Well, that's an easy target. I ask you this - what's worse, the fact that corporate power can influence elections and politicians, or the fact that religious and other kinds of organized zealots are running around that will gladly kill you in your sleep because they believe an obscure passage in their dogmatic literature told them to? Almost any large-scale form of organization scares me, at one point or another. Why? Because when a lot of people get together and think the same way, they leave little room for dissenters. How else would you explain the fact that probably 70% of the country thinks that the ACLU is a bunch of pedaphile-protecting hippie scum? Is it because corporations and the media have pulled the wool over their eyes, or because they just never sat down and really thought about it? Don't go blasting the people on top for having some motivation. There are cultural forces at work here a lot more powerful than corporations keeping people in line like sheep, as evident by your 100+ year old quote. I mena, capitalism wasn't even defined, int the modern sense of the word back then. Do you really think that people had the foresight to predict the corporate behemoths to come, or were they merely staring at the reflection of other corrupt institutions and projecting outwards, much like Dante does to the corrupt Popes and the Church in Inferno? Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-religious, or anti-institutional - I just feel that people should have an understanding of what they're getting into an what the power structure of their organization really means and where its roots are.
I totally agree. This guy has it down - the whole ISP angle is right on. And if it wasn't before, then record company execs are now going "F**k yeah! We've got to buy ISP's!"
Check out this article at www.theonion.com - it's an interview with Trey Anastasio, lead guitarist of Phish, a band known for their free-music distribution. At the end, they touch on some really great points about just why Napster does suck and the other side of recording albums.
You gotta admit, he's got a point - I'd never ever attampt to deliver some weird customized tag format to my customers, I mean, how would you even explain it to people who have their email forwarded to their secretaries because they don't know how to print it out?! XML and Style sheets are great for web design and the like, where PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO SEE THE SOURCE CODE, but thinking that Joe Lawnmower and Sally Broomstick are going to sit down and tweak the XML formatting (or whatever) of the frontpage of the New York Times over breakfast is ludicrist.
So, Oprah's got Oxygen, Mandrake's got Hydrogen, at least Red Hat had the guts to name theirs after the best South Park character (Cartman, of course)!!!!
Spending 10+ hours playing Quake 3 Arena in my office leaves very little time for me to inflict violence on the general population.
BTW, if you look at the documentation with Quake 3 (yes, that means you'd have PURCHASED IT;) then you'll see that id is VERY careful not to mention "kills," "blood," or "violence" (instead we get frag, gib, etc.)
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[begin rant] I pretty much agree with you. But... Well, Andover goes IPO and... hey look, they have to build up a customer base, and those kind of people who don't need to read this site and can and will hack together scripts to pull all the newest news that they need from their respective sites aren't consumer-oriented enough for a PUBLIC company. If Andover and Slashdot really wanted to focus on their hard-core, open-source fan base they wouldn't have needed to start selling shares to the general public. And the general public tends to be a little "Less Organized About High-Tech (tm)."
That said, this website is too small for the goals it wants to attain. Who the heck needs a list of open-source updates if anyone with half a brain can just write a script to do the same job? Slashdot is pretty damn cool, caters to a huge audience, and has some pretty good material posted on a more-than-daily basis. And I use it, and I'm not afraid to say that under my own username here.
But I totally agree about this M$ crud... tech stocks taking a dive IS news, there are PLENTY of bigger companies out there than M$ (can you say IBM? AT&T? AOL/Time Warner??) [end rant]
These aren't digital copies, fool, these are system that are GROWN. If God digitally copies us into his image, then we would be Gods ourselves. You've got to read the old Testament again - because that's not what it says, that man was just made in God's image. There are actually two stories of creation, where man is created on the 6th day and woman is grown out of his rib, and where man AND woman are created simultaneously. Man is also both created out of the dust of the Earth, and out of God's essence. It's contradictory. Way too ambigous to supoprt a lame question like that.
This time, READ the bible before you post stupid questions.
forget that, don't wait until they piss you off, tun them ALL in for cash! It beats working at McDonald's! And then they can turn you in in return, and pretty soon everyone is rich and in counseling! And isn't that the american dream after all!!! Counseling and profit sharing!!! I love it! I wish I was a kid again.
so, if I'm doing a lot of programming in ultra-portable (laugh), OS-independent (bigger laugh) Java, and I have a bunch of threads, should I see a performance difference in Windows or Linux or BE because of the underlying mutli-threading support with multiple processors? Would I just see a boost if I installed another processor?
have you used IE 5 EVER? You can't say that netscape (except possibly the mac version) comes even CLOSE to handling plugins, and new downloads and installation for plug-ins. And macromedia bundles their stuff with Win98 (to work on IE 5, of course). What could Netscape do about that? Nothing. Sucked to be them.
Maybe times will change.
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i thought Mr. Tux was the microsoft spokesthingie. at least, that's what it used to say on that bsd page
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What about 1? Nobody wants to call anything 1 or even 2 anymore. It's like penis size - when almost everything is really in version 1, people are calling it 5 or 6.
yeah, even though i'll readily and eagerly admit that it sucks, every video game console manufacturer worth their salt "releases" their game system YEARS ahead of the actual release. Remember the Super Famicon? That sucker never even made it to the US. Super Nintendo was WAY late, which is why Sega is still around today.
BTW, Dreamcast is incredible, even though it runs on WinCE. I love polygon graphics that are sophisticated enough to make breasts bounce up and down on the screen. Gotta love video game programmers.
i don't know, maybe urls are copyrightable. but i'd guess that COMPILED LISTS of urls would be. or at least, they'd put up a fight against whoever tried to prove them wrong.
I got fed up with the recruiting process, and me and a friend started a business. It's still a baby, but we're making some money, adn there's the promise of more in the future. If you can afford to not have a job (or at least, take a part-time one like I am) for a year, go for it! The experience you get in the first six months is priceless. And you might even get to apply something you learned from school! Imagine that. We are.
because these compiled lists of blocked sites are gold to them - that's all that they have in the stupid product, if somene else got their list they could easily make blocking software out of it and compete with Mattel. That's the whole reason they're going this far to block the other sites who post it. It's like a trade secret to them, which is probably how they got the injuction.
Although I think I understand the logic, I totally believe that this kind of software is morally wrong, and has more potential to hurt these <i>stupid, censoring companies</i> more than help them in the long run over issues like this.
Banning sites under pornographic catagories! Damn, what were the thinking? You get what you pay for with this repressive software crap. Should be called CyberStalin.
Maybe if not for the fact that you were grown, not made. People make incredible deals about predicting life, because prediction is a virtue we reserve for the gods. Will you ever have a large enough computer to predict the behavior of atoms in your body? And if you did, would the immense size of it not require other subsystems to be developed for the sole purpose of predicting things like hardware failures in the original system? And what about the intricacies of those subsystems? Look at what you've done -you've grown your own subsystem, your own universe out of the one you were trying to predict. Ask yourself this question - can you look at yourself as others see you? Or is there always feedback in your trying to see what they see? So how could a machine exist that could look at this universe and truly understand it, if it were a part of the universe it was trying to look at? Godliness is true randomness, the ability to act out of the frame of this universe, as far as Western culture has always believed, but since we have definied randomness using the language and symbols of the system we live in, that definition is suspect.
He's obviously a very opinionated writer, and that's what also screws him in the end - you've got to back yourself up as a writer, you can't just rail against everyone and anyone and expect people to understand what the heck you're talking about. But that's no reason to dis him like everyone's doing. It's just part of the Hollywood infrastructure that the sensationally trite stuff floats to the top, like terds jingling around the surface of a toiletbowl.
That would be a real cool invention, some highly compressed alcoholic beverage that you could discreetly carry around until when needed, when it would rapidly expand into a shot and force itself down your throat. Entrepeneurs?
so what if when i rant it comes out like a standard, high-school essay? that's what bad english teaching get's ya. i should have got kicked out more than i already did, what can i say?
It's great to give kids a head start on life by intriducing them to the world of computers and the internet, but no one really considers the consequences of taking kids from their active lives and introducing them to these pseudo-lives in computers. Computers are NOT good teachers when it comes to things like violence, play-time, and human interaction. If a kid's going to play Quake rather than go out in the schoolyard and see what a fight really feels like, he's going to grow up with misconcieved and possibly fatal preconceptions of just how fragile human existence really is. And what about all of those "educational" programs that show little kids outdoors, exploring these cartoon worlds. That's all fne and good, but we forget that these are kids, and most don't really understand the world around them. I personally know teahcers, especially in the inner cities, that have brought in pictures of REAL LIFE animals and scared the hell out of kids. They didn't understand that these things really existed in nature, they were so used to cute little cartoons. It's a dangerous for them to only understand this computerized, filtered world around them, and probably even more dangerous for the natural world around them. And I wouldn't replace up close, person to person communication, with IM for kids.
And, most important, anyone who sits in front of a computer for hours at a time knows that they are the most ergonomically incorect devices this side of a guillotine. My back, wrists, and eyes are all damaged on a continual basis from these unnaturaly devices. Do we want our kids growing up with bad posture and carpal tunnel syndrome? School desks and video game consoles at hmoe are bad enough - do we want them to think that bad posture and continuous back pain is the norm?
Invest in better teachers, more teacher training, better facilities to learn in. Computers are only tools, and undeveloped tools at that. We shouldn't be testing them on our children.
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Well, that's an easy target. I ask you this - what's worse, the fact that corporate power can influence elections and politicians, or the fact that religious and other kinds of organized zealots are running around that will gladly kill you in your sleep because they believe an obscure passage in their dogmatic literature told them to?
Almost any large-scale form of organization scares me, at one point or another. Why? Because when a lot of people get together and think the same way, they leave little room for dissenters. How else would you explain the fact that probably 70% of the country thinks that the ACLU is a bunch of pedaphile-protecting hippie scum? Is it because corporations and the media have pulled the wool over their eyes, or because they just never sat down and really thought about it?
Don't go blasting the people on top for having some motivation. There are cultural forces at work here a lot more powerful than corporations keeping people in line like sheep, as evident by your 100+ year old quote. I mena, capitalism wasn't even defined, int the modern sense of the word back then. Do you really think that people had the foresight to predict the corporate behemoths to come, or were they merely staring at the reflection of other corrupt institutions and projecting outwards, much like Dante does to the corrupt Popes and the Church in Inferno?
Don't get me wrong, I am not anti-religious, or anti-institutional - I just feel that people should have an understanding of what they're getting into an what the power structure of their organization really means and where its roots are.
I totally agree. This guy has it down - the whole ISP angle is right on. And if it wasn't before, then record company execs are now going "F**k yeah! We've got to buy ISP's!"
Check out this article at www.theonion.com - it's an interview with Trey Anastasio, lead guitarist of Phish, a band known for their free-music distribution. At the end, they touch on some really great points about just why Napster does suck and the other side of recording albums.
You gotta admit, he's got a point - I'd never ever attampt to deliver some weird customized tag format to my customers, I mean, how would you even explain it to people who have their email forwarded to their secretaries because they don't know how to print it out?!
XML and Style sheets are great for web design and the like, where PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO SEE THE SOURCE CODE, but thinking that Joe Lawnmower and Sally Broomstick are going to sit down and tweak the XML formatting (or whatever) of the frontpage of the New York Times over breakfast is ludicrist.
So, Oprah's got Oxygen, Mandrake's got Hydrogen, at least Red Hat had the guts to name theirs after the best South Park character (Cartman, of course)!!!!
Spending 10+ hours playing Quake 3 Arena in my office leaves very little time for me to inflict violence on the general population.
;) then you'll see that id is VERY careful not to mention "kills," "blood," or "violence" (instead we get frag, gib, etc.)
BTW, if you look at the documentation with Quake 3 (yes, that means you'd have PURCHASED IT
[begin rant]
I pretty much agree with you. But...
Well, Andover goes IPO and... hey look, they have to build up a customer base, and those kind of people who don't need to read this site and can and will hack together scripts to pull all the newest news that they need from their respective sites aren't consumer-oriented enough for a PUBLIC company. If Andover and Slashdot really wanted to focus on their hard-core, open-source fan base they wouldn't have needed to start selling shares to the general public. And the general public tends to be a little "Less Organized About High-Tech (tm)."
That said, this website is too small for the goals it wants to attain. Who the heck needs a list of open-source updates if anyone with half a brain can just write a script to do the same job? Slashdot is pretty damn cool, caters to a huge audience, and has some pretty good material posted on a more-than-daily basis. And I use it, and I'm not afraid to say that under my own username here.
But I totally agree about this M$ crud... tech stocks taking a dive IS news, there are PLENTY of bigger companies out there than M$ (can you say IBM? AT&T? AOL/Time Warner??)
[end rant]
These aren't digital copies, fool, these are system that are GROWN. If God digitally copies us into his image, then we would be Gods ourselves. You've got to read the old Testament again - because that's not what it says, that man was just made in God's image. There are actually two stories of creation, where man is created on the 6th day and woman is grown out of his rib, and where man AND woman are created simultaneously. Man is also both created out of the dust of the Earth, and out of God's essence. It's contradictory. Way too ambigous to supoprt a lame question like that.
This time, READ the bible before you post stupid questions.
forget that, don't wait until they piss you off, tun them ALL in for cash! It beats working at McDonald's! And then they can turn you in in return, and pretty soon everyone is rich and in counseling! And isn't that the american dream after all!!! Counseling and profit sharing!!! I love it! I wish I was a kid again.
so, if I'm doing a lot of programming in ultra-portable (laugh), OS-independent (bigger laugh) Java, and I have a bunch of threads, should I see a performance difference in Windows or Linux or BE because of the underlying mutli-threading support with multiple processors? Would I just see a boost if I installed another processor?
IFA '99 (International Funkkausstellung) I don't know what Funkkausstellung means, but I sure like saying it!
have you used IE 5 EVER? You can't say that netscape (except possibly the mac version) comes even CLOSE to handling plugins, and new downloads and installation for plug-ins. And macromedia bundles their stuff with Win98 (to work on IE 5, of course). What could Netscape do about that? Nothing. Sucked to be them.
Maybe times will change.
i thought Mr. Tux was the microsoft spokesthingie. at least, that's what it used to say on that bsd page
What about 1? Nobody wants to call anything 1 or even 2 anymore. It's like penis size - when almost everything is really in version 1, people are calling it 5 or 6.
(Not that I'm in version 1. I'm at least a 10.)
yeah, even though i'll readily and eagerly admit that it sucks, every video game console manufacturer worth their salt "releases" their game system YEARS ahead of the actual release. Remember the Super Famicon? That sucker never even made it to the US. Super Nintendo was WAY late, which is why Sega is still around today.
BTW, Dreamcast is incredible, even though it runs on WinCE. I love polygon graphics that are sophisticated enough to make breasts bounce up and down on the screen. Gotta love video game programmers.
i don't know, maybe urls are copyrightable. but i'd guess that COMPILED LISTS of urls would be. or at least, they'd put up a fight against whoever tried to prove them wrong.
I got fed up with the recruiting process, and me and a friend started a business. It's still a baby, but we're making some money, adn there's the promise of more in the future. If you can afford to not have a job (or at least, take a part-time one like I am) for a year, go for it! The experience you get in the first six months is priceless. And you might even get to apply something you learned from school! Imagine that. We are.
because these compiled lists of blocked sites are gold to them - that's all that they have in the stupid product, if somene else got their list they could easily make blocking software out of it and compete with Mattel. That's the whole reason they're going this far to block the other sites who post it. It's like a trade secret to them, which is probably how they got the injuction.
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Although I think I understand the logic, I totally believe that this kind of software is morally wrong, and has more potential to hurt these <i>stupid, censoring companies</i> more than help them in the long run over issues like this.
Banning sites under pornographic catagories! Damn, what were the thinking? You get what you pay for with this repressive software crap. Should be called CyberStalin.
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hm... throw a wormhole somewhere between the RC-5 jack and the server, and watch those packets fly! Might even make /. readable.
Heck, while I'm at it, I'll forget this road runner crap and go back to my 300 baud modem (with Wormhole Inside (tm) )
Maybe if not for the fact that you were grown, not made. People make incredible deals about predicting life, because prediction is a virtue we reserve for the gods. Will you ever have a large enough computer to predict the behavior of atoms in your body? And if you did, would the immense size of it not require other subsystems to be developed for the sole purpose of predicting things like hardware failures in the original system? And what about the intricacies of those subsystems? Look at what you've done -you've grown your own subsystem, your own universe out of the one you were trying to predict. Ask yourself this question - can you look at yourself as others see you? Or is there always feedback in your trying to see what they see? So how could a machine exist that could look at this universe and truly understand it, if it were a part of the universe it was trying to look at? Godliness is true randomness, the ability to act out of the frame of this universe, as far as Western culture has always believed, but since we have definied randomness using the language and symbols of the system we live in, that definition is suspect.
Yeah! Now that would be a true *geek* movie. Funny as hell, too. And waaaaaay to true to life.
Except replace the MST2K crew with a bunch of guys resembling the comic book store owner from the Simpsons, and you've got it dead to rights.
And then maybe throw in Jay and Silent Bob...
He's obviously a very opinionated writer, and that's what also screws him in the end - you've got to back yourself up as a writer, you can't just rail against everyone and anyone and expect people to understand what the heck you're talking about. But that's no reason to dis him like everyone's doing. It's just part of the Hollywood infrastructure that the sensationally trite stuff floats to the top, like terds jingling around the surface of a toiletbowl.
*lol*
That would be a real cool invention, some highly compressed alcoholic beverage that you could discreetly carry around until when needed, when it would rapidly expand into a shot and force itself down your throat. Entrepeneurs?
oops, thought that was a reply to me. sorry for wasting bandwidth!!
so what if when i rant it comes out like a standard, high-school essay? that's what bad english teaching get's ya. i should have got kicked out more than i already did, what can i say?
buttmunch.
It's great to give kids a head start on life by intriducing them to the world of computers and the internet, but no one really considers the consequences of taking kids from their active lives and introducing them to these pseudo-lives in computers. Computers are NOT good teachers when it comes to things like violence, play-time, and human interaction. If a kid's going to play Quake rather than go out in the schoolyard and see what a fight really feels like, he's going to grow up with misconcieved and possibly fatal preconceptions of just how fragile human existence really is. And what about all of those "educational" programs that show little kids outdoors, exploring these cartoon worlds. That's all fne and good, but we forget that these are kids, and most don't really understand the world around them. I personally know teahcers, especially in the inner cities, that have brought in pictures of REAL LIFE animals and scared the hell out of kids. They didn't understand that these things really existed in nature, they were so used to cute little cartoons. It's a dangerous for them to only understand this computerized, filtered world around them, and probably even more dangerous for the natural world around them. And I wouldn't replace up close, person to person communication, with IM for kids.
And, most important, anyone who sits in front of a computer for hours at a time knows that they are the most ergonomically incorect devices this side of a guillotine. My back, wrists, and eyes are all damaged on a continual basis from these unnaturaly devices. Do we want our kids growing up with bad posture and carpal tunnel syndrome? School desks and video game consoles at hmoe are bad enough - do we want them to think that bad posture and continuous back pain is the norm?
Invest in better teachers, more teacher training, better facilities to learn in. Computers are only tools, and undeveloped tools at that. We shouldn't be testing them on our children.