes they hate the redundancy of keeping a phone book on both their PDA and their cell phone, a calendar on their PDA and their intranet, and your laptop and network sync through things such as MS Exchange (sorry, but I really like that program).
The ability to have multiple devices with different capabilities sync together is what is going to drive the mobilization of our technology-driven society. These hybrid PDA's aren't the way of the future. But if I was able to sync my phone book on my intranet to my PDA and from the PDA to my StarTAC, I'd be psyched.
Sync'ing is the way of the future.
in reference to the WWF comment, if you've been watching your political news, you'd have seen The Rock give a small speach at the Republican Convention in philly, and actually be seated in the row infront of former president Bush. Something in reference to their being over a million people that pay-per-view to watch the WWF matches, and many of those people are eligible to vote.
"money, power, fame... a geek craves not these things"
if you need me to tell you who that was adapted from, you shouldn't be here.
Jon, you've lost touch with your people. You're so intent on starting a geek counter-revolution, that you've lost touch of the people you think you're leading. How many black-box programmers give $.02 whether Bush or Gore is elected unless they have other motivations. Geeks don't have a coherent political agenda... DUH. Of course they don't. Their grouping isn't formed out of a shared ancestry, skin color, sexual orientation, geographical location, or shared traumatic experience. They do what they do because they love technology. Laws don't affect them.
From the Matrix, the laws of the land are like the limitations of a computer game. Some you can bend, some you can break, and some you can ignore entirely.
No matter how many rules the government erects, the cyber-elite will bend and break them, render them outdated and useless, and affect the new social order. And the cyber-elite IS affecting the new political order. Look at how the Republican national convention had to adopt articles of security, privacy, etc. AND is having the entire convention simultaneously streamed over the internet.
How many of the politicians have had to espouse their standings on digital privacy and the like, along with their other standings on issues such as abortion, welfare, etc.?
I'm a geek, but I'll also be standing up for MY OWN INTERESTS in voting this year. Some of those interests will regard the internet, privacy, and security, but others will involve issues even closer to me.
"money, power, fame... a geek craves not these things"
if you need me to tell you who that was adapted from, you shouldn't be here.
Jon, you've lost touch with your people. You're so intent on starting a geek counter-revolution, that you've lost touch of the people you think you're leading. How many black-box programmers give $.02 whether Bush or Gore is elected unless they have other motivations. Geeks don't have a coherent political agenda... DUH. Of course they don't. Their grouping isn't formed out of a shared ancestry, skin color, sexual orientation, geographical location, or shared traumatic experience. They do what they do because they love technology. Laws don't affect them.
From the Matrix, the laws of the land are like the limitations of a computer game. Some you can bend, some you can break, and some you can ignore entirely.
No matter how many rules the government erects, the cyber-elite will bend and break them, render them outdated and useless, and affect the new social order. And the cyber-elite IS affecting the new political order. Look at how the Republican national convention had to adopt articles of security, privacy, etc. AND is having the entire convention simultaneously streamed over the internet.
How many of the politicians have had to espouse their standings on digital privacy and the like, along with their other standings on issues such as abortion, welfare, etc.?
I'm a geek, but I'll also be standing up for MY OWN INTERESTS in voting this year. Some of those interests will regard the internet, privacy, and security, but others will involve issues even closer to me.
also, I don't know where the "plastic" idea came from, but these lasers are grown out of tetracene, an organic molecule with four connected benzene rings that conducts well. When they injected an electric current through this, the light bounced back and forth between mirrors in the material, eventually producing beams of intense yellow-green light
there is nothing in the original release mentioning "emit light ranging from ultraviolet to infrared". From the official PR, "Because the current configuration of the Bell Labs organic laser operates at a visible wavelength, it is not yet appropriate for optical communications. "
In closing, how did this story submission get accepted without even a link to Lucent's own web page or PR page with the official release? Is slashdot now requiring only second and third hand information from such trustworthy sources as the NYTimes?
2000-07-28 16:49:22 Lucent creates first organic laser (articles,news) (rejected)
Is this referring to the way that the CIA is creating a venture capital / incubator-type organization to fund advancements or to function as commercial "unclassified" developmental research labs?
OSX has always been meant to run on either a g3 OR a g4. This goes WAY back. That plan has been in place for a while, and is the reason why OS9 doesn't run on non-g3's and I believe OS 8.6 was the cuttoff on powerpc's.