Linux zealots have windows-phobia: objections to interoperability with such Evil things as windows. You don't want the value windows gives you(drivers,apps/games) because your operating system is Superior. Its can be Superior all day long,it doesn't change the choices people make. If it was useful,bugfree,running windows drivers(1) and apps,and most important user-friendly people would switch to it. And not a certain percent,a Majority would switch. 1.(If windows version is superior use windows version of driver/application).
So (assume no patents exists) Let me provide analogy to this case: a Company let it be named Intel sells a CPU X,Which has alot of functions among them function Z which is very useful for processing video. Now a rival company let it be named AMD sells a cheaper CPU Y,which does alot of functions of CPU X,except its Z function which makes it slower to process video(because it lacks Z). Now Imagine Z is found to be trivially easy to reproduce(ex: reprogramming few copy microcodes). Would that AMD company implement it? Or reject it for grounds its CPU is superior and doesn't need such ugly hacks as Z.I think the company would implement it,Don't you?
Must be an Irreducible Complexity (sarcasm). But if we check seriously Biology has some gaps and flaws and Intelligent Design is one-size-fits all explanation.
If its like this because "God made it this way".Whatever is present is attributed to the way God designed it.Creationism at a glance.Convieniently
forgets the existance of such God is really shaky business."because God made everything,he must be so powerful and omni-qualified".Full circle.No,this isn't stupid joke and non-sense,there people in america who believe it(and they are substantially more mainstream then Flat Earth Society).
The ID proponents have much more logic( with extra circles! Improved and guaranteed to explain all mysteries of life in a hour) at their disposal now.Enough to make people believe? Well,most believe(d) Bush. Believed 9/11 is a well explained story, that aliens are figment of imagination(disputed by heaps of evidence),and goverment works for benefit of society(introducing such nice laws and using the budget at optimum efficiency).
Now on Biology: I don't support biological "ethics" and "research" in present form(biology and western medicine are deeply flawed branches of corrupt science).
It reminds me of souless(as in cruel,inhuman and emotionless) corporations feeding caged animals their chemicals to see if they are lethal and how much.Sure,it advances science, but killing frogs and lab rats makes your science a horrible work to choose for person(i.e. become biologist) such as myself(who values animal life as much as human). I'm vegan and i will never trust or support experiments on animals no matter what the cause. On other hand: whatever ridiculous crap those religious people spew they far more "humane" and "ethical" then most scientists. they support their ideals,while [mainstream] science works for profits (and make the humanity progress technologically as side-effect).
parent[irony] ^+10 Insightful. Best example.My opinion:
What technology brings to hands of people is going to affect them long-term. I'm sure there enough parents to exercise their will and the brain implant joke would sound bitter in next century,where tech will be widespread. Myabe not starting in implants but tracking,control and enforcement of simple things, making children eat "right food",watch "right movies", and play with "good children only" will be much easier. I assume children who get out of "control"(if control is going to be human) would seriously teach the controller a lesson in free will. Now,its easy to get into the idea controlling your children is beneficial "for their own good". Reducing crime and juvenilia,pranks,drug abuse,bad influence from their peers,etc. Thinking of average people who like to do everything the easy way,and parenting is no exception,it predictable what the course society will come to. I just wonder what the children of those parents will do in their own families? Will they stop the practice or be forced into compliance with new laws of "social order" that can possible include such implants to make Everyone a civil,friendly,law-abiding borg. I don't call it end of humanity,just imagine if computers regulated crime and welfare of society.It going to be like Matrix...just without the Matrix
You can increase your IQ (but not Intelligence) by training pattern recognition and visuallly analyzing dozens of tests.Just taking hundred of tests,will markedly improve your IQ. Which is IMHO a waste of time.I never believed in IQ or in such things a "Measurable General Intelligence". You can be a quantum mechanics genius or a uber-hacker but have no idea how to drive a car or solve rubik cubes(i.e. Knwoledge is specific).What is real intelligence is wisdom to use acquired knowledge the right way(which is usually the fastest/efficient way) and ability to analyze/interpret knowledge. Acquisition of knowledge on other hand is easy.
This a ridicolous scam. No hacker would ever consider "certification"..Utterly stupid. MCSE training on the other hand gives you some benefits.This one is like paying company a large sum for certificating your ability to write long posts on forums(which 99% of internet is capable of). I Imagine some AOLers joining in just for the "cool" factor. This is better described as "certified ethical script kiddie" license.Real hackers don't need laws,licenses,or some governing bodies to dictate them what hacking is suppose to be.Hacking is not something rigid or standartized. Its a way of doing things the "tricky" way.
ex:a game and there is a gold value stored at offset 450a7B with 2 bytes.Normal people would write a hack which set the gold to X and apply it each time they need it (set offset value).Now a hacker would trace the code that decreases/compares gold and make a patch to disable it(set offset nop).
[THIS TEXT IS PUBLIC DOMAIN] File sharing is not illegal(it not really a crime to share some song). Its just companies want it to be perceived as crime.There is no real victim,except reduced profits for corporations/publishers.Its not theft! People SHARE THE MUSIC, they don't Steal it(it remain in the hands of authors). Copyright entitles publishers for "property rights" for information.Ridicolous but true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringemen t For electronic and audio-visual media, unauthorized reproduction and distribution is often referred to as piracy or theft (an early reference was made by Alfred Tennyson in the preface to his poem "The Lover's Tale" in 1879 where he mentions that sections of this work "have of late been mercilessly pirated".) The legal basis for this usage dates from the same era, and has been consistently applied until the present time.1 Critics of the use of "software piracy" to describe such practices contend that it unfairly compares a crime that makes no victim - except for those that would have profited from hypothetically lost sales - with the violent actions of organized thieves and murderers; it also confuses mere illegal copying of material with the intentional and malicious penetration of computer systems to which one does not legally have access. As a consequence, "software piracy" is a somewhat loaded term. "Theft" or "stealing" are considered even more inflammatory, as well as legally misleading.2
My browser doesn't shows Colors/Backgrounds/Custom Fonts/CSS (since i disabled them all).I don't ever see this crap even if whole web was designed like a winXP.And it loads abit faster.Only thing some sites require JavaScript for extra features,but i can work without it.
Technology is not crack,its a tool. Canned Food,Fire,Books etc are older products of technology.If you would reflect on this further you can conclude that we should revert to orders of monkey packs and move to forests( cf. ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism ). What is wrong is dependence on single tech like electricity(and by extension,the power companies) for daily life.There is no Independent way to produce such supply,infrastructure or amount to even compete with corporations controlling the resources. Your camping idea is OK,for a week. But what about living like this always. Since is SO much better then normal(not that i disagree in principle,I do think it is far healthier) why there is no public interest in this(in modern society)? Where those camping aids and food come from? Doesn't it look Cool burning fossil fuels to boil water? All the camping trash people leave is really a sign of civilization,whether you want to believe.
Still, that doesn't save koreans from dying.I guess dehydration plus mental overload (concentration+stress) and your Starcraft disk is lethal. BEsides,only fanatics play that much. Normal people get bored after a hour.
if his life sucks he'll go back to games.Its like drug addicts,the real reason is something lacking in their life,and they try to supplant it with artificial methods. Its self-reinforcing loop afterwards.
Then : No electric heater(imagine if it was middle of winter) No boiled water No computer(and you Have to recharge laptops too) No lights No refrigerator No radio/tv (i don't use them though) NO everything that works off wall electricity. Is this significant enough?
Why you think health industry working for? Profit,Thats right. All business is based on operating for profit.
wiki: "An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry"."
wiki: "Individual businesses are established in order to perform economic activities. With some exceptions (such as cooperatives, non-profit organizations and generally, institutions of government), businesses exist to produce profit. In other words, the owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for expending time, effort and capital."
Maybe its not International(interconnected network?) but this comes from dictionary.com
Internet n : a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange [syn: Internet, Net, cyberspace]
This approach is contrary to even the word Internet (International Network), If it was country based I wouldn't even pay for internet access (it would be called state data network access instead?).Internet suppose to be a International medium not a local network. I wouldn't be able to read slashdot,and hundreds of sites i frequent.Without Internet present(such a crazy idea to even consider today),economy and trade will collapse,all cultural/informational exchange will cease or revert to other,less efficient methods(think of breakup of all forums and online communities). Internet is what shapes 21st century.It a mandatory for technology and progress of human civilization.(i'm not joking,though it doesn't matter to some farmers in Nigeria, it is most important information hub ever created).
How is it different from a discussion forum? Just create a Section called Suggestions & Feedback, then Add Development section for threads that pass Suggestion phase.
Ok,then you have to write your own stable drivers(And alot of them).Or just change the kernel?
I hope ReactOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS or other OS,will be a better alternative. last day for Microsoft is when an OS runs every DLL VXD EXE OCX and stuff independently of windows.WINE is just rewriting the DLLs(mostly wrapper development), the big step will be making them executable as in windows. Windows API is the reason microsoft retains a monopoly.With alternative API which runs all of drivers (i.e. like ReactOS suppose to) and software any free OS will be unstoppable.
Not a local emulation,i mean a Binary compatibility on the level of wine( no wrapping or rewriting). The "interface to linux kernel" at the basic level.Making the drivers execute as kernel modules. Instead of making drivers portable,making a "portable kernel" which runs all of them.
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Linux zealots have windows-phobia: objections to interoperability with such Evil things as windows.
You don't want the value windows gives you(drivers,apps/games) because your operating system is Superior.
Its can be Superior all day long,it doesn't change the choices people make.
If it was useful,bugfree,running windows drivers(1) and apps,and most important user-friendly people would switch to it.
And not a certain percent,a Majority would switch.
1.(If windows version is superior use windows version of driver/application).
So (assume no patents exists)
Let me provide analogy to this case:
a Company let it be named Intel
sells a CPU X,Which has alot of functions among them function Z which
is very useful for processing video.
Now a rival company let it be named AMD
sells a cheaper CPU Y,which does alot of functions of CPU X,except its Z function which makes it slower to process video(because it lacks Z).
Now Imagine Z is found to be trivially easy to reproduce(ex: reprogramming few copy microcodes).
Would that AMD company implement it? Or
reject it for grounds its CPU is superior and doesn't need such ugly hacks as Z.I think the company would
implement it,Don't you?
This is the consensus on slashdot.
Nothing to discuss here,move along.
I heard DRM is contagious...
how do they get their "right knowledge" in the first place?
Must be an Irreducible Complexity (sarcasm).
.Whatever is present is attributed to the way God designed it.Creationism at a glance.Convieniently ."because God made everything,he must be so powerful and omni-qualified".Full circle.No,this isn't stupid joke and non-sense,there people in america who believe it(and they are substantially more mainstream then Flat Earth Society).
,inhuman and emotionless) corporations feeding caged animals their chemicals to see if they
But if we check seriously Biology has some gaps and flaws and Intelligent Design is one-size-fits all explanation.
If its like this because "God made it this way"
forgets the existance of such God is really shaky business
The ID proponents have much more logic( with extra circles! Improved and guaranteed to explain all mysteries of life in a hour) at their disposal now.Enough to make people believe? Well,most believe(d) Bush.
Believed 9/11 is a well explained story,
that aliens are figment of imagination(disputed by heaps of evidence),and goverment works for benefit of society(introducing such nice laws and using the budget at optimum efficiency).
Now on Biology:
I don't support biological "ethics" and
"research" in present form(biology and western medicine are deeply flawed branches of corrupt science).
It reminds me of souless(as in cruel
are lethal and how much.Sure,it advances science, but killing frogs and lab rats
makes your science a horrible work to choose for person(i.e. become biologist) such as myself(who values animal life as much as human).
I'm vegan and i will never trust or support experiments on animals no matter what the cause.
On other hand: whatever ridiculous crap those religious people
spew they far more "humane" and "ethical" then most scientists.
they support their ideals,while [mainstream] science works for profits (and make the humanity progress technologically as side-effect).
Looks like crocodile hydridized with dolphins.
parent[irony] ^+10 Insightful. Best example.My opinion:
What technology brings to hands of people is going to affect them long-term. I'm sure there enough parents to exercise their will and the brain implant joke would sound bitter in next century,where tech will be widespread.
Myabe not starting in implants but tracking,control and enforcement of simple things, making
children eat "right food",watch "right movies", and play with "good children only" will be much easier. I assume children who get out of "control"(if control is going to be human) would seriously teach the controller a lesson in free will.
Now,its easy to get into the idea controlling your children is beneficial "for their own good". Reducing crime and juvenilia,pranks,drug abuse,bad influence from their peers,etc.
Thinking of average people who like to do everything the easy way,and parenting is no exception,it predictable what the course society will come to.
I just wonder what the children of those parents will do in their own families?
Will they stop the practice or be forced into compliance with new laws of "social order" that can possible include such
implants to make Everyone a civil,friendly,law-abiding borg.
I don't call it end of humanity,just imagine if computers regulated crime and
welfare of society.It going to be like Matrix...just without the Matrix
You can increase your IQ (but not Intelligence) by training pattern recognition and visuallly analyzing dozens of tests.Just taking hundred of tests,will markedly improve your IQ.
Which is IMHO a waste of time.I never believed in IQ or in such things a "Measurable General Intelligence".
You can be a quantum mechanics genius or a uber-hacker but have no idea how to
drive a car or solve rubik cubes(i.e. Knwoledge is specific).What is real intelligence is wisdom to use acquired knowledge the right way(which is usually the fastest/efficient way) and ability to analyze/interpret knowledge. Acquisition of knowledge on other hand is easy.
This a ridicolous scam. No hacker would ever consider "certification". .Utterly stupid. MCSE training on the other hand gives you some benefits.This
one is like paying company a large sum for certificating your ability to write long
posts on forums(which 99% of internet is capable of). I Imagine some AOLers joining in just for the "cool" factor.
This is better described as "certified ethical script kiddie" license.Real hackers don't need laws,licenses,or some governing bodies to dictate them what hacking is suppose to be.Hacking is not
something rigid or standartized.
Its a way of doing things the "tricky" way.
ex:a game and there is a
gold value stored at offset 450a7B with 2 bytes.Normal people would write a hack which set the gold to X and apply it each time they need it (set offset value).Now a hacker would trace the code that decreases/compares gold and make a patch to disable it(set offset nop).
[THIS TEXT IS PUBLIC DOMAIN]n t
File sharing is not illegal(it not really a crime to share some song).
Its just companies want it to be perceived as crime.There is no real victim,except reduced profits for corporations/publishers.Its not theft!
People SHARE THE MUSIC, they don't Steal it(it remain in the hands of authors).
Copyright entitles publishers for "property rights" for information.Ridicolous but true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringeme
For electronic and audio-visual media, unauthorized reproduction and distribution is often referred to as piracy or theft (an early reference was made by Alfred Tennyson in the preface to his poem "The Lover's Tale" in 1879 where he mentions that sections of this work "have of late been mercilessly pirated".) The legal basis for this usage dates from the same era, and has been consistently applied until the present time.1 Critics of the use of "software piracy" to describe such practices contend that it unfairly compares a crime that makes no victim - except for those that would have profited from hypothetically lost sales - with the violent actions of organized thieves and murderers; it also confuses mere illegal copying of material with the intentional and malicious penetration of computer systems to which one does not legally have access. As a consequence, "software piracy" is a somewhat loaded term. "Theft" or "stealing" are considered even more inflammatory, as well as legally misleading.2
My browser doesn't shows Colors/Backgrounds/Custom Fonts/CSS (since i disabled them all).I don't ever see this crap even if whole web was designed like a winXP.And it loads abit faster.Only thing some sites require JavaScript for extra features,but i can work without it.
RTFAA they use them to extract random data(noise).Good for one-time pads.
Technology is not crack,its a tool.
Canned Food,Fire,Books etc are older products of technology.If you would
reflect on this further you can conclude
that we should revert to orders of monkey packs and move to forests( cf. ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism ).
What is wrong is dependence on single tech like electricity(and by extension,the power companies) for daily life.There is no Independent way to
produce such supply,infrastructure or amount to even compete with corporations controlling the resources.
Your camping idea is OK,for a week.
But what about living like this always.
Since is SO much better then normal(not that i disagree in principle,I do think it is far healthier) why there is no public interest in this(in modern society)? Where those camping aids and food come from? Doesn't it look Cool burning fossil fuels to boil water?
All the camping trash people leave is
really a sign of civilization,whether you want to believe.
Still, that doesn't save koreans from dying.I guess dehydration plus mental overload (concentration+stress) and your Starcraft disk is lethal.
BEsides,only fanatics play that much.
Normal people get bored after a hour.
if his life sucks he'll go back to games.Its like drug addicts,the real reason is something lacking in their life,and they try to supplant it with artificial methods.
Its self-reinforcing loop afterwards.
plain old Text-only HTML = superior.
Then :
No electric heater(imagine if it was middle of winter)
No boiled water
No computer(and you Have to recharge laptops too)
No lights
No refrigerator
No radio/tv (i don't use them though)
NO everything that works off wall electricity. Is this significant enough?
Modern life REQUIRES electricity.
How about adding such layers for video drivers,Soundcard drivers,mouse drivers,PnP layer,etc?
Why you think health industry working for? Profit,Thats right. All business
is based on operating for profit.
wiki:
"An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry"."
wiki:
"Individual businesses are established in order to perform economic activities. With some exceptions (such as cooperatives, non-profit organizations and generally, institutions of government), businesses exist to produce profit. In other words, the owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for expending time, effort and capital."
Maybe its not International(interconnected network?)
but this comes from dictionary.com
Internet
n : a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange [syn: Internet, Net, cyberspace]
This approach is contrary to even the word Internet (International Network),
If it was country based I wouldn't even pay for internet access (it would be called state data network access instead?).Internet suppose to be a International medium not a local network.
I wouldn't be able to read slashdot,and
hundreds of sites i frequent.Without Internet present(such a crazy idea to even consider today),economy and trade will collapse,all cultural/informational exchange will
cease or revert to other,less efficient methods(think of breakup of all forums and online communities).
Internet is what shapes 21st century.It a mandatory for technology and progress of human civilization.(i'm not joking,though it doesn't matter to some farmers in Nigeria, it is most important information hub ever created).
How is it different from a discussion forum? Just create a Section called Suggestions & Feedback,
then Add Development section for threads that pass Suggestion phase.
Ok,then you have to write your own stable drivers(And alot of them).Or just change the kernel?
I hope ReactOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
or other OS,will be a better alternative.
last day for Microsoft is when an OS runs every DLL VXD EXE OCX and stuff independently of windows.WINE is just rewriting the DLLs(mostly wrapper development),
the big step will be making them executable as in windows. Windows API
is the reason microsoft retains a monopoly.With alternative API
which runs all of drivers (i.e. like ReactOS suppose to) and software any free OS will be unstoppable.
Not a local emulation,i mean a Binary compatibility on the level of wine( no wrapping or rewriting).
The "interface to linux kernel" at the basic level.Making the drivers execute as kernel modules. Instead of making drivers portable,making a "portable kernel" which runs all of them.